Project Room: Jan Groover

In the Project Room some new photographs are shown by the American artist Jan Groover, whose rich and long career has already been represented at the gallery through two past exhibitions.

Black and white large-size images portray a domestic microcosm, inhabited by little birds and mice. These unusual and new photos are a further step after her probably more famous series of Still Lives.

Jan Groover was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1943. The artist has exhibited in severa! well-known international galleries (Sonnabend Gallery, Paris and New York) and major museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modem Art in New York, where an important mid-career retrospective was held in 1987, with a catalogue written by Susan Kismaric. In 1993 her biggest monograph was published, with an introduction by John Szarkowski.

The artist lives and works in France, where she recently had an exhibition at the Musée Lapidaire and at the Centre de Photographie in Lectoure.