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/

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

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

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

Lomokino - Wow!

http://microsites.lomography.com/lomokino/

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.

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.

"Photography Is" - by Mishka Henner

Mishka Henner / Works

Photography Is

"Photography Is presents more than 3,000 phrases that define one of the most democratic and ubiquitous of all art forms. Mirroring the ambiguous and untrustworthy nature of photographs themselves, each phrase in this book has been torn from the context in which it originally appeared. The result is contradictory and chaotic, frustrating and insightful. In short, it is photography, without photographs."

 - Mishka Henner

Click HERE to view the book on-line and/or to order.

Nan Goldin @ Matthew Marks in NYC

Sounds pretty nice, actually - wish I'd get a chance to see it.  If you're up that way, I'm sure it would be worthwhile.  Click HERE to read an interview with Goldin where she discusses walking around the Louvre while closed to the public, and click HERE to view images from the exhibition.  You can also read the press release on the Matthew Marks website.

 

Nan Goldin, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Nan Goldin's "Swan Like Embrace," which she paired with a detail of an 1855 painting of Paolo and Francesca in hell by Ary Scheffer.

Harun Farocki on Materiality

This may be of interest in light of our conversation in Video Art class yesterday (or to those of you just starting your video projects in digital media)...

Ryan Trecartin's Trailer for MOMA Exhibition

ANY EVER (Trailer), Ryan Trecartin PS1 from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.

Karn Cytter's Video Art Manual at Zach Feuer in New York

VIDEO ART MANUAL from keren cytter on Vimeo.

Click HERE to read a review of the exhibition.


Above video link from Rhizome

Julie Lequin at Crisp-Ellert Museum in St. Augustine, Florida

ARTIST TALK TONIGHT, OCTOBER 10TH @ 7 P.M.
If you are in town, and feel like making a trip over to St. Augustine - I'm sure this would absolutely be worth your while.

Lequin's video piece, Top 30 will be on view at the museum through November 24th.

You can view excerpts from more of Lequin's video work HERE.
A link to the museum website detailing the exhibition is HERE.


TOP 30 (30th chapter) from Julie Lequin on Vimeo.

Interview with Marc Baruth

"Reality is always mere allegation, and in my works, I absolutely deny constructed reality, which may at best be found in the representation of a tiny, actually photographed element." - M. Baruth

Click HERE to read the full interview on the blog - at Length.

 Marc Baruth - Cows, Shepherds and Duckhunters, 2007, from The Prodigal Son