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RICHARD LEAROYDStill /Life May 9 – June 21, 2013McKee Gallery,...

June 12, 2013, 12:50 am
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RICHARD LEAROYD
Still /Life 

May 9 – June 21, 2013
McKee Gallery, New York

McKee Gallery is pleased to announce Richard Learoyd’s latest exhibition: ‘Still/Life’, opening May 9 and continuing through June 20. A reception for the artist will be held May 9, from 6–8pm.

This third exhibition with McKee Gallery will include twelve new works: a combination of portraits of people and still-lifes of dead animals, all created by the camera obscura technique. A process which creates unique photographs of alarming clarity and honesty. The tactile nature of naked flesh adjacent to images of dead flamingos, a dead hare, and a horse’s head, force the viewer to consider both the fragility of life and all its inherent beauty.

Born in 1966 in Nelson, Lancashire, England, Richard Learoyd studied under the American photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. His work held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Yale University Art Gallery, and others. He lives and works in London.

A catalogue will accompany this exhibition, featuring 14 full-color photographs, and an essay by Charles Moffett. Info at karyn@mckeegallery.com

© McKee Gallery 

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SCHOLARS #1: FRANCESCA SOLLOWAY

June 14, 2013, 6:49 am
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BY GAIA MUSACCHIO, STEVE BISSON 1. Tell us about your approach to photography. How it all started?...
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CHRISTIAN VOGT AT MARGARET STREET GALLERY, LONDON

June 17, 2013, 8:17 am
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‘Today I’ve Been You’ Margaret Street Gallery, London30.05.2013 - 06.07.2013 "What moves me: what,...
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PHOTOTALKS #48: JUDY NATAL

June 17, 2013, 9:16 am
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BY DAVID POLLOCK 1. Marshall McLuhan stated that we use “the rear view mirror “ (the past) to make...
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EDOARDO HAHN AT GALLERIA BROWNING

June 22, 2013, 3:05 am
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ImmersioniEdoardo Hahn  Galleria Browning, Asolo23.06.2013 – 04.07.2012 The Galleria Browning is...
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Pavel Baňka‘INFINITY / BEYOND INFINITY’Russian Tearoom Gallery,...

June 25, 2013, 2:48 am
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Pavel Baňka
‘INFINITY / BEYOND INFINITY’

Russian Tearoom Gallery, Paris
15.05.2013 - 30.07.2013

RTR Gallery is pleased to present the personal exhibition of Czech photograph Pavel Banka, entitled ‘INFINITY/BEYOND INIFINTY’: 20 images in black and white from the same series, that have been taken on the North West Pacific coast of the United States between 1997 and 1999. 3 new images, that have never been shown before, are also part of the exhibition, and have been composed on the same basis as the other ones with the help of digital manipulations.

The ” INFINITY/BEYOND INIFINTY” series made at a precise period and at a very specific location, gives to the viewer the feeling of being out of space and time. “I’m not looking for a crucial moment, I multiply times. I try to achieve an average - a totality of perceptions, not objective, but subjective ” Pavel Baňka attempts to bring to the surface dream and reality, the real and the imaginary, the physical and the virtual.

© Russian Tearoom Gallery 

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METADATA #18: JAIME PERMUTH

June 25, 2013, 2:51 am
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BY GAIA MUSACCHIO 1. Tell us about your approach to photography. How it all started? What are your...
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Philippe PerrinCuevas  From a young age Philippe Perrin had a...

June 26, 2013, 10:34 am
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Philippe Perrin
Cuevas 

From a young age Philippe Perrin had a close relationship with the outdoors. Born and raised between landscapes and moments governed by the colors of Bourgogne, France. That is why his greatest inspiration has always been nature. He has developed numerous photographic series in many landscapes like Mangroves, Forest, Caves and Mountains.

His interes in capturing his surroundings, lead him to take an experimental photography workshop with the great masters Jean-Pierre and Claudine Sudre in Lacoste, France 1982. Since then, Philippe has traveled with his 6 x 6 and 35 mm cameras capturing the most beautiful and poetic landscapes in the dephts of the negative film. For Perrin, to take a photograph is like trying to describe and capture the environment until one obtains an image that is printed. It is a memory of the precise moment that a story begins in our mind.

His work has been awarded the Polariod Award in 1982, Henri Vincenot in 1991 and the recent Hasselblad Latin America in the category of Fine Arts Photography for his famous series “Wild Inside" (Lejano Adentro), a work that consist of 24 photographs depicting the loss of time, each land scape showing the infinite ratio of nature in human presence. 

His work is an essay on the inmmensity of which  we are part, he has a wonderful way to integrate known space that is at the same time unknow and far. For the first time, thanks to his last international recognition, Philippe Perrin  will work with the new digital Hasselblad, a loan that will allow him 4 month to develop a new project.

His work have been at the International Festival of Torino (Italy) Talant festival (france), International Festival of Heidelberg (Germany), and Imagini Gallery in Milan (Italy). For 18 years now, Philippe has lived in Mexico and it olny took a few years for him to feel a special connection, where he gradually discovered the place that caught him completely.

