Wednesday January 18, 2012
Photographs by Ted AdamsOpening reception
Robin Rice Gallery
325 West 11th Street (Map it)
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras, preferring the archival qualities of black and white film and primitive analog functionality. Adams curates the online Abandoned Photo Museum and has participated in numerous solo and group shows in Philadelphia and New York, and internationally. (read more...)Thursday January 19, 2012
Camera Club of New York Lecture Series: William LamsonLecture; $5 General Admission
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheater
209 East 23d Street, third floor (Map it)
7:00 pm
William Lamson is a Brooklyn based artist who works in video, photography, performance and sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and a number of private collections. Since graduating from the Bard MFA program in 2006, his work has been shown at P.S.1, the Kunsthalle Erfurt in Germany, Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, among others. In 2011, he was commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to make Divining Meteorology, a 32 ft sculpture and sound installation made from a repurposed communication tower. His work has been published in ArtForum, Frieze, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harpers, and The Village Voice. (read more...)Friday January 20, 2012
Celestial; curated by Mark Alice DurantOpening reception
The Camera Club of New York
336 West 37th Street, suite 206 (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Celestial is a show of five photographic artists whose work charms and prods our sense of wonder with astounding economy. Each artist approaches the impossible task of taking on the celestial infinite with very different sensibilities and materials: black and white analog photographs, muted but richly saturated color, collage, charcoal drawings based on negatives and video/performance. This exhibition features works by Brea Souders, Marina Berio, Stephen DiRado, William Lamson (please see CCNY Lecture series event on Thursday January 19th for more on William Lamson), and Jeanne Liotta. (read more...)
Wednesday January 25, 2012
Re-Opening of South Street Seaport Museum - Featuring Edward Burtynsky's Shipbreaking SeriesOpening reception: all attendees must RSVP to: 212-748-8746 or rsvp@seany.org
South Street Seaport Museum
12 Fulton Street (Map it)
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Sixteen galleries will debut with a lively interweaving of the city and the sea through photography, video, historic artifacts, and contemporary design. Twelve prints from Edward Burtynsky's Shipbreaking series will be featured. Burtynsky is one of Canada's most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over fifty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California. (read more...)
Thursday January 26, 2012
Holly Andres: The Fall of Spring HillOpening reception
Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue, 10th Floor (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Following the outstanding success of her 2008 debut at Robert Mann Gallery, Portland-based Holly Andres returns with a new series: The Fall of Spring Hill. With her trademark chromatic brilliance, Andres's large-scale photographs delve into dramatic narratives. Melodrama is her métier. Looking back to another time, that of the artist's childhood, in recent images Andres has worked through a double process of identification: on the one hand with the children of her scenarios — themselves informed by her personal memories — and on the other with the young mothers and women who now represent her own peer group. He photography has been reviewed in Art in America, artforum.com, ARTnews, Exit Magazine, and Time Out New York. Andres has had solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon and Istanbul, Turkey. She received her MFA from Portland State University. (read more...)
Lovesody; photographs by Motoyuki Daifu
Opening reception
Lombard-Freid Projects
518 West 19th Street (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Based in Tokyo, Motoyuki Daifu uses photography to document the highly personal chaos of domestic life with his family and loved ones. Motoyuki’s portraits of people, rooms and objects are filled with energy and color, all of which intermix to generate a natural narrative that feel simultaneously honest and unlikely. Motoyuki’s subjects are unfazed by the continuous presence of his camera, offering up their most intimate moments for documentation and presentation to the outside world. Lovesody (a portmanteau of love and rhapsody) documents Motoyuki’s brief and potent relationship with a single young mother and her two children. In this series, Motoyuki steps away from the comfort of his family, and presents his own volatile coming of age tale. (read more...)
