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On Stellar Rays, New
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CLIFFORD OWENS
November 2 -
December 14, 2008
Opening reception: Sunday, November 2, 3
- 6 pm
On November 2, On Stellar Rays
will open an exhibition of photo-based work by
Clifford Owens, marking the first solo
exhibition for both the gallery and the artist.
Owens is well known for his Studio Visit series, in
which he engages visiting artists or arts professionals in
one-on-one acts relating to the visitor's work. Studio
Visits originated during a Skowhegan residency in Maine, where
William Pope.L was one of the artists to visit Owens' studio.
Owens commonly uses the body as a conduit for conversation,
exposing the underlying dynamics between two individuals
through prescribed physical interactions. The studio visit
with Pope.L began with Owens' empty, white studio, buckets of
mud, and pails of water. Owens and Pope.L proceeded to
cover the walls with mud, each mud-slinging and smearing in
turn. The performance was documented on a roll of black and
white film, from which all 36 photographs will be on view,
unedited and in sequence. As with all of Owens' work,
the installation goes beyond documentation and takes on a
strong formal component. The first image captures the
white studio, and as more mud covers the walls, and
sequentially gradates to darker shades.
Owens plays
with the history of conceptual text-based work in Text Piece,
which presents a grid of 47 photographs of white text against
black. Though the stark formalism might initially
suggest more distanced work (Owens often-present body is
conspicuously absent), closer inspection reveals 47 intimate
and personal phrases. The viewer is confronted with "She
likes to finger my feelings," "Mother Baltimore," and "I
thought you were gay." Here, the conversation is more
literal, though it is unclear whether the words are directed
at us, the artist, or whether the conversation is happening
within the piece.
In Owens' most recent body of color photographs, the
artist explores the uniquely African-Ecuadorian community of
the Esmeralda Province, Ecuador. There continues to be a
thoughtful exploration of self in the work (Owens' young son
is half Ecuadorian). This is visible though the eyes of
the young men Owens encountered in the Esmeraldas, who are
looking intensely at Owens in each work. Prelingual, an
intimate family portrait taken before his son's birth, will
also be on view.
Owens is perhaps best known for
his provocative performances, in which the audience is
frequently required to engage with Owens, and shifts of power
and perspective are at play. Owens will offer two
performances in conjunction with this exhibition. On
November 2, there will be a performance in the downstairs
gallery of On Stellar Rays. In addition, Owens is offering a
custom-designed performance for an individual or
institution. Owens will visit the commissioner in
advance, script and produce a unique performance for the
commissioner and guests, to be performed in his or her private
space. The work will be documented and made available to the
commissioner in a video and photographs. This work pushes
Owens' exploration of the interaction between artist and
audience, and the positions of control and perspective in any
engagement with art. Please contact the gallery for more
information.
Clifford Owens art has appeared in numerous group
exhibitions including Performa05, New York, NY; Freestyle and
Quid Pro Quo at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY;
Greater New York 2005 P.S.1, Queens, New York; Influence,
Anxiety, Gratitude, List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA.
Owens studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Mason Gross School of Visual Art Rutgers University, and the
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He was an artist in
residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2005-06 and
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004. Grants and
fellowships include Art Matters, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award,
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Lambent
Foundation, and the Rutgers University Ralph Bunche Graduate
Fellowship. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971, and he
lives and works in Queens, New York.
Image:
Clifford Owens
Prelingual
C-print, 2008
Courtesy of On Stellar Rays, New York
On Stellar Rays
Candice
Madey
133 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
+1 212 598
3012
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Curator's Office, Washington
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Vanitas
Nicholas & Sheila
Pye
November 8 - December 20, 2008 Opening
Reception: Saturday, November 8 6 - 8
pm These actions are both heavily incestuous,
and not at all: a delicate balance struck
by the couple who
claim that they are as much like brother and sister as they
are lovers.
This, perhaps, is the most common and
dangerous trapdoor for married life, which,
for the Pyes,
is a dark series of dangerous games worth looking into.
Laura McLean-Ferris, Artreview Magazine
Curator's Office is
pleased to announce Vanitas, a new exhibition of cinematic and
photographic works by celebrated Canadian husband-wife
collaborative team Nicholas & Sheila Pye.
