Sharon Lockhart: Friday November 12th, 6:00pm

Sharon Lockhart received her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Since 1994, Lockhart's work in photography and film has been widely exhibited in national and international venues. Her film Goshogaoka, 1997, launched Lockhart's career in film-making and has been screened in museums and film festivals throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Lockhart has also participated in several international art exhibtions including the 1997 Site Santa Fe Biennial and the 1997 and 2000 Whitney Biennials. A major survey exhibition of her work was organized by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam traveled to the Kunsthalle Zurich and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. In March 2000 the San Francisco Art Institute presented her work, along with the photographs of Kelly Nipper, in the exhibition 2 Artists in 3 Takes.

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Sharon will be screening her film Double Tide, a luminous and meditative portrait of a woman digging clams in the mudflats of the Atlantic Ocean, at MoMA this Thursday November 11th. Filmed in Seal Cove, Maine, a historic site for commercial clamming, during a rare natural phenomenon—when low tide occurs twice during daylight hours, once at dawn and once at dusk—Double Tide depicts an ageless tradition of backbreaking work within the sublime and quiet beauty of a wild coastal landscape. The film, which also exists as a double-screen gallery installation, continues the fascination with ritual and labor seen in Lockhart’s other recent works, from her choreographed study of Japanese farmers piling hay (NO, 2003) to her recent look at Maine shipyard workers at rest (Lunch Break, 2008) and leaving the factory at day’s end (Exit, 2008). As with many of her films, Double Tide occupies the liminal space between stillness and movement, and between actual time and subjective time.