Regen Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs and sculptures by Catherine Opie. Marking her twelfth exhibition with the gallery, Holding Blue resonates between Opie’s investigations into the formal and theoretical qualities of the photographic medium and the singularities of the Norwegian landscape. Through meditations on temporality, embodiment, and the preciousness of the natural world, these works extend Opie’s longstanding practice of closely observing the social and physical world around her. This presentation comes amidst several landmark solo exhibitions for Opie at the Fridericianum, Kassel; National Portrait Gallery, London; PoMo, Trondheim; and the Royal Scottish Academy at National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh. Two groups of ceramic sculptures, titled Before and After, illustrate Opie’s interpretation of the Norwegian mountains in anticipation of and following her trip. Opie developed the After series as the visiting artist at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in 2024 based on her recollection of each mountain. This body of work marks her second major engagement with ceramics after first exhibiting a series of sculptures in 2015. In her sculptures of the Norway mountains, Opie records her own haptic processing and meditation on the landscape, connecting physical form to spiritual contemplation of time and memory.

Thursday, May 28, 6–8 pm