The ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY and ARS LIBRI, LTD., proudly announce Histories, an exhibition of photographs by WENDY BURTON documenting empty and abandoned spaces, both domestic and industrial, human and aviary. The exhibition will open at Ars Libri on Friday, November 2, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM as part of the South End's First Friday. 

Histories will bring together nearly 15 years of Burton's photographs, images she has made in an effort to understand uninhabited spaces. From grain elevators, abandoned and shuttered, to rural churches destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Burton examines what remains and what has been left behind. Most recently, Burton has turned to animal skulls and birds' nests, beautifully sculptural artifacts that speak to life once present.

Please join us in welcoming Wendy Burton on Saturday, November 3, from 2 to 4 PM for an OPENING RECEPTION and ARTIST'S TALK. Burton will speak at 3 PM. The general public is welcome; light refreshments will be served.

image credits

(top) REA Freight Number 7, Buffalo, New York (from the series Rust Belt), 2006

(bottom left) NEST: Berries, Dutchess County, New York (from the series Nests), 2011

(bottom right) Grain Elevator II (Interior), Buffalo, New York (from the series Rust Belt), 1998

Please contact us with any questions at 617.267.7997 or

inquiry@robertkleingallery.com