Melissa Morgan Fine Art is presenting a curated selection of works from Brandon Ralph’s ‘Moon Landing’ series, now available for viewing and inquiry.
Ralph constructs each scene as a single-frame photograph using a suspended sixteen-foot illuminated balloon printed with the moon’s topography. Through this process, he creates the uncanny illusion of lunar landings unfolding on Earth, with images that feel simultaneously cinematic, surreal and strangely believable.
Ralph is a contemporary artist working across photography, sculpture and drawing, exploring ideas of time, space, identity and cultural coexistence; his practice combines meticulous production with conceptual storytelling, often using humor and illusion to challenge what viewers think they see.
The photographs deliberately blur reality and illusion, finding humor in their deception while pursuing something more contemplative beneath it. The series considers how readily viewers accept what an image appears to tell them, using the moon’s seemingly eternal presence as a counterpoint to the finite nature of human time on Earth.
The series includes ‘Moon Landing Watermill, NY No° _001.’ It also includes ‘Moon Landing Joshua Tree, CA No° _001.’
