Photographs not only picture something but also exist in the world as physical objects. Letha Wilson takes each role seriously in her current solo show at GRIMM Gallery, presenting landscape images shot in California, New Mexico and Washington State mounted to steel or embedded in concrete and exhibited as sculpture. In this piece, Wilson’s photo of Yosemite National Park is affixed to the wall but loops behind a cast-iron column normally hidden by gallery architecture. By excavating the column, painting it and installing the photo, Wilson integrates urban and natural terrains while also alluding to iron’s origins as ore in rocky landscapes. (On view in Tribeca through May 2nd.)
