Sara VanDerBeek: Roman Women

Altman Siegel is pleased to present Roman Women, Sara VanDerBeek’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.

Beginning in 2012 with a residency at the Fondazione Memmo in Rome, Sara VanDerBeek has given particular focus to Roman statuary as her photographic subject and starting point. Over the past seven years, VanDerBeek has documented objects of antiquity in museum collections across the United States and Europe, resulting in a substantial archive of images focused on the classical female form. The selection from this series presented here invites the viewer to contemplate the changing means and meaning of image circulation over time, and the shifting discourse in which those images are embedded.