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Founded in 1985, Robert Mann Gallery represents an international roster of contemporary artists pair

10/13/2026

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | Jeff Brouws: Silent Monoliths

We are pleased to announce Jeff Brouws: Silent Monoliths, an exhibition by American photographer Jeff Brouws (b. 1955) that showcases his landmark series documenting the architectural remnants of America’s railroad history, featured in his critically acclaimed book Silent Monoliths: The Coaling Tower Project (MIT Press). Acting as a “visual anthropologist,” Brouws utilizes a precise, deadpan typological approach to capture these industrial monuments left behind by technological shifts across the United States.

The exhibition opens on October 29 with an artist talk and reception from 6-8 pm.

Jeff Brouws, Coaling Tower No. 7a, Looking West, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, 2015

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10/10/2026

Photographer Elijah Gowin is a keynote speaker for Photo Alliance’s 2026 lecture series, joined in conversation with his father Emmet Gowin, photographer, and mother Edith Morris, known for her presence in Emmet’s photographs. Their discussion will center on the role of family: as collaborator, inspiration, and advocate. The lecture will take place on Sunday, October 11, at the Bayfront Theater in San Francisco, and is open to the public.

Elijah Gowin, Bird Woman, 1999

10/08/2026

Robert Reflects:
“When I look at this rare and beautiful platinum print made by the Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins in the early 1900s, I am reminded of the many early 20th century women artists I’ve had the good fortune to champion through my many years in the industry. Along with artists Elisabeth Hase and ringl+pit (aka Grete Stern & Ellen Auerbach), Watkins was an pioneering figure in early 20th century photography. She began as a student and then became a revered instructor at the Clarence White School of Photography, teaching an extraordinary list of students who would become well known photographers in their own right, such as Laura Gilpin, Paul Outerbridge, Ralph Steiner, Margaret Bourke-White, and Doris Ulmann. Watkins left behind a very small but extraordinary collection of her own work that transcended the photographic evolution of Pictorialism to Modernism during the 1920s, a development largely credited to her male counterparts such as Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Paul Strand. This unique and mysterious work was created by Watkins while she was a student at Clarence White’s school, presumably during its summer session at Seguinland, Maine. Very few examples of her student work are known to exist.” —Robert Mann

Margaret Watkins, Untitled (Barn and Shadow), 1915

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10/03/2026

Orly Cogan’s vibrant work cannot be captured within the neatness of a framed enclosure. Subverting the clean one-dimentionality of the photographic medium, Cogan’s handiwork adds an unexpected dimensionality to an image: imbuing it with a brimming abundance and an untamable spirit. For an in-person view of these works, visit Cogan’s solo exhibition, Behind the Lens & through the Needle, on view through October 24.

Orly Cogan, A Quiet Rebellion, 2026

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10/01/2026

Congratulations to Murray Fredericks’ on his solo exhibition, The Salt Lake, on view at the Yarrila Arts and Museum in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. The exhibition features his surreal photographs taken of the otherworldly landscape of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, one of the largest salt water lakes in the world, and its surrounding salt planes. Fredericks’s journeys across the salt plains of Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre have encompassed four distinct series in his practice: Salt, Vanity, Array and Blaze.

For a view of one of Frederick’s large scale photographs from the Vanity series, Mirror 12, visit the gallery by taking the elevators at 516 West 26th Street up to the 4th floor.

With the mirror as the symbol of narcissism, and vanity its driving force, Fredericks considers the mirror “emblematic of our obsession with ourselves, individually, and collectively.” “In the ‘Vanity’ series,” he says, “the mirror is positioned to draw our gaze out and away from ourselves, into the environment, driving us towards an emotional engagement with light, color and space.” He removes the search to find oneself in the work and instead takes the viewer on a journey to the soft light of dawn and dusk at Lake Eyre, giving momentary access to an unparalleled emptiness in the landscape where an image presents itself out of nothing.

Murray Fredericks, Mirror 12, 2017

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09/25/2026

We are happy to share that Robbert Flick is included in Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial, which opened last weekend at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

In recognition of the 1976 Bicentennial, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funded a grant program for the production of regional photographic surveys, documenting American life in the 70s and 80s. This exhibition places 225 of these images within the greater legacy of federal survey photography dating back to the 19th century, exploring its lasting impact on generations of artists.

On view in the exhibition is Robbert Flick’s piece, Ocean Park from Sequential Views, an unusual visual documentation of the Los Angeles landscape. Sequential snapshots lead the viewer from empty skies to increasingly decorated scenes of bungalow-lined streets, as if paging through a flip-book.

The exhibition is on view until April 18, 2027.

Robbert Flick, Ocean Park from Sequential Views, 1980

09/23/2026

Congratulations to Orly Cogan for her booth at The SPRING/BREAK Art Show. For a chance to meet Cogan in person, visit the artist’s booth, Unruly Threads, in Room B34. The fair begins today, September 23. Cogan will be showing large-scale installations and select textile works. SPRING/BREAK runs until Monday, September 28 at 555 West 57th Street (between 10th and 11th Ave).

09/19/2026

Orly Cogan’s solo show opened last Thursday, launching the fall season in our new gallery location. Visit the space for an intimate view of Cogan’s elaborate handiwork and playful manipulation of medium.

To get to the gallery, take the elevators at 516 West 26th Street up to the 4th floor.

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Installation image: Behind the Lens & Through the Needle

09/17/2026

Congratulations to Sayler/Morris on the publication of their photobook, museum, which explores how museums control, construct and wield narratives within the public sphere. The book is made up of photographs taken during Sayler/Morris’ tenure as Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows, depicting the dismantling of the old Smithsonian’s Fossil Hall in preparation for its current rebuild. Sayler/Morris’ curation of images suggests the museum as a site of performance and subjectivity, as opposed to a static repository.

An exhibition of photographs from the project will be on view at Light Work, in Syracuse, until December 11.

You can preorder the book now, co-authored by Christina Seely and published in conjunction with Light Work, on Gnomic Book’s website.

Image courtesy of Gnomic Book

09/15/2026

In her solo exhibition, Orly Cogan reveals the hidden energies embedded within works of art and the spaces they inhabit. By stitching magical worlds into images of art fairs, galleries, and museums, Cogan suggests that the act of viewing art can itself become a creative act. These pieces exist between memory and imagination, intertwinging the tangible and the dreamlike.

Orly Cogan, The Escape Unraveling, 2023

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