Anne Turyn

Anne Turyn
Born1954 (age 69–70)
NationalityAmerican
EducationAntioch College (BFA)
Graduate Center, CUNY (M.A.)
University at Buffalo (M.F.A.)
OccupationPhotographer
Websiteanneturyn.com

Anne Turyn (born 1954) is an American photographer.[1] Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,[1] the Metropolitan Museum of Art[2] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[3] She is also an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.[4]

Turyn founded and edited Top Stories between 1978 and 1991—"experimental fiction written by (mostly) women authors, styled as chapbooks with each issue dedicated to a single writer."[5]

Career

Turyn graduated from Antioch College in 1976 with a BFA in art. She moved to Buffalo, New York and from there established Top Stories, a prose periodical containing "experimental fiction written by (mostly) women authors, styled as chapbooks with each issue dedicated to a single writer."[5] At the same time she participated in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and enrolled at the University at Buffalo.[5] Her first publication of Top Stories, was printed in 1978[5] by Hard Press, and sold for one dollar.[6] Top Stories published art and writings by writers, photographers, and artists such as Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Constance DeJong, Jenny Holzer, Cookie Mueller, Richard Prince,[7] ceasing in 1991.[5] In 1991 City Lights Books published Top Top Stories edited by Turyn.[8] In 2022 Primary Information, Brooklyn re-issued the entire run of Top Stories in a two volume set.[9]

Turyn's book of photographs, Missives, was published in 1986 by Alfred van der Marck editions, with an essay by Andy Grundberg.[10] In 2020 a catalogue accompanying her one-person show at Weiss Berlin,[11] Anne Turyn, Top Stories, with contributions by DeJong, Douglas Eklund, Chris Kraus, Adam D. Weinberg, and Angharad Williams, was published. The publication was shortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Photography catalogue category.[12]

Exhibitions

Turyn's photographs were included in the 1979 group exhibition The Altered Photograph at MoMA PS1[3] and were included in the 1980 exhibition Hallwalls: Five Years at the New Museum, both in New York City.[13] In 1982 her photographs were featured in the window of the New Museum, curated by Robin Dodds.[14] In 1984 she was included in Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.[3] In 1986, Turyn had a one-person exhibition at Art City (owned by Leslie Tonkonow) in New York; an exhibition, Anne Turyn: Work from Five Series, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston curated by Linda Cathcart;[15] and was included in a group exhibition, entitled Remembrances of Things Past, at the Long Beach Museum of Art curated by Connie Fitzsimons.[16] Turyn's public art piece, 'What if the Sky were Orange' was presented by the Public Art Fund as part of 'Messages to the Public' on the Spectacolor board in Times Square in 1988.[17] In 1989 Turyn was included in Vanishing Presence, curated by Adam Weinberg, at the Walker Art Center, which also traveled.[18] Turyn was included in the seminal exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, curated by Peter Galassi in 1991.[19]

In 1995, Turyn collaborated with Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center to present a group exhibition at the Burchfield Penney Art Center titled Alternatives: 20 Years Of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.[20] The following year, Turyn was one of 23 alumni whose work was selected to be displayed at the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.[21]

In 2010 Turyn was included in Pictures by Women at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Meister and Eva Respini.[22] In 2010 her work was also included in Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography curated by Douglas Eklund at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[2] In 2010 Turyn was included in 'Exposure: Photos from the Vault' curated by Eric Paddock at the Denver Art Museum.[23]

In 2017, Turyn had a solo exhibit at Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, titled Anne Turyn: Top Stories Archive & Selected Flashbulb Memories, 1978-1991 which presented her photographs alongside selections from the Top Stories archive.[24] Turyn's photographs, along with issues of Top Stories, were included in the 2017 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, Section Littéraire (Valérie Knoll and Geraldine Tedder, curators).[25]

In 2020 Kunstverein Amsterdam displayed Turyn's Messages to the Public (1988) outdoors in Amsterdam[26] and in 2021 exhibited Top Stories in the gallery.[27] In 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle in Neuchâtel, Switzerland presented Lessons & Notes with The Pleasure of Text.[28]

