Curated by James Crump

Over the past forty years, there has been no American photographer more creative and original than James Welling. Certainly no photographer has been more successful working in both black-and-white and color and in both depictive and abstract modes (sometimes, as in the “Glass House” photo­graphs, 2006–2009, within a single image). Welling’s recent show at David Zwirner was further evidence of his super­lative gifts, with ravishing, tempera-like color variations on scenes associated with the painter Andrew Wyeth and two very different groups of abstractions. This ambitious career survey, comprising nearly two hundred photographs taken between 1975 and today, will be accom­panied by a book with contributions from Crump, Mark Godfrey, Eva Respini, and Thomas Seelig and promises to give a thorough picture of the artist’s wide-ranging achievements.

— Michael Fried