Working in the contexts of dance, drawing,painting, installation, and writing, New York–based Ralph Lemon has expanded what art can be through a generative practice that questions the conventions of his different disciplines and his body’s relationship to each.
He began his fine-arts career shooting in black-and-white, in the style of the Swedish master Christer Strömholm, but later switched to color, drawing inspiration from vivid, large-format scenes of everyday life by American photographers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.
Several minutes later, after a detour through the diamond district to pick up some stamps, she was back inside the lobby, standing before a gold letter box affixed to the wall.
