April 22 - May 31, 2025
From Inman Gallery:
“Inman Gallery is pleased to present One Sun, One Shadow, a solo exhibition of work by Shane Lavalette, on view April 22 – May 31, 2025 at Isabella Court (3901 Main St). We welcome you to a celebratory reception Saturday, May 3, 4–6pm. Shane Lavalette will be in conversation with Jon Evans, Chief of Libraries & Archives at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, for a special program on Saturday, May 10 at 4pm.
In 1996, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta began commissioning photographers from across the world to engage with the American South’s rich social and geographic landscape for the museum’s ongoing initiative, Picturing the South. Selected as one of the commissioned artists, Shane Lavalette traveled the region in the summer of 2010 photographing the work that would become One Sun, One Shadow. Native to the Northeast, it was primarily through traditional music — the sounds of old time, blues, and gospel — that Lavalette had formed a relationship with the South. With that in mind, the region’s rich musical history became the natural entry point for this project and the resulting photographs.
While One Sun, One Shadow has been exhibited several times throughout the US and Europe since its debut at the High Museum in 2012, this is the project’s first installation in Houston where Lavalette is currently based.
Shane Lavalette (b. 1987, Burlington, VT) is a visual artist working in photography and books. He holds a BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette’s photographs have been shown widely, including exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Aperture Foundation, Montserrat College of Art, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kaunas Gallery, Le Château d’Eau, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Musée de l’Elysée, and Robert Morat Galerie, in addition to being held in private and public collections.
Lavalette is the author of four award-winning monographs: One Sun, One Shadow (Lavalette, 2016), Still (Noon) (Edition Patrick Frey, 2018), LOST, Syracuse (Kris Graves Projects, 2019), and New Monuments (Libraryman, 2019). He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, among other awards. Lavalette’s work has been featured by The New York Times, TIME, NPR, CNN, The Telegraph, Aperture, Foam Magazine, Hotshoe, among others, and his editorial work has accompanied stories in various publications, including The New York Times Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, Curbed, Vice Magazine, The Wire, Wallpaper, Monocle, The Guardian, and ZEITmagazin. “
Reception: May 3, 2025 | 4–6 pm
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