Uta Barth: In Between Places - Brief Article

HENRY ART GALLERY

There's a lot of nobody-home photography--interiors and landscapes emptied of the folks who inhabit them--around of late. What elevates Uta Barth above the places-without-people crowd is not only her long engagement with the subject but the work's strong subjectivity. Though the LA-based artist's out-of-focus, off-center shots address formal issues such as "Field" and "Ground" (titles of two series), they also indicate a very human eye, capturing the various forms of attention we bring to bear on the world. Curator Sheryl Conkelton has culled fifty works for this midcareer retrospective. Nov. 9, 2000-Jan. 21, 2001; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, May 12-July 1, 2001.

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