Anne Turyn Explained

Anne Turyn
Nationality:American
Occupation:Photographer
Education:Antioch College (BFA)
Graduate Center, CUNY (M.A.)
University at Buffalo (M.F.A.)

Anne Turyn (born 1954) is an American photographer. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,[1] the Metropolitan Museum of Art[2] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[3] She is also an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.[4]

Turyn founded and edited Top Stories between 1978 and 1991—"experimental fiction written by (mostly) women authors, styled as chapbooks with each issue dedicated to a single writer."[5]

Career

Turyn graduated from Antioch College in 1976 with a BFA in art. She moved to Buffalo, New York and from there established Top Stories, a prose periodical containing "experimental fiction written by (mostly) women authors, styled as chapbooks with each issue dedicated to a single writer."[5] At the same time she participated in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and enrolled at the University at Buffalo.[5] Her first publication of Top Stories, was printed in 1978[5] by Hard Press, and sold for one dollar.[6] Top Stories published art and writings by writers, photographers, and artists such as Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Constance DeJong, Jenny Holzer, Cookie Mueller, Richard Prince,[7] ceasing in 1991.[5] In 1991 City Lights Books published Top Top Stories edited by Turyn.[8] In 2022 Primary Information, Brooklyn re-issued the entire run of Top Stories in a two volume set.[9]

Turyn's book of photographs, Missives, was published in 1986 by Alfred van der Marck editions, with an essay by Andy Grundberg.[10] In 2020 a catalogue accompanying her one-person show at Weiss Berlin,[11] Anne Turyn, Top Stories, with contributions by DeJong, Douglas Eklund, Chris Kraus, Adam D. Weinberg, and Angharad Williams, was published. The publication was shortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Photography catalogue category.[12]

Exhibitions

Turyn's photographs were included in the 1979 group exhibition The Altered Photograph at MoMA PS1 and were included in the 1980 exhibition Hallwalls: Five Years at the New Museum, both in New York City.[13] In 1982 her photographs were featured in the window of the New Museum, curated by Robin Dodds.[14] In 1984 she was included in Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In 1986, Turyn had a one-person exhibition at Art City (owned by Leslie Tonkonow) in New York; an exhibition, Anne Turyn: Work from Five Series, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston curated by Linda Cathcart;[15] and was included in a group exhibition, entitled Remembrances of Things Past, at the Long Beach Museum of Art curated by Connie Fitzsimons.[16] Turyn's public art piece, 'What if the Sky were Orange' was presented by the Public Art Fund as part of 'Messages to the Public' on the Spectacolor board in Times Square in 1988.[17] In 1989 Turyn was included in Vanishing Presence, curated by Adam Weinberg, at the Walker Art Center, which also traveled.[18] Turyn was included in the seminal exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, curated by Peter Galassi in 1991.[19]

In 1995, Turyn collaborated with Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center to present a group exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center titled Alternatives: 20 Years Of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.[20] The following year, Turyn was one of 23 alumni whose work was selected to be displayed at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.[21]

In 2010 Turyn was included in Pictures by Women at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Meister and Eva Respini.[22] In 2010 her work was also included in Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography curated by Douglas Eklund at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 2010 Turyn was included in 'Exposure: Photos from the Vault' curated by Eric Paddock at the Denver Art Museum.[23]

In 2017, Turyn had a solo exhibit at Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, titled Anne Turyn: Top Stories Archive & Selected Flashbulb Memories, 1978-1991 which presented her photographs alongside selections from the Top Stories archive.[24] Turyn's photographs, along with issues of Top Stories, were included in the 2017 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, Section Littéraire (Valérie Knoll and Geraldine Tedder, curators).[25]

In 2020 Kunstverein Amsterdam displayed Turyn's Messages to the Public (1988) outdoors in Amsterdam[26] and in 2021 exhibited Top Stories in the gallery.[27] In 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle in Neuchâtel, Switzerland presented Lessons & Notes with The Pleasure of Text.[28]

