Opening Friday, March 8th from 4-7pm. Free and open to the public.

We are pleased to announce Veronique Wantz Gallery’s first ever photography exhibition, featuring a solo show of local artist R. J. Kern’s stunning photographs. The show presents highlights in a mini-retrospective format with projects by Kern including: Divine Animals: The Bovidae; The Unchosen Ones; The Best of the Best; and Kern’s newest series, The Last Fair. Monographs featuring this work will also be available and include The Sheep and the Goats (Kehrer Verlag, 2018) and The Unchosen Ones: Portraits of an American Pastoral (MW Editions, 2021).

Kern’s portraits focus on intimate, interdependent relationships of people, animals, and landscape as a means of exploring how ancestry shapes identity and how myth intertwines with personal history. Tintypes, salt prints and archival pigment prints draw sharper connections between traditional and modern farming routines, as Kern adopts both historical and current photographic processes.