If You Are in Riverside, California

Off the Grid & (-Americans)
Keliy Anderson-Staley
UCR/California Museum of Photography
October 01, 2009 - November 27, 2009

from the press release:

In the photo series Off the Grid and (-Americans), Keliy Anderson-Staley uses the conventions of portraiture and landscape to raise questions about representation, individuality and the many ways photography has shaped notions of identity from the 19th century to today’s digital age. In (-Americans) Anderson-Staley uses the wet plate collodion process to capture her sitters both individually and in couples. By utilizing the same antique process made popular in the 1850s and 1860s, when many believed that photography could scientifically record and catalogue a person’s racial or ethnic identity, Anderson-Staley probes technology’s claim to absolute objectivity. In Off the Grid, she focuses on the construction of place, using digital technology to capture how communes, communities, and collectives form identities from alternative or traditional philosophies.

Lecture, Keliy Anderson-Staley and curator Lisa Henry, 1st Thursday ARTSwalk, October 1, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Artist Reception, 8:00-9:00pm

Photo Studio, features public sittings for 19th-century style portraits, available for purchase Friday, October 2, 12:00 – 5:00pm (Reservations required: Limit 25)

Photo Studio, features public sittings for 19th-century style portraits, available for purchase.
Monday, October 5, 12:00 – 5:00pm (Reservations required: Limit 25)

For more info, contact: Digital Studio Program @ UCR ARTSblock (951) 827-4796 or digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu

UCR/California Museum of Photography is located at 3824 Main Street, on the Pedestrian Mall in downtown Riverside, California. Regular Gallery and Museum Store hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM to 5 PM. Admission is $3 for the general public and free to members, students and seniors. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. UCR/CMP offers guided educational tours to groups of 10 or more. Guided tours must be scheduled in advance and are appropriate for adults and grades 7-12; a nominal scheduling fee of $35 is charged. Waiver of the fee will be considered for groups with special needs. For more information, please call our 24-hour info line: 951.784.FOTO or visit http://www.cmp.ucr.edu on the World Wide Web.

Amy Stein @ MOPA (San Diego)

Amy Stein is giving a lecture tomorrow night at the Museum of Photographic Art.


© Amy Stein

Amy Stein Lecture
Museum of Photographic Art
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
619-238-7559 (Phone)
info@mopa.org
July 9, 2009 -7:00 pm

(via MOPA.org) Amy Stein opens the annual Grossmont Workshop series with a lecture and workshop based on portraiture. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture, and the environment. Amy Stein will discuss her beginnings, inspirations, and work process. Stein will also be discussing her series and first book, Domesticated and her current portrait series, Stranded.

Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection. In 2007, she was named one of the top fifteen emerging photographers in the world by American Photo magazine. Stein teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Espada de Dos Filos, Latina Voices: California – New York

Untitled (Box), From the Series The Usual Suspects © Justine Reyes

This exhibition will feature contemporary Latina artists from California and New York. Approximately 20 artists, 10 from each state, have been selected to participate in this unique show that culminates our 2008 exhibition schedule. Espada de Dos Filos will examine, reveal and highlight the voices of contemporary Latina artists.

Justine Reyes' The Usual Suspects is included in the show.

Ruiz gallery
Arte Americas, 1630 Van Ness, Fresno, CA

Exhibition runs through February 14, 2009

Naomi Harris, America Swings

There is an interesting interview with Naomi Harris about her newly published monograph, America Swings, on Slideluck Potshow.

She is also having a book launch and exhibition reception at Phillips de Pury tonight from 6-8pm.

She will be having a reception for her exhibition at M + B in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 25th, from 7-9pm and a book-signing at the Beverly Hills Taschen store on Thursday, October 30th, from 7-9pm.

New American Fables/ Amy Stein @ Richard Koch Gallery: Opening Reception Tonight

If you are in San Francisco tonight, don't forget to checkout the fabulous work of Amy Stein:

New American Fables | Amy Stein
Robert Koch Gallery
June 12 - August 23
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 3, 5:30-7:30pm

Aerial View

Helicopter #4 © Emily Shur

Check out some Cali aerial photographs by Emily Shur on her blog My Four Eyed Fantasy.

Loretta Lux

(via Yossi Milo/news) Two works by the artist Loretta Lux are included in the Museum of Contemporary Art's permanent collection exhibition, Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition, on view through May 19, 2008, includes major acquisitions of the museum from 1939 to 2005 that are considered to be cornerstones of the collection. For more information regarding Collecting Collections, please visit: www.moca.org