"New Yorkers rush past bodegas, take-out joints and dry cleaners a hundred times a week without really seeing them. But at " Pedestrian , the new exhibition by Brooklyn artist Charis Ammon at Sargent's Daughters in Tribeca, those everyday facades get the kind of attention usually reserved for landmarks. A few of the paintings stretch nearly eight-by-twelve feet-almost the size of the storefronts themselves-so there's no chance of treating them like background noise."
"Ammon, who lives in Bushwick, has spent years thinking about what you notice when you move through a city on foot. Her first solo show was all about Houston's sidewalks and underpasses, imparting a sensibility that stayed with her. "I was thinking a lot about the rhythm of your footsteps and this sort of meditative nature of going on a walk," Ammon told . "Even though you're in a public space, there's the private mind." That mix of public and private and inner and outer inspires the scenes she returns to again and again."
Charis Ammon transforms familiar New York storefronts into large-scale paintings that insist on careful looking. The exhibition at Sargent's Daughters in Tribeca includes works nearly eight-by-twelve feet, almost the size of the storefronts themselves. Ammon photographs facades for months or years, waiting for moments when light, reflections, plants and passing trains align. Her work draws on the meditative rhythm of walking and the interplay of public and private interior life. Some works foreground disruptions—flickering LED signs, shadows, smears of light—that hint at interrupted narratives within everyday urban surfaces.
Read at Time Out New York
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