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Exhibition of Recent Photographs by Roe Ethridge at Gagosian in Beverly Hills

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent photographs by Roe Ethridge. The diverse and sometimes abstruse nature of Ethridge’s imagery — vintage movie posters, fashion models, a pink rose, a mop bucket, a concrete mixer — originates from his direct experience of the world, which oscillates between the spontaneous and the staged with such subtlety that it is often difficult to ascertain his elected approach with regard to individual images. His oeuvre melds conceptual photography with commercial work, including out-takes from his own shoots and borrowed images already in circulation in other contexts. With this democratic attitude, Ethridge works to capture the vivid and intimate details of his shifting locales within photography’s classic genres of portrait, landscape, and still life. In this exhibition, he juxtaposes polished photographs of posed models, such as Marloes Horst (2010) a