The Cardinal Gallery is very proud to announce that they have carefully curated, in collaboration with Russell Monk, a new exhibition of Monk’s work. IMPÁVIDO will be opening on Friday, September 15th, 2023 with Monk in attendance.
The grand opening of The Cardinal Gallery and their inaugural exhibition Russell Monk:The Undaunted Eye-40 Years of Photography opened on March 7, 2020, to an overwhelming turnout and incredible feedback.
“We couldn’t believe our luck to have secured award winning, renowned photographer Russell Monk to exhibit with us” - Chelsea Hulme-Wilyman-Co-Founder of The Cardinal Gallery.
By March 13, 2020, their luck ran out as the Covid-19 virus was declared a global pandemic and businesses and homes were forced to shutter and isolate amid the looming deadly health crisis.
This collection of Monk’s global works curated for IMPÁVIDO are powerfully dramatic yet intimate images that demonstrate the human spirit and resilience. They remind us that there is a world outside of our day to day lives yet the humanity is shared. This exhibition will feature some of the work from The Undaunted Eye exhibit, which was more of a retrospective of Monk’s decades long career and includes his “Proximos" series that was featured in the NY Times Lens Blog series. The NY Times has also published more recently Russell's ongoing series on Mexican "Roof Dogs" and "Havana at Night”. IMPÁVIDO will feature silver and platinum archival prints in limited editions.
In February 2021 Russell’s “Masks of Mexico” series was featured in The NY Times.
“ A surreal representation of resilience and resignation.”
- The NY Times
This show is dedicated to the millions of people who lost their lives, the front line workers who worked so tirelessly to save us and to the entire world touched by a pandemic that united us all.
