August 15, 2009

EXHIBITIONS IN US - NEW YORK

ANDREA MEISLIN GALLERY

Jed Fielding Look At Me: Photographs From Mexico City SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 17

Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Jed Fielding's Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City. The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph of the same name, published by the University of Chicago Press, and includes essays by Vince Aletti and Britt Salvesen. Fielding is a Chicago-based photographer working at the intersection of street photography and high modernism, whose attention to the formal qualities of surface and light is characteristic of his teachers at the Rhode Island School of Design – Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan.

In Look at me, Fielding moves deftly into a partnership with children attending several of Mexico City's schools for the blind. Throughout his career as a street photographer, Fielding's work has been based on collaboration between himself and his willing subjects. His new work in Look at me takes this collaboration to an intriguing, new level - what does it mean to photograph those who cannot return the photographer's gaze?

Rather than adhering to a documentary point of view, Fielding aims to create elegantly formal portraits. These schools for the blind provide a nurturing environment in which the mothers attend school daily with their children. In this setting, even more than in his work on the street, Fielding was able to concentrate on the formal aspects of his work, and he invites the viewer to contemplate these images with their own sense of wonder.

Jed Fielding was born in Boston in 1953. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has photographed extensively in Peru, Greece, Egypt, Spain, the United States, Italy, and Mexico for more than thirty-five years. Fielding's photographs have been widely collected and exhibited, and are represented in private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Art Institute of Chicago; and International Center of Photography, New York. Fielding currently lives in Chicago.

NEW YORK - http://www.andreameislin.com/

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HASTED HUNT GALLERY

Mark Cohen: True Color UNTIL AUGUST 28

Mark Cohen is part of the generation of street photographers that includes Robert Frank, William Klein, and Lee Friedlander although Cohen photographed exclusively in and around his hometown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This work is distinguished by Cohen’s distinctive close up style, with its graphic boldness, and by his seemingly deep regard for his neighbors and their children. The deeply saturated colors in this work have the feel of 1970’s yet seem contemporary.

Cohen finds odd and affecting suburban enigmas. His special view of kids, for example, shows in the shared conspiracies in “Boy in Yellow Shirt Smoking” and in the surreptitiousness of the onlooker in “Legs and Boy in Pool” with a small boy in a diving mask comically glimpsing at a woman. These are Wilkes-Barre kids caught playing and posing in photographs that feel like the best stills from home movies. Look at “Karate Stance” and “Girl with Bat and Ball”. Cohen also finds quirky drama in simple details like a bare hand clasped with “One Red Glove”, and “Small Hand by Yellow Shirt” captures a kind of rough and tumble camaraderie simply with planes of color and a child’s fingers.

True Color was originally commissioned by the George Eastman House, which has a large holding of the artist’s work. Cohen has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and he has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the San Francisco MoMA, and the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA.

The prints in this exhibition are from a portfolio of thirty color dye transfers from the G&I Studio in Seattle, Washington. These are a collaboration between Cohen and the celebrated printers, Guy Stricherz and Irene Malli, who have also been responsible for the William Eggleston dye transfer prints since the late 1990’s .

PowerHouse published Mark Cohen True Color in book form in 2007, and Grim Street in 2005, a selection of Cohen’s black and white photography. Like the color work, those images are fiercely charged, the unique intensity due to the artist’s use of flash and his very tight cropping. Cohen has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (twice) and the National Endowment of the Arts. His work is featured in such classic books as The New Color Photography: American Photography since 1960 by Sally Eauclaire and Mirrors and Windows by John Szarkowski.

Karate Stance, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1977 Boy in Yellow Shirt Smoking, Scranton, PA, 1977
Small Hand by Yellow Shirt, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1975

NEW YORK - http://www.hastedhunt.com/home.php

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INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video OCTOBER 2 - JANUARY 17, 2010

The Triennial is ICP's signature exhibition: a global survey of the most exciting and challenging new work in photography and video. The only recurring U.S. exhibition specializing in international contemporary photography and video, the Third Triennial will mark the closing cycle of ICP's 2009 Year of Fashion, a series of projects that critically examine fashion and its relationship to art and other cultural and social phenomena. Through the lens of fashion—in its broadest conception—the Triennial will look at the proliferation of photo-and video-based work exploring the uses of style, image, and personal presentation.

