Nathaniel Dorsky shooting The Arboretum Cycle, 2017
Photo: Daniel Bogdanic

We are pleased to present Nathaniel Dorsky: Film and Film Stills. Surveying the experimental cinematic practice of the artist through film stills created from the 1960s-2010s, the online exhibition coincides with his newly published limited edition book of photographs, ECLOGUES: Letters and Correspondence, each signed and numbered by the artist and published by Peter Blum Edition. 

Nathaniel Dorsky was born in New York City in 1943 and has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1971. The artist creates 16mm silent films and photographic stills that elicit poetic and contemplative moments of observation; they are occasions for meditations on light, landscape, time, and consciousness. Capturing oftentimes quotidian or verdant settings, the luminous film stills reveal everyday existence as profoundly stimulating and sublime.

Dorsky has presented his work at numerous institutions, including the currently on view exhibition, Private Lives Public Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Others include the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Filmoteca Española, Madrid; Vienna Film Museum; Harvard Film Archive; Yale University; and the Whitney Biennial in 2000 and 2012. A complete retrospective of his films was shown at the 53rd New York Film Festival in 2015.