Heart of the City is a solo show of photographs by David Stock. The show is open through February 8.
Stock has long drawn inspiration from the rich social landscape in and around Jackson Heights, Queens. In this show, he turns his lens on “the intense rhythms of local streets, crowded with hardworking New Yorkers of every nationality, animated by irrepressible hope and energy.” Within the seemingly random flow of the street, Stock discovers coherent scenarios and everyday dramas, offering a colorful portrait of grass roots New York that is both descriptive and evocative.
David Stock is a long-time photographer and political activist. After graduating from Harvard in 1972, he worked in gas stations, factories, shipyards, and on the docks. Alongside his labor, solidarity, and anti-imperialist organizing, Stock makes photographs that are widely exhibited, published, and collected in the U.S. and abroad.
Exhibition venues include Fogg Art Museum, Panopticon Gallery, California Museum of Photography, Museet for Fotokunst, Long Beach Museum of Art, Blue Sky Gallery, Santa Monica College Photography Gallery, University of Sinalóa, UCLA, Casa da Fotografia FUJI, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Powerhouse Arena, and dozens of other community and commercial spaces. This is his fifth solo show at 440 Gallery.
More information at 440gallery.com
