The Exhibition Lab Open House

from The Exhibition Lab:



OPEN HOUSE
THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD
6:30-8:00 PM
Come join us and see what it's all about...
Or just have a beer and hang out.

Gallery owners Michael Foley and Sasha Wolf are thrilled to announce the formation of The Exhibition Lab, a new study center for fine art photography.
The Exhibition Lab will provide a vibrant modern-day salon for artists, scholars and others who are interested in engaging the world's diverse and vital photography community through the gateway of New York City.

Classes, in the form of seminars, workshops and semester-long courses, will be offered on subjects geared to practitioners of the medium (i.e., Critique Levels 1 and 2, Book Publishing and Photography Blogging), as well as to those in the academic community (i.e., The Art and Ethics of Documentary Photography and The Philosophy of Being an Artist). The Lab will be a significant contributor to the photography community for a number of reasons. Located in central Chelsea in a new space shared by Sasha Wolf Gallery and Foley Gallery, the Lab will function as a hub for the study of photography outside of traditional academic venues. Its impressive list of committed artists and scholars who will be teaching classes and seminars for the first session speaks for itself. Working in collaboration with Foley and Wolf, these teachers have been encouraged to design their classes and seminars based on their unique expertise and interest.

Contact Information
the EXHIBITION LAB
548 West 28th Street, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10001
info@theexhibitionlab.com

Opening Thursday: Anna Collette, Steve B. Smith @ Sasha Wolf Gallery

courtesy Sasha Wolf Gallery

Anna Collette
Dark Landscapes
&
Steven B. Smith
The Weather and A Place to Live

Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street
New York, NY
November 12, 2009 - January 9, 2010
Opening Reception: November 12, 2009

Artist Reception Tomorrow

We hope to see you tomorrow at the artist reception for Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf Gallery.




© Corinne Vionnet, Lizzie Gorfaine, Katrina D'Autremont

Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf Gallery
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street
New York, NY
May 23 - June 6, 2009
Artist Reception: May 28, 6-8PM
Download Press Release >

The exhibit features work from artists who entered our first call for entries:

Jennifer Boomer, Livia Corona, Katrina d'Autremont, Jen Davis, Lizzie Gorfaine, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Megan Maloy, Tiana Markova-Gold, Debora Mittelstaedt, Beatrix Reinhardt, Anna Skladmann, Malou van Breevoort, Corinne Vionnet, Sophia Wallace and Susan Worsham

As well as works from Nymphoto members:

Nina Büsing Corvallo, Rona Chang, Candace Gottschalk, Maria Passarotti and Jane Tam

Upcoming: Artist Reception @ Sasha Wolf - May 28, 2009

Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf Gallery

Debora Mittelstaedt, Sunset Park, 2005

Artist reception
May 28, 2009, 6-8PM
Sasha Wolf Gallery

A group show exhibiting a compelling collection of work by contemporary women photographers from across the globe. While diverse in content, these works convey the complexity of the female gaze - the woman behind the camera. The photographs ignite a spirit by addressing a diversity of issues, which inevitably calls into question: what is feminine.

The exhibit features work from artists who entered our first call for entries:

Jennifer Boomer, Livia Corona, Katrina d'Autremont, Jen Davis, Lizzie Gorfaine, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Megan Maloy, Tiana Markova-Gold, Debora Mittelstaedt, Beatrix Reinhardt, Anna Skladmann, Malou van Breevoort, Corinne Vionnet, Sophia Wallace and Susan Worsham

As well as works from Nymphoto members:

Nina Büsing Corvallo, Rona Chang, Candace Gottschalk, Maria Passarotti and Jane Tam

Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf Gallery
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street
New York, NY
May 23 - June 6, 2009
Opening Reception: May 28, 6-8PM
Download Press Release >

Op-Ed & Introduction by Sasha Wolf

©Susana Raab

As people in the arts we maintain a certain lofty feeling of having long ago evolved beyond basic gender inequalities. Women appear to own and manage art galleries almost in equal measure to men and, well, just go into any gallery or exhibition space and you see women working everywhere.

