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

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

Today: Reception for Nymphoto's Talia Greene

© Talia Greene

Talia Greene
Dis(order)
At Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts
200 S. Madison Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
www.thedcca.org
Reception: Friday, December 4th 5pm-11pm

Revisit our interview with Talia by clicking here and also see her work at:

New Prints 2009/Autumn at International Print Center New York
October 30-December 12, 2009
www.ipcny.org

That show will also be travelling to the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University in Philadelphia, part of Philagrafika 2010
January 11 – February 13, 2010
www.philagrafika2010.org

Emergence at Bahdeebahdu in Philadelphia
March 9-April 3, 2010

Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
August, 2010

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

This Week: Brea Souders

©Brea Souders


See Brea Souders work at:

Jack the Pelican Presents
Untitled: 10 artists questioning realism and abstraction
October 23 - November 15
Opening reception: Friday, October 23, 6:30 - 9 pm
http://www.jackthepelicanpresents.com

Address:
487 Driggs Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Murray State University: Clara Eagle Gallery
Creatures Great and Small
October 23 - December 6
Opening Reception: Friday, October 23, 6 - 8 pm
http://www.murraystate.edu/chfa/art/gallery

Address:
604 Fine Arts Building
Murray, Kentucky 42071

Tomorrow: Andrea Modica Lecture in Woodstock

(from The Center for Photography at Woodstock)

Andrea Modica Lecture
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Saturday August 1, 2009 7 PM
Address 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
Telephone 845-679-9957 fax 845-679-6337
Email info@cpw.org

Andrea Modica works with an 8x10 camera to slow down the process of picture making and to create intimate dramas. One of her images taught her that, until that moment, she had been photographing like a tourist. Learning to contemplate the fictitious town of Treadwell in upstate NY, she made pictures that were mysterious and portrayed the anguish of adolescence and the idea of growing up. The photographer balances sadness with empathy and brings a spiritual dimension to her work. Modica’s images include photographs of a halfway house, a Catholic girls school, and a minor league baseball team. Andrea’s photographs have been compared to those of Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, and her friend, Sally Mann. A graduate of Yale University, her work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and International Center of Photography, among many prestigious venues. New York Times, Elle, New Yorker, American Photo, and Vanity Fair have featured her work and she has five monographs, Treadwell, Minor League, Real Indians, Barbara, and Human Being. The Edwynn Houk Gallery in NYC represents her work.

Tomorrow: Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb Lecture in Woodstock

(from The Center for Photography at Woodstock)

Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
Lecture
The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Saturday August 1, 2009 7 PM
Address 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
Telephone 845-679-9957 fax 845-679-6337
Email info@cpw.org

Alex Webb, a member of Magnum Photos since 1976, has published eight books including Hot Light/Half Made Worlds, Under a Grudging Sun, Crossings: Photographs from the U.S. Mexican Border, and Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names. He has worked for many major publications including National Geographic, Life, The New York Times Magazine, GEO, and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. Webb’s work is represented by Hasted-Hunt Gallery in NYC and has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe in museums such as the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a poet and journalist, had her first NYC solo exhibition at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in 2006, the same year her first book, The Glass Between Us, was published with support from a Blue Earth Alliance Grant. Her series, which uses text and images to explore the complicated relationship between people and animals in cities, has also been included in several group exhibitions, including “Why Look at Animals?” at the George Eastman House. She is currently working on a series of photographs in the American West called My Dakota. Rebecca teaches photography workshops with Alex in the U.S., Italy, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, and Spain. For more about Rebecca visit www.theglassbetweenus.com.

This Thursday: Singular Beauty - Opening Reception

Cara Philipps
Singular Beauty
Curated by James Hull
Suffolk University Art Museum at NESAD
75 Arlington St, Boston MA
Opening Reception September 17th, 6-8:30pm


click to enlarge courtesy Cara Phillips

Upcoming: Hellen van Meene @ SVA

Untitled #331, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008, Chromogenic print
© Hellen van Meene

(from SVA's Alia Dalal )

Kicking off SVA's "Art in the First Person" lecture series is a conversation with Hellen van Meene about her recent work.

Known for her intimate and carefully arranged portraits of adolescents, Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene is releasing a new collection of her photography in the monograph Hellen van Meene: New Photographs (Shrirmer/Mosel, 2009). The New Yorker calls van Meene's portraits "wonderfully odd" and in 2006, a photograph by van Meene accompanied Haruki Murakami's short story "A Shinagawa Monkey" in the magazine.

