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Sections: New Work by Hugh Crawford

Dec 11th, 2011 Leave a comment

Opening reception on December 15, 2011 from 6-9 p.m. at The Old Stone House

Hugh Crawford’s photographic tangles of rose bushes, ocean waves, the banks of the Gowanus Canal, architecture, and trees reify the tension between detail closely observed and panoramic vista intrinsic to the act of seeing. Created in the Autumn of 2011, the work addresses the entwinement of growth, death, and rebirth.

Synthesized from multiple exposures reassembled in jagged composition, the work is printed in sections on photographic canvas, some as large as eight feet.

Hugh Crawford studied photography and received a BA from Bard College, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Tattler, and Newsweek. His fine art work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in NYC and San Francisco. A recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, he was also an artist-in-residence at ArtPark in Buffalo, NY. He is currently at work on a book about Polaroid photographer Jamie Livingston. His photos can be seen daily on the No Words Daily Pix feature of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.

Sections: New Work by Hugh Crawford
Opening reception on December 15, 2011 6-9PM
The show runs through January, 2012
The Old Stone House
Third Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope
718-768-3195


Rose rows, 2011, pigment on canvas, 85″ x 45″

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Here in Red Hook, a photography book from Andy Vernon Jones

Nov 8th, 2011 1 Comment

Here in Red Hook presents a body of work that Andy Vernon-Jones has been working on for nearly five years and presents the series in its entirety for the first time. The book is composed of photos taken in the streets, alleys and abandoned lots of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook and combine a documentary approach with an art-photography sensibility. The photos express the beauty and struggle of life in Red Hook. Many of the portraits are of young people who are at the cusp of adulthood; their gazes show their toughness and their hope for the future.

Book release party for Here in Red Hook on Thursday evening, November 17, from 7 – 10 at 360 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The party will include food, drink, music, and book signing with the artist. There will also be limited editions of photos for sale of Vernon-Jones imagery from Here in Red Hook. For more information visit www.luckygallery.com

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Abe’s Penny Presents the Art of Lost Utopia in September Issue

Sep 13th, 2011 Comments Off

Abe’s Penny features photographer Niall O’Brien and writer Francesca Gavin in its September series inspired by defunct utopian societies. Each week during the 9th month, the famed Brooklyn art and literature publication will deliver to subscribers its post-card sized segments with O’Brien’s photographs and Gavin’s accompanying text. The series is being mailed in conjunction with O’Brien’s upcoming exhibition Good Rats opening at No.10 gallery in NYC’s TriBeCa, September 13th, 2011.

Niall O’Brien is a fine-art photographer originally from Dublin, Ireland. He has exhibited throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom in the mediums of photography and film. Niall was admitted to The Invisible Committee, a remote commune in Limousin Valley, France, under the auspices of his desire to join the group. His photographs “beautifully employ light and long afternoon shadows to suggest both the romantic idealism of utopian groups as well as their fall into the darkness of obscurity,” according to Anna Knoebel, editor and publisher of Abe’s Penny.

Francesca Gavin is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused magazine and a freelance writer and curator. Her previous works include Creative Space, Hellbound: New Gothic Art, and Street Renegades, all published by Laurence King Publishing of London. Gavin’s work in Abe’s Penny is inspired by the quixotic and defunct societies Spiral Tribe, Millbrook, The School of Living and Lower Farmhouse. “They are not photographs and they are not texts,” The New Yorker says of Abe’s Penny’s unique publishing style, “but a combination of both, tangible objects with a heft and significance of their own.”
Subscriptions to Abe’s Penny are available for purchase online, at http://www.abespenny.com/subscribe.html

About Abe’s Penny
Abe’s Penny, LLC publishes mailable art and literature. Each four-part series features an image and text collaboration printed on postcards. Subscribers receive one postcard every week; each month a new series begins. Abe’s Penny is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Independently published by sisters Anna and Tess Knoebel, Abe’s Penny launched in March of 2009. The short and accessible “stories” (off-set printed on double thick matte card stock) aim to change the way our overscheduled and overstimulated audience consumes art and literature. A different photographer and writer collaborate each month.

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Artist Profile: Jessica Polzin

Sep 8th, 2011 Comments Off

Artist Statement
My aesthetic is based on the limitless. Seeing infinite potential in all areas of design and how I can manifest them to create something with fluidity and complexity. As an artist reaching a place of balance is such an extreme rarity, Balance is often the underlying theme in my artwork, and the desire to reach harmonious proportions my underlying intent.The natural world is my tangible fantasy, with infinite variables and constant surprises. I seek perfection but delight in all the chaos and unexpected incidences that cause one to redirect thought and ideas. I enjoy problem solving and the progression of the design process.

