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Maryam Eisler: Strike It Lucky
West Barn Dining Room
August 12 - August 20, 2024
The Ranch is pleased to announce Strike It Lucky, a presentation of seven photographs by Maryam Eisler in the West Barn Dining Room.
Artist Statement:
I have always had deep nostalgia for the 1970s, an idyllic time associated with sweet childhood memories, but also the decade before the digital revolution, one which offered a more simple and carefree lifestyle not to mention slower time... Ice lollies and poolside parties... Cowboy hats, Hawaiian Tropic, Ray-bans, and torn jeans... A time when cigarettes were cool.. The last decade when the telephone had dials instead of push buttons, when any office had paper files and typewriters instead of computers, and when music was made with real instruments instead of synthesizers. And then there was the end of the Vietnam War.
But the 1970s was also a decade of love and love songs, the Carpenters and the Hollies, Barry White and Fleetwood Mac; not to mention hopelessly romantic movies, "Summer of '42," "A Star is Born," "The Way We Were." "Love means never having to say you're sorry," from "Love Story," a most famous movie quote of its time.
Strike It Lucky, a capsule collection of seven images (the Lucky Number 7), is a visual nod to the vintage romance of the 1970s, rooted in melancholic memory, with a more measured pace in the tempo of life. Unashamedly sexy and romantic, both at once. And, at its crux, lies the "Sublime Feminine," the main and continuous topic of my photographic exploration.
MARYAM EISLER is a London-based photograper and author. She has previously had exhibitions with Alon Zakaim; Tristan Hoare and Linley, London; Harper's, East Hampton, NY; and Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome. She has additionally shown at Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York; Photo London; Eye of the Collector, London; Dallas Art Fair; Unseen Amsterdam; Space Gallery, St Barth; Bermondsey Project Space, London; Art Marbella, Spain; MedBodrum Festival, Turkey; as well as curated exhibitions at Christie's, Phillips, and Sotheby's in London.
Eisler is Chief Contributing Editor to LUX magazine, a Condé Nast title. She has also contributed photography and editorial content to Vanity Fair ("On Art"), Harpers Bazaar Art, Harpers Bazaar Interiors, and Vogue Arabia. Eisler's book, Voices: East London, for which she is author and photographer, was published in 2018. She has edited several other Thames & Hudson publications, including Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios, Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces, and London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City, among many others. Eisler sits on the Advisory Board of Photo
London, is a nominator for the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, and a judge for the Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability. Eisler is a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University.
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