The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

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January 19, 1997, to April 20, 1997 |

Making It Real

We live in an era when a myriad of images constantly bombard our sensibilities through television, advertising, computers, and a variety of communication media. We repeatedly question the realities on which those images are based. What better time to examine how artists playfully manipulate our sense of what is real and what is not.

A traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York
Curated by Vik Muniz

Artists: Tina Barney, Zeke Berman, James Casebere, Catherine Chalmers, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Joan Fontcuberta, Peter Garfield, Charles Griffin, Jan Henle, Teun Hocks, Mike Kelley, Wilmar Koenig, David Levinthal, Martí Llorens, Paul McCarthy, Brian McCarty, Abelardo Morell, Warren Neidich, Jorge Ribalta, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, Kenneth H. Shorr, Laurie Simmons, Sandy Skoglund, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bernard Voita, Boyd Webb



Top image: Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1993, C-Print.