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"inscription": "On the verso of the mount, an adhesive label , with black type: \" JULIE SAUL GALLERY / 535 West 22nd Street / New York, NY 10011 / ( signed by artist in black ink) Brian Ulrich / ( rest in black type) Brian Ulrich/ Cleveland OH ( Disney) , 2003 / chromogenic print / 2 of 4 / 40 x 50 inches . \"",
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"title": "Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present",
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"title": "Brian Ulrich: Copia\u2014Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001\u201311",
"description": "Brian Ulrich: Copia\u2014Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001\u201311. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27, 2011-January 16, 2012); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (January 18-March 10, 2013); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (October 15, 2013-January 5, 2014); Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (January 18-May 15, 2014).",
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"description": "Soon after the tragic events of 9/11 in 2001, Brian Ulrich began to photograph American citizens throughout the Midwest who, as he wrote, \u201cwere encouraged to take to the malls to boost the U.S. economy through shopping, thereby equating consumerism with patriotism.\u201d Unobtrusively, he recorded\u2014with wit and empathy\u2014people of all ages and from all strata of society caught in the process of deciding what to buy in the environments of vast shopping malls and big box stores. In this vivid image, the former Cleveland resident isolated a young consumer seemingly overwhelmed by an overabundance of appealing toys stocked in the Disney Store located in Cleveland\u2019s Terminal Tower.",
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"citation": "Ulrich, Brian. \"Plenty of Nothing.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 51, no. 5 (September/October 2011): 9-10.",
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"biography": "Brian Ulrich is an artist photographer (b. 1971 in Northport, NY) living in Chicago, IL. His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary art, San Diego; the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Sean Kelly Gallery, NY; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; the Festival d\u2019Arles, Arles, France; the Contemporary American Photography Festival, Mannheim, Germany; the Armory Show [2006]; and ArtBasel, Miami, [2006]. You can see his work in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Martin Margulies Collection, and the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection. His first monograph, Copia was published in 2006 by Aperture as part of the MP3: Midwest Photographers Project. Brian is a frequent contributor to Adbusters Magazine, and includes the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Wired, Fortune, Seed, Spin, and The Salvation Army in his editorial portfolio. Other recent publications featuring his work include the exhibition catalogue for Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist\u2019s Eye (MCA Chicago), the New Yorker, Harper\u2019s Magazine, the Photoeye Booklist, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, Leica World Magazine, Photo District News, Time Out Chicago, Fotopozytyw Magazine (Poland), and Mouvement Magazine (France). Brian is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, and Julie Saul Gallery in New York. He teaches photography, web design, and visual literacy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia Colle",
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