Friday January 27, 2012
In Case It Rains in Heaven; photographs by Kurt TongOpening reception
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Traditionally, many Chinese believe that when a person dies, he leaves with no earthly possessions and it is up to their descendants to provide for them in their afterlife. Typically this is in the form of paper-made burnt offerings decorated as, or made in the image of, money, gold, silver or goods that can be enjoyed by the deceased. Over the past 50 years, as China has become more commercialized, such offerings have become increasingly outrageous and sometimes taken the form of cars, servants, houses, and paper prostitutes. (read more...)
Saturday January 28, 2012
Twosomes; photographs by Mark ChesterOpening reception
OK Harris Gallery
383 West Broadway (Map it)
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Mark Chester's Twosomes touring exhibit features images culled from his forty years of traveling with a camera, presented in pairings related by subject matter, graphic interest or, as the photographer puts it, “a stretch of the imagination.” This wide-reaching body-of-work connects architectural icons with sidewalk signage; Japan with Iowa; 1979 with 2002; celebrity with passerby in a manner that reveals, as novelist Paul Theroux describes, “tremendous humanity and humor....In this juxtaposition of matching moods and paraphernalia, Mark Chester shows us in an ingenious way how the world is related and how we matter to each other." (read more...)
Wednesday February 1, 2012
Hirosuke Kitamura: HidraOpening reception
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Suite 607 (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
The title Hidra is in Brazilian portuguese and refers to the many-headed Lernaean Hydra of Greek mythology. These works were for the most part made in inexpensive brothels in the Salvador da Bahia region of Brazil, where Hirosuke has been making photographs regularly for over ten years. As the curator explains "Something quietly emerges at every moment throughout these images: ghosts halfway between sex and death; fragments of seduction that wander in-between lost worlds...But how does one define sexuality in a place where the body is everything – not only material but also consumable? And here sexuality becomes all but ghostly, the way it has always been in Japanese tales: from another world, but yet somwhere here near us." Kitamura is a graduate in Literature from the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and also studied contemporary processes, painting and drawing at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia in Brazil. (read more...)
Thursday February 2, 2012
Nikolay Bakharev, Gerard Fieret, and Miroslav TichyOpening reception
Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, 6th floor (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
This exhibition combines the work of three powerful and enigmatic photographers who came of age in post war Europe. Each of them has created very personal and idiosyncratic bodies of work shaped by a particular political environment. Bakharev (b. 1946, Russia) grew up near Mongolia and currently lives in Siberia. During the 60s and 70s when it was illegal to photograph nudes, Bakharev took on the role of “beach photographer” enabling him to earn a living and depict his subjects in a much more revealing way then was officially allowed. Tichý (Czech Republic 1926-2011) photographed women surreptitiously at local swimming pools with hand made cardboard cameras. In recent years his work has been discovered and he has been regaled as a visionary with exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Pompidou and the ICP in New York. Fieret (Amsterdam 1924-2009) lived in the Netherlands and unlike Tichy and Bakharev, was active in a milieu with no societal restrictions. Fieret maintained a studio practice where he directly engaged with his sitters in a raucous confrontational and experimental mode. (read more...)
New York in Color
Opening reception
Howard Greenburg Gallery
41 East 57th Street, suite 1406 (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
New York in Color is an exhibition of photographs by artists including: Bruce Davidson, Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Marvin Newman, and numerous others. The exhibition captures the visual spirit of New York through a wide array of vibrant, romantic, graphic, and consistently colourful images that describe the city in ways not achievable through a monochromatic palette. The exhibition was inspired and co-curated by Bob Shamis, photographic historian, independent curator, photographer and author of the recent publication, New York in Color upon which the exhibition was based. (read more...)
Tono Stano: White Shadow
Opening reception
Pace/MacGill Gallery
32 East 57th Street, 9th floor (Map it)
5:30 - 7:30 pm
This exhibition marks Tono Stano's first solo show in the United States and features 20 unique gelatin silver prints from his ongoing series of surreal portraitsWhite Shadow. With White Shadow, Stano seeks to turn reality negative, transporting the viewer to an inverted monochromatic realm. Produced in-camera, his photographs are analogue paper negatives that appear as positive representations through Stano's meticulous and unique process of painting the white portions of his subjects' bodies and faces black, and vice versa. Stano lives and works in Prague, studied photography in Bratislava, and his work can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris. (read more...)