This will be the second exhibition of the Pyes' work at
Curator's Office. Vanitas includes a film entitled Loudly,
Death Unties, which is the final part of a trilogy of films,
and five large-scale photographs. The Paper Wall and A
Life of Errors, exhibited at Curator's Office in 2006, were
the first two films from this provocative trilogy.
A full color hard-cover catalog (52 pages) is
available with texts by Andrea Pollan, Director of Curator's
Office, and Anna Sansom, writer for Eyemazing Magazine. The
Sansom text is an extract from an interview for Eyemazing
Magazine, Summer Issue 2007, Picture Booklets
Publishers.
In Vanitas, the Pyes play with themes present in the
art historical genre of still life painting to examine their
own relationship. Carefully staged and precisely crafted, one
photograph features the symbolic fodder found in the vanitas
painting genre: skulls, ivy, rotting fruit, and books. Four
portraits delve into issues of mortality, narcissism, and the
complex issues of youthful existence, the nature of being, and
death. The artists take their married relationship and
allude to the impermanence and illusion of togetherness. It is
as though they are faking their deaths to consider their
mortality and to repent to one another.
The Pyes relentlessly blur the borders between their
lives and their art as they tackle the highly charged yet
poetic issues that arise from their own relationship. But
theirs is not a self-absorbed biographical fascination.
Rather, the relationship depicted in their bodies of work
becomes emblematic of all things that can go wrong in a
mutually dependent and suffocating relationship. The Pyes'
artistic output spans photography, film, performance, video,
and installation while acknowledging the profound influences
of surrealism in film, narrative conventions in painting, 19th
and early 20th century portraiture, and conceptual approaches
to subject matter. Given this well-versed theoretical blend,
they avoid prosaic performance art documentation preferring to
transform their photographs and films into works that cleverly
reconfigure art historic antecedents. Additionally the
finished works acknowledge their intrinsic aesthetic status as
art objects.
The Pyes have exhibited their work
at museums such as The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture
Garden, Washington, DC; The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume,
Paris, France; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto,
Canada; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; The Glenbow Museum,
Calgary, Canada; and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada. Their work has been screened in
numerous international film festivals such as the Toronto
International Film Festival, Canada; the Locarno International
Film Festival, Switzerland; and Les Rencontres Internationales
in Paris, Berlin, and Madrid. Their work has also been
exhibited internationally at numerous galleries including
Curator's Office, Washington, DC; Artcore / Fabrice Marcolini,
Toronto; Alexia Goethe Gallery, London; Begoña Malone
Gallery, Madrid; and Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin among
others.
Image:
Nicholas & Sheila Pye, Vanitas,
2008, digital C-print,
60" x 44", 152.5 x 112 cm, edition
of 5 + 2 APs
Courtesy of Curator's Office
Curator's Office
1515 14th Street
NW, Suite 201
Washington, DC 20005
+1 202 387 1008
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Ada Street Gallery,
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'jumpgallery' presents the photographic
exhibition '7' at Ada Street Gallery
11 November - 16 November 2008
Private View Thursday 13th November 6-9pm
'7' is a print edition aimed at making high
quality photographic art more readily accessible to the
masses.
7 artists
Paul Calver, Victoria Ling,
Oliver Martin, Spencer Murphy, Kate Peters, Linda Rompalla and
Cat Vinton
7 images
Each of the seven artists has
released an exclusive image, available in three limited
editions.
Prints will be available throughout the
exhibition and online in the '7' shop at jumpgallery.com
7 editions
The 3
editions
About Jump
Gallery
Jumpgallery is an artist run, online
photographic print sales gallery. Jump is about community,
about people
getting together and discussing ideas. We set
up the print sales gallery to support this. We have links from
our
individual artist's websites to Jump and vice versa,
creating a network of artists.
As a commission free gallery
we aim to make prints affordable for all and allow buyers to
deal directly with the
relevant artist. We came up with the
concept of the print sales event '7' to make photographic art
even more
affordable.
Paul Calver
was born is Suffolk in 1980. He studied photography at the
Kent institute of art and design and after finishing his
degree moved to London.
Victoria Ling
was born in Suffolk in 1979. She studied Fine Art at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne and
whilst studying
became fascinated by photography. Her final exhibition
consisted of photographic installations, or
'living
images', challenging the way the viewer saw the gallery space.
