Kerry Schuss Gallery

Press Release

Judy Linn

Black & White

March 28 - May 10, 2025

Judy Linn’s first exhibition with Kerry Schuss presents a selection of fifteen black and white photographs from 1969-2024, all analog film negatives produced as archival pigment prints. Spanning decades, Linn’s work consistently exudes a distinct richness of tonality and visual articulation. Linn is a photographer who sources from the world, often finding abstraction in happenstance. 

Renowned for her portraits of downtown New York figures in the 1970’s, Linn has equally gained acclaim for her photographs of the surrounding social landscape. Having spent many years between New York City and upstate, this selection of photographs reveals both her rural and urban environs, often unplaceable to a distinct era, yet connected by a consistent poetic sensibility. In the words of curator Matthew Higgs, “Linn's photographs privilege and celebrate the incidental, the peripheral, the marginal, the overlooked and the neglected.”

The images in this exhibition weave together the enduring and enigmatic pull of Linn’s photographs. Her images unveil depth within chance, banality, and imperfection, honed by lived experience and propelled by her curiosity.

Judy Linn (b. 1947, Detroit, MI) lives and works between New York City and upstate New York. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions since 1980 in addition to being featured in numerous international group exhibitions. Her acclaimed monograph Patti Smith 1969 – 1976: Photographs by Judy Linn was published by Abrams Image in 2011. Linn has received various awards such as an Arts and Letters Award in Art (2013); a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Photography (2009); and an Anonymous was a Woman Grant (2006). A respected teacher, she has been on the faculty of renowned institutions such as Bard College, Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts and Vassar College among others.

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