Artwork Title: Looking at Art: Ellsworth Kelly, Cite

Looking at Art: Ellsworth Kelly, Cite

Richard Nagler

For this series, Richard Nagler spent a lot of time in museums. He also spent a lot of time waiting. Stationed in front of a work of art, he would wait for someone to come along and complete it. The serendipitous, unposed results come from both Nagler’s creative eye as well as his patience…. Nagler shows us art’s need to be transformed and given meaning by humanity.... And of course, there are more layers — as we gaze at Nagler’s photographs we are looking at images of people who are themselves looking, as, off-stage, Nagler also looks. Nagler, who says he didn’t visit an art museum until he was a college senior, says that he aims to make new layers of art upon the old. “I am inspired by the human dance that takes place in front of great works of art and the accidental and beautiful juxtapositions that can occur.” (http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/06/19/richard-nagler-heres-looking-at-you-looking-at-art/)
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