After graduating she assisted still life
photographer
Richard Foster for 2 years before becoming freelance. She now
lives and works in London,
working on her own projects and
commissions.
Oliver Martin was born in England in
1975. He studied photography at Harrogate College of Art and
then
further at the University of Brighton. After
University he worked as an assistant to still life
photographer Richard Foster and then with Landscape and
Advertising photographer Stuart Hall where he worked on major
advertising campaigns through out Europe and the US. In 2003
he travelled to Cambodia working on his first major project
where he photographed children aged from 4 - 14 who worked at
Damnakthom village, a refuse site located on the outskirts of
the capital Phnom Pehn. He now lives in London working on
commissions whilst continuing with his own
projects.
Spencer Murphy was born in
1978 in Kent, England.After studying Photography at Falmouth
College of Arts in Cornwall Spencer Moved to London. His work
has since been exhibited and published all over the world. He
now
balances his time between producing his own artwork,
taking on commissions and lecturing at University
College
Falmouth.
Kate Peters was born in Coventry,
England in 1980. She studied Photography at Falmouth College
of Arts, Cornwall and after completing her degree moved to
London. She assisted photographer Nadav Kander for four years
and now undertakes her own personal projects and commissions.
She won the Metro Imaging Bursary for her work Home in 2002
and the Creative Futures Award in 2005. Her work has been
included in group shows in galleries across the
UK.
Linda Romppala was born in Sweden
(1979) where she has studied photography and arts. Moved to
England 5
years ago to study Photography and Media Arts at
UCCA in Maidstone. Graduated 2006 and are now working
as an
assistant and photographer in London.
Cat
Vinton was born in Northamptonshire, in 1974. After
successfully graduating from Camberwell School of Art and
Design in July '97, Cat left the UK to work in the People's
Democratic Republic of Lao. Since then she has lived and
worked as a photographer, both in London and Los Angeles.
Based in London, she
shoots and exhibits all over the
world. Cat has recently been awarded the accolade of
International Travel Photographer of the Year. Her prize will
take her to the Tibetan settlement, Dharamsala in northern
India, to spend time with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Cat is
in search of the worlds remaining nomadic souls.
Image:
Kate Peters
Courtesy of the artist
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Raandesk Gallery of Art, New
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MISREAD: NEW WORKS BY MARIANNE FOURIE
October 24 - November 15, 2008
Raandesk
Gallery is pleased to present the New York City
gallery debut of photographer Marianne Fourie with her first
solo exhibition, misread, a collection of large-scale
photomontages, opening in October 2008.
Originally pursuing painting early in her career,
Fourie was steered in a new artistic direction during a trip
to Japan through photography. Positioning herself at the front
of a subway train, she would shoot images as she rode through
the darkened tunnels. She captured highly vivid, dynamic and
beautiful arrays that she then digitally manipulated to
explore and expand the plethora of forms she saw. Since that
first experience, she has taken photos on subterranean trains
in Paris, France, London, England, and Boston, New York and
New Jersey.
"The strange forms created when taking photos of
light sources in motion are 'misreadings'. I use this digital
noise - the camera's attempts to capture data - to depict
memories, thoughts and emotions," describes the artist. "The
transient and intangible made into photo form become the
material for mental responses that are themselves transient
and intangible."
The photographs included in the exhibition are
mounted and laminated archival digital C-prints, and the
smallest of the collection is 29" x 30", with most images
presented in a vertical orientation, some 80" high. The
glowing surfaces illuminate the images that explore the
relationship between photographic representation and painterly
abstraction and the technical elements in tension with the
speed and fluidity of the setting in which they were captured.
Marianne Fourie is an international
artist Raised in South Africa and England, and educated in
South Africa and France, she is now producing her artwork from
her studio in Hoboken, NJ. She has participated in a number of
exhibitions in France and the NY region, and most recently in
'ILLUMINATORS', an international juried exhibition mounted in
the new international terminal at Koltsovo airport in
Yekaterinburg, Russia. Marianne was recently awarded an
Honorable Mention in the 28th Annual Spring Photography
Contest held by Photographer's Forum magazine.
Exhibition is located at Raandesk's partner
location:
VinoVino at 211 W. Broadway, New York,
NY.
