Tonight: Artist Talk with Sarah Pickering and Book Signing

In Conversation: Susan Bright and Sarah Pickering
Talk and Book Signing

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
6:30 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Join independent writer, lecturer, and curator Susan Bright, and photographer Sarah Pickering in conversation on the occasion of the publication of Pickering's first monograph: Explosions, Fires and Public Order (Aperture, April 2010). A book signing will follow the conversation.

Tomorrow: Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher Artist Talk

courtesy Daniel Cooney Fine Artt © Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher

Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher
The Searchers
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 West 25th Street, #506
New York, NY 10001
-through December 23, 2009
Artist's Talk Saturday, December 19: 4 pm

Lecture Today: Amelia's World: Animal Affinity Presented by Robin Schwartz

Photo superstore, B&H is presenting an artist talk today with the talented Robin Schwartz, known for her series," Amelia's World."

From the website
During her lecture at B&H, Robin will discuss her project “Amelia’s World: Animal Affinity,” which displays Amelia’s remarkable relationship with animals. This body of work conveys Amelia’s extraordinary comfort level with animals, which they in turn share with her. Robin’s passion for animals and the spiritual connection she gains from photographing them inspired her to explore on a deeper level the real and fictional interspecies relationships, portrayed through portraits of Amelia.

Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

B&H Photo Video Superstore

9th Ave. @ 34th St. New York, NY 10001

Amy Stein Artist Talk

© Amy Stein

Amy Stein: Domesticated
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Ave
Portland, OR
-through Aug 2.

Artist talk Saturday, Aug 1, at 3 pm. Free.

Thursday: Women Twirling

from The Getty:

Photographers Gay Block and Catherine Opie join Jo Ann Callis to discuss the works in the exhibition Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling and the role domesticity plays in Callis's art-making.

Woman Twirling: Jo Ann Callis, Gay Block, and Catherine Opie in Conversation
Date: Thursday May 21, 2009, at 7 pm
Location: Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
Admission: Free. Reservation required (make reservation here)

About the Photographers

Jo Ann Callis
Since she emerged in the late 1970s as one of the first important practitioners of the "fabricated photographs" movement, Jo Ann Callis has made adventurous contributions in the areas of color photography, sculpture, painting, and digital imagery. Callis—who launched her art career after raising a family—celebrates and subverts everyday situations through her mesmerizing photographs, which present situations that are as tense as they are comfortable. "I wanted to make photographs that were scary and beautiful, sexy and tactile," she says.

Gay Block
Photographer Gay Block is known for her empathetic, telling portraits of girls and women, members of the Jewish community, and Holocaust survivors and rescuers. In 2003 she published Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed, an acclaimed 30-year portrait of her mother in photographs, video, and words. Several of the works in the exhibition Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling were gifts by Block to the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Catherine Opie
Best known for her portraits of gay and transgender men and women, photographer Catherine Opie uses photography to document communities and question our view of the "normal." Her series such as Domestic, Surfers, and Football Players constitute a penetrating social-documentary portrait of contemporary American culture.

Tomorrow: Lorna Simpson Talk at F.I.T.

from FIT:

Fashion Institute of Technology, Building D, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre
27th Street @ 7th Avenue
2009 Photo Talks lecture series
All events are free and open to the public.

Artist Lorna Simpson will speak on Thursday, April 28th, at 1:00 p.m. in Katie Murphy Amphitheatre. With the African-American woman as a visual point of departure, Simpson use the figure to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary multi-racial America.

Artist Talk: Maria Passarotti

Allerton © Maria Passarotti

Nymphoto's Maria Passarotti is participating in a talk at Safe-T-Gallery this Sunday March 29, 2009 in Dumbo. Maria and other artists participating in the Night Moves exhibit will discuss their work.

Artist Talk
Maria Passarotti & others
Safe-T-Gallery
111Front Street
Suite 214
Brooklyn, NY
March 29, 2009
2-4:30 p.m.

Tomorrow: Katy Grannan Talk at F.I.T.

from FIT:

Fashion Institute of Technology, Building D, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre
27th Street @ 7th Avenue
2009 Photo Talks lecture series
All events are free and open to the public.

Photographer Katy Grannan, will speak on Thursday March 26th, at 5:00 p.m. in Katie Murphy Amphitheatre. Grannan’s portraits of strangers, that she finds via newspaper classified ads that are seeking art models. She photographs the respondents in their homes, offering each a $50 fee.

Tomorow: Michal Chelbin @ the New York Public Library

Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 pm

As part of the Photographer @ the Library lecture series, Aperture and the New York Public Library are pleased to announce a special talk and book signing with acclaimed Israeli artist Michal Chelbin who will discuss the work from her first monograph. Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes (Aperture, 2008) features richly detailed, internally charged portraits of small town performers in circuses and other traveling troupes taken over a period of six years in the Ukraine, Russia, Israel and England. Chelbin’s most frequent subjects are children and adolescents, yet her work encompasses a mix of generations. Often captured in performance costumes, Chelbin’s palette is intense, with a distinctive use of saturated pinks, blues, and greens. Her black-and-white images, which are intermingled throughout the book, have an almost Pictorialist richness. Though her influences are evident—most notably August Sander and Diane Arbus—the photographs in Strangely Familiar have a unique visual and emotional impact.

Michal Chelbin (born in Haifa, Israel, 1974) has lived in Brooklyn since 2006. Her work has appeared in several solo shows and more recently at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel and at the Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York; the latter also represents her.

WHERE
New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue
(between 39th and 40th street)
New York, New York
(212) 340-0849

Carrie Mae Weems at Brooklyn Museum

One of my favorite museums in the city is the Brooklyn Museum. Recently I discovered the museum started posting their lectures and artist talks online. It's a great resource and I was so happy to see Carrie Mae Weems' artist talk. I've heard Weems speak before in Syracuse and her wisdom, honesty, and eloquent language is always eye opening.



Carrie Mae Weems is in an exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum through April 5, 2009.

Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection
October 31, 2008–April 5, 2009
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
Brooklyn Museum

Today: Get Your Fix of Zoe!

Zoe Strauss
Artist Talk
Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 3 p.m.
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY