I will show you the images and tell you the stories

Maxine Henryson, Elizabeth, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1998, Archival pigment print from film, 56 x 40 inches framed, Edition 1 of 3

Saturday, October 4 at 1pm and 3pm

A.I.R. Gallery

On Saturday, October 4, in conjunction with her exhibition Once Again I Fall Into My Feminine Ways, Maxine Henryson will activate the space through a performance titled I will show you the images and tell you the stories. Henryson will be present in the gallery to share the stories behind the images from X is Y and is Z from 1–2pm and those behind Once Again I Fall Into My Feminine Ways from 3–4pm.

Maxine Henryson (b. Jackson, Mississippi) is a New York-based photographer and bookmaker whose poetic images explore cultural interconnectivity, nature, and the feminine. Known for her sensitivity to light and color, she works primarily with color film to create luminous, painterly photographs of the everyday.

Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe and is held in collections including the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL.); Middlebury College Museum of Art (Vt); the former Celanese Photography Collection (Frankfurt, Germany); the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia); Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL); Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York) Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (New Haven, NY), the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and the New York Public Library (NY). She has shown at institutions such as P.P.O.W. Gallery, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Tang Teaching Museum, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Henryson taught photography at the International Center of Photography and Bennington College and co-chaired A.I.R. Gallery’s Fellowship Program (2013–2024). Her editorial work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and New York Magazine. Her books include Once Again I Fall Into My Feminine Ways (2025), Ujjayi’s Journey (2012), I-DEA, The Goddess Within: Hunter Reynolds and Maxine Henryson (2022), Red Leaves and Golden Curtains (2007) and Presence (2003). She is represented by A.I.R. Gallery, New York.