As part of our Art for Haiti Auction, we'd like to show you works that are available during this week. To learn more about the auction please click here for the press release information.
Artist: Hidemi Takagi
Title: "Untitled" from "Happie Photographie"
Date: 2001
Medium and Size: 11x14" C-print with signature on back
Hidemi Takagi was born in Kyoto, Japan and resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Ms. Takagi has been exhibited both nationally and internationally for several years. Takagi participated in the AIM program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2003. The program led to a group exhibition as well as a catalogue, NYFA’s (The New York Foundation for the Arts) Immigrant Outreach program for New York-based immigrant artists in 2006-2007, and was selected for LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) Swing Space, will participate in 2010. Her work reviewed in Time Out Tel Aviv, Time Out New York, NY Times, and Village Voice. Takagi’s latest project “Blender” was published on NYFA (NY Foundation for the Arts) Current.
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Artist: Michelle Kloehn
Title: "Untitled"
Date: 2008
Medium and Size: 5x7" Tintype, signed and dated on back
Michelle Kloehn received her MFA from Bard College and her BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She is the recipient of two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and her work has been included in exhibitions at Sepia International (NY), Jen Bekman Gallery (NY), and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Her work was featured in BLIND SPOT Issue 36, Fall Portfolio and has been written about in The New Yorker, ARTnews, and New York Arts Magazine. Her photographs are in the collection of the National Media Museum in Bradford, England and in various private collections. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Artist: Hee Jin Kang
Title: "Slippers"
Date: 2009
Medium and Size: 11x14" Archival Inkjet Print, signed on back
Born in Seoul, Korea, Hee Jin Kang holds degrees from Yale University and the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in various magazines. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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The Art for Haiti auction will be coordinated by eBay Giving Works and 100% of the proceeds will go to Partners in Health. The auction & print sale will run now through the end March 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST).
Remember, you only have 3 days left of the auction! Please help us support Haiti.
Click here to see all the artwork offered in the auction and be sure to check if the reserve minimum have been set.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Art for Haiti: Auction Highlights
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A Conversation with Michelle Kloehn
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
Michelle Kloehn (who participated in the very first Nymphoto exhibit) has a wonderful sensitivity to light, composition and the finicky nature of collodion tintypes. The mirror-like surface holds a surreal dimensionality that fiber prints or c-prints do not contain. These nuances are incredible in person (I've been a lucky admirer). Run, don't walk, if you get a chance to see these in person!
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
NP: Tell us a little about yourself.
MK: I grew up in the Midwest in a town just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and am the youngest of seven kids. When I was little our house was in a constant state of chaos, with multiple things going on at once- there was never a dull moment. It was within this free-for-all known as my childhood- that I think I unconsciously began my investigation into the world of observation. As the youngest of the clan I was always watching what everyone one else was doing- trying to learn what to and not to do-how to get away with this or that- the basic ropes of growing up. This coupled with being a slightly shy kid was the perfect combination for my keen interest in watching. And the watching- seeing- looking- grew into making images.
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
NP: How did you discover photography?
MK: I discovered photography really through my dad who was, and still is always taking photos. Growing up we would have slide show nights where he would go through slides he had taken from family trips- the culmination leading up to the shots from when my mom, dad and the four oldest kids lived in Africa for two years. I loved looking at these slides. I would imagine what it would be like to travel to Africa and how different this world looked from my Midwestern one. So I think my dad planted the seed, then as I got older the real hook came after taking a photography class in high school with Mr. Hep. I will never forget the feeling of watching my first image come to surface in the darkroom.
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
Np: Where do you find inspiration?
MK: This is constantly changing for me- but one thing that I always come back to is light. The way it gets distorted through a window- or runs along the side of a building- or fades just before dark and you can barely make out what’s in front of you. Light is a very physical thing for me and something that I am in constant awe of.
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
NP: How did this project come about?
MK: I started using the wet plate technique eight years ago, when I went off to a residency and holed myself up in the darkroom until I figured out how the process worked. From there I have created several bodies of work- each one generating more questions for myself. Lately I have been thinking about light and shadow, about abstraction and representation, about the difference between what we think we see and what we want to see.
This series “ Unseen” was made using a very primitive 16 x 20 inch camera that a friend of mine and I put together. The images are all made in my studio where I alternate between making small sculptures and working with light itself. As this work builds and has been getting more and more abstract, and I find myself trying to find a place where the wet plate process adds to and informs the work… a place where chance and intent meet.
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
Untitled from the series Unseen © Michelle Kloehn
NP: What's next?
MK: Using this large camera has opened up several avenues within the work-so I think I will continue down this path for a while.
Thank you Michelle! For more images, visit michellekloehn.com.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tonight: First Impressions
from CCNY:
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, September 16th from 6–8 pm
Marco Breuer, Eric William Carroll, Dan Estabrook, Michael Flomen, Michelle Kloehn, Chris McCaw
First Impression is an exhibition of contemporary work by artists employing arcane photographic methodologies resulting in unique, first-generation imagery. The selection of work includes examples of calotypes, tintypes, photograms and other unusual, unlikely and untimely processes by featured artists, Marco Breuer, Eric William Carroll, Dan Estabrook, Michael Flomen, Michelle Kloehn, and Chris McCaw.
Celebrating its 125th year, the Camera Club of New York is marking this important anniversary with an exhibition of work by artists who draw upon the origins of the medium to address contemporary photographic issues and practices. Each of the artists works within a distinct set of parameters, exploring the nature of process and representation.
Marco Breuer uses various tools to alter the surface and sensitivity of photographic papers, creating abstract images that question the basic nature of the medium. Eric William Carroll works with the least expensive photosensitive medium available, commercial blueprint paper, making life-size shadow photographs suggestive of performance art. Employing Calotype negatives and skillful draftsmanship, Dan Estabrook uses his dreams as source material, making images that defy our understanding of physical existence, and challenging the assumption that photographs are rooted in reality. Michael Flomen’s innovative gelatin silver photograms document his interactions with the natural world. Working outdoors at night, Flomen makes images in fields and forests, rivers and ponds, even utilizing the most ethereal of light sources, fireflies. Michelle Kloehn’s tintypes, made in her studio, depict vaguely identifiable forms fashioned from discarded materials. Dark and intriguing, her work has the appearance of chemically induced expressionism. Chris McCaw records the passage of time by allowing the sun to burn through photographic paper while traversing the sky. These enigmatic, large-format solarized paper negatives allude to celestial anomaly and prophetic revelation.
In conjunction with the exhibition, CCNY will host a panel discussion with the artists, moderated by Curator Michael Paris Mazzeo and Russell Lord, recipient of the 2009-2010 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Please check our website for more details.
This exhibition runs from September 16 – October 30th.
Gallery hours: Monday–Saturday 12-6 pm
Please visit us at:
The Camera Club of New York
336 West 37th Street, Suite 206
(bet. 8th and 9th Avenues)
New York, New York 10018
212.260.9927
www.cameraclubny.org
Friday, December 7, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Michelle Kloehn
Michelle Kloehn's work is featured in this month's Blindspot. Michelle Kloehn participated in the first Nymphoto Show.
