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Bruce Davidson’s 1959 “Brooklyn Gang” series

Apr 20th, 2009 Leave a comment

A new Bob Dylan video features photographs from Bruce Davidson’s 1959 “Brooklyn Gang” series to illustrate the song.  In the spring of 1959, Davidson met a group of Brooklyn teens called “The Jokers”.  That summer, he photographed the entire gang in their natural habitat, from hanging out late at night on the street corner to taking a  Coney Island beach trip with their girlfriends.   The “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” video will appear exclusively on Amazon’s homepage until Wednesday, April 22, in the Bob Dylan Store for 30 days thereafter.

The complete series is on the Magnum website.

Haley Jane Samuelson

Apr 19th, 2009 Leave a comment

samuelson_coney_island

samuelson_gone

samuelson_34

Artist Statement
My own work is largely concerned with the meaning and existence of the self in today’s unstable, fragmented world, specifically how the individual is able to reconcile the external and internal forces that cause us to function in different, often contradictory, roles. Performative in essence, frequently employing role play and adopting multiple or different personas, my work not only reconstructs and documents other’s lives, but regularly becomes an intense examination of my own. The photographs in my latest body of work are an exploration of my own private experience with love and intimacy. Derived from what began as collaboration with my romantic partner, Michael, the work is an embodiment of my own subconscious forces at work, mixed with real events.

More specifically, the work chronicles the obsessive nature of our romantic relationship, and its overwhelming effect on my life, visually attempting to eliminate the distinction between dreams and reality, reason and madness, and objectivity and subjectivity by merging everyday occurrences with psychological aberrations. Fragmented, the events it depicts are not literal but figurative illustrations of a unique psychological state resulting from the self-reflexive nature of our relationship and the psychological breakdown between oppositional forces that comes with love; the internal and external, the self and the other, presence and absence and lucidity and blindness.

Website
http://www.haleyjsamuelson.com/

Upcoming Exhibit
Opening reception June 25th at Hous Projects gallery in Soho,  from 6-8

Melissa McClain

Mar 9th, 2009 5 Comments

Untitled

Iris

Lexi No. 2

Artist Statement

I am a self-taught photographer who grew up in Dallas, TX and now live in New York City. When creating my work I look for interesting colors, patterns, and textures that will create a dynamic palette in the final photo. I am intrigued by the interaction of humans and nature to create “hidden” art. This hidden art presented as abstract photography with dramatic colors and textures has now become a very prominent feature in my work.

The body of work that I am working on currently is Water Colors. The Water Colors Collection combines my intrigue in the art of painting and my love of photography and colors. Water Colors initially appear, perhaps, as an artist’s painting but could be called “nature’s paintings” because nature and time provide the texture and patterns that transform the ordinary subjects into discovered art. This art is then captured through the lens of the camera.

Water Colors photos are taken with a digital camera and software is used to brighten the colors to their rich and vibrant levels. Every Water Colors print is unique and everyone’s “vision” individual.

Website

http://www.melissaannegallery.com

Lara Wechsler

Jan 24th, 2009 Leave a comment

Artist Statement

I consider myself a street photographer; my camera is always on hand and I shoot at anything that strikes my interest in public places. I constantly pay attention to people, composition and lighting.

My love for New York City has always motivated me. The city offers a plethora of visual stimuli and my goal is to capture this visual bounty. I have had a strong commitment to street photography since 1988. I capture reality – by using a wide-angle lens and avoiding postcard compositions. I seek the raw, claustrophobic crowd and congestion of the city, not just with people, but also inanimate objects. I relish people or objects that get in the way of the otherwise “perfect” shot.

Over the years, I have developed a style that combines the finesse of fine art with the grit of street photography. Unusual captures, composition and angles burst through my city scenes.

Website

http://www.larawechsler.com

Valery Rizzo

Jan 4th, 2009 4 Comments

Artist Website
http://www.valeryrizzo.com

A Year in the Park 2009 Calendar

Dec 1st, 2008 1 Comment

Brenda of Prospect: A Year in the Park has published a calendar for 2009 highlighting her favorite spots in Prospect Park, more information & ordering details available here. Her blog is based on daily trips to Prospect Park and reveals fascinating details from the darkest depths of Brooklyn’s past as well as observations about the current dwellers. A great read.