Website
http://www.jessicapolzin.com/

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Cat Celebrezze at Sweet Lorraine Gallery

Jun 27th, 2011 Comments Off

TIME COLOSSUS: a repetition in laminated love
365 non consecutive laminations of the Brooklyn Bridge
by Cat Celebrezze

Art opening.  Free and Open to the public.

Saturday, July 2nd · 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Sweet Lorraine Gallery
183 Lorraine St. 3rd Floor (between Court and Clinton)
Brooklyn NY 11321

Everything is safety coated to last in laminated love.

www.laminatedlove.com/timecolossus.html

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Artist Profile: Aditya Shringarpure

Jun 18th, 2011 Comments Off

"Musings: Urban Spaces 4", Mixed Media, 23x44

"Musings: Urban Spaces 1", Mixed Media, 23x44

"Paradigms: One", Mixed Media, 44x23

"Paradigms: Four", Mixed Media, 44x23

"Paradigms: Six", Mixed Media, 44x23

Artist Statement

My love of art stems from my early childhood in India, where I was exposed to a conglomeration of art ranging from traditional Indian to contemporary western. I find myself synthesizing images from places I visit into themes of urban decay, renewal, and everyday life. I am always attempting to find a pathway to incorporate these images into my work, bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary art. I create my own visual language, combining my interests in photography, printmaking and drawing into images that reflect both abstraction and realism at once.

I usually begin by picking a random selection of photographs that I have taken, and these become the basis of the final work. I either incorporate these photographs directly into paintings by transferring them onto the surface or draw portions from them that reflect the theme of that work. Onto this I apply layers of paint, ink, oil pastel, graphite, screen prints and additional photographic transfers until the work reaches the desired composition and texture.

Growing up in the bustling city of Bombay, urban landscapes were first an inspiration and then a fascination. A focus on more minimal and sparse compositions represents a departure from the nature of the city, but the city remains integral to my theme. The resulting work reflects these nuances.

Website
www.artaditya.com

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Diana Leidel

Mar 25th, 2011 7 Comments

White MOMA Chair

White Ghost Basement Chair

White Basement Chair

BAGsingle

Statement
I’ve become fascinated with the sculpted nature of chairs and the visual force they project. I photograph them everywhere, work into the images, and render them in black and white to try to get to their essence.

Website
http://web.mac.com/dianaleidel/DIANA_LEIDEL/home.html

James Edwin at Yashar Gallery

Jan 27th, 2011 Leave a comment

Madonna and Child. Digital archival print. 2007.

St Anne's Square. Silver gelatin print. 2006.

St Peter's. Silver gelatin print. 2006.

Manchester Lass. Silver gelatin print. 2005.

Matriarch. Digital archival print. 2009.

Exhibit Information:
Yashar Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “SOLO” on Saturday, February 5, 2011. This solitary exhibition features the photography of James Edwin Hall on view through February 23rd.

James Edwin works in street settings, concentrating his efforts in high pedestrian environments. Working with variety of formats (digital, 35mm, and medium format TLR (Twin Lens Reflex)) he is able to create timeless pieces that ensure concentration on the subject and build the integrity of the work.

The timeless appearance is reinforced by the artist’s continuing efforts in cities from the West Coast to Western Europe. Having collected images from San Francisco to the Bible belt of the South, Tennessee, to the archaic scenery of the United Kingdom, the artist frames a plethora of individuals. This breadth of study further enforces the validity of his humanistic theories.

Lastly, all of the imagery put together for the show is of candid nature. By shooting from the hip, sweeping his camera up before a subject’s face, and even concealing his focus with his TLR, the artist maintains the integrity of the human expression.

The opening reception for “SOLO” will take place from 7-10pm on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at Yashar Gallery, 276 Greenpoint Avenue, Bldg. 8, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11222. The exhibition will run through February 23rd.

Website
http://www.jamesedwin.com

Elena Yamamoto

Jan 23rd, 2011 Leave a comment

Statement
Elena Yamamoto’s works are thoughts bound up in sources, process, and materials: photos made from negatives that my father took when he was just a few years older than myself; the sun-soaked cyanotype prints with their natural, distinctive, and seductive blue; silk in its softness, its play in the light, its living quality; cedar with its scent and preservative property.

All of these materials, all of these things, each personally important and meaningful, are tied and pinned and sewn together—slowly, quietly, meditatively—in order to become a collection of intimate, personal objects. These objects are manifestations of time spent with ideas, created by a repeated motion of the hand, thought on and thought about. Some of them are just small musings, haphazard thoughts made big through the time it took to meditate and make them, while others are those big ideas of family, legacy, intimacy, and relationships, made small and manageable through their expression in the physical.

