Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 5:30 –7 pm Image Alec Soth, from Advice for Young Artists (MACK, 2024). Courtesy of MACK and the artist. Enter the world of photographer Alec Soth for an exclusive evening of art and inspiration. Join us on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 5:30–7:00 p.m., for an immersive studio tour, book signing, and conversation at his Saint Paul studio, celebrating the release of Advice for Young Artists. A striking new body of work reflecting on youth, age, and creativity, featuring MCAD students and spaces.With limited capacity, this event offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Soth’s creative process, personal reflections, and a chance to pick up a signed copy of his latest book. SOLD OUT About Advice for Young ArtistsBetween 2022 and 2024, Alec Soth visited twenty-five undergraduate art programme across the United States. Advice for Young Artists comprises work he made there. Its title – perhaps like the visits themselves – is misleading: rather than wisdom or guidance, Soth offers an angular and unresolved reflection on artmaking at different stages of life and the relations of photography, time, and ageing. The photographs here range from formal studies evocative of the classroom to more unruly works of self-expression. Ambiguous stagings, found forms, and lyrical portraits are interspersed with gnomic quotes and unfinished credos scrawled on Post-its. Among the students, Soth himself appears at intervals, an uncertain sage in their midst.Inspired by Walker Evans’s late Polaroids, this latest body of work reveals a new expansion of Soth’s practice and a new vantage, twenty years on from the publication of his first book. Recalling the conceit of Broken Manual, it uses an instructional format as a spurious cover for introspection and provocation. As much as a study of the experience of the young artist, this is a reckoning with the prospect of becoming an old one. About Alec SothALEC SOTH (b. 1969) is a Magnum Photos photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (2019), and A Pound of Pictures (2022). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organised by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010), Media Space in London (2015), FotoMuseum in Antwerp (2017), and The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan (2022). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013).