The theme of fashion encompasses a diverse range of practices and ideas, including explorations of identity and affiliation; the production, distribution, and consumption of images and goods; contemporaneity; age; gender; and global industry. The themes of the Triennial express the exuberance, wit, and astute social observation taking place within contemporary image-making. These artists variously explore fashion—whether in everyday dress, haute couture, street fashion, or uniforms—as a celebration of individuality, personal identity, and self-expression, and as cultural, religious, social, and political statements.

Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Qusuquzah, 2008 © Mickalene Thomas, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

NEW YORK - http://www.icp.org/

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YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY

Glitz & Grime: Photographs of Times Square
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 12

Olivo Barbieri, Lillian Bassman, Rudy Burckhardt, Ted Croner, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Alfred Eisenstadt, Mitch Epstein, Elliot Erwitt, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, George Gardner, David Hilliard, Paul Himmel, Lisa Kereszi, William Klein, Jeff Liao, Benn Mitchell, Andrew Moore, Stephen Shore, Louis Stettner, Dennis Stock, and Brian Ulrich.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia, New York, 1997 David Hilliard, White Noise, 2009, Chromogenic Prints (2 Panels)
Alfred Eisenstadt, V-J Day, Times Square, 1945

NEW YORK - http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/

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YOSSI MILO GALLERY

Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes
SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 31

In his ongoing series Until the Kingdom Comes, begun in 2004 and first shown at the gallery in 2006, Simen Johan depicts a natural world hovering between reality, fantasy and nightmare. Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, Johan’s images are crafted over time and may include a synthesis of landscapes from various geographical locations and animals photographed in captivity or in the wild.

An albino deer is camouflaged in a lattice of trees, shadow and light in one image; in another, a weeping willow is enshrined in an apocalyptic fog. Three of Johan’s recent sculptures incorporating taxidermy, insects and foliage into miniature ecosystems will also be included in the show.

In his work, Johan blurs the boundaries between the real and the unreal, re-imagining worlds that, much like our own, are forever a mystery. Majestic animals in fantasy landscapes are set in relief against a darker reality, one of absence and longing. The work addresses primal experiences, shaped by desires and fears—solitary paths towards imagined fulfillment.

Simen Johan’s work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Cleveland Art Museum. He recently received a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2010–11, work from the series Until the Kingdom Comes will be presented in solo exhibitions at the Frist Center of Art in Nashville, TN and at the Pollock Gallery at SMU, Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, TX. His work has been featured in solo museum exhibitions at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway and the National Art Museum of Lithuania, and in group exhibitions at the George Eastman House, the International Center of Photography, the Australian Centre for Photography, the Neuberger Museum of Art and the University of Iowa Museum of Art. In 2003, Twin Palms published his monograph, Room to Play. Simen Johan was born in Kirkenes, Norway in 1973. He was raised in Sweden and has resided in New York City since 1992.

Untitled #92, From the series Evidence of Things Unseen, 2000 Untitled #140, From the series Until the Kingdom Comes, 2007
Untitled #66, From the series And Nothing was to be Trusted, Toned Gelatin Silver Print, 1997

Robert Bergman: A Kind of Rapture
NOVEMBER 5 - JANUARY 9, 2010

From 1985 through 1997, Robert Bergman traveled America’s Midwest and East Coast by car with a 35mm format camera, taking portraits of people he met by chance. After spending a brief time with each subject, Bergman created portraits of people in the urban locations where he encountered them, using only available light. The exhibition will include approximately seventeen 37” x 24.6” digital C-prints.

