On September 17, I-20 will open its second season with a new body of photographs by artist Spencer Tunick. For this exhibition, Tunick traveled for six months across the fifty American states, photographing nudes in public places. He was sometimes adrift, travelling from city to city and rural places, searching for individuals who were willing to cooperate with his project.

Portraits from thirteen states will be shown in this exhibition: California, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Here the artist gained impromptu images of Americans against their own scrim. A man in Iowa stands in a miniature cornfield in front of a gas station. In Nevada, 180 people are seen at the Burning Man festival. In Maine, more than a thousand people on a U.S. military base volunteered during a concert by the rock group Phish. Tunick's larger images are framed by vast undefined spaces, combining elements of performance and sculpture. In a sense, they are an organic extension of the landscape. The challenge of creating under pressure - and breaking past limitations imposed by regional mores - creates a dynamic tension between the bodies and the outside world.

A video installation, Dermafluxus, showing images from the artist's large-scale public performances, will be shown during this exhibition.

Spencer Tunick was born in Middletown, New York, in 1967. He was educated at Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. An illustrated catalogue (No.7), with an essay by Lisa Liebmann, will accompany this exhibition.