These objects—reliquaries, even—contain elusive, ineffable thoughts. Words and sentences and explanations tend to limit our understanding of things, failing to capture ideas and experiences in their entirety, reducing the complexities of feelings and emotions to mere sentiment. And so here instead, I, with cautious hands, tug and pull to lay bare my quiet, personal thoughts and moments for you to ponder.

Website

http://www.elenayamamoto.com/

Current Exhibit
http://extensionsofmemory.tumblr.com/

Jean-Paul Cattin

Jan 20th, 2011 Leave a comment


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Artist Statement
In the series "Fingerprints" I’m looking for a reinterpretation of reality, namely urban elements taken from the places I explore. Walls, floors, garbage trucks or any other terrestrial material, which are the basis for my work, are reviewed and contrasted to the extreme, sometimes highly detailed or otherwise deliberately letting appear the original pixels. The result has a strong emphasis on organic, abstract and highly pictorial work.

Contact
http://www.jeanpaulcattin.com/art
http://twitter.com/jeanpaulcattin
http://www.pelavingallery.com

Raphael Zollinger

Jan 13th, 2011 Leave a comment

UDF redux, 2010. Archival UltraChrome Print, 30" x 40"

August, 2004 with Apollo Cam, 2010. Archival UltraChrome Print, 30" x 40"

August, 2004 with Rover, 2010. Archival UltraChrome Print, 30" x 40"

Woman with Flowers, 2010. Archival UltraChrome Print, 44"x32"

Mare Tranquillitatis, 2010, Archival UltraChrome Print, 30" x 40"

Artist Statement
This body of work seeks to reside in and thereby comment upon the liminal space of photography, that space between the document and that of the art work. I am interested in the medium of photography itself and in its representational function pointing outside of itself to an aspect of cultural narrative and memory. At the same time, I am drawn to the self-referential quality of photography that stems from the history of modernism and painting. By choosing to keep the identities of each layer in my photographs evident, balancing these in turn creates a push and pull dynamic between the content of the images and the formal aspects of color, line and texture. By layering and juxtaposing images from the protest surrounding the 2004 Republican National Conference in New York City with those of the Apollo moon mission, Joseph Albers compositions, found and acquired old photographs, as well as direct drawings, I create dialogues between each image. New contrasts old, just as hope and optimism reside simultaneously with disillusionment or apathy, and unity opposes individualism. This discourse dictates an aesthetic in which layered imagery by way of material choices approach and thereby utilize the vocabulary of abstraction. Technically, these prints are produced in the same manner as traditional print making and silk-screen where layers of ink are printed on top of the other, yet I utilize the resolution and control of digital resources. Imagery, color, ink type, and paper are carefully considered and selected to control opacity as the paper is sent through the photo printer anywhere from 3 to 8 separate times leaving behind a history of it production, time, and the artists hand. This is often not evident in the cold mechanical reproducible nature of photography and leads to varying and intensified experiences when viewing the work as multiple levels of detail emerge as one alters their distance from the work.

Website
http://rzollinger.com

Photographer Haley Jane Samuelson Kickstarter Project

Dec 7th, 2010 Leave a comment

Photographer Haley Jane Samuelson is raising funds through Kickstarter for her new project The Indecisive Moment: Fine Art Portraits of NYC Dancers. A fund raising goal is established and donors receive incentives at various dollar amounts. If the goal is not met during a specific time frame the project is canceled and no funds are collected.

Dancers have long served as muses and models for artists of all different visual mediums. As in Degas’s ballerina studies, or Picasso’s imaginative lithograph, Le Ballet, they act as brokers between the abstract nature of human spirituality and the tangibility of the physical world. But what image of humanity do these works reflect? What questions of human identity and crisis do they reveal? Are they simply about beauty, or do the bodies of the dancers provide symbolic material for the ethical, political, and aesthetic questions raised by man’s own image of himself? The exploration of the boundary between artist and muse — in myths and sagas, in the earliest records of ritual and art — is part of the great ongoing debate about creation itself.

As an investigation of the relationship between artist and muse, I have began to photograph traditional and contemporary dancers from the major New York Dance Companies, including The New York Ballet, Martha Graham and Paul Taylor Company, among others. The work is a result of a unique collaboration between the dancers and myself. While the project has had a successful start, I am having to cut corners and make compromises due to lack of funds. The money I raise will go to: equipment rental, photo assistant fees, test prints, transportation to and from location to location, data storage (massive files require lots of hard drives and back ups), and stylist/prop costs.

Please check out my website to view my completed works: www.haleyjsamuelson.com
You will also find out information regarding previous exhibitions, press and publications.

To see my work in progress please check out my facebook page: www.facebook.com/haleyjs
The work will be under the photo section in an album titled Work in Progress

Kickstarter link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/510514608/the-indecisive-moment-fine-art-portraits-of-nyc-da

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