Color, composition, light and the artist’s engagement with each subject, combine to form portraits that reflect the individuality of each subject and give insight into our shared humanity. Art historian Meyer Schapiro wrote of Mr. Bergman’s photographs, “His finest works bring to mind some of the greatest painted portraits…The authenticity of Bergman’s art appears in the ‘hypnotic’ impact of faces that have attracted him as bearers of an unfathomable human presence, a self and a human condition. Here are masterful revelations of states of existence in the inner and outer person – truly profound works of art.”

The gallery’s exhibition will coincide with the artist’s two debut solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Robert Bergman (October 11, 2009 – January 10, 2010) and at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Robert Bergman: Selected Portraits (October 25, 2009 – January 4, 2010). Mr. Bergman’s book, A Kind of Rapture, was published in 1998 by Pantheon and contains essays by Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison and renowned art historian Meyer Schapiro.

Robert Bergman was born in 1944 in New Orleans. He currently divides his time between Minnesota and New York.

© Robert Bergman, Untitled, 1989

NEW YORK - http://www.yossimilogallery.com/

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BONNI BENRUBI GALLERY

Live From New York...
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 5

“Live From New York…” is an exhibition devoted to the music scene in New York City from the 1940's until the late 1970's. Included in this show are portraits of Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall in the 1940's by William Gottlieb, Igor Stravinsky by Arnold Newman in 1946, John Lennon by Bob Gruen in 1974 and Jimi Hendrix by Linda McCartney in 1968.

Bob Gruen, John Lennon, New York (1974)

Globetrotting
SEPTEMBER 17 - NOVEMBER 28

Presenting new work by the gallery’s stable of contemporary photographers alongside classic mid-century work, this exhibition invites the viewer on a voyage around the world. Each photographer’s work on view offers a unique perspective and approach to age-old themes of travel, discovery and wanderlust.

Highlights include Doug Hall, a new gallery artist, who not only photographs soaring urban landscapes and interior spaces from around the world, but also reflects on tourists as they capture holiday moments at well-known attractions such as Mount Rushmore. New color work by Abelardo Morell brings the Italian landscape inside; infusing physical context and enchantment into the interior spaces he transforms into room-sized Camera Obscuras. Rena Bass Forman treks into the depths of Greenland and Iceland to offer the viewer a rare connection with the landscape in her large-scale sepia-toned prints, while Laura McPhee explores the decaying opulence of colonial period mansions in India. In Africa, photo documentarian Simon Norfolk examines the plight of refugees with images that transcend simple political or social interpretation, while Hiroshi Watanabe delves deep into the insular culture of North Korea.

Also presented here is new work from Paris and Seattle by Matthew Pillsbury, who continues to address themes of movement and transience through his long exposure technique, increasingly in the public sphere of cosmopolitan spaces. Also included among others in the exhibition is the work of Karine Laval in Scandinavia, Fredric Roberts in Burma, and Jeffrey Milstein, who captures the stark mechanical beauty of airplanes just after takeoff, plus an array of earlier material from established masters such as Georges Dambier and Louis Stettner.

Jeffrey Milstein, America West Airlines Boeing 757-200 (Boeing 757 #3) Karine Laval, Untitled #41, Calais, France (2004)

Massimo Vitali
DECEMBER - JANUARY 2010

This exhibition will present recent photographs from Italy, Turkey and beyond. From a vantage point high above the scene, his large-scale color images capture a surreal, sometimes voyeuristic view of the landscape. Often inhabited by carefree figures, such as sunbathers on a beach or revelers on New Year's Eve, these vistas allow the viewer to reflect on the rituals of modern leisure as captured by Vitali's large format camera. Oblivious to his presence, the people in Vitali's images offer a wealth and depth of narrative action, allowing the viewer to discover reality in unexpected ways. His panoramic view of an amphitheatre in ruins in Turkey, while almost devoid of modern-day tourists, evokes the temporal nature of human existence, evidence of leisure rites of times past. Massimo Vitali began his career as a photojournalist and in 1994 went on to pursue his own vision. His work is represented in major public and private collections around the world and has been the subject of several monographs and museum retrospectives. This is his fourth solo exhibition at Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