Image:
Marianne Fourie
Pleasure I, 2007
Mounted and laminated archival
digital C-print
39.4" x 26.3"
100cm x 67cm
Edition, 1
of 3
Raandesk Gallery
of Art16 W. 23rd Street 4th Floor New York,
NY 10010 +1 212.696.7432
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Exile, a new project and residency space in
Berlin-Kreuzberg, is very proud to open its doors on October
18th with two fantastic exhibitions featuring two unsung
heroes of New York's creative
underground:
Al Baltrop - Pier
Photographs 1975-1986
Oct 18th - Feb 01st 2009
Al
Baltrop was born in the Bronx in 1948 and passed away
in 2004. From 1975 to 1986 he photographed the crumbling piers
and their inhabitants on the west side of Manhattan. He
photographed obsessively and created an incredible archive of
thousands of photographs that show a captivating mélange of
intimacy, decay, violence, creativity and anarchy. Without
ever being nostalgic Baltrop's photographs portray the end of
a legendary era; the architectural destruction of the piers
and, even more, the emotional and physical destruction brought
by the impact of the AIDS crisis. However, his photographs are
so much more than historical documents. His passion and
personality are visible in the prints. Each of his photographs
offers a well-constructed, intimate, and moving glimpse into
this fascinating time and place. During his lifetime, there
was little artistic appreciation of his photography and only
in recent years has his work slowly emerged to greater
awareness. In February 2008 Artforum Magazine devoted its
cover and a comprehensive visual essay to his work accompanied
by a text by respected artcritic Douglas Crimp.
Exile is extremely honored to present the very first
Solo-show of Al Baltrop's work in Europe. Al Baltrop - Pier
Photographs 1975-1986 will present a monthly changing display
of rare vintage and modern prints. Modern editions of each
photograph, printed by the Alvin Baltrop Trust, are available
for sale. Excerpts from an upcoming documentary produced by
Baltrop's friend and former assistant Randal Wilcox will be
screened as part of the exhibition.
Straight to Hell - In Cock We Trust (Resident:
Billy Miller, New York)
Oct 18th - Nov 16th 2008
Straight to
Hell (a/k/a The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts)
is a living legend. Conceived and founded by cult writer Boyd
McDonald in the early 1970s, it quickly gained a large
following and underground notoriety due to a combination of
graphic sexual content, radical politics and stinging wit. The
unique concept of Straight to Hell remains unchanged: via a
New York City P.O. box, readers are invited to send their
accounts of true sexual experiences to the editor. Over the
decades Straight to Hell has become an infamously
comprehensive and uncensored library of homosexual practice
and identity. The resulting series is a uniquely democratic
and powerful collection of bizarre, funny, scary, and raunchy
stories documenting the real and often embarrassing sex lives
of a wide range of men - detailing a continuous chronology
spanning nearly a century.
Exile is honored to inaugurate its residency space
with an exhibition curated by current editor Billy Miller.
Straight to Hell - In Cock We Trust presents an eclectic, and
in some cases never before seen, selection of vintage and
contemporary materials from the archives of Straight to Hell
and the personal collection of Billy Miller. This particular
exhibit is specifically not intended to be a historical
overview over the complete story of the series, but rather a
sample of the range of material featured in the pages of the
magazine. Along with an exhibit of photography from Straight
to Hell contributors, the show includes rare editions and
ephemera - plus samples from edited anthologies, which will be
made available for research during opening hours. Exile will
also present a very special limited-edition artwork in honor
of the occasion.
Participating Artists: Adam Kozik, Al Baltrop, Bob
Mizer (A.M.G.), Brian Brennan (Latino Fan Club), Bruce La
Bruce, Dan Acton, Darren Ankenbauer (Handbook Magazine), David
Hurles (Old Reliable), Gary Indiana, Jan Wandrag, Janine
Gordon, Joe Ovelman, Michael Alago, Michael Economy, Nico
Urquiza, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Rick Castro (Antebellum), Scott
Hug, Slava Mogutin, Stash Buttinski, Steve LaFreniere, Walt
Cessna, Will Munro, Xavier Stentz and others
Images:
Al Baltrop, Pier Photographs 1975-1986
Straight to Hell, Installation view
Exile
Alexandrinenstr 4,
HH
D-10969 Berlin
+49 176 83097626
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