Pause by Angela Strassheim will feature twenty new color photographs.

These photographs capture a significant moment in the passage of time for each of the girls and women in the pictures. Occurring in different stages of their lives, these moments are somehow crucial, and seem to summarize and anticipate a chain of events.

An important role emerges clearly for all the girls and women in these pictures: being a daughter. They all struggle with this role and its high expectations. They strive for affirmation and recognition. And yet, often they fail to live up to these expectations and to embody the perfect daughter. The parents who appear in these pictures are sometimes loving, sometimes apprehensive and judgmental. They – in particular the male presence of the father – are implicit in most of the pictures.

With their balance between reality and artifice, Angela Strassheim’s pictures are specific in details but broad in their scope. Their uncanny sharpness, meticulous composition and careful lighting achieve what Michael Kimmelman described in the New York Times as “surreal pictures, candy colored and strangely loving”.