My exhibition of Advice for Young Artists continues at Fraenkel Gallery until May 23.
This exhibition is unique because it includes prints that are both traditionally framed and pinned to the wall and a 3-D maquette of the exhibition layout.
We also made a limited-run poster that features my photograph "Studio VII" (2024). It shows real advice—but it's not my advice—from Sister Corita Kent, an artist, designer, and educator. The poster was produced with exceptional quality, the paper is thick and the printing is really detailed. Fraenkel Gallery is selling the signed poster for $100. I really recommend that you buy one if you’ve ever wanted a large scale print of my work at an affordable price.
To learn more about Advice for Young Artists you can watch my interview with Fraenkel Gallery Director Christian Whitworth here, and please look at the press below:
‘The book is a mix of bittersweet longing, melancholy and wry observations, from the perspective of an ageing artist in pursuit of his fabled mojo’ The Guardian
‘Advice for Young Artists traces the photographer’s journey to reconnect with the pure, unadulterated creativity of youth’ DAZED
‘Instead of playing the role of wise elder, this book was an attempt to remind myself of how I felt when I first discovered artmaking.’ Frieze
‘Soth is one of the rare photographers who can pull off this kind of meta-reflection without drowning in irony’ Ocula
‘The images offer a look into the stages of a young artist’s life, with themes of time and aging at the forefront.’ W Magazine
‘Soth’s large-scale photography merges documentary with a thoughtful introspection and poeticism’ The Star Tribune
‘He’s not pretending to tell young artists how to be great; rather, he’s demonstrating the constant, humbling commitment to self-interrogation that it takes to get there.’ Bomb Magazine
‘He’s actively participating with a kind of exuberantly casual playfulness, stepping back from an earnest arm’s length vantage point and embracing the art school mentality of constant personal risk taking and experimentation.’ Collector Daily
‘One of the most fascinating and original photo books of the year’ The Parallax Review
‘An elegantly subversive take on the shopworn trope of self-help publishing.’ AnOther
‘The resulting pictures are interior studies, still lifes and self-portraits, all of them capturing some strange or hilarious aspect of art school.’ Observer
‘[T]he book is not what you expect it would be but delivers on its promise all the same.’ Lenscratch