Inside / Outside: Photographs by Clarissa Bonet and Lynne Cohen

Stephen Daiter Gallery is pleased to present Inside / Outside, an exhibition of photographs by Clarissa Bonet and Lynne Cohen.

Bringing together two photographic practices across generations, the exhibition examines how constructed environments shape human behavior, perception, and psychological experience. Though working in different contexts, Bonet constructs images of the city while Cohen photographs found institutional and domestic interiors. Together, they reveal how architecture and spatial organization structure everyday life, from the visible choreography of urban space to the more concealed systems embedded within institutional design.

Clarissa Bonet’s photographs explore the contemporary urban landscape through a combination of street photography and carefully staged imagery. Using dramatic light and meticulously composed scenes, she transforms ordinary city spaces into psychologically charged environments that address themes of anonymity, surveillance, isolation, and movement through the modern city.

Lynne Cohen’s large-scale black-and-white photographs depict classrooms, laboratories, offices, training facilities, shooting ranges, and domestic interiors that appear at once familiar and strange. Devoid of human figures, her images reveal the systems of organization, surveillance, and control embedded within architecture and design, exposing the social and cultural artifice of institutional spaces.

Together, Bonet and Cohen present complementary visions of the built environment, inviting viewers to reconsider the spaces they inhabit and how those spaces influence the ways we see, move, and relate to one another.