{"id":12347,"date":"2025-04-21T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12347"},"modified":"2025-04-17T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:21:49","slug":"richard-learoyd-a-loathing-of-clocks-and-mirrors-at-pace-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/richard-learoyd-a-loathing-of-clocks-and-mirrors-at-pace-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Learoyd, &#8216;A Loathing of Clocks and Mirrors&#8217; at Pace Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strikingly intimate in their clarity, British photographer Richard Learoyd\u2019s new portrait and still life photographs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\/exhibitions\/richard-learoyd-new-york\/\">Pace Gallery<\/a> arrest with their beauty and rich color.\u00a0 Here, however, Learoyd eliminates saturated tones to allow the focus to rest on the texture and minute details of two subjects.\u00a0 Viewers standing in the gallery corner before these two photos are brought into an unexpected relationship with the thoughtfulness, possibly inflected by melancholy or ire, of the sitters.\u00a0 Created with his signature room-sized camera obscura, Learoyd himself is not immediately in front of the subjects as he takes the photo, adding to the sense of interiority in the images.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through April 26<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4951px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/e7b8787a-0785-b5da-66bc-b8e6571a5ca2.jpg\" width=\"4951\" height=\"3454\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Learoyd, (left) Untitled Head, multi-layered pigment print and hand-applied gesso on canvas, 59 \u00bd x 59 \u00bd inches, 2024; (right) Head 2, multi-layered pigment print and hand-applied gesso on canvas, 59 7\/8 x 59 7\/8 inches, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strikingly intimate in their clarity, British photographer Richard Learoyd\u2019s new portrait and still life photographs at Pace Gallery arrest with their beauty and rich color.\u00a0 Here, however, Learoyd eliminates saturated tones to allow the focus to rest on the texture and minute details of two subjects.\u00a0 Viewers standing in the gallery corner before these two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/richard-learoyd-a-loathing-of-clocks-and-mirrors-at-pace-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Richard Learoyd, &#8216;A Loathing of Clocks and Mirrors&#8217; at Pace Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[3302,145,465,2846,17,850,11308],"class_list":["post-12347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-camera-obscura","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-pace-gallery","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-portrait","tag-richard-learoyd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3d9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12349,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions\/12349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}