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Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography

March 28, 2015 — Leave a comment

Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography is a very interesting show of young photographers at the huge Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation. The exhibition originated at the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam  better known across the pond as Foam. Looks like the the still life and constructed image is alive and well…

Group exhibition featuring works by Joshua Citarella, Jessica Eaton, Daniel Gordon, Matthew Leifheit & Cynthia Talmadge, Matt Lipps, Matthew Porter, Sara Cwynar, Kate Steciw and Sara VanDerBeek

ON VIEW: March 14 – April 26, 2015

 

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Via: http://pioneerworks.org & Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

 

Foam devoted an entire magazine to the show. You can see a preview here:  http://issuu.com/foam-magazine/docs/08-081_underconstruction_issuu_elis

 

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Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography

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Exhibition: Messengers and Promises

March 5, 2015 — Leave a comment

March means it’s Month of Photography in Denver and my Animalis Images will be on view at Visions West Gallery along with Nine Francois.

 “Messengers and Promises is inspired by John Berger’s essay Why Look at Animals. In the last few centuries animals have been gradually disappearing from contemporary life. We live without them and mostly apart from nature. Animals first entered the human imagination as sacred, as messengers and promises. There was a spiritual quality to them. Our ancestors fueled their imaginations with animals and animals offered explanations to many things in the world. Today, animals and the natural world have a ghostly presence in most lives around the globe.”

 

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Exhibition: Messengers and Promises

 

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The Work of Beth Lipman

February 3, 2015 — Leave a comment

Art that understands the vocabulary of its past always catches my eye. Beth Lipman who shows at the wonderful Claire Oliver Gallery in New York knows still life. Her glass sculpture speaks to that over the top still life tradition of the 17th century where bountiful excess was all the rage. (Wait!!! That seems to be our era as well!) History has a way of repeating itself but not Beth. These are really wonderful works that take this ancient tradition and spin it so that it speaks to us here and now.

Keep an eye out for her exhibition in April 2015.

 

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All images via Claire Oliver Gallery

 

 

 

The Work of Beth Lipman

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The Protests of Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

January 28, 2015 — Leave a comment

Not to late to catch this exhibition at Temple Contemporary

 

Stop Telling Women to Smile
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Stop Telling Women to Smile comes from Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s interviews with women about their street harassment experiences. Fazlalizadeh draws portraits of these women, adds text from their statements and experiences, and pastes them around the city in areas where harassment occurs. They serve as a way to talk back to street harassers in the spaces where the problem exists. This is part of our series on street harassment, which grew out of our Advisory Council‘s question “What makes us feel safe?” Stop Telling Women to Smile is on view at Temple Contemporary through January 31st.

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The Protests of Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

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Simon Norfolk: Best Photograph of 2014

December 22, 2014 — Leave a comment

As the year draws to a close and most are listing their top 10 lists for 2014 I will leave you with what I think is one of the most profound works I have seen this past year. Part document and part performance piece, Simon Norfolk travels to Africa for the NYTimes to photograph the slow disappearance of Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya due to the profound effects of global warming. His solution to depicting this reality of our world (quickly reaching the point of no return) is both poetic, beautiful and unnerving as he outlines the receding glacier by long exposure while carrying a torch. His description below says it all…

…”The mountain didn’t seem overwhelming or otherworldly now, but rather broken and vulnerable. As Norfolk worked, he could hear meltwater rushing down the glacier’s flanks. Standing next to that ice field, he says, was like standing next to “the exhausted remains of something that was once glorious.” He thought of nature documentaries, of scenes in which, say, a bull elephant is tranquilized by a researcher and crumples on the ground. “You can approach it now, because it’s safe,” Norfolk says. “But you feel its desperateness, as if it is opening one eye and looking back at you, saying, ‘What have you done to me?’ ”…

 

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Simon Norfolk: The Best Photograph of 2014

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