Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Whitney Biennial 2012 Artists Announced

A great Spring Break activity - I'll be there!  Click HERE for more info.  (Their website usually becomes pretty interactive, with loads of info on the artists involved as the opening gets closer - keep checking back, periodically).

Content below from the Whitney website:
"The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial, which takes place at the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, 2012, with some programs continuing through June 10. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.  The Whitney Biennial is an exhibition held every two years in which the Museum gauges the current state of contemporary art in America."

Monday, January 9, 2012

Today's Find - Christian Friedrich

Untitled (2011): Where Time Has Lost Its Relevance II
@ P///////AKT in Amsterdam

Great review on Frieze

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Leigh-Ann Pahapill to Install Site-Specific Work at CFAM this January

We are fortunate to have Leigh-Ann Pahapill return to campus this month to install a site-specific work in The Cornell Fine Arts Museum.  An excerpt from the CFAM website is below:

Likewise, as technical experts, but not (at all) by way of culture / an installation by Leigh-Ann Pahapill  (through April 8)
This on-site installation by Canadian artist Leigh-Ann Pahapill will be created by the artist over a two week period.  The artist's description of the work describes "a kind of platform enclosed by a balustrade in front of, in the distance, in the forground, in the background, in place of a guide or direction set up to indicate the proper road to a place, in due time, in recent time, in the future, in the past, in parallel to the tiers of boxes of which the gallery consists, in a moment, inside and into, in many respects the screen separating the stage from the auditorium, in relation to a piece of cloth or similar material suspended by the top so as to admit of being withdrawn sideways" (Leigh-Ann Pahapill).
  • Panel Discussion 
  • Saturday, January 28, 2012
    12:00 p.m.
    Cornell Fine Arts Museum

    Artist Leigh-Ann Pahapill and invited guest panelists will participate in an informal discussion on her process in relation to the exhibition on view at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, moderated by Dr. Jonathan F. Walz, Interim Director of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
See below for an installation view of one of Pahapill's recent works (from the Frieze Art Fair website)


Axes and points from which
2010
Used projection screens, tubular steel holders and numeric print
Dimensions variable
Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Catherine Bastide

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Website Update for Flak Photo = Awesome!

One of THE best on-line resources for photography and photographers.  FlakPhoto is a great place to start for research or general point and clicking.  I highly recommend a daily visit to this site or, subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking HERE.

Content below is excerpted from the Flak Photo website:

What is Flak Photo and how has it evolved?

Flak Photo is an online photography channel that presents the work of artists, curators, bookmakers and photo organizations to a global audience of people who are passionate about visual culture. The site's main feature is The Collection, a digital archive of contemporary photographs which is updated five times weekly. Since launching in 2006, I've expanded my program to include a Galleries, Books, Features, and Motion section.

The project has roots in online publishing and arts exhibition and I frequently collaborate with presses, galleries, and museums to produce a continuous program of promotional “happenings”. In addition to the website, I publish a Facebook page, Twitter feed and Google+ profile and I interact with those audiences on a daily basis. I'm passionate about creative collaboration and am constantly energized by what’s happening in the online community, so producing Flak Photo gives me an outlet to satisfy that craving.

flakphoto.com




David Favrod - Today's Discovery

Amazing stuff and really interesting installation views of the work.  Click HERE to peruse.


Image Credit:  David Favrod

Monday, January 2, 2012

New Year, New Blog Image - Thanks to my Former Teachers

I started this blog for my students a few years back and have been using photographs of my former instructors as title page images, 1) because their images are fantastic and 2) as a way to say thanks!  So far I've included images from Jin Lee and Bill O'Donnell, and this year I've finally got one up from Rhondal McKinney, my MFA thesis advisor.  Making this little update prompted me to think about the many people I've had a chance to learn from over the years, and I'd like to acknowledge the tremendous support I received from some of my professors and teachers that enhanced my photographic education by helping me to think more critically about lens-based media in general through film and video (Scott Rankin, Enie Vaisburd and Bushra Azzouz particularly) and contemporary art and art history, and professional practice (Melissa Johnson, Martin Patrick, Jim Mai, Shona MacDonald, Paul Sacaridiz, Mike Wille, Melissa Oresky, Barry Blinderman, Margaret Shirley, Paul Sutinen, Terri Hopkins and, most especially, Rich Rollins - the most influential of them all).  Thanks to everyone!!





