Larry Fink / Martha Posner: Flesh and Bone

This exhibition explores the creative dialogue between photographer Larry Fink (1941-2023) and sculptor Martha Posner (born 1956), who were romantic partners for more than 30 years. Radically different artists, their work nonetheless shares common themes of desire, vulnerability, and brutality. Both also explore myth throughout their art: Posner explicitly, through her re-imagining of female subjects from various legends and mythic traditions; Fink implicitly, through his shrewd eye for human impulse, folly, and bravado, qualities he found in almost every scenario no matter how base or exalted. Both artists embrace the animal world almost as an extension of the human, a reflection of their life on a Pennsylvania farm surrounded by other creatures. Their rural existence brought them close to life cycles and earthy needs. Fink began photographing the farm and neighboring community in the 1970s. Posner arrived in the 1990s and immediately took to her surroundings, finding magic and transfiguration—processes in which she firmly believes—throughout the woods and meadows. Viewing these artists side by side reveals subtle and surprising qualities in both. The exhibition will broadly survey each of their independent bodies of work, with an eye to how creative partners influence and surprise each other. This exhibition is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Peter Barberie, the Brodsky Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Museum Exhibition Gallery Hours: 10 am – 5 pm | Monday - Saturday 11 am – 5 pm | Sunday General Admission: $15-20 -17 and Under - Free -Museum Members - Free -Cross College Alliance Students - Free with ID -Veterans & Active Military - Free with ID -Ringling College of Art and Design Faculty, Staff, and Students - Free (includes 1 guest) -Ringling College of Art and Design Alumni - Free Tickets are available for purchase up until 4:30 pm on the day you would like to attend. Photo credit: Larry Fink (American, 1941-2023). Lilith, Sculpture by Martha Posner, 1993. © Larry Fink/MUUS Collection.

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