Pat York: Fame & Friendship
Dates and Times
- Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Aug 21, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Aug 28, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Sep 4, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Sep 11, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Sep 25, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Oct 9, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Oct 23, 2024 11am - 4pm
- Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 11am - 4pm
- + 4 more
Location
Rochester Art Center
30 Civic Center Dr SE
Event Category
Visual Arts
Details
Pat York: Fame & Friendship
Portraits of 20th Century Icons
On view Saturday, May 18 - Sunday, December 1, 2024
Rochester Art Center is proud to present a photographic exhibition by Pat York of celebrated actors, directors, artists, writers and visionaries that she admires. Pat has exhibited widely, with numerous solo exhibitions presented throughout the world at prestigious institutions including the Hong Kong Film Archive Museum, Kunsthalle Museum in Mannheim, Germany, the Marble Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Nostic Palace in Prague, and more. She has been featured in as many group exhibitions from New York and Jerusalem to Tokyo and Abu Dhabi.
Pat York was born in Jamaica and has traveled widely all her life. Her career started as a fashion editor for Vogue before becoming the travel editor and photographer for Glamour. While Pat has gone on to explore the concept of being unmasked through photography of nudes and cadavers, her large-scale portraits of celebrities exhibited at Rochester Art Center invite the viewer to focus on joy and friendship.
Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Tennessee Williams, Barbra Streisand, Jasper Johns: Their friendships have meant much to Pat. For so many of us, the people she has photographed feel like good acquaintances because we have lived with their art throughout our lives. Her methods are disarming, extracting warmth where few others could, for instance through her animated photography dual with Andy Warhol.
Pat relocated to Rochester in 2022 with her husband, acclaimed actor Michael York, who has written about his diagnosis with Amyloidosis and their appreciation of Mayo Clinic in recognizing and treating the rare disease. Pat is currently working on her fifth book.
