Time Past and Time Future, Utah, 2014

First included in the Aperture Magazine Collector's Series edition, David Benjamin Sherry's Time Past and Time Future, Utah, 2014, is available in a limited quantity as a single print offering from the last remaining sets. This work first appeared in Aperture Issue #218: “Queer", and the series was later featured in and on the cover of Aperture Issue #234: "Earth" in 2019. Sherry, a Los Angeles-based photographer, has garnered significant acclaim for his vibrantly colored (analogue darkroom) images of the American West that often reference canonical figures of modern American photography, from Minor White to Edward Weston. Of Sherry’s work, curator Kevin Moore observes: “Rather than thinking of Sherry’s photographs as a queering…of a Western landscape tradition…it might be more insightful to point out that photography—straight or otherwise—has always made the world queer, abstracting and two-dimensionalizing everything it records.” Time Past and Time Future, Utah, 2014, an image from Sherry’s ongoing project, borrowed its name from a T.S. Eliot poem and was made in a remote location at the height of an intense summer heatwave. “It felt otherworldly, secluded, and deeply sexual,” Sherry remarks about the location, bringing together the central themes that underpin his work—landscape, sexuality, and the specter of environmental collapse.

C-Print
Image Size: 11 x 14 inches
Paper Size: 14 x 17 inches
Edition of 30 + 5 Artist Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

David Benjamin Sherry (b. 1981, Stony Brook, New York) currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received his BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 2003; and his MFA in photography from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in 2007. A multipart installation of his work was exhibited in ​Greater New York 2010​ at MoMA PS1, New York. His work has also been exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions and is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island; Saatchi Collection, London; Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida; and Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles.