Jane Tam @ Umbrage Gallery

Untitled, 2008 © Jane Tam

Jane Tam & Others
Graphic Intersections & The Portrait As Allegory
Umbrage Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 208
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201
- through June 26th, 2010

Opening Tomorrow: "Select Gender" at Farmani Gallery

© Kate Hutchinson

Kate Hutchinson sent us a note of a group exhibition showcasing 14 rising photographers whose work focuses on gender and sexuality curated by Rafael Soldi, Paolo Morales, and Elle Perez.

Farmani Gallery is proud to present Select Gender, introducing fourteen rising photographers communicating their contemporary viewpoint within fine art photography. The exhibition, co-curated by budding artists Rafael Soldi, Paolo Morales and Elle Perez, will present a diverse selection of innovative artworks that focus on the theme of gender perceptions and the role of sexual assignments in America and abroad. This exhibition embraces the mission of the gallery and the curators in their support of promising talent and our hopes to further a conversation through photographic works of present-day subject matter.

Select Gender revolves around the themes of gender-based identity, self-awareness and gender-specific culture. Whether they are discussing their own identity or that of others, this diverse group of emerging photographers shows us different aspects and interpretations of perceived gender roles. The juxtapositions of gender queer, hyper masculinities, and ambiguous representations force the viewer to question his or her own perceptions and the legitimacy of a gender binary. Ultimately the goal of Select Gender is not to expose, shock, or titillate, but to offer reflection on the constructs and wide range of possibilities for gender expression.

Farmani Gallery
111 Front Street
Suite 212,
Brooklyn (DUMBO), New York 11201

April 01, 2010 – May 22, 2010

Press Preview: Thursday, April 1, 2010, from 5-6PM

Opening Public Reception: Thursday, April 1, 2010, from 6-830PM

Photographic works by:
Daniel Aguirre, Carl Bower, Caleb Cole, Nicolas Djandji, Jason Hanasik, Jamil Hellu, Monique Bergen Henegouwen, Kate Hutchinson, Katie Koti, Diane Russo, J. Aiden Simon, Sarah Sudhoff, and Molly Landreth + Amelia Tovey

Tomorrow @ A.I.R.: Mother/mother-*

(from A.I.R.)

On Saturday, December 12 from 6-8pm, A.I.R. Gallery will hold a screening, open to the public, of additional video works that augment the selections that comprise the month-long Mother/mother-* exhibition. The films screened on December 12th are a critical component of Mother/mother-*.

The films are: Ilana Rein’s Julie, a documentary shot over the course of seven years and edited in 2008; Marie-Francoise Theodore’s Rebel in the South, a stirring narrative that traces the connection between a contemporary African-American artist and a Georgia sharecropper’s wife lynched in 1915; Emilie Upzak’s Weaning Gideon, documenting the physical changes associated with weaning, and Ingrid Berthon-Moine’s Midriff, a short film comprised entirely of a close-in shot of a woman twanging her tampon string.

A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
212-255-6651

This Wednesday @ A.I.R.

(from A.I.R.)

On Wednesday, December 2 from 6-8pm, exhibiting artist Rachel Howfield will facilitate an informal roundtable discussion at A.I.R. Gallery on issues related to being an artist and a parent, as part of the APT (Artist Parents Talking) program, which she founded in the UK. What challenges do you face as an artist parent, what strategies have you developed to overcome them, how can we better support each other? Please come and share in the conversation!


A.I.R. Gallery
111 Front Street, #228
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm
212-255-6651

Opening Reception Tonight: Erica Allen

Gentleman #14, from Untitled Gentlemen Series, © Erica Allen

via Melanie Flood Projects:

Exhibition Dates: November 8 -- December 2, 2009
Reception Tonight: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6-9pm

Melanie Flood Projects is pleased to present "Untitled Gentlemen", a solo exhibit of photographs by Erica Allen.

A series of fictional photographic portraits exploring representations and constructions of identity. Created with faces from contemporary barbershop hairstyle posters and figures from found studio photographs, this work gives new value and meaning to otherwise discarded and primarily functional photographs.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Erica Allen is a Brooklyn based artist, originally from Oakland, California. She received her BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003 and completed her MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. Awards for her work include the Aaron Siskind Scholarship, the William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship, and Women In Photography-Lightside Individual Project, runner-up grant. Her photographs have been published internationally including The Outlook Magazine and the Visual Arts Journal. She has exhibited in New York City at the Broadway Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery and the Camera Club of New York.
www.ericaallenphoto.com

For more information about the exhibit, the gallery, or to RSVP please contact:

Melanie Flood Projects
186 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
mfloodprojects@gmail.com

Tonight: Alison Brady @ BAM

(via BAM)

2009 Next Wave Art @ BAM

Cocktail Reception with the Artists and Curator: Tue, Oct 6, 6—8pm, Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby

Exhibition: Oct 3­­­—Dec 20

Next Wave Art returns for its eighth year, opening up BAM's spaces to some of Brooklyn's most exciting artists including Diana Al-Hadid, Paolo Arao, Olive Ayhens, Michael Bell-Smith, Alison Brady, Angela Dufresne, Echo Eggebrecht, Jacob Feige, Nicola López, Ester Partegàs, Shinique Smith, and Christopher Ulivo.

The past two decades has seen the rise of Brooklyn as a prominent arts and cultural capital that continues to expand. The media and subject matters tackled by Brooklyn-based artists are extremely varied, however a tendency towards experiment, alternative spaces and media, and personal voice are common denominators. Curated by Dan Cameron and running concurrently with BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Next Wave Art offers an insight into Brooklyn’s vibrant contemporary art scene while fostering a vital dialogue between performing and visual arts.

LOCATIONS

Leonard Natman Room
Echo Eggebrect, Paolo Arao, Olive Ayhens

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Lobby
Olive Ayhens, Michael Bell-Smith, Diana Al-Hadid

BAMcafé
Alison Brady, Jacob Feige, Shinique Smith

BAMcafé Gallery
Angela Dufresne

BAM Harvey Theater
Echo Eggebrecht, Christopher Ulivo, Nicola López, Ester Partegàs


HOURS

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Lobby and Leonard Natman Room
Open Monday – Saturday, from noon—11pm, Sunday from 1pm—11pm.

BAMcafé and Gallery
Friday & Saturday from 8pm until the end of BAMcafé Live and two hours prior to all Howard Gilman Opera House performances. This includes Saturday and Sunday matinees.

BAM Harvey Theater
Open to ticketed visitors only, one hour before BAM Harvey Theater performances.

All venues are accessible by appointment, Monday – Friday, 10am—6pm. Please contact BAMart to arrange a visit at 718.636.4101 or BAMart@BAM.org

Revisit our conversation with Alison Brady by clicking here.

Brenda Ann Kenneally

(via The Brian Lehrer Show Archive)

Pictures From Home

Brenda Ann Kenneally, photojournalist, Soros Criminal Justice Fellow and author, Money Power Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood (Channel Photographics, 2005) on photographing her Bushwick neighborhood -with Gilberto "Junior" Vicente and Andrew Velazquez, residents of Bushwick featured in the photographs

Watch a slideshow from Money Power Respect [Please note the audio contains profanity.]

Start audio below to listen to this Brian Lehrer Show segment:


courtesy Brian Lehrer Show/WNYC

Money Power Respect available for purchase at Amazon.com

Rachel Sussman Antarctic Expedition Fundraiser

(via 20x200)
Photographer Rachel Sussman is holding a fundraiser tonight at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY to benefit her project, The Oldest Living Things in the World.

Galapagos Art Space says:

Come out for an evening of MUSIC, TRAPEZE, ART & ENTERTAINMENT + FOOD & DRINKS...featuring New York's indie-rock vaudevillians The LISPS, Dance performances by Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies, an Art Auction featuring works by MacDowell Colony Fellows plus free Vodka Cocktails, Haircuts and FREE GRIMALDI'S Pizza. Hosted by Galapagos's resident artist OLGA of Olga and Bjorn fame!

Join us for this amazing evening of art and entertainment benefiting The Oldest Living Things in the World project. Internationally acclaimed artist Rachel Sussman has been researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find and photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older. Sussman, who is fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, is endeavoring to raise funds for an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula to photograph 5,000-year-old moss this winter.

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View some of The Oldest Living Things in the World at rachelsussman.com.



Can't attend the event but want to make a tax deductable donation? Click here, and make sure to specify your donation is designated for Rachel Sussman / OLTW.


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*Donating artists include: Karla Wozniack, Maria Levitsky, Stacey Steers, Laura Holder, Jon Feinstein, Rachel Simmons, Lucas Blalock, Alicia Ackerman, Angela Capetta, Ed Roth (Stencil1), Olivia Valentine, Sarah Small, Monica Bradley, Diana Folsom, Aviva Leeman, Dan Estabrook, and Firat Erdim

Tickets for the benefit can be purchased here. Because Rachel loves 20x200, she has created a discount code to get $15 tickets—simply enter 20x200 during checkout or mention 20x200 at the door.

Melanie Flood @ The NYT's The Local

Syreeta McFadden article about Melanie Flood for The New York Times' blog The Local is titled "The Home as Gallery"and can be found here.

Melanie Flood Projects is located at 186 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11205
Hours are Tuesday-Friday by appointment only.

Opening Tomorrow: Grace Kim's Under the Glass Bell, A Dream

anonymous, seoul, 2008, from the series love hotel, © Grace Kim

from the press release:

Melanie Flood Projects is pleased to present Under the Glass Bell, A Dream, an exhibition of photographs by Grace Kim. The stark black and white images are taken from Kim’s series Love Hotel, which features intimate portraits of unmade beds at love hotels in Seoul, South Korea.

Couples use love hotels frequently in Korea to engage in secret love affairs. Captured just after their departure, Kim’s lyrical impressions provide access to an unknown world, highlighting private scenes that are generally inaccessible to outsiders.

The exhibition title, Under the Glass Bell, A Dream, is a reference and homage to the writer Anaïs Nin, who used the glass bell as a metaphor in her short story Under a Glass Bell. Nin describes the protagonists’ lives as encapsulated by a pristine façade, one that shields them from the realities of the outside world. Their lives appear to exist ‘under a glass bell’, the kind used to protect bouquets of flowers. Kim likens the glass bell to the facades used by those who conduct affairs and other activities in secret. Her photographs mimic the intersection between reality and appearance, searching for moments of beauty to encapsulate and make her own.

Grace Kim was born in Queens, New York, studied photography at the International Center of Photography and currently resides in Brooklyn. She recently created a limited edition artist book that contains miniature photographs from the Love Hotel series. It will be on view and available for purchase at the opening.

Melanie Flood Projects is an artist salon specializing in contemporary photography based in the Brooklyn home of Melanie Flood. The gallery brings artists and art lovers together in a space that juxtaposes the aesthetic dialogue of fine art with the haphazard and personal existence of the domestic setting, highlighting contrasts and commonalities in unexpected ways. The aim of Melanie Flood Projects is to create a fresh and informal meeting point for looking at, reflecting on, and talking about art.

Exhibition on view: Wednesday, September 9–Wednesday, October 7

Press Preview: Wednesday, September 9th 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, by appointment only

RSVP required: mfloodprojects@gmail.com

Martien Moulder's From Blue to Blue

Martien Mulder
From Blue to Blue

Capricious Space
Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick
103 Broadway, 917-438-7015
July 9 - August 9, 2009

From the press release:

Capricious Space is proud to present FROM BLUE TO BLUE, a selection of images extracted from 10 years of personal work by Martien Mulder. With a focus on landscape and portraiture, this particular edit is based on the monochromatic quality of each photograph. The primary color in every image determines its place in the space. Even though the images have their own individual meaning on the level of representation, they are sorted by their formal values. Mulder treats them as colors in a color scheme while designing within the graphic space: whether it is the pages of a book, or a gallery. Her installations are site specific.

Dutch-born Martien Mulder discovered her love for photography as a teenager. Her first pictures date from her high school years, when friends would pose willingly in her homemade studio. After her art history studies, with a major in contemporary photography, she decided to take her own pictures more seriously. By composing handmade books of her photographs, she established a visual language that connected to the magazine world. She started traveling the world, wherever assignments would lead her, and created personal work at the same time. Mulder has always been interested in the relationship between people and their environment.

She currently lives in New York and her pictures have appeared in magazines such as Purple, 10 Magazine, French Vogue and Fantastic Man. She has had exhibitions staged in New York, Amsterdam and Tokyo. Her book, also titled “From Blue to Blue” will be available for purchase.

Brea Souders: Open Studio

No. 5 (Emanuel Swedenborg) from Islands & Streams © Brea Souders

Brea Souders is opening up her studio to the public as part of the Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival on Sunday, June 7, from 12-8 pm. She will display several new images from her current series Islands & Streams, as well as some other work created within the past year. All are welcome.

Bushwick Open Studios
Sunday, June 7, 12 -8 pm
250 Moore St, #303
Brooklyn, NY 11206

She is located 2 blocks from the Morgan stop on the L train.

For more info:
www.breasouders.com
www.artsinbushwick.com

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.

Caroll Taveras: Photo Studio in Brooklyn

from Photo Studio, © Caroll Taveras

Opening now through February 11th, Caroll Taveras will have open photo studios sessions for the public in a storefront in Brooklyn. Photo Studio will be a place for everyone to have their photograph taken with a large format view camera in the tradition that was once popular in local portrait studios around the world.

From the press release:
For only $5, Caroll Taveras' Atlantic Avenue storefront in downtown Brooklyn will provide instant 4x5 Polaroid photographic portraits to neighbors, friends, and passersby. Photo Studio is a not-for-profit art project focused on documenting communities around the world.

Photo Studio will remain open through February 11th before continuing to Berlin in the Spring.

Photo Studio
539 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn 11217
Tuesday - Friday, 1-8pm
Saturday - Sunday 12-5pm

You can read more about Caroll's project here and also, check her website too.

Opening Reception Tomorrow: Helen Sear @ Klompching Gallery

"Inside The View, No. 14 & No. 20" (2006) © Helen Sear/courtesy Klompching Gallery


(via Klompching Gallery)

Klompching Gallery is pleased to announce Inside The View, the first exhibition in the United States by British artist Helen Sear. There will be a reception with the artist on January 8, from 6pm to 8pm.

Inside The View is an exceptional collection of photographs, wherein Helen Sear addresses the notion of work, labor of the hand and time in the process of image making. Sear also contributes to the long history of montage by superimposing two images — one a portrait of a woman and the other a landscape. Each image is then erased through a complex and painstaking process of digital drawing, with a lace-like network of lines based upon the patterns of sewing or hand woven lace making.

The result is a wonderful play on vision, whereby the figure and ground appear and disappear within the resulting lines of erasure. In many ways, the lines of erasure are the image; they form a veil to look at and to look through. Amongst other things, Sear is intrigued with the viewer’s habits of looking, and in this context she views the photographic medium as not fixed or entirely knowable.

“Within the multiple layers of Sear’s art we face the complex questions of work and invention. The innovative labour of image craft is central here. She does things few others do with the medium ... It is a restless process of intellectual risk, aesthetic demand and technical experiment.”—David Campany (2006).

In making these images, Sear has been inspired by the works of Helen Chadwick and Jo Spence, as well as that of the northern romantic tradition of painting. The title of the work refers to a series of collages, A L’Interieur de la Vue, by Max Ernst.

Helen Sear’s work has been published in Arts Review, Creative Camera, Art Newspaper and Art Monthly amongst others. Collections holding her work include Ernst & Young, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Council (Rome) and the Paul Wilson Collection. She lives and works in Wales (UK).

Klompching Gallery is located at 111 Front Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn and is co-owned by Debra Klomp Ching & Darren Ching.

H.J.K.: Barack Rock!

Visit Hee Jin Kang's (who we had the pleasure to interview a few months back) blog to find out more about Barack Rock - an evening of Music, Comedy & Action.

Juliana Beasley Opening

(via Amy Stein) See the work of Julianna Beasley, starting Thursday at Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn:

Human Condition
Farmani Gallery
August 21-31, 2008
111 Front Street, Gallery 212
Brooklyn, NY
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 21, 6-8:30pm

Elaine Duigenan & Susan Bright: In Conversation

IN-CONVERSATION: JULY 11, 7pm — 7:45pm

UK photographer Elaine Duigenan will discuss the exhibition, 'Intimate Archaeology, with Susan Bright.

Susan Bright is a freelance curator and writer. Recent curatorial projects include: Something out of Nothing, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, How We Are: Photographing Britain (co-curated with Professor Val Williams), Tate Britain, London, Face of Fashion: Corinne Day, Mert & Marcus, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi & Mario Sorrenti, National Portrait Gallery, London and 1+1=3: Collaboration in Contemporary British Portraiture, Fremantle Arts Center, Western Australia and Australian Center of Photography, Sydney. She is the author of Art Photography Now (2005), published by Thames & Hudson. Previously she was Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Curator of the Association of Photographrs and Acting Director for the MA Photography (Historic and Contemporary) at Sotheby's Institute, London. Susan Bright now lives and works in New York.

Debra Klomp Ching

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

www.klompching.com | info@klompching.com | +1 212 796 2070

111 Front Street, Suite 206 | Brooklyn NY 11201

Four Years Ago: Filtered

Four years ago Nymphoto's second show titled "Filtered" opened on Smith Street.


Filtered © Nymphoto

Urban Artists and the Politics of Visibility: A Conversation with Angela Davis

Urban Artists and the Politics of Visibility:
A Conversation with Angela Davis
When: April 23, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Where: Memorial Hall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (G train to Clinton/Washington)
Panelists: Hank Willis Thomas, Dread Scott, Amy Sananman,
Alan Ket.