BRUNO HADJADJ // BYE BYE CBGB
Opening reception
Clic Gallery NYC
255 Centre Street (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
BYE BYE CBGB is a final goodbye to one of the last relics of New York punk rock and 1970s/1980s underground culture. This exhibition is comprised of black and white prints and silver prints mounted on light boxes with flickering lights animating the figures. Bruno Hadjadj studied at art schools in Paris and London and became a participant in the street art movement in the 1980s. By the end of the decade, Hadjadj moved to New York where he established himself in the city's underground art scene and collaborated on music, movies and art." (read more...)
Thursday February 9, 2012
Happenings: New York, 1958-1963Opening reception
The Pace Gallery
534 West 25th Street (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
This is the first exhibition to document the origins and historical development of the transient, yet pivotal, "Happenings" movement from its inception in 1958 through 1963. The experimental performances which began in Provincetown and unfolded in New York City in a number of alternative exhibition spaces and galleries, forever changed the definition of art and the possibilities for what it could be. Happenings New York, 1958-1963 will bring together for the first time more than 300 photographs by five photographers including Jim Dine, Simone Forti, Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Carolee Schneemann, and Robert Whitman, who witnessed and documented the performances. Many of the photos have never before seen publicly. (read more...)
Thursday February 16, 2012
Photographs by Yinka Shonibari, MBEOpening reception
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
In this exhibition of new photoworks, sculptures, and the premiere of a new film, British born Nigerian artist Shonibare explores the concept of destiny as it relates to themes of desire, yearning, love, power and sexual repression. The series of five new photoworks entitled Fake Death Pictures are described by Shonibari as “a re-enactment of suicide through the history of death in Painting.” The series brings together painting, stage design and photography to create works in the manner of The Suicide by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto (1839) and Edward Manet (1877), The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis (1856), Death of St. Francis by Bartolomé Carducho (1593) and Death of Leonardo da Vinci by François-Guillaume Ménageot (1781). Shonibare received the prestigious Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square from the mayor of London in 2009. His mid-career survey exhibition was shown at the MCA Sydney, the Brooklyn Museum of Art , and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian. Shonibare was awarded the title of Member of the British Empire in 2005. His work was included in the African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 and was a Turner Prize finalist in 2004. (read more...)
Thursday February 23, 2012
Melanie Willhide: To Adrian Rodriguez With LoveOpening reception
Von Lintel Gallery
520 West 23d Street (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
The home of Los Angeles-based photographer Melanie Willhide was burglarized in 2010 and the computer containing her image files stolen. By chance, the computer was recovered, but with corrupted image files. Willhide worked with the corrupted and visually distorted files, produced inkjet prints, and named/dedicated the series to Adrian Rodriguez, the burglar. Los Angels Times commented that "these pictures reveal the processes of a digital “mind” that doesn’t work in the same way that ours do. In these images, it becomes exceedingly clear that the computer thinks, not in terms of overall form, or light and shadow, but in relentless rows of data." Willhide has an MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art. (read more...)
Matthew Pillsbury - City Stages
Opening reception
Bonni Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street, 13th Floor (Map it)
6:00 - 8:00 pm
In this solo exhibition, Pillsbury expands on his use of the long time exposure, venturing beyond the interior personal space and into the public sphere where we see ourselves reflected in the ghosts of our collective experience. New York City sets the stage for Pillsbury’s examination of how we interact with a metropolis that envelopes us in a never-ending pulse of life, light and art. Pillsbury brings us to places that make up the fabric of our life and tradition here: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, to renewed nostalgia and joy in the recently restored Brooklyn Bridge Park and carousel, to Toys R Us, the Stock Exchange, and even into our collective loss projected by two subtle beams of light reminding us of our greatest pain as a city. Pillsbury completed undergraduate studies at Yale and a Master’s at the School of Visual Arts, New York. (read more...)
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