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BIENNALE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE MULHOUSE

June 26, 2013, 10:35 am
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The Mulhouse Biennial of Photography aims to bring the public of Mulhouse into closer contact with...
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LUCA CAPUANO, GIUSEPPE DE MATTIA‘Spettacoli e Polvere’Spazio9,...

July 3, 2013, 12:49 am
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LUCA CAPUANO, GIUSEPPE DE MATTIA
‘Spettacoli e Polvere’

Spazio9, Bologna
03.07.2013 - 19.07.2013 

curated by Steve Bisson

Spazio9 Plan B is pleased to present “Spettacoli e Polvere, an exhibition curated by Steve Bisson, hosting works of Luca Capuano and Giuseppe De Mattia. Through two different artistic methods these two artist dialogue between each other, answering the need to find alternative process of representation and to the overlapping production of images in contemporary.

Following Guy Debord’s concept that “In societies where modern conditions of production are predominant, life looks like a huge accumulation of “spectacles…”." Luca Capuano’s “stectacles” represent a visual itinerary made by fragments of real or re-produced images, a sequence of mosaics/tales connected one to the other and in communication, creating a continuous move between present and past, creation and reproduction, in a never ending becoming. Every single scene, every fragments, every “spectacle” constitute the emotional flux that create the artwork.

© Spazio9 

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PABLO CASTILLACosta Tropical  «For over two years I’ve been...

July 14, 2013, 11:29 pm
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PABLO CASTILLA
Costa Tropical 

«For over two years I’ve been photographing the coastal region situated south of Granada -Andalusia, Spain- known as “Costa Tropical". 

Motivated by wanderlust, I set out to explore this region with a medium format camera mounted on an unnecessarily heavy tripod. Two other conditions imposed themselves: every photograph had to be accessed by walking, and I would not know what I was going to photograph beforehand. By thoroughly exploring the surface of the landscape all I could expect at the end of the day was to have walked a new, unvisited portion of land and have witnessed the events occurring on it. Then, the photograph came along as a record.

Though I am originally from that region, what I saw seemed to emerge from a hidden, unseen and unparalleled reality. I began to consider that whole space around me as an unpredictable theater stage, where the landscape itself  behaved as a décor, objects, architectural details and other urban elements as props, and people as performers or characters. Looking around me, many times it occurred to me that that flow of worldly events was coming right out of an unscripted piece.

With these series I’ve tried to produce an alternative imagery -non-related and autonomous from local history or personal biography - yet made up of the elements displayed on its surface.  Many times I get the question whether I staged the images. The answer is no. The resulting images seem to inhabit a new and sovereign territory situated somewhere between reality and fiction, record and invention, document and subjective perception. And I’d like them to exist independently in that world.»

©  Pablo Castilla

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GROUP SHOW‘Under My Skin’curator Mona Kuhn  Flowers, New...

July 17, 2013, 4:01 am
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GROUP SHOW
‘Under My Skin’
curator Mona Kuhn 

Flowers, New York
20.06.2013 - 27.07.2013


Mona Kuhn, curates ‘Under My Skin—Nudes in Contemporary Photography’, opening at Flowers Gallery on June 20, 2013. Under My Skin investigates the contemporary sensibility surrounding the canon of the nude in fine art. Is the unclothed body still the desired body? How does the visual language of the nude fit into the Warholian conversation about “high” and “low” art? How is the body revealed in the 21st century?

This exhibition presents an anthropological survey of who we are and how we define, represent and see ourselves currently. With these works the body is revealed, re-interpreted, and given innumerable shapes by the artists who are defining new ways of representing the nude through the medium of photography.

The works in this exhibition range from David Dawson’s photographs of Lucian Freud and his nude subjects taken in the painter’s atelier to Bill Sullivan’s nudes taken from his computer screen, from Jenny Saville’s nude self portraits taken by Glen Luchford to Shen Wei’s introspective self portraits, from Kim Joon’s body manipulations to Mariah Robertson’s darkroom manipulations, from Collier Schorr’s collages to Polly Borland’s irreverence, all works bring together complex cultural forces that link artist, viewer and subject to our contemporary moment.

For the past ten years Kuhn has been an independent scholar at the Getty Research Institute, focusing her studies on the body. Through her own work she has explored the nude as a residence of who we are, producing large-scale, dream-like works that evoke a sense of intimacy and sensuality, while being at once classical and contemporary. In curating Under My Skin, Kuhn brings together her research background with her active practice of photography. She is currently working on a series titled Private to be released with a monograph by Steidl in the spring of 2014.

© Flowers Gallery 

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Rhode Island School of Design 2013 MFA Graduate Show

July 19, 2013, 6:38 am
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Group Show ‘Rhode Island School of Design 2013 MFA Graduate Show’ CLAMPART, New York11.07.2013 -...
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Institute is releasing three projects which will be released as monographs and exhibitions this fall.

