Artists

Clark Winter

Press release

Opening: Saturday, 30 May 2026, 3-6pm Introduction by the artist at 4pm. Zander Galerie is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of photographs by Clark Winter in Germany. The selection of black-and-white images, focusing mainly on the 1970s and a few later works, ranges from fleeting glances and gestures to everyday objects and specific atmospheres of place. Whether observing the particularities of urban and rural environments in 1970s America or the slow-paced rhythms of Southern European life, Winter's photographs articulate a perceptive form of open-ended visual storytelling. Clark Winter's approach is observational and receptive. The artist is alert to the human theater in front of him, familiar with the shapes of vernacular architecture, sensitive to the lyrical quality inherent in his pictures, and conscious of the traditions of his medium. Influences from Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, and others from the generation of American photographers who shaped the documentary tradition are evident in his eye for the commonplace and the incidental. Foreground and background relations are arranged in ways that produce slight incongruities in scale, meaning, or contextual fit. In one example, a pasture with trees in the distance is structured around a centrally positioned piebald horse, while further back a white car is parked, aligned along the same axis and rendered comparable in size through perspective. Their profiles are set in opposition, producing a visual counterpoint in orientation and meaning. This configuration destabilizes expected hierarchies. Within the shared landscape, the horse comes to appear almost more out of place than the automobile — which reads as an intruding yet normalized presence — an emblem of mobility that subtly displaces the animal as companion to the landscape in the American visual culture. Viewers of this exhibition become witnesses to the duality of public and private, to moments of ambiguity — to the visual beginnings of Untold Stories they are invited to imagine. There is a quiet delight running through these images — a sense that the world, met with open eyes in its unexpected encounters and fleeting moments, can be endlessly unknowable and surprising. Born in 1951, Clark Winter lives and works in New York.