In this public lecture, van Meene talks with Jörg Colberg, the founder and editor of the pioneering photo blog Conscientious. In 2006, he was named one of American Photo's Photography Innovators and is a regular contributor to their Web site. Colberg interviewed van Meene for Conscientious in May 2009, and this conversation provides both Colberg and van Meene the opportunity to delve further into her work.

EVENT DETAILS
Hellen van Meene in Conversation with Jörg Colberg
Monday, September 14, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Presented by the BFA Photography Department and Dear Dave, magazine
Free and open to the public
Information at 212.592.2010 or www.sva.edu/events

Amy Stein: Seeing in Color

(via www.andersonranch.org)


© Amy Stein

Workshop @ AndersonRanch arts center

Amy Stein: Seeing in Color (P0921)
Jul 27, 2009-Jul 31, 2009

Concept: Is your photographic vision stuck in black and white? Awaken your photography and tell stories in vivid details using the language of color. In this class we will examine the expressive possibilities of color photography. Through artist presentations, field trips and interactive exercises we will explore the emotions and energy associated with color as we push the boundaries of your expression. We will explore the magnificent natural areas surrounding Anderson Ranch and work in classroom to review portfolios and the photographic products of our photo journeys.

Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. In 2007, she was named one of the top 15 emerging photographers in the world by American Photo and she won the Critical Mass Book Award. A monograph of Domesticated won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. Amy teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and Pool Gallery in Berlin. www.amysteinphoto.com

Tonight: NIGHT/SHIFT Talk & Booksigning in Tribeca

courtesy Lynn Saville

Also if you would like to revisit our conversation with Lynn Saville, please click here.

Opening Thursday: Lovisa Ringborg

courtesy HSF/©Lovisa Ringborg

Please join us at Harlem Studio Fellowship for the opening of a double solo exhibition of artists-in-residence, Lovisa Ringborg and Elena Ascari. Co-curated by HSF Chief Curator, Raffaele Bedarida with newly appointed Junior Curator, Teresa Meucci, the show presents works achieved by the two artists during their stay in New York (May-July-2009).


- LOVISA RINGBORG
if your secret was an animal
what animal would it be

- ELENA ASCARI
Cells

Curated by: Raffaele Bedarida and Teresa Meucci

Opening reception: July 16th 6.30-9.00 pm

By appointment:
July 17th-31st, 2009


HSF by Montrasioarte
128W 121st street
(subway 2, 3 to 116th street)
New York, NY



LOVISA RINGBORG
if your secret was an animal
what animal would it be

Swedish artist Lovisa Ringborg exhibits at HSF two interrelated works. A photograph, Insomnia is the visual and conceptual counterpart of an environmental piece, If Your Secret Was an Animal What Animal Would It Be, which consists of four photographs and a mirror text. More than doing photographs, Ringborg literally works with photography: her initial photographic shots, used as “raw material” (the artist’s words), are digitally altered and combined into carefully composed and theatrically staged images. As with Caravaggio (a rough mattress hardly visible under classical draperies), the fictionality of the represented scene is revealed in her work, and the masquerade in the artist’s studio emerges interfering with the subject matter. Subtle visual inconsistencies insinuate unreliability in the faux staged-photographs and add surreal echoes to their content. But there is no attempt on shocking effects: no juxtaposition of evidently incongruous images and meanings. If the sleep of Goya’s reason produced monsters, the inoffensive stuffed animals that Ringborg photographed at the Museum of Natural History, are turned into the elementary vocabulary of a potentially monstrous language. A language from which narrative is removed and humans, beasts, and objects are kept frozen on the threshold between familiar anxieties and uncanny premonitions. RB


ELENA ASCARI
Cells

The series of paintings presented by Italian artist Elena Ascari starts a new phase in her visual research. Ascari’s previous canvases portrayed the reflecting world of the malls’ escalators through a photorealist technique. The shiny world of glasses and mirrors was turned into a no-less-kitschy surface of gummy paint. The effect was one of complex visual fragmentation: repetitions, reflections, and distortions of the same figures resulted in an optical multiplication that could be read as an open sequence, a deconstructed story. With Cells, Ascari does a step further. Focused on the refracting skin of design objects, these new reflections destroy any perceptive continuity. An ordinary experience given by the popularization and domestication of Deconstructivist architecture is translated into a trope: close-up views become miniaturized oneiric visions. In the resulting kaleidoscope, humans as well as any other recognizable thing are fugacious and isolated apparitions. The story no longer exists, connections are lost. The aesthetic of very small reflective surfaces become, with Cells, a metaphor for the connective isolation of the i-phone era. RB

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.

