About This Artwork
Roe Ethridge
American, born 1969
Rick2005
Chromogenic print, from an edition of five
83.2 x 67.3 cm (32 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.)
Restricted gift of Sara Szold, Deborah Lovely, Cleve Carney, Ruth Horwich, Robert and Nancy Mollers, and Steven Zick, 2007.65
Contemporary Art
Not on Display
Roe Ethridge’s practice reflects a variety of approaches to photography, exploiting the possibilities of the genre both formally and conceptually. Moving easily between art and advertising, the artist incorporates images from a commercial context into his works, thus diffusing the boundary between high and low forms of representation. Ethridge works in series and simultaneously creates one-offs, including travel pictures and images from commercial jobs, identifying and placing together unlike photographs that become their own groups by virtue of his selection.