Catherine Opie, Sandusky native, is one of the most acclaimed contemporary photographers working today. Opie's portraits of gay communities, surfers and American urban landscapes range from large color images of Beverly Hills to small jewel-like palladium-platinum prints of the Los Angeles freeways. The exhibition at MOCA will feature a new series of intimate and political photographs, In and Around Home.
This new body of work will be shown alongside 1999, a series made during her road trip across the US at the turn of the millennium. Together, the two sets of work examine America through landscape and identity. This exhibition is organized by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and the Orange County Museum of Art.
