April 12 - May 24, 2024
Denmark-born, Detroit-based Thomas Bangsted is a landscape photographer whose work evokes the sublime in nature. Bangsted’s photographs evolve through a drawn out process, often requiring years to realize single pieces. He takes images of places and objects over extended periods of time. The aim of layering numerous images is to appreciate a new understanding of place – that which we see at any moment is always incomplete.
Bangsted’s images have a sense of the uncanny; something isn’t quite right. Whether it is the precarious tilt of a ship’s masthead or an icy reflection in the water, the viewer is forced to question what is seen and by extension what they ever see. We are presented with such a rich visual and beautiful palette and always we seem to enter in the midst of a profoundly interesting narrative and we are left to fill in the before and after.
Thomas Bangsted (b. 1976, Denmark) received a MFA in Photography from Yale University, School of Art in 2007. Bangsted has had numerous solo shows in Denmark including Brandts 13 (2018), Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2018) and Galleri Hornbaek (2007). Group exhibits include Tang Museum, NY (2016), The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2016), The Metropolitan Museum of New York (2015), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN (2015), Bronx Museum of the Arts (2011), the Hudson Valley MoCA, Peekskill, NY, The Prague Biennial (2009) and the New York Photo Festival (2008). His work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of New York and was included in their 2015 exhibition of recent acquisitions and reviewed in The New York Times. Bangsted is represented by MARC STRAUS, New York and Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Denmark.
Selected Works
Bisque Christ
2020
Pigment print
18.5 x 22.18 inches (47 x 56.3 cm)
Edition of 8 + 1 AP
David
2019
David, 2019
Pigment print
26.5 x 18.7 inches (67.3 x 47.5 cm)
Edition of 8 + 1 AP
Excavation I
2016-2018
Pigment print
63.5 x 71.16 inches (161.3 x 180.7 cm)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Excavation II
2016-2019
Pigment print
63.5 x 68.47 inches (161.3 x 173.9 cm)
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
The Courtyard in Thorvaldsen's Museum (Copernicus)
2021
Pigment print
44 x 37 inches (111.8 x 94 cm)
Edition of 4 + 2 AP
The Courtyard in Thorvaldsens Museum
2018-2021
Chromogenic print
71 x 82.5 inches (180.3 x 209.5 cm)
Edition of 4 + 2 AP
Thorø
2017-2021
Pigment print
60 x 66.34 inches (152.4 x 168.5 cm)
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Thorøegaard II
2017-2020
Pigment print
57 x 43.79 inches (144.8 x 111.3 cm)
Edition of 4 + 2 AP
Thorøegaard
2017-2020
Pigment print
63.5 x 70.5 inches (161.3 x 179.1 cm)
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Sopnes
2017
Pigment Print (colorized)
50 x 63.2 inches (127 x 160.5 cm)
Schlachtschiff Tirpitz
2012-2017
Pigment Print
63.5 x 110 inches (161.3 x 279.5 cm)
Port of Embarkation (lady liberty SS Margaret Knight)
2012-2017
Pigment Print
85 x 115.8 inches (215.9 x 294.1 cm)
Thomas Bangsted
POE I, 2016
Pigment Print
28.3 x 24.9 inches (71.9 x 63.2 cm)
LCI(L)
2012-2014
Pigment Print
50 x 63.4 inches (127 x 161 cm)
Kriegsspiel
2015
Pigment Print
32.4 x 40 inches (82.3 x 101.6 cm)
Fisherman's Wharf
2007-2009
Chromogenic Print
74 x 114.8 inches (188 x 291.6 cm)
Christ Church
2009-2012
Chromogenic Print
81.7 x 72 inches (207.5 x 181.9 cm)
Cascade
2010-2011
Chromogenic Print
44.5 x 57.2 inches (113 x 145.3 cm)
Court
2010-2011
Pigment Print
59 x 79 inches (149.9 x 200.7 cm)
Salvage
2011-2013
Pigment Print
44.5 x 56 inches (113.03 x 142.24 cm)
Last of the Dreadnoughts
2011-2012
Pigment print
58.7 x 83 inches (149.1 x 210.8 cm)
Mike
2013
Pigment print
20.5 x 26.5 inches (52.07 x 67.31 cm)
SS Coeur d'Alene (Under Refit for Troop Transport)
2012-2014
Pigment Print
58.8 x 80.6 inches (149.3 x 204.7 cm)