Derek Stroup: Radiant Fields
Current exhibition
Overview
Quint Gallery is pleased to present three new photographic works by Derek Stroup at 7655 Girard Avenue inside The Museum Of__. Each unique work was made using colored light-sensitive screen emulsion to print the image through a large negative transparency on the unstretched canvas. Stroup's subject matter is, for the most part, weeds—plants that thrive regardless of human predations. Most of his photographs are taken at Floyd Bennett Field, an abandoned New York City airport in Brooklyn. There, among the shattered runways, a tangle of native and non-native plants are forming a new ecological community, a dense complexity of green that is thriving beyond human concern. All photographs trap and hold radiation, and with this in mind, Stroup is interested in how photography is well suited to exploring matters of the climate and environment.
Derek Stroup is based in Brooklyn, New York. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions including the Brandhorst Museum, Munich; The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Kohler Art Center, and elsewhere. He is the author of numerous artist’s books including The Pavilion (2024), Tourmaline (2014), Utilities (2013), Every Instance Removed (2008), Candy (2006), Rope Swing Manifesto (2004), and Field Guide (2002). His artist books are distributed through PrintedMatter, Inc. in New York, the Florence Loewy Gallery in Paris and Artphilein in Lugano, Switzerland. Recent publications include photographs in Kalle Lasn’s Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics, CrEATe and Tangible both by Gestalten Press (Berlin) and the monograph Soft Covers by Quint Editions. His work is in the anthology Various Small Books by MIT Press with related exhibition Books&Co. at Gagosian's midtown gallery and the Brandhorst Museum. Recent projects include group exhibitions at BravinLee Programs in New York and Owning Earth curated by Tal Beery at Unison Arts in the Hudson Valley. He received his BA from Williams College and his MFA from the University of California, San Diego.
Selected Works
