Anthony Lepore

Lepore's work has investigated the frictions created by the containment and cultural representation of nature. His early work explored people's relationships with animals, focusing his lens on people with their pets, and on animal surgeries and rehabilitation. An extended project called "Bird Shop" consisted of the portraits of passersby gazing into a bird shop window from a busy street in New York City.

Beginning in 2007, Lepore photographed in the visitor centers of National Parks, creating images of displays that challenge the expectations of landscape photography. Describing his images made in these visitor centers, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer wrote in Artforum that "Lepore homes in on places of rupture that break and undermine photographic illusion."{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/anthony-lepore-28476|title=Anthony Lepore at Ghebaly Gallery|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}

In more recent works, Lepore has further investigated the relationship of photography to illusionistic representation and invention. For a 2010 exhibition at the Los Angeles Central Library, Lepore created a scaled-down recreation of one of the library's glass cases. Embedded in the larger case, the sculpture's surface was mounted with photographs of the glass case, which had been filled with library books on the topic of the human body and propagation. "Lepore's installation casts the viewer deep into a surreal and uncanny scene by contrasting sculptural anthropomorphism with the odd precision of photographic representation."{{Cite web|url=http://www.works-sited.info/?page=anthony_lepore|title=works sited|website=www.works-sited.info|access-date=2019-04-24}}

Regarding Lepore's still lives, Joanna Szupinska-Myers wrote that "by echoing the effects of digital editing—constructing what he refers to as an “analog illusion”—Lepore's photograph speaks in a language that it simultaneously subverts."{{Cite web|url=https://www.mbart.com/usr/documents/artists/press_download_url/89/m-b-lepore-presspack-2014-11-01.pdf|title=Lepore PDF}}

• Performance Anxiety, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, 2019{{Cite web|url=http://www.moskowitzbayse.com/anthony-lepore-performance-anxiety|title=Anthony Lepore - Performance Anxiety|website=Moskowitz Bayse|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-05}}
• Seeing Each Other, with Michael Henry Hayden, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, 2018{{Cite web|url=http://www.leftfieldgallery.com/exhibitions|title=Exhibitions|website=LEFT FIELD GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• The Green Curtain, with Michael Henry Hayden, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, 2017{{Cite web|url=http://delvazprojects.com/previous|title=Tumblr|website=Tumblr|language=en|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Splash, Glow, Fullflex at the Bikini Factory, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, 2015{{Cite web|url=http://publicfiction.org/AL.pdf|title=Anthony Lepore Public Fiction 2015}}
• Bikini Factory, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015{{Cite web|url=http://ghebaly.com/work/anthony-lepore-bikini-factory/|title=François Ghebaly › Anthony Lepore|website=François Ghebaly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Sleepyhead, The Finley, Los Angeles, 2015{{Cite web|url=http://thefinleygallery.artcodeinc.com/pages/anthony-lepore-michael-henry-hayden/|title=The Finley|website=thefinleygallery.artcodeinc.com|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Flash, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, 2014{{Cite web|url=https://artsblock.ucr.edu/Exhibition/Flash-Anthony-Lepore|title=Flash Anthony Lepore}}
• New Wilderness, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011{{Cite web|url=http://ghebaly.com/work/anthony-lepore-the-new-wilderness/|title=François Ghebaly › Anthony Lepore|website=François Ghebaly|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• New Wilderness Part Two, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011{{Cite web|url=https://www.mbart.com/exhibitions/81/overview/|title=Anthony Lepore|website=M+B|language=en|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Paper Surrogate, works sited, Los Angeles Central Library, 2010{{Cite web|url=http://www.works-sited.info/?page=anthony_lepore|title=works sited|website=www.works-sited.info|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Restoration, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 2008
• Bird Shop, Marvelli Gallery, New York, 2007{{Cite web|url=http://www.marvelligallery.com/Exhibition_AL_BirdShop_01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602185023/http://marvelligallery.com/Exhibition_AL_BirdShop_01.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 2, 2013|title=PAST EXHIBITIONS|website=www.marvelligallery.com|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• I Would Make You My Own, Marvelli Gallery, New York, 2006{{Cite web|url=http://www.marvelligallery.com/Exhibition_AL_IWouldMakeYouMyOwn_01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602070832/http://marvelligallery.com/Exhibition_AL_IWouldMakeYouMyOwn_01.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 2, 2013|title=PAST EXHIBITIONS|website=www.marvelligallery.com|access-date=2019-04-24}}

• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles{{Cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/33018/anthony-lepore-american-born-1977/|title=Anthony Lepore (American, born 1977) (Getty Museum)|website=The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles|language=en|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles{{Cite web|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/164225|title=Anthony Lepore {{!}} LACMA Collections|website=collections.lacma.org|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven{{Cite web|url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/190280|title=Tod Papageorge: A Yale Portfolio, 1979–2013, Volume II {{!}} Yale University Art Gallery|website=artgallery.yale.edu|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago{{Cite web|url=http://www.mocp.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=browse&f=maker&s=Lepore,+Anthony&record=1|title=Museum of Contemporary Photography|website=www.mocp.org|access-date=2019-04-24}}
• The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte
• The Fitchburg Museum of Art, Massachusetts

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