Looking at pictures of art in books, magazines and on the internet we often forget we're really looking, over and over, at only one kind of art: photography. The extremes of the pandemic made explicit that there is at present no other viable technology for interacting with art objects that exist outside our immediate physical space than through that which a photographer provides us. Pictures are how most of us interact with art.

For this exhibition, Basketshop presents Brad Farwell’s photographs of the work of Diego Leclery.

Artist Diego Leclery used his opportunity for being included in this Fotofocus event to extend the accreditation to the professional photographer that documented his attempts at various art practices. To that regard, we are asked to shift our focus to the person that is most responsible for how artwork reaches a global audience.

Brad Farwell is an artist and commercial photographer whose work engages with ideas of memory, representation, and the role of photographic technology in shaping human perception. He holds degrees from Yale University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been included in shows at Rick Wester Fine Art, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the American Academy in Rome. Brad’s pictures and words have been published in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The New York Times Magazine, and Draw it With Your Eyes Closed, among others. Farwell teaches photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology and lives in the Bronx with his brilliant wife and two mischievous children.

Diego Leclery is an artist living in New York. His mid-career retrospective “Household Name: A Ten-Year Survey of Diego Leclery's Self-Portraiture in Chicago's Artist-Run Spaces and Apartment Galleries” was held in 2020 at the Hyde Park Art Center. Other solo presentations include “Diego Leclery” at Faber and Faber presents in Chicago and “Social Practice” at MuseumofAmericabooks in Brooklyn. His work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He was a founding member of the Chicago artist run space Julius Caesar, now in its 11th year.

Travel to BasketShop

(from Northside – Chase and Hamilton) … 3.9 miles

(from Fountain Square – 520 Vine St.) … 7.5 miles

(from University of Cincinnati – Clifton) … 5.7 miles

Bus Routes - #21 & #41