Road Bunnies, 2012

by Justine Kurland

Description
Justine Kurland's Road Bunnies, 2012, is a photograph of her son Casper taken at a campground in Wyoming. The title refers to “road dogs,” street-kid slang for the friends one travels with. Though she is nominally based in New York, Kurland's work has made her a traveler, over the past decade and Casper has been by her side on countless American interstates and back roads. She has been in search of places and moments that embody the idealism rooted in popular conceptions of the American West, whether as an unspoiled arcadia or as a site for individual renewal. Many of these photographs were part of her series This Train Is Bound for Glory, which merged landscapes with photographs of freight trains, portraits of drifters, and images of Casper. Road Bunnies is from a series of photographs that is more documentary and naturalistic than Romantic in nature.
Details

Digital C-Print
Paper Size: 20 x 24 inches
Image Size: 18 x 23 inches
Edition of 16 and 2 Artist’s Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

About the Artist

Justine Kurland (b. 1969, Warsaw, New York) received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1996 and an MFA from Yale University in 1998. She first acquired public attention with her work in the group show Another Girl, Another Planet (1999) at Van Doren Waxter Gallery in New York. Kurland’s photographs unveil neo-romantic landscapes of youth occupied by girls. Her work is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; and International Center of Photography, New York, among other institutions. Kurland’s monograph, Highway Kind, was published by Aperture in 2016, and Girl Pictures in 2020.

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