Catherine Couturier Gallery is thrilled to announce Reverie, an exhibition of new work by gallery artist Michael Kenna. Renowned for his black-and-white landscape photography, Kenna employs prolonged exposure times, sometimes up to 10 hours, to capture ethereal scenes. Often working at dawn or under the cover of night, he reveals hidden dimensions beyond the ordinary gaze. Inspired by fellow British photographer Bill Brandt and enchanted by the landscapes of Japan, Kenna’s oeuvre reflects a poetic sensibility akin to haiku.
His work has been shown at the Tacoma Art Museum, 2012; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2011; Palazzo Magnani Museum in Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2010; and Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 2009. Kenna’s photographs are included in many public collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Shanghai Art Museum; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Born in Widnes, England in 1953, Kenna currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
Michael Kenna
Reverie
April 13, 2024 – May 11, 2024
Catherine Couturier Gallery
2635 Colquitt Street · Houston, TX 77098
https://www.catherinecouturier.com
Bare Tree, Toya Lake, Hokkaido, Japan, 2009
Wolpajeong Pavilion, Gyeongpoho Lake, Gangwon-do, South Korea, 2006
Approaching Ice Floe, Okhotsk Sea, Hokkaido, Japan, 2020
Moon Rise, Cuandixia, Beijing, China, 2016
Rising Cloud, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 2023
Ratcliffe Power Station, Study 54, Nottinghamshire, England, 2000
Onishi Tree, Study 2, Hokkaido, Japan, 2023
Tree and Kussharo Lake, Akan-Mashu Park, Hokkaido, Japan, 2023
Swirling Tree, Deia, Mallorca, Spain, 2017
