LARRY FINK / MARTHA POSNER
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NOVEMBER 17, 2024–APRIL 13, 2025
Martha Posner and Larry Fink met in 1992, and soon thereafter she joined him at his farm in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. At the time, Fink was a celebrated photographer of multiple social worlds, while Posner was settled in her artistic practice but not her career. Inspired by indigenous art traditions and her encounters with shamanism, myth, and the animal world, she made ephemeral objects and installations. Then and now, their art seems utterly different. Posner’s sculptures are tactile objects that address us first with their materiality. Fashioned from disparate stuff including what she gathers in the woods and farmyard, they are by turns waxy, rough, hairy, prickly, or soft. Her drawings are similarly 1|