Tonight: Hellen Van Meene @SVA & Yancey Richardson

Untitled #331, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008, Chromogenic print
© Hellen van Meene (courtesy SVA)

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

Hellen van Meene's work will also be on view starting September 17, 2009 at Yancey Richardson Gallery.

June Events/ Center for Photography at Woodstock

Break the boundaries and barriers of mediums in Encaustic & Photographic

(June 20-23)

Learn how to design your own website with Dina Pearlman
(Wednesdays from 6-9pm June 17 - July 8)

Step into the world of Fine Art Digital Printing with Richard Edelman (Thursdays from 6-9pm June 18 - July 9)

Venture into the world of publishing and the photographer/editor collaboration with Elinor Carucci & Alan Rapp (June 27-28)

Advanced registration is required. Contact CPW about special student/educator discount prices!

Download a pdf of the 2009 catalog by clicking here. Or view the catalog online by visiting CPW's website

www.cpw.org Center for Photography at Woodstock | 59 Tinker Street | Woodstock | NY | 12498

AMERICA: We Love Having You Here

Opening tomorrow:

Zoe Strauss: AMERICA: We Love Having You Here
November 22, 2008 – January 10, 2009
Opening: November 22nd, 6 - 8pm

Silverstein Photography
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
P: 212-627-3930

(from the Silverstein Gallery press release):

Silverstein Photography is pleased to announce Zoe Strauss: AMERICA: We Love Having You Here, an exhibition featuring works from Strauss’ last eight years of photographing throughout the United States including her most recent excursions. Many of the images in the show are also featured in her forthcoming book of the same title.


No image more popularly depicts the artist’s creative process than the famed Hans Namuth portrait of Jackson Pollock at work on his signature drip paintings. The image showing Pollock lunging aggressively toward his canvas with paintbrush in hand revealed to the public for the first time that most private and mysterious of practices: the artist at work. In the years since this image was made, incalculable others of the same subject have appeared, but beside Namuth’s portrait of Pollock, none have more definitively represented the artist amidst their creative process. Despite Namuth’s revelatory portrait, artists’ working practices and the public’s perception thereof have remained clandestine, leaving only their end result in the public’s view and keeping hidden the progression of events out of which the art was created. By maintaining total transparency in her process, her work, and even the production of her exhibitions, Zoe Strauss not only reveals her every musing and tendency, she offers the viewer a deeply personal understanding of her process as an artist - integral to the comprehension of her work.

Strauss’ transparency has been an indispensable element in her method since her first installations built inside her home were opened to the public for viewing in 1997. Shortly thereafter, Strauss began what would become a ten-year project of displaying her works in the area below the I-95 highway in Philadelphia. Like all of her exhibitions, the ‘I-95’ project continues to involve extensive awareness of and communication with her audience. While in production for I-95 and all other projects, Strauss actively maintains a blog which among other things discloses the minutiae of her art-making practices, her choices in subject matter, her editing and printing processes, and most recently, the publishing of her first book, AMERICA (AMMO Books, 2008). By making public the details of an otherwise private practice of producing art and its related projects and events, Strauss asserts her working method as a part of the art being considered, allowing the audience to see the way the work is made as a fundamental component to its understanding.

Strauss’ choice in subject matter reveals much about her life and work as an artist as well. Having gotten her start photographing the same neighborhood in which she lives, Strauss has consistently “shot what she knows” and has maintained an extremely personable approach to her subjects. This steadfast openness has become a defining characteristic of Strauss’ work and has made her a natural candidate for the subject matter on which she continues to focus. From her earliest works on, Strauss has concentrated on the overlooked in America. Whether its overlooked citizens, environments, or the objects therein, Strauss has aimed her lens at those things we cannot or choose not to see. In her latest project, Strauss has taken her camera on the road in an attempt to create an apt portrait of the United States. Driving between various locations throughout the U.S., Strauss has photographed those neglected people and places among us, creating a likeness of this country largely dissimilar to what we think we already know.

Zoe Strauss’ work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, the Centraal-Museum of Utrecht, and the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University among others. In 2007, Strauss was named a USA Gund Fellow, Visual Arts.

For more information on the exhibition, please contact Elizabeth Shank at elizabeth@brucesilverstein.com.

Margot Quan Knight

© Margot Quan Knight

Head over to www.margotknight.com to see Nymphoto's Margot Quan Knight's new website.

You can also catch Margot in person November 13, 2008 at Prichard Art Gallery in Moscow, Idaho. That day Margot will be giving an artist talk.
Margot's show opens at Prichard Art Gallery the following night, and the opening reception will be held from 5-8 p.m.

In Portland, Margot's short film Portrait of a Woman 1947-2007 is participating in the Northwest Film & Video Festival. It is part of a group of short films (look for "Shorts II") screening on Sat Nov 15 at 6pm. Tickets are at: http://www.nwfilm.org/archives/NWf&V/35nwfest/schedule.php#97

And please do revisit our July conversation with Margot, you can find it in the featured artist section of the Nymphoto website: www.nymphoto.com

Alejandra Lavidia in The New York Times

Head over to the New York Times to read Penelope Green's article "Left Behind, in Their Own State of Grace" published October 23, 2009 about Alejandra Laviada - who we featured for Nymphoto Conversations on October 9, 2008.


from Photo Sculptures © Alejandra Laviada

Reminder: Photography©®™-Panel Discussion Tonight

(via www.aperture.org)

Photography©®™
Panel Discussion

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
7:00 p.m.

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York
(212) 229-5353

Learn what every photographer working today needs to know about essential issues of photography and copyright in a digital age. Panelists to include Nancy E. Wolff, lawyer and partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, who specializes in intellectual property and digital media law; Chair of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design, Michelle Bogre; and others to be announced.

This event is part of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context in collaboration with Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Parsons the New School for Design.

Aperture Panel Discussion with WIPNYC

September promises to be an exciting month with lots of exciting exhibits coming up such as Alessandra Sanguinetti at Yossi Milo, Polixeni Papapetrou at Foley Gallery, Michal Chelbin at Andrea Meislin, a new show at Sasha Wolf Gallery and so many more.
Another exciting event to put on the schedule is an Aperture panel discussion with WIPNYC -- which I just found out about via Amy Elkins blog.

Sylvia Plachy

Goings On About Town: Sylvia Plachy
Talk and Book Signing

Monday, July 14, 2008
6:30 p.m.

New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York
(212) 340-0849

(via Aperture) Sylvia Plachy, the first photographer assigned to shoot the opening photograph of the legendary Goings On About Town section of The New Yorker, will discuss key images from this exclusive assignment, featured in her latest Aperture book, "Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker" (co-published with The New Yorker, 2007). Plachy explores the city’s dynamics from the inside out, from the Mermaid Parade to camels walking through town on the way to the circus, revealing the vital and often wacky creativity that energizes New York around the clock. The images are quintessentially Sylvia Plachy, and quintessentially New York. Plachy will also show and discuss other never before published images from her illustrious 40-year career.

WIPNYC Launch Party Pics

Take a look at Women in Photohraph's website www.wipnyc.org and pictures from the Launch Party.