ICP Lecture Series - Winter 2010

Head over to www.icp.org to find about New York based ICP's Winter Lecture Series. This time around catch: Deborah Turbeville, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Susan Lipper, Carrie Mae Weems, JoAnn Verburg and others.

Opening Tomorrow: Chibi Lai's "We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow"

Photographs by Chibi Lai

Chibi Lai
We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow

The show will be held from August 4th-30th, 2009

Opening Reception is on August 5th, 6-8pm

The Broadway Gallery

475 Broadway, 7th Floor (between Grand and Broome St)

tel: 212-274-8993

From the artist:

'We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow'

This series is a continuation of my 'Displacement' series, focusing on the concept of solidarity and wanderlust. This project was shot in Iceland. In comparison to the usual self portraits I make within landscape ('Displacement'), these images are not of myself but speak of how it feels to be in solitude and searching for the right place to be from a universal standpoint. With nature playing a huge role in this series, a timeless place has been created, where everything becomes dreamlike, where nothing seems to be real or certain.

www.chibilai.com ('Displacement' and 'We Come From The Land of The Ice and Snow' series could be viewed on site)

Summer Reading - Group Show at Jen Bekman Gallery

via Jen Bekman

This year our summer group show, Summer Reading, is united around the wonderful world of words. Jen Bekman Gallery will be showing paintings, drawings and photographs from a talented lot, some of whom you already know from their 20x200 editions.

Artists in the exhibition:

Thomas Allen, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Kotama Bouabane, Lizzie Buckmaster-Dove, Christine Callahan, Jorge Colombo, William Crump, Lauren DiCioccio, Nina Katchadourian, Gregory Krum, Steve Lambert, Michael Mandiberg, Carrie Marill, Mike Monteiro, Jane Mount, Kirby Pilcher, Jason Polan, Kent Rogowski, Ed Ruscha,Kelly Shimoda, Victor Schrager, Mickey Smith, Alec Soth, Zoe Strauss, Shaun Sundholm, Brian Ulrich, and Tim Walker.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm
On View: July 15th - August 22nd, 2009

Juliana Beasley's Photographs @ Starlette on PRIDE Night @ Angels and Kings

from Juliana Beaseley:


courtesy Juliana Beasley

The Lovely Ladies of "Red Ruby Photography"
WE SUPPORT OUR LESBIAN SISTERS DURING PRIDE!

Come celebrate pride with us at Angels & Kings' Starlette Sunday on June 28th! Let our all ladies Red Ruby crew provide you with an amazing image to commemorate PRIDE Day, NYC 2009.

We are simply taking RED COUCH PORTRAITS WITH RAINBOW FLAG TO BOOT!

Wanda Owner of Starlette at Angels and Kings and the Super Famous, Marga Gomez., 6/09.


Just take a seat on the a stunning red velvet couch, covered in tasteful plastic. A beautiful rainbow flag behind you! Now all you need to do is sit with your sexy MAMMASITA OR BIG DADDY or better yet, pick up the girl or boy of your dreams and make a fun, very fun memory!!!

This an opportunity for all gender orientations to support the purpose and meaning behind PRIDE. So, welcome! Come away with a keepsake. I've been known to pull out a Sharpie and sign the 4X5" print in front of your face...heee, heee.

Doors open at 7pm till ? !!!

Red Ruby Photography Serves the Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Community in the Tri-State Area. We are available for private parties, club soirees, weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, etc.

Opening Reception: Sacrosant

SACROSANCT
June 14th-June 21st 2009

St. John's Episcopal American Catholic Church
1610 Lexington Avenue, New York City
Opening Reception: June 14th, 4:30-7:30pm
Closing Reception: June 21st, 5-10pm

From the press release:

Sophie T. Lvoff is pleased to present “Sacrosanct”, a group exhibition dealing with issues of religious resonance and spirituality on view from June 14- June 21.

"Sacrosanct" takes place at a church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The building was built in 1920, and acted as a church from 1941. Since the dissolution of the church body in the 1990's, the space has been abandoned and closed to the public. Despite its subsequent deterioration, the space still retains its sense of holiness and importance. The surrounding neighborhood has also been in a state of transition, adding significance to the building.

For the exhibition, ten artists have been invited into the abandoned space to work both independently and collectively to create, install, and perform pieces that respond to the sanctity of the environment. St. John's is an elusive and unorthodox venue for the arts, and will be explored as a unique site for the duration of the exhibition.

Featured artists include: Antoine Catala, Stephen Collier, Patrick Duncan, Michael Clyde Johnson, Heather Jones, Zaq Landsberg, Sophie T. Lvoff, Santiago Mostyn, Eric Payson, Grant Willing and Alana Celii.

Featured musicians for the closing reception include: Young Man About Town, Patrick Cleandenim, the St. John’s Choir, and others to be announced!

Tomorrow: En Foco's "New Works #12" Artists Talk

© Morgan M. Ford, Be Delicious, 2009
The [un]Nature of Cosmetics series
Gelatin silver print with beeswax, 15"x15"

New Works #12
En Foco's New Works Photography Awards Fellowship and Exhibition (2008-09)

En Foco's New Works Photography Awards is an annual program selecting three to seven U.S. based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, or Pacific Islander heritage through a free and open call for submissions. Acting as a creative incubator, it enables artists to create or complete an in-depth photographic series exploring themes of their choice, while providing an honorarium and infrastructure for a professional exhibition in New York.

