Gary Duehr

From the Second Story
Who are these people? Where are they going? What decisions or questions make them hesitate and turn? Take a look sideways or glance back over their shoulder?
How much depends on their next footstep, the path they've struck for themselves? What are they carrying in the bags and purses, which books do they consult? Why do they reflexively touch their wallet or wristwatch? Isolated or in pairs, at times accompanied by a furtive shadow at the edge, these individuals act out their mini-dramas. They exist in the boundary between photographic image and glazed backdrop - as we peer down from a god's-eye-view, unable to offer guidance or intervene.

In 2007, Gary Duehr was chosen as a Best Emerging Artist in New England by the International Association of Art Critics. In 2003, Duehr received an Artist Grant in photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and his work has been featured in museums and galleries including: Gallery Kayafas and Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA; Exit Art, Umbrella Arts, and New York Arts, New York, NY; Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo, Japan; SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; and Museo Nacional de Ballas Artes, Havana, Cuba. Past awards include grants from the LEF Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
He has been awarded a public art grant from the Visible Republic program of New England Foundation for the Arts, and a commission form the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) to design a permanent photo installation for North Station, which opened in 2006.
Duehr is co director of the Invisible Cities Group, which creates "large-scale urban detours" combining performance, poetry, and installations of visual art. He has written about the arts for journals including Art on Paper, Communication Arts, Frieze, and Public Culture. Currently he manages Bromfield Art Gallery in Boston's South end.