July 28, 2013, 4:39 pm
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Internationally acclaimed photographer Elinor Carucci’s ‘Mother’ is an unflinching...
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THE INSTABILITY OF THE IMAGE AT PARADISE ROW

July 28, 2013, 5:28 pm
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GROUP SHOWCurated by Attilia Fattori Franchini  Featuring: Sam Austen, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Ryan...
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ALCHEMICAL AT STEVEN KASHEN GALLERY

July 30, 2013, 12:26 pm
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Steven Kasher Gallery, New York10.07.2013 - 10.08.2013 Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present...
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Laboratório experimental sobre a fotografia como uma prática colaborativa de investigação urbana em São Paulo

July 30, 2013, 1:28 pm
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Ateliê do fotógrafo e editor suíço Guilherme Gaensly (1843-1928) num anúncio desenhado por Jules...
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‘Desire’ Yancey Richardson Gallery, New...

August 3, 2013, 6:39 pm
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‘Desire’

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
11.07.2013 - 23.08.2013

The Yancey Richardson Gallery is pleased to present Desire, a group exhibition of women artists offering a selection of works examining desire vis-à-vis the mesmeric female gaze. Taking form in a variety of media, the selected works tease out themes ranging from sex and death, to awkwardness, seduction, psychology, and semantics. Considering the capricious and fleeting nature of desire, the selection of works reflect a multiplicity of perspectives, giving preference to allusion and suggestion while refusing to settle into a programmatic visual syntax to derive meaning.

Together, the selection includes a peephole op-art ink drawing by Vivienne Griffin (image, right); a teen-crush style hot-pink toned photogram of Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune by Mariah Robertson; a symbiotic nature/soul film gesture by Ana Mendieta; a palpitating pillow talk video by Constance Dejong; a prickly, suggestive installation by Gabrielle Beveridge, a painting by Yoko Ono titled, Touch Me; visceral, physiological watercolors by Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin; and meditative, sensual, collages by Carol Bove and Ruby Sky Stiler. Additionally, there are photographs by emerging artists Dru Donovan and Whitney Hubbs riffing on overt/covert metaphors of desire, as well as Cindy Shermanʼs satiric projections, Moyra Daveyʼs vampy sister Lou, the clandestine, nude figure of Janice Guy, Hellen Van Meeneʼs statuesque damsels, Sharon Coreʼs candy apple compulsions, Erica Baumʼs truncated literary fantasies, and Marilyn Minterʼs black cherry smirk. Ruth Bernalʼs evocative image of a preternaturally festooned Bob Dylan for his 1976 album Desire, serves as a popcultural touchstone and curatorial inspiration for the show.

The works on view occupy an interstitial space between images of instant gratification designed to evoke desire, and images as critiques of such determinations. Instead, the selected works extend and open up a time and space for the generous movement of desire. In lieu of works that simply objectify desire, the selection of works hint at a generative space of desire before reaching the virile ʻclimaxʼ of objectification, thereby making visible a feminine desire that lingers in a space before.

© Yancey Richardson Gallery

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Harold E. Edgerton & Matthew Gamber‘Basic Ingredients of a...

August 5, 2013, 2:10 pm
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Harold E. Edgerton & Matthew Gamber
‘Basic Ingredients of a Complex World’

Kayafas, Boston
28.06.2013 - 10.08.2013

“Not too long ago one took it on faith that the final scientific picture of the world would be beautiful, orderly and simple. As it has continued to be sketched in, we have had a number of surprises. The beauty is there, but not of the expected kind. The order is there, but not the sort to damp down our questions. The simplicity has disappeared.”

- C.P. Snow, scientist and author of The Two Cultures-a lecture cautioning against the growing separation of the sciences from the humanities.

Gallery Kayafas is pleased to present Basic Ingredients of a Complex World, an exhibition featuring the photographic work of Harold E. “Doc” Edgerton, a well-loved member of the MIT faculty, and inventor of stroboscopic lighting, along with and Matthew Gamber, a Boston-based artist and educator whose work draws inspiration from a variety of aesthetics: scientific illustration, op art, and minimalism.

The title of this exhibition is derived from a chapter in a 1963 Time/Life publication, Matter, the inaugural title of the Life Science Library Series, written by Ralph Eugene Lapp, a renowned Manhattan Project physicist. C.P. Snow, a noted scientist and author who served as a consultant editor for the book, was concerned with the effect of science on culture. Snow argued that the general public deserved to engage with science with the same appreciation and level of involvement as one would with literature.

Through a variety of photographic approaches, “Doc” Edgerton and Matthew Gamber experiment with how the medium of photography can inform our perception of the world. Both Edgerton and Gamber illustrate aspects of Snow’s ideal by seeing the potential of everyday objects as an opportunity to illustrate ideas that extend beyond what can be seen with the naked eye.

In this new series, Gamber explores how photography can be both documentary and illusory-a paradox demonstrated through his experimentation with 3D techniques, both analog and digital. Tampering with the image to make it seem truer than it is, Gamber highlights where perceptions can be both true and false simultaneously.

© Kayafas Gallery

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THE COMMON GROUND OF GREGORY CONNIFF

August 5, 2013, 2:33 pm
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Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla03.08.2013 - 31.08.2013 Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to present...
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