Publications

Collections

Turyn's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20191031085551/https://whitney.org/artists/8118 . 31 October 2019 . 27 February 2023 . Whitney Museum of American Art.
  2. Web site: Search the Collection: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228032840/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Anne+Turyn&sortBy=Relevance&pageSize=0 . 28 February 2023 . 20 July 2021 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  3. Web site: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220706155453/https://www.moma.org/artists/5982 . 6 July 2022 . 27 February 2023 . The Museum of Modern Art.
  4. Web site: Anne Turyn - Adjunct Professor - CCE . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221004031644/https://www.pratt.edu/people/anne-turyn/ . 4 October 2022 . 21 April 2019 . Pratt Institute.
  5. Web site: Nussbaum . Hannah . January 2018 . Top Stories: Anne Turyn on the groundbreaking New York periodical . live . https://archive.today/20230228031653/https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2018/01/a-conversation-with-anne-turyn . 28 February 2023 . 21 April 2019 . Tank Magazine.
  6. Web site: 8 May 2018 . 'And Then Sport Said…' A Conversation with Mirene Arsanios of Makhzin and Anne Turyn of Top Stories . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221206203306/https://curatorsintl.org/records/3421-and-then-sport-said-a-conversation-with-mirene-arsanios-of-makhzin-and-anne-turyn-of-top-stories . 6 December 2022 . 21 April 2019 . Independent Curators International.
  7. Web site: 5. 10. 1926 (1986) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228034315/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265108 . 28 February 2023 . 21 April 2019 . Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  8. Web site: Top Top Stories [Edited by Anne Turyn, City Lights Books] ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520084532/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87286-258-6 . 20 May 2022 . 20 July 2021 . Publishers Weekly.
  9. Web site: Top Stories - Various Artists - Edited by Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221001114427/https://primaryinformation.org/product/top-stories/ . 1 October 2022 . 27 February 2023 . Primary Information.
  10. Web site: Missives: Photographs . 27 February 2023 . WorldCat.org.
  11. Web site: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210722065140/https://weissberlin.com/artist/anne-turyn/ . 22 July 2021 . 20 July 2021 . Weiss Berlin.
  12. Web site: 10 December 2020 . 2020 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist: Catalogue of the Year . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211004165215/https://aperture.org/editorial/2020-photobook-awards-shortlist-catalogue-of-the-year/ . 4 October 2021 . 20 July 2021 . Aperture Magazine.
  13. Web site: Hallways: Five Years - 6/19/80 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211114213018/https://www.hallwalls.org/visual/5360.html . 14 November 2021 . 27 February 2023 . Hallwalls.org.
  14. Web site: Exhibitions - Ann Turyn: Lessons & Notes [1982] ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221001200108/https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/57 . 1 October 2022 . 27 February 2023 . New Museum Digital Archive.
  15. Web site: Anne Turyn: Work from Five Series [1986] ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211026154540/https://camh.org/event/anne-turyn-work-five-series/ . 26 October 2021 . 27 February 2023 . .
  16. Web site: McKenna . Kristine . 3 January 1987 . Art Review: 13 Artists Share Their 'Remembrances' . subscription . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190423173716/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-03-ca-2116-story.html . 23 April 2019 . 27 February 2023 . .
  17. Web site: Anne Turyn: Messages to the Public: What if the sky were orange [1988] ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220929165723/https://www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/messages-to-the-public-turyn/ . 29 September 2022 . 27 February 2023 . Public Art Fund.
  18. Book: Vanishing presence. Eugenia. Parry. Max. Kozloff. Adam D. Weinberg. Walker Art Center. 25 April 1989. Walker Art Center ; Rizzoli. 18351821. Open WorldCat.
  19. Web site: Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort [1991] ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221009061524/https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/347 . 9 October 2022 . 27 February 2023 . The Museum of Modern Art.
  20. Web site: 7 April 1995 . Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallways Contemporary Arts Center . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220112224139/https://www.hallwalls.org/visual/2973.html . 12 January 2022 . 21 April 2019 . Hallwalls.org.
  21. News: Donovan . Patricia . 12 September 1996 . Works by outstanding alumni, faculty to be shown in tribute to UB art program . 28 . Reporter . . 3 . live . 21 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190422013251/https://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archive/vol28/vol28n03/sesqui4.html . 22 April 2019.
  22. Web site: 2011 . Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221005090321/https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1038 . 5 October 2022 . 28 February 2023 . The Museum of Modern Art.
  23. Web site: Untitled from the series Illustrated Memories [1984] ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228082705/https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/1991.700 . 28 February 2023 . 28 February 2023 . . Exhibition History: 'Exposure: Photos from the Vault'—Denver Art Museum, 4/30/2010 - 10/31/2010.
  24. Web site: 2017 . Anne Turyn: Top Stories Archive & Selected Flashbulb Memories, 1978-1991 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220703002202/http://www.southfirst.org/TOPSTORIESPR3.html . 3 July 2022 . 21 April 2019 . Southfirst.
  25. Web site: 2017 . Section Littéraire . Literary section . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220531091017/https://kunsthalle-bern.ch/ausstellungen/2017/section-litteraire/ . 31 May 2022 . 28 February 2023 . Kunsthalle Bern . de.
  26. Web site: 14 May 2020 . Anne Turyn, Messages To The Public . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626172330/https://kunstverein.nl/2020/05/14/anne-turyn-messages-to-the-public/ . 26 June 2022 . 19 July 2021 . Kunstverein.
  27. Web site: 5 March 2021 . Top Stories by Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211023044841/https://kunstverein.nl/2020/05/14/anne-turyn-messages-to-the-public/ . 23 October 2021 . 19 July 2021 . Kunstverein.
  28. Web site: Anne Turyn .
  29. Book: Missives: photographs. Anne. Turyn. Andy. Grundberg. July 21, 1986. A. van der Marck Editions. 14002346. Open WorldCat.
  30. Book: Top top stories. July 21, 1991. 23253158. Open WorldCat.
  31. Web site: Bookshop. delpire & co.
  32. Book: Real family stories. July 21, 1982. 11617864. Open WorldCat.
  33. Book: Turyn, Anne. Volunteer: a photo novel. July 21, 1982. CEPA. 10348423. Open WorldCat.
  34. Web site: Untitled from Illustrated Memories . artsbma.org . April 21, 2019.
  35. Web site: Anne Turyn - Burchfield Penney Art Center .
  36. Web site: 27 November 2019 . Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220705195441/https://ccp.arizona.edu/artists/anne-turyn . 5 July 2022 . 28 February 2023 . Center for Creative Photography.
  37. Web site: Works Of: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200812183249/https://collections.eastman.org/people/60866/anne-turyn/objects . 12 August 2020 . 28 February 2023 . George Eastman Museum.
  38. Web site: Light Work Collection / Search / Turyn .
  39. Web site: Artist: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210722072315/https://collections.lacma.org/search/site/anne%20turyn?f%5B0%5D=bm_field_has_image%253Atrue&f%5B1%5D=sm_field_artist%3Anode%3A168142 . 22 July 2021 . 20 July 2021 . Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  40. Web site: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228090548/http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=17661;type=701 . 28 February 2023 . 20 July 2021 . Portland Art Museum.
  41. Web site: Anne Turyn . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211130160149/https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/anne-turyn . 30 November 2021 . 28 February 2023 . Walker Art Center.
  42. Web site: Untitled, [Photographer and Toy], from Illustrated Memories series | Yale University Art Gallery .

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