Massimo Vitali, Butterfly Valley and Ferries

NEW YORK - http://www.bonnibenrubi.com/index.html

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ROBIN RICE GALLERY

NEW YORK - http://www.robinricegallery.com/index.html

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SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY

NEW YORK - http://www.souslesetoilesgallery.net/index.asp

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FARMANI GALLERY/GALLERY 212

Jan Von Holleben: Mutatis mutandis
SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 3

Von Holleben is a critically acclaimed photographer based in Berlin, where he does the bulk of his shooting and subsequently garners inspiration. Before Mutatis mutandis, von Holleben’s earlier series was the multiple award-winning Dreams of Flying, a body of work focusing on the childlike-fancy, which Mutatis mutandis also evokes. Mutatis mutandis presents images of human/animal hybrids, super-imposed on deserted urban and natural landscapes, self-consciously occupying copious amounts of these spaces. The morphed figures are poised, frozen in action, seemingly aware of the voyeuristic gaze of the viewer.

Inventor and cultural scientist Marc Piesbergen has written on Mutatis mutandis, cautioning that the idea of humans collaged with animals “may instill fear, for it seems that nature’s order has been disturbed”. However, Piesbergen goes on to imply that there is a certain importance attributed to this sort of transformation, later writing that “the metamorphosis of the butterfly is evidence of how a magical creature grows from a monstrous being…von Holleben’s images prove that play and fantasy can create a better reality.”

BROOKLYN - www.farmanigallery.com

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THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

Woodstock Generation: Photographs by Dennis Stock (Woodstock, NY)
UNTIL OCTOBER 25

The Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce its upcoming fall solo exhibition by longtime Magnum photographer, Dennis Stock. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival, the exhibition Woodstock Generation explores the alternative communities and culture of the hippie movement, which culminated in three historic days in August 1969.

Woodstock Generation chronicles a chapter in American history: a time when the quest for new social systems drove young hippies into the most remote regions of the United States, forging a new way of life in the form of communes. Faced with the alienation they felt within a changing American culture and the conventions of their former generation, and filled with a utopian ideal and an anarchistic temperament, these young rebels created intentional communities on the fringes of society.

WOODSTOCK - http://www.cpw.org/

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GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE

50 Photographs by Jessica Lange
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 20

George Eastman House presents an exhibition of photographs by Oscar®-winning actress Jessica Lange. The 50 black-and-white images featured depict film locations, family, and the places she has visited on her travels. But rather than a collection of starry shots, most of the photographs are studies of unknown people and far-away places, such as Ethiopia and Romania.

New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape
UNTIL SEPTEMBER 27

The exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, held in 1975 at George Eastman House, signaled the emergence of a new approach to landscape photography. A new version of this seminal exhibition, organized with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, will re-examine more than 100 works from the 1975 show, as well as some 30 prints and books by other relevant artists to provide additional historical and contemporary context. This reconsideration demonstrates both the historical significance of these pictures and their continued relevance today. After its Eastman House display, New Topographics will travel to eight international venues. The new presentation and tour of New Topographics is made possible by a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

ROCHESTER - http://www.eastmanhouse.org/

EXHIBITIONS IN US - CONNECTICUT TO NEW MEXICO

CATHERINE EDELMAN GALLERY

In 2003, The Chicago Project was created as an online only gallery, devoted to unrepresented photographers in the Chicagoland area. In an effort to promote local talent, Catherine Edelman Gallery put out a call for submission to all local photographers. To date, the site has featured more than 50 photographers whose works range from traditional black & white landscapes to color narratives. The goal of the gallery is to expose local artists to our ever increasing audience, including curators and collectors worldwide.

The Chicago Project III, is our bi-annual exhibition selected from participants in the online gallery. Artists include Shannon Benine, Philip Dembinski, Bill Guy, Eric Holubow, Julie Meridian, Jason Robinette, James Rotz, David Schalliol, Daniel Shea, Sarah Stonefoot, Leasha Overturf and Alan Thomas.

Robert and Shana Parkeharrison