Dmitry Borshch

Nov 4th, 2008 Leave a comment
Untitled, 2008
Ink on paper, 15 x 15 ins.
The work of Dmitry Borshch will be shown in the following exhibits:
“Common Threads: Artists in Spite of Retail”  at the Brecht Forum
November 7-31, 2008
“Allied Artists 95th Annual Exhibition”  at the National Arts Club
November 14-December 2, 2008

Tom Bovo

Nov 2nd, 2008 Leave a comment

From the New York series

From the Avenue Nights series

From the Reflections series

Artist Statement (excerpt)

My artistic practice is engaged with exploiting the ambiguity of visual experience–the disparity between what we see and what we think we see creates a surprise of metaphors. I want to engage the viewer in the place where the collective intersects with the individual’s consciousness. The work draws from many different visual elements such as the role of the structural, the system, the technological, the biological, the ephemeral, the fabricated, and the decorative, and for me, it is a meditation on the complexity of experiencing an increasingly dense environment of elements.

I work here in New York City and find the people, places, and objects of the city are the building blocks I am using.Many of the photographs reflect an interest in certain types of actors and their visual performances: people as reflected in and by the architecture of the urban landscape, bits and pieces of patterns and textual material, and how it all expresses itself visually.

Website

http://www.tombovo.com/

Exhibit

Showing at the Double Exposure show at the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art from November 4 – 26, 2008. There is an opening reception, Saturday, November 8, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Museum of Computer Art
139 11th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Brooklyn, New York City 11215

J.M. O’Malley

Oct 31st, 2008 Leave a comment

Warm Liquid Reliquary

Drown

Additive Inverse

Artist Statement (excerpt)

Where do the images come from? I cannot possibly know. I can only know that it is my task to make them.

I use a number of methods in the process of translation. Most of these are based on Surrealist techniques- automatic writing, recording of dreams, and some techniques like grottage.

When I start to make notes for the images, they are part words and part picture. They are never brought entirely into the conscious realm. When processing the film, I use several kinds of tools to mutilate and remove some sections of emulsion. I use sandpaper and various objects to scratch the negatives before printing. In processing some of the prints, I use additional chemicals like iodine bleach, or I apply paint to them. For some of the prints, I’ve used infrared film stock.

Website

http://www.jmomalley.com/

Carol Quint

Oct 27th, 2008 Leave a comment

REST IN PIECES
Limited Edition Color Photograph of original sculpture by Carol Quint
10″ x 8″ photo

Artist Statement
The foundation of my work is the exploration of archetypal imagery. The images become surrogates for a broad range of emotional experience. They are grounded in symbols that elicit recognition on a subconscious level.

Currently, I am building sculptures that are in themselves artifacts, evidence of my efforts, which are now in the past.

My process involves creating, recycling and reconstruction. The content and function of these works reflects both a sense of time past and time present, qualities that are in the nature of a relic.

Website
http://www.carolquint.com/

Bina Altera

Sep 7th, 2008 1 Comment

Bina Altera, “Dance”

Bina Altera, “Faith”

Bina Altera, “Reflections”

Bina Altera, “Float”

Bina Altera, “Beyond”

Exhibit

Bina Altera will be showing recent collage work in the annual staff show at The School of Visual Arts in the BFA Photography department.

Dates: Sept 4th – 12th
Location: 214 E21st St., 6th fl.

Bina is the featured artist in MacTribe magazine this month, an interview by Danile Robillard is available at http://www.mactribe.com.

Dmitry Borshch

Sep 2nd, 2008 Leave a comment


1. Untitled, 2008, photograph (edition of 10), 11 x 22 ins.

2. Untitled, 2008, photograph (edition of 10), 9 x 12 ins.

3. Untitled, 2008, photograph (edition of 10), 7 x 9 ins.

4. Untitled, 2008, photograph (edition of 10), 9 x 22 ins.

5. Untitled, 2007, photograph (edition of 10), 5 x 7 ins.

6. Untitled, 2008, photograph (edition of 10), 10 x 21 ins.

Artist Statement

I favor a compound approach to all visual problems that occupy me. By compound I mean multiform – I present my solution to a given problem in as many forms or through as many means as are available to me. These may be painting, printmaking, sculpting… The meaning of each completed piece is deferred until other pieces, materially and thematically linked to it, are completed. They form the understructure upon which their meaning could rest.

Not able to describe a piece outside of its progressing context I hesitate whenever I am asked for an “artist’s statement”. I cannot “state” my art’s meaning; its current subject, however, can be “stated” – it is rectilinear geometry.

Please visit http://www.thetatechelsea.com and http://www.fineartadoption.net and find Dmitry Borshch there.

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