May 9 — May 31, 2025
Joe Librandi-Cowan and Rosemary Haynes
Curated by Rainer Turim
Living Skin is pleased to present Material Proxy, a two-person exhibition by Rosemary Haynes and Joe Librandi-Cowan, curated by Rainer Turim, opening on May 9th and on view through May 31st.
Opening
Friday, May 9, 2025, 7-10pm
Closing
Saturday, May 31, 2025, 6-9pm
“Haynes and Librandi-Cowan, who met in the Fall of 2022, provide two differing approaches to understanding their family relationships. While Haynes’s photographs involve varying people in different scenes and still lives, Librandi-Cowan follows mainly two kinds of imagery-- his mother and his childhood home. In Haynes’s photographs, there are murmurs and whispers of conversation; for Librandi-Cowan, dialogue occurs internally, as he reconciles the quiet landscape. Librandi-Cowan pulls back to photograph his fading home, while Haynes leans in to photograph her brother at the dinner table. Paired together, they offer macro and micro introspections of family and space. We move in and out of two necessary headspaces and mindsets-- concentration and contemplation. This exhibition confronts the shell of home, the artifacts of our families, and their mortality...”
— Rainer Turim
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Joe Librandi-Cowan (b. 1991, Auburn, NY) received his BFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University. His photographic practice, centered around notions of home and family, attempts to navigate life’s difficult, but shared experiences. His work has been featured by the BBC, Vogue Italia, and Light Work.
Rosemary Haynes (b. 1998, Florence, MA) is an artist working in analog photography and darkroom methods to explore between the technical and the emotive. Formally trained as a Gelatin Silver printer, Haynes uses the camera to create staged portraits, environmental images and diaristic maps. Exploring a relationship between camera, subject and photographer, her work is both collaborative and reflexive on the photographic process.
Exhibition history includes Justine Kurland Studio, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Soft Serve Projects, and Arcanite Pictures. She was included in Cultured Magazine’s 2024 Young Photographer’s List, is a recipient of the 2025 Junior Photowork Fellowship, and is a co-founder of Rubylith Darkroom.
61 Wyckoff Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Est. 2023
Jack Romer and
Jordan Satterfield
June 7 — June 21, 2025
Opening June 27, 2025
Rosemary Haynes and Joe Lirbandi-Cowan