Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to announce The Way We Live Now, the gallery’s first exhibition with Judy Fiskin. Since the early 1970s, Fiskin has worked with photography and video to examine the aesthetic values of everyday architecture, popular culture, and visual art. The Way We Live Now features recent digital photographs the artist appropriated from real estate websites. Confined to her house and finding new ways to work during the pandemic, Fiskin investigated a world of interiors she digitally altered to fit her purposes.

 In the artist’s own words: “A few months into the pandemic, I was looking for a way to work without having to leave the house.  I came across a real estate website, which consisted mostly of images of the interiors of houses for sale. Suddenly I had thousands of photos of rooms, furniture and decor at my disposal. And since they would be captured digitally, I could change them however I liked. I made the rooms I chose emptier, stranger, more uncanny or off-kilter—all qualities that I’ve explored in my earlier work. I have been fascinated by the practice of ‘staging’ a house—redecorating it to appeal to the buyer and then photographing it. And it touches on one of my usual themes—failed efforts, especially aesthetic efforts.  If you’re involved in making those choices for your own work, the whole idea of taste and what’s bad and what’s good starts to seem more and more arbitrary.  With this series I hope to muddy those waters one more time.”  

Judy Fiskin was born in Chicago, IL and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Pomona College and her M.A. from UCLA.  Fiskin’s work is included in many museum collections including the Art Institure of Chicago, J. Paul Getty Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Museum of American Art, Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.