Aaron Siskind: Outside World / Inside World

Lower Gallery
November 23, 2025 - January 13, 2026

Exhibition Catalogue

“Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.”

Aaron Siskind

"Aaron Siskind was my first artist friend. I met him in 1978, when I worked at the JEB Gallery in Providence... It was a stunning experience for me to be in the darkroom with a master, and hear his thoughts about printing, photography, and life. He was incredibly generous in his thought and expertise, and I’ve remained grateful for the past 47 years.

My father was passionate about photography, and when my parents visited me in Providence, they also came to Aaron’s home and darkroom. They became my first art clients, buying some twenty photographs of Aaron’s... These photographs are part of that group. I’m excited to share these with our art audience."

James D. Barron

“Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”

Aaron Siskind

“When I make a photograph, I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order—(unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Aaron Siskind