But, in truth, of the almost 120 member galleries of AIPAD only about one in five are women owned (Association of International Photography Art Dealers). And this holds true more or less throughout the industry. This ratio is better with the Art Dealers Association of America but the imbalance remains. As part and parcel of this reality there are fewer women artists represented at these galleries than men. Pick a handful of galleries and look at their rosters. Unless the gallery is specifically geared toward promoting women artists the imbalance will be clear.

Is this because of a certain bias against women artists or have there simply been fewer women making art? Undoubtedly both. And, of course, this isn’t limited to the arts. Lawrence Summers, President Obama’s top Economic Advisor, set off a firestorm a couple of years ago when, as president of Harvard, he waded into the minefield that is the ongoing debate about the lack of women in the areas of science and engineering.

As I sit and write this, my own gallery represents only two women out of 10 artists. I see, either by submission or recommendation, the artwork of men at a much higher ratio than women. But, still, as a woman, and particularly as a woman who is interested in elevating and promoting other women, I know I need to do better in this regard—I need to be more vigilant and guard against my own complicity and complacency.

But, I do see things changing and I am hopeful that, given the marked progress made in just the last decade, most of the inequalities that I’m highlighting lamenting will be history. That’s how fast things are now shifting. In the late 80s and early 90s when I started making films there were so few women in the film programs of colleges and universities that it was a collective embarrassment to all of us women who were in film. It was a deeply felt, gender-specific embarrassment. And we were genuinely bewildered. Where were all the other girls? Was this a case of women being so unfamiliar and put off by the gear ( i.e., cameras, lenses, film, lights, etc. ) that they couldn’t imagine themselves as directors or directors of photography, sound mixers, grips or gaffers? Or, was the atmosphere-- the boy’s club-- just too intimidating. The photography departments were no better.

But, wow, what a difference 20 years makes. Look at a list of photography and film majors at any of the art schools now and you will see women in equal (or, greater) measure to men. Why women had, in the recent past, shied away from certain fields is, at best, a phenomenally complex question that I am not prepared to try to answer here. But we can highlight and celebrate the fact that things have, indeed, changed.

As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21^st century it’s easy to see the enormous strides that have been made in gender, race and sexual equality. Barack Obama, a bi-racial man, was recently elected President of the United States. Hilary Clinton, who fell just shy of the votes needed to receive the Democratic nomination, has given up her seat as a United States Senator to become the nation’s Secretary of State (the third woman to hold this post of the past four Secretaries of State -- with the one exception being, General Colin Powell, an African-American man). As I write this, Vermont has just become the first state in the Union to legalize same-sex marriage through the legislative branch, all but guaranteeing its immutability through this codification.

Yet, obviously, inequality still exists and we must be vigilant in working to end it. After all, the first bill President Obama signed, the Libby Ledbetter bill, was designed to prohibit wage discrimination in the workplace. Ledbetter found out, at the end of her 19-year career at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Gadsden, Alabama, that all along she was getting paid less than her male counterparts.

So, for now we continue to recognize the importance of supporting the women who are making and exhibiting art; and, are proud to gather some of them here in this book and the accompanying exhibition, and to acknowledge the valuable efforts of groups, like Nymphoto, who have worked to build a community of women photographers.

NYMPHOTO & SASHA WOLF GALLERY invites you to celebrate NYMPHOTO CONVERSATIONS: VOLUME 1 - an exhibition & a book - tonight from 6-8 p.m. at Sasha Wolf Gallery, 10 Leonard Street in Tribeca.

Friday Wrap Up

Beth outside Tallahassee, Florida ©Amy Stein

Amy Stein has posted new images to her website: www.amysteinphoto.com. And you can purchase a print of Amy's a great price via the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Joanne Ratajczak was highlighted on www.featureshoot.com.

Emily Shur and Liz Kuball had lunch in L.A this week. AndEmily Shur also blogged about the importance of keeping at it and how Stephen Shore continues to inspire her.

Have a great weekend everyone! And see you next week when we hope to announce the line-up for the Nymphoto Presents @ Sasha Wolf show!