Image Credit:  Rich Rollins, 1996

Photo-Eye Best of 2011



Get ready for some good clicking!  Always a treat to see which books were selected, and by whom.  Great roster as usual this year.  Click HERE to have a look.

Monday, December 5, 2011

New MFA Page on Reframing Photography Site

This is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in pursuing graduate study in photography.  You can read over summaries of different programs and view work from students currently enrolled.  The page is sure to keep growing, I highly recommend bookmarking it as a resource.  The link is HERE.

Katie St. Clair, Ophilia
 
Katie St. Clair is a current graduate student at The University of Michigan.  You can view more of her work at http://katiestclair.com/

Saturday, November 26, 2011

David Maisel - History's Shadow

This one is on my Christmas list for sure:

Publisher's Description
David Maisel’s work has always been concerned with processes of memory, excavation, and transformation. These themes are given new form in his latest work, History’s Shadow. In this series, Maisel re-photographs x-rays from museum archives that depict artifacts from antiquity, scanning and digitally manipulating the selected source material. X-rays have historically been used by art conservators for structural examination of art and artifacts much as physicians examine bones and internal organs; they reveal losses, replacements, construction methods, and internal trauma invisible to the naked eye. By transcribing both the inner and outer surfaces of their subjects simultaneously, they form spectral images of indeterminate space, depth, and scale. The resulting photographs seem like transmissions from the distant past, both spanning and collapsing time. They express – through feeling and art, as well as science and reason – the shape-shifting nature of time itself, and the continuous presence of the past contained within us. The book contains an original short story by Jonathan Lethem that was inspired by Maisel’s images.


Above content from Photo-Eye

Friday, November 25, 2011

Crime Unseen @ MoCP in Chicago

If you are in Chicago over the holidays, this looks like an interesting exhibit to go see (the MoCP is always worth a visit, if you are ever in the neighborhood)...

Crime Unseen

October 28, 2011 - January 15, 2012

Featuring the work of:
Richard Barnes
Corinne May Botz
Christopher Dawson
Deborah Luster
Christian Patterson
Taryn Simon
Angela Strassheim
Krista Wortendyke


Angela Strassheim, Evidence #11, 2009

Friday, November 11, 2011

Barry Stone - Dark Side of the Rainbow at Art Palace, Houston



 Barry Stone
"Darkside of the Rainbow" (Exhibition view including from left to right, Positive Eclipse of 1919, Promises Promises, Negative Eclipse of 1919, all 2011)
Courtesy of the artist


The title of Barry Stone’s first solo exhibition at Art Palace, Dark Side of the Rainbow, refers to the cultural phenomenon of playing Pink Floyd’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack for Victor Fleming’s1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Fans claim there are moments when the lyrics or music correspond to the action in the film. References to Dark Side of the Rainbow appear throughout photographs, drawings and paintings in the show.





Above content from a review of Stone's show in ...might be good
Read the full review HERE

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Herlinde Koelbl at (or rather, on) Seven Screens in Munich

SEVEN SCREENS is a unique lighting technology platform for alternating art projects in Munich. Behind this is a one-of-a-kind artistic concept within the scope of an ambitious format for art in public space.

Click HERE to read about Koelbl's installation.

Herlinde Koelbl, "You have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it," 2011.
Video installation, Seven Screens / OSRAM ART PROJECTS.
Photo: Herlinde Koelbl.

New online feminist quarterly - After Bellmer

After Bellmer, launched in 2011 by Cortney Andrews and Talia Chetrit, is an online feminist quarterly of contemporary art and writing. The project is designed to create a dialogue surrounding the many facets of contemporary female identity and sexuality.

View Issue #2 HERE

Issue #2 contains work by artists Jesper Just, Rona Yefman, Keren Cytter, and Carolee Schneeman, who all expose resistance(s) to the everyday cultural norms which construct sexual identity, desirability and relationships.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Libby Rowe - Dwellings

"I am intrigued by the dual meaning of the word dwelling. How the “mental state” of dwelling is seen as definitively negative, but the “home” dwelling is at definition neutral but in reality holds the potential for both positive and negative associations. This series of photographs uses physical dwellings made from materials that, along with their environments, suggest a state of contemplation." - Libby Rowe


Libby Rowe  - Homeland Security, 19" x 13" Digital C-print
2008 
 
 To see more work from this series, click HERE.