Exhibition
Enough Already
Photography and Excess
Untitled (Nude Montage) (detail), 1967, by Barbara Blondeau (American, 1938–1974), 2025-22-1
When
Through November 30
Where
Main Building, Honickman Galleries 156, 157
Membership
Member admission is always free.
About
This exhibition will examine photography’s capacity for abundance, detail, and over-sharing in works from the 1960s to today. Featured artists, including Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Peter Hutchinson, Wang Qingsong, David Wojnarowicz, Arthur Ou, and Tim Portlock, among others, have pursued subjects and imagery that take things too far, from filling the frame with innumerable contents to recording overtly personal, disagreeable, or abject scenarios to exploring the limits of optical technology. The resulting works might be too big, too detailed, too saturated, too provocative, or too confrontational, prompting us to reflect on human behavior and desires.
The exhibition includes two commissioned installations by artists Emma Ressel and Rachel Stern, who each reflect on desire and excess. Ressel explores the often destructive human impulse to be close to nature, while Stern considers intertwining objects of desire: beautiful bodies and beautiful things.
Image Gallery
Whooping Crane Efforts, 2024, by Emma Ressel (American, born 1994). Courtesy of the artist.
Drawing, 2024, Rachel Stern (American, born 1989). Courtesy of the artist and A Hug From The Art World
Chiarascuro, 2025, Rachel Stern (American, born 1989), Courtesy of the artist and A Hug From The Art World.
New Mexico Skies, 2020, Arthur Ou. Purchased with the Print Revolving Fund, 2024-102-1
Mineral Drip, 2024, Emma Ressel (American, born 1994). Courtesy of the artist
Chicken Bones, 1988-1989, Keith Arnatt (British, 1930-2008), 2023-185-2
Curator
Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs and Head of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Sponsors
All exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Museum are underwritten by the Annual Exhibition Fund. Generous support is provided by Andrea Baldeck, M.D.; Julia and David Fleischner; Amy A. Fox and Daniel H. Wheeler; Mrs. Henry F. Harris; Robert Hayes; Mark W. Strong and Dana Strong.