Reception: Friday, November 2nd
DOCUMENT is pleased to present THE LAUGHTER, an exhibition of new works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.
Using images pulled from from archival, stock, and discarded commercial film, primarily purchased via eBay, Rafferty’s works in plastic and silver gelatin prints present both colorful and achromatic versions of images which invoke the senses: hands, eyes, lips. These include scans of positive film, specifically slides, representing photographic exercises by teachers and students alike. While the imagery is quite historical, the evocations are quite contemporary. As Johanna Fateman recently noted in The New Yorker, Rafferty’s works [give] “random cultural artifacts the heft of major archeological finds.”
Sara Greenberger Rafferty has exhibited widely since 2001, including solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College, Massachusetts; Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas; and a commissioned sculpture for the Public Art Fund. Gloves Off, the first traveling survey of her work with accompanying fully illustrated catalogue published by SUNY Press, completed a three-venue tour last year.
The artist was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and the 2014 Hammer Biennial in addition to group shows at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; and The Jewish Museum, New York, among many others. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Rafferty is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Dollar Test (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Slides I (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 17 x 21 1/2 in
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Slides II (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 17 x 21 1/2 in
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Ringaround, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 1 3/8 in
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Red Hand, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 1, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 2, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 3, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 4, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 5, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 6, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 7, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 8, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 3/8 in, Edition of 5
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, 9, 2018, Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board, 20 1/4h x 16 1/4w x 1 3/8d in, Edition of 5
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Eye Test (University of Michigan Extension), 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Yellow Wall, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 20 in
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Color Bar Composition, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet prints on acetate on Plexiglas, and hardware, 60h x 63w in
Installation view at DOCUMENT
Sara Greenberger Rafferty Double Wall, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 x 30 1/2 in
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Meds II, 2018, Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglas, 16 3/4 x 20 3/4 in
- 2019
- March 1 - April 13
Geraldo de Barros - January 11 - February 23
Andrew Norman Wilson - 2018
- November 2 - December 22
Sara Greenberger Rafferty - September 14 - October 27
Stan VanDerBeek - July 13 - August 18
Friend of a Friend - June 1 - July 8
Sterling Lawrence - April 14 - May 26
Paul Mpagi Sepuya - February 24 - April 7
Howardena Pindell - January 6- February 17
Mary Helena Clark - 2017
- November 4 - December 23
Andy Cahill - September 9 - October 28
Laura Letinsky : Polaroids - September 9 - October 28
Julien Creuzet - July 14 - August 25
Summer group show - July 14 - August 26
Summer Group Show - June 3 - July 8
Erin Jane Nelson - April 15 - May 27
John Opera - February 25 - April 8
Geraldo de Barros - January 7 - February 18, 2017
Laura Letinsky and John Paul Morabito - 2016
- November 11 - December 23
Sara Greenberger Rafferty - November 4 - December 3
DOCUMENT at Et Al gallery in San Francisco - September 17 - November 5
Andrew Norman Wilson - July 9 - August 27
What Birds Can See - May 14 - June 25
Elizabeth Atterbury - March 18th - May 7th
Sterling Lawrence - January 29th - March 12th
Christopher Meerdo - 2015
- December 11th - January 23rd
Mary Helena Clark - October 24th - December 5th
Paul Mpagi Sepuya - September 3rd – October 17th
Sean Snyder - July 24th - August 29th
RE|PRODUCTION - June 19th - July 18th
Phillip Maisel - May 1st – June 13th
Derek Franklin - March 13th – April 25th
Erin Jane Nelson - January 30th – March 7th
Marcus Geiger and Margaret Welsh - 2014
- December 12th – January 24th
Sara Magenheimer - October 24th – December 6th
Greg Stimac - September 5th – October 18th
Christalena Hughmanick and Sterling Lawrence - June 6th – July 26th
Marco Braunschweiler - April 25th – May 31st
Thomas Killian Roach - March 14th – April 19th
Selina Trepp - January 31st – March 8th
Victoria Fu - 2013
- December 14th – January 25th
B. Ingrid Olson - October 25th – December 7th
Nick Johnson - September 6th – October 19th
Scott Fortino - June 7th – July 20th
Owen Kydd - April 26th – June 1st
Suara Welitoff - March 15th – April 20th
Christopher Meerdo - February 1st – March 9th
Scott Cowan - 2012
- December 14th – January 26th
Georgia Wall - MDW Fair > November 9th – 11th
Robert Chase Heishman and Megan Schvaneveldt - October 27th – December 8th
Elizabeth Atterbury - 845 MURAL > Sept 7th – March 31st
Ron Ewert, Leo Kaplan and Michael Kloss - September 7th – October 20th
Eric Fleischauer - Summer Residency > August 3rd – 26th
Michael Pfisterer - June 1st – July 28th
Andrew Norman Wilson - April 20th – May 26th
Adi Goodrich and Jimmy Marble - March 2nd – April 14th
Alan Cohen - January 6th – February 25th
Paul Erschen - 2011
- MDW Fair > October 21st - 23rd
Paul Cowan and Michael Hunter