Publications

  • Missives. Alfred van der Marck, 1986. Photographs by Anne Turyn with an essay by Andy Grundberg[29]
  • Top Top Stories. San Francisco: City Lights, 1991. Edited by Turyn.[30]
  • Anne Turyn, Top Stories. Berlin: Weiss Berlin, 2020. Edited by Elena Cheprakova and Kirsten Weiss.[31]
  • Real Family Stories, Top Stories #13, Buffalo, NY, 1982[32]
  • Volunteer, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo NY, 1982[33]
  • Top Stories, edited by Anne Turyn, Primary Information, Brooklyn, NY 2022 [9]

Collections

Turyn's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References

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  2. ^ a b c "Search the Collection: Anne Turyn". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Anne Turyn". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Anne Turyn - Adjunct Professor - CCE". Pratt Institute. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e Nussbaum, Hannah (January 2018). "Top Stories: Anne Turyn on the groundbreaking New York periodical". Tank Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  6. ^ "'And Then Sport Said…' A Conversation with Mirene Arsanios of Makhzin and Anne Turyn of Top Stories". Independent Curators International. 8 May 2018. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  7. ^ "5. 10. 1926 (1986)". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Top Top Stories [Edited by Anne Turyn, City Lights Books]". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  9. ^ a b "Top Stories - Various Artists - Edited by Anne Turyn". Primary Information. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Missives: Photographs". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  11. ^ "Anne Turyn". Weiss Berlin. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  12. ^ "2020 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist: Catalogue of the Year". Aperture Magazine. 10 December 2020. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Hallways: Five Years - 6/19/80". Hallwalls.org. Archived from the original on 14 November 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  14. ^ "Exhibitions - Ann Turyn: Lessons & Notes [1982]". New Museum Digital Archive. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  15. ^ "Anne Turyn: Work from Five Series [1986]". Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  16. ^ McKenna, Kristine (3 January 1987). "Art Review: 13 Artists Share Their 'Remembrances'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  17. ^ "Anne Turyn: Messages to the Public: What if the sky were orange [1988]". Public Art Fund. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  18. ^ Parry, Eugenia; Kozloff, Max; Weinberg, Adam D; Walker Art Center (25 April 1989). Vanishing presence. Walker Art Center ; Rizzoli. OCLC 18351821 – via Open WorldCat.
  19. ^ "Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort [1991]". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  20. ^ "Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallways Contemporary Arts Center". Hallwalls.org. 7 April 1995. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  21. ^ Donovan, Patricia (12 September 1996). "Works by outstanding alumni, faculty to be shown in tribute to UB art program". Reporter. Vol. 28, no. 3. State University of New York at Buffalo. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  22. ^ "Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography". The Museum of Modern Art. 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  23. ^ a b "Untitled from the series Illustrated Memories [1984]". Denver Art Museum. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023. Exhibition History: 'Exposure: Photos from the Vault'—Denver Art Museum, 4/30/2010 - 10/31/2010
  24. ^ "Anne Turyn: Top Stories Archive & Selected Flashbulb Memories, 1978-1991". Southfirst. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  25. ^ "Section Littéraire" [Literary section]. Kunsthalle Bern (in German). 2017. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  26. ^ "Anne Turyn, Messages To The Public". Kunstverein. 14 May 2020. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
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  29. ^ Turyn, Anne; Grundberg, Andy (July 21, 1986). Missives: photographs. A. van der Marck Editions. OCLC 14002346 – via Open WorldCat.
  30. ^ Top top stories. July 21, 1991. OCLC 23253158 – via Open WorldCat.
  31. ^ "Bookshop". delpire & co.
  32. ^ Real family stories. July 21, 1982. OCLC 11617864 – via Open WorldCat.
  33. ^ Turyn, Anne (July 21, 1982). Volunteer: a photo novel. CEPA. OCLC 10348423 – via Open WorldCat.
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  35. ^ "Anne Turyn - Burchfield Penney Art Center".
  36. ^ "Anne Turyn". Center for Creative Photography. 27 November 2019. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  37. ^ "Works Of: Anne Turyn". George Eastman Museum. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  38. ^ "Light Work Collection / Search / Turyn".
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Further reading

  • Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency. Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. By Robert Siegle. ISBN 978-0801838477.
  • Up is Up but So is Down: Documenting New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974–1992. New York University Press, 2006. By Brandon Stosuy. ISBN 978-0814740101.