Morgan M. Ford
Karen Garrett de Luna
Isabelle Lutterodt
Wendy Phillips
Cybèle Clark-Mendes
Archy LaSalle
Viviane Moos

Juror:
Deborah Willis, curator, author, photographer and
Chair of the Photo & Imaging Dept at NYU/TISCH

Dates:
June 4 - June 25, 2009
Free and open to the public

Artist Talk:
Saturday, June 13, 3:30-4:30pm
with Karen Garrett de Luna, Isabelle Lutterodt and Morgan M. Ford

Location:
Calumet Photographic
22 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
New York, NY 10010
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:30pm
Saturday 9:00am-5:30pm

LaToya Ruby Frazier and Sebrina Fassbender at Higher Pictures

Self Portrait (March 10 am) 2009, © LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of Higher Pictures

From the press release:

Higher Pictures announces a two-person exhibition of Sebrina Fassbender and LaToya Ruby Frazier. Fassbender will exhibit photographs from a five-year exploration of transient women in the 'old' East Village in New York City. Frazier will exhibit a selection of self-portraits, 2005-2009. The exhibition will run from May 14th through June 20th, 2009.

...

Fassbender spent five years seeking out women who existed within a raw, emotionally sexualized and chaotic space. Responding deeply to the fantasy, unbearable pain and sadness of these women, Fassbender creates her portraits by dressig and psing them in order to make the women more real than the reality of the women themselves.

...

Frazier uses her art to explore her relationship with her family, similar to artists Doug Dubois and Leigh Ledare. Her photography is unlike that of Eugene Richards in that she is not an editorial photographer, but rather, Frazier is the content and photographer, allowing her mothing to frame and shoot her as a subject. Her work is autobiographical and blurs the line between self-portraitute and social documentary.

LaToya Ruby Frazier / Sebrina Fassbender
May 14 through June 20, 2009
at Higher Pictures

764 Madison Avenue (between 65th/66th street)
New York, NY 10065
212.249.6100

Landmarks of New York at the NY Historical Society

from NY Historical Society:

LANDMARKS OF NEW YORK
An exhibition of 83 photographs documenting some of the most significant buildings and public parks in New York City will be on view at The New-York Historical Society from April 30 through July 12, 2009, in the exhibition Landmarks of New York. The exhibition has traveled to 82 countries under the sponsorship of the United States Department of State since 2006 and is now coming home to New York for its final showing. The photographs in the exhibition will then enter the collection of the New-York Historical Society, through a donation from the exhibition's curator, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.

Some of the photographers include Jennifer Williams, Christine Osinski, Teresa Christiansen, and Rona Chang.

New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West between 76th and 77th Street
The New-York Historical Society is open to the general public Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m; free admission on Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday hours are from 11:00 a.m. until 5:45 p.m.

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.

Lecture Tonight: Lisa Kereszi

From Places of Escape, ©Lisa Kereszi

Advertising Photographers of America is presenting the next installment of Apple Image Maker Lecture series with the talented, Lisa Kereszi.

APA|NY and Apple Image Maker lecture with Lisa Kereszi
Wednesday February 18th, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:00 PM
SoHo Apple Theater - 103 Prince St @ Mercer, NYC
Free to attend, seating is limited

Diana Kingsley

Siberia, ©Diana Kingsley

Diana Kingsley is in a solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City through February 28, 2009.

From the press release:

Leo Castelli Gallery is pleased to present In Pari Delicto, an exhibition of new photographs by Diana Kingsley, her third solo show at the gallery. Kingsley, continuing to mine the terrain of the slight incident and the small indignity, has ratcheted up a sense of the absurd while maintaining the cool formalism and deadpan humor of her previous work.

The exhibitions title, In Pari Delicto, a somewhat archaic legal term meaning “in equal fault,” connotes an elegance and charged sensuality belying the prosaic resignation of the phrase’s meaning. Dress gloves, cigarettes, sterling silver sets, and thoroughbreds anachronistically symbolize sophistication, while barely disguising a standoff between ordinary, commensurable forces: incumbent and invading, animated and inert, covetous and restrained. In the slow unfolding of non–events each side acts in a balletic concert; no side is privileged.

Diana Kingsley: In Pari Delicto
January 9 – February 28, 2009
Leo Castelli Gallery
18 East 77th Street
New York, NY

Nadja Bournonville

Where everything starts, ©Nadja Bournonville

Nadja Bournonville, Part Two Amor Omnia Vincit

Pierogi 2000
177 North 9th Street, 718-599-2144
February 6 - March 8, 2009

From the press release:

"Part Two–Amor omnia vincit

"Love conquers all, as a working hypothesis, or the innermost core of pain."

—P.O Enquist, The book about Blanche and Marie

For Nadja Bournonville, the photographs of "Amor omnia vincit" have become a series of questions rather then answers, like stories left wide open. They question both the personal and universal experience of love—the distance between need and desire, the restless hunt for intimacy, and our hope to be truly known by the other; and, on the other hand, the vertigo—the fear of falling, being left and rejected.

After reading P.O. Enquist’s "The book about Blanche and Marie,” Bournonville decided to divide her project into three parts inspired by the question books written by the main character, Blanche. Each page of these books is said to start with a question and it is through her sometimes erratic answers that a story gradually unfolds. In Part One, "One for every wish," I was occupied with the question I applied as a child to every situation, why? The curiosity and playfulness of this question drove my search forward through continuous reading, questioning and image making. Part two has developed similarly, where the scenes built up within the images act as spaces for thoughts and ideas regarding the impossible possibility of love. (Bournonville, 2009)
This will be the first exhibition of Bournonville’s photographs in the United States.