Tomorrow: En Foco Benefit Party

(via En Foco):

"Benefit Party to Kick-off En Foco's 35th Year!
Enjoy a Cocktail Evening with friends and artists, surrounded by the photographic works in our New Works #12 exhibition, juried by Deborah Willis. Tickets are $35 in advance, $45 at the door.

www.enfoco.org/index.php/special_events/35th_kickoff_benefit/"

Aperture Party & Fundraiser

Aperture Summer Party - June 18 - with THE WILLOWZ

APERTURE SUMMER PARTY
SOME LIKE IT HOT!

http://www.aperture.org/somelikeithot/

APERTURE’S FIRST SUMMER PARTY
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 8:00-11:00 PM

COCKTAILS AND FESTIVITIES, PLUS:
An exclusive limited-edition print by Thomas Allen, commissioned byAperture!
A raffle of choice items, including a commissioned portrait by MatthewPillsbury!
Live music by Garage-Rock Band the Willowz!
CO-CHAIRED BY: Michael Foley, Michael Hoeh, Cathy Kaplan, Severn Taylor


Please join Aperture for the foundation’s first summer party celebrating
great photography and music at Aperture’s fabulous gallery space in the
heart of Chelsea’s art district. The backdrop for the party is the
spectacular Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
exhibition, curated by Lyle Rexer.

http://www.aperture.org/edgeofvision

Tickets are $150 for a single, and $250 for a double. All ticket holders
(single and dual) will receive an exclusive limited edition print by Thomas
Allen (pictured above) created specially for the event. Guests will mingle
with Aperture artists, enjoy cocktails and canapés, have the chance to win
spectacular raffle items, including a commissioned portrait by Matthew
Pillsbury, and hear the live music from the Willowz "One of America's most promising young bands."-The Village Voice.

http://thewillowz.com

Some Like It Hot is co-chaired by Michael Foley, Aperture patron and
collector Michael Hoeh and Aperture board members Cathy Kaplan, and Severn Taylor.

All proceeds from the party will go towards Aperture’s publications, exhibitions, and public programs.

WHEN AND WHERE:

THURSDAY, June 18, 2009
8:00 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10001

(212) 505-5555

Subway: C, E to 23rd Street and 8th Avenue or 1 to 28th Street and 7th
Avenue

Opening Reception & Book Launch Tomorrow Night

Cover Image: Natasha, Ukraine 2005
Courtesy of Michal Chelbin/Andrea Meislin Gallery

We hope to see you tomorrow night for the opening reception & book launch of NYMPHOTO Conversations Volume 1 at Sasha Wolf Gallery in Tribeca!

NYMPHOTO Conversations: Volume 1
Sasha Wolf Gallery
10 Leonard Street (bet. W.Broadway & Hudson)
New York, NY 10013
May 6-20, 2009
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m.

Work by Michele Abeles, Juliana Beasley, Rona Chang, Nina Büsing Corvallo, Candace Gottschalk, Jessica M. Kaufman, Klea McKenna, Michal Chelbin, Talia Greene, Maria Passarotti, Susana Raab, Emily Shur, Tema Stauffer, Jane Tam, Garie Waltzer & Jennifer Williams.

And if you can't stop by the show while it is up, there is the companion book/catalog is available for purchase via Blurb.

Today! Zoe Strauss: I-95

If you are in Philly don't miss this! © Zoe Strauss

Nymphoto Shows & Book

We at last finished the final revisions to Nymphoto Books: Conversations Vol. 1 and it is off to the presses! We are so excited and labored extensively over this project.
The book will go on sale the day of the opening of the accompanying show at Sasha Wolf Gallery May 6, 2009. See you there!

We have received a lot of inquiries about when we will announce the line-up for the second show. Well, we are almost there! We are putting much thought and great effort in curating the most dynamic and exciting show possible. It's been a great experience and it has been invaluable to have Sasha by our side guiding us in this process and it looks like this will be a really exciting show.

The collective spirit at Nymphoto is high. It has been a tremendous amount of work for us all but it is also very rewarding and it feels very positive to be part of an active artist initiative -- and to create outlets for our work and that of other fellow women artists.

So please stay tuned! More news to follow very soon.

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.

In Real Life

If you missed it this weekend, you'll have another chance next weekend to catch "In Real Life" - organized by I Heart Photograph's Laurel Ptak.
Find more information at: www.letsmeetinreallife.com.