Studio Art Senior Natascha Vazquez Creates Public Art in The Bahamas

The above images are from the ambitious project that Natascha worked on over the summer. About this project, Natascha says:

"I got a group of art majors from the College of the Bahamas to come to Abaco (a remote outer island in the Bahamas) to create a public art piece out of found material that has been washed up on the beaches in Southern Abaco. These beaches are on the Atlantic side of the island, catching tons of debris that has been floating in the ocean for years, and finally washes up on shore. I thought it would be interesting to utilize this free "art material" in interesting, artistic ways while at the same time, clean the beach and create awareness of pollution.

We decided to create the bow of a boat, pertruding out of a cliff that we thought would be an appropriate site for this particular piece. It was challenging because of the height, but we found solutions. The
reason we chose a boat was to educate people on where exactly these trash items are coming from, and to present viewers with an art piece which seems beautiful, but dirty at the same time. The trash that has
been washed up on the shore-line is situated in such a beautiful place, and doesn't belong in that spot."

Student Exhibition Opportunity in Miami

Lunchbox Gallery is accepting submissions from Florida students for their One Night Stand Project which affords students the opportunity to exhibit their work during the popular Wynwood Gallery Walks.

I highly encourage all students to put together a strong portfolio and APPLY!

More information can be found HERE

Katy Grannan - New Work

Katy Grannan. Anonymous, LA, 2009. Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery

Click HERE to read an interview with Katy Grannan about her recent series, Boulevard as well as a brief discussion of her short film, The Believers.

FIELD TRIP TO THE SOUTHEAST MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY - SATURDAY, JANUARY 29TH

**SIGN UP SHEET OUTSIDE OF DAWN ROE'S OFFICE**

We will be taking a field trip to the Southeast Museum of Photography, next Saturday January 29th. Karen Glaser will be present to give an artist's talk about her work, detailed below. Also on view are photographs by Bill Armstrong, Linda Connor, and Lorna Bieber.

The JUMP Bus has only 14 seats, so sign up fast to reserve your space!!
We will leave from the area behind the tennis courts (where athletic vans and JUMP bus are parked) promptly at 3:30 p.m. We should return back to Rollins by 7:30 p.m.

For more information on these exhibitions, click HERE.

January 29, 2011- May 29, 2011

THE MARK OF WATER
Florida's Springs and Swamps
Karen Glaser

Bream in the Highlights, 2006

Rewind the BETAMAX of life: Nam June Paik at Tate Liverpool and FACT

Nam June Paik in collaboration with Norman Ballard, 
Laser Cone, 2001/2010

Installation view at FACT (Foundation for Art Creative Technology) Photographer: Stephen King

Really nice review of the Nam Jun Paik's retrospective in Britain. Click HERE to read the full story.

Lyle Rexer @ CFAM on Saturday

Do NOT miss this opportunity to hear exhibition curator Lyle Rexer speak about the work currently on view at CFAM.
I mean it. Do NOT miss it!

Click the blurb below for more details:

Rollins College - Event Details View - Lyle Rexer presents "The Edge of Vision—or the End of Vision? Photography after Abstraction"

...and the Top 10 from 1 of the Photo-Eye Judges

Click HERE to read the article.
(Might want to read over the post below first).

Photo-Eye Announces Best Books of 2010

Click HERE and have a look.

The End of Kodachrome

Steve Hebert for The New York Times

Read the full story in The New York Times.

Hide/Seek Exhibition Walk Through Video

Here is a great examples of how not to see an exhibition. Nonetheless, it does give a good sense of how the show is laid out. Have a look, and pause here and there.

Bill Armstrong and Linda Connor at SEMP in Daytona

Both exhibitions close on February 6, 2011
The Southeast Museum of Photography

ODYSSEY
The Photographs of Linda Connor

Linda Connor, Muhammad Ali Mosque, Cairo, Egypt, 1989

Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor reflects an artist’s pursuit of diverse and compelling subjects from around the world. Although she frequently focuses on devotional sites and monuments, Connor is also drawn to revealing the spirit embedded in everyday life. She is fascinated with photography’s relationship to time: her pictures present a compelling combination of timelessness and a palpable sense of the passage of time. Another core element in her work concerns the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the sacred; its sites, iconography, and philosophy. Odyssey includes some of Connor’s best-known images from the...MORE

SPIRIT
From the Infinity Series
Bill Armstrong

Bill Armstrong, Figure 02, 1999

Bill Armstrong’s Infinity series transforms re-photographed and appropriated images to create ephemeral, abstracted and de-materialized color fields and strongly evocative iconic figures. Working with source material as diverse as African masks, Roman busts, statuary and other representations, Armstrong’s finished figurative andportrait images are powerfully evocative of an unseen presence. Spirit presents selections from five of the series that make up Bill Armstrong’s Infinity project. Working with his unique process of re-photographing...MORE

Please note: Bill Armstrong will also have work in the exhibition, The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography which will be on view in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum all semester.

Disneyland Dreamer

Robbins Barstow, Home-Movie Maven, Dies at 91

Robbins Barstow, a Connecticut man who, movie camera whirring, documented every aspect of his family’s life for decades, yielding a vast body of work that formed the cornerstone of the recent home-movie revival and has lately garnered a huge following online, died on Nov. 7 at his home in Hartford. He was 91 and previously lived in Wethersfield, Conn.

Mr. Barstow made more than a hundred films in the course of eight decades. In 2008, his best-known, “Disneyland Dream” (1956), a 30-minute account of a family vacation, was named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Read the entire story from The New York Times HERE.

You can find Disneyland Dream and an AMAZING mass of other films at archive.org

New Issue of Ahorn

© Claudine Doury, Famille de Silkhon, Kiziljar, KZ, 2003

And man, oh man, is it GREAT!
Click HERE to see it.

Six Reflections on the Photography of Robert Frank

“I have a lot in back of me – of what has happened in my life – and that’s a tremendous pull backward. And in front of me I love the sea.” - Robert Frank

Robert Frank
Sick of Goodby's, Mabou 1978
© Foto museum Winterthur/National Gallery. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Gelatin silver print
48.3x33cm

Click HERE to read some wonderful comments on Frank's photographs (such as my favorite, above) by Ed Ruscha, Lou Reed, Mary Ellen Mark and others.

Ed Templeton - The Second Pass

The Second Pass, by Ed Templeton. Published by Seems Books, 2010.

Here is a GREAT example of how an artist has combined photographic images together in a meaningful and intentional manner in the form of an artist's book. This should help those of your in Memory and The Photograph.

To read more about the book, click HERE