Russell Ferguson on Vera Lutter

Russell Ferguson is an Associate Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where he recently organized the exhibition "In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art." Ferguson has written about the work of many contemporary artists, including Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Olafur Eliasson, Jason Rhoades, and Gillian Wearing. German artist Vera Lutter's large-scale photographs of industrial sites were on exhibition at Dia from October 14, 1999, through June 18, 2000. Using pinhole cameras, the precursor to the modern multi-lens camera, Lutter draws on pioneering techniques and historical models to construct vividly arresting representations.