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April 28th, Deltona, FL: Gallery Talk with Beate Sass
- © 2012 Beate Sass
Southeast Museum of Photography
Gallery Talk with Beate Sass: Tall Timbers Plantation Project
Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm
In this talk, “Beate Sass will be discussing her photographic and oral history project entitled Tall Timbers Plantation. This project is about the former tenant farmers that lived on Tall Timbers Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida from the early to mid-1900’s and honors the important role their families played in the survival of the plantations after the emancipation. This photographic project includes the portraits and accompanying oral histories of the former tenant farmers as well as photographs created at the restored Jones Family Tenant House and the Beadel House, the plantation house, at Tall Timbers.
Accompanying Beate in her talk will be Juanita Whiddon, the archivist from Tall Timbers Research and Land Conservancy (formally Tall Timbers Plantation). Juanita was instrumental in acquiring funds and overseeing the restoration of the historic structures on Tall Timbers and has dedicated herself to documenting the history of this fascinating place.”
This talk is being presented in conjunction with Beate Sass’ exhibition Tall Timbers Plantation Project on view until August 12, 2012 at the:
Lyonia Environmental Center, Lyonia Gallery
2150 Eustace Avenue
Deltona, Florida
April 24th, Tucson: Lecture by Luke Batten “Robert Heinecken, Object Matter”
Center for Creative Photography
Luke Batten: Robert Heinecken, Object Matter
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 5:30pm
“Luke Batten, Director of the Robert Heinecken Trust, will discuss the editing of a new monograph published by Riding House detailing Heinecken’s artistic output from 1957-1997. The monograph, Robert Heinecken, expands our knowledge of his artistic practice by including several unpublished works from the 1950′s and reassembled magazines created in the 1990′s. The focus of the discussion will concentrate on Mr. Heinecken’s penchant for experimenting with photographic processes and materials.
Batten is Associate Professor of Photography at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois. He received his MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.”
This lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heineken, 1961-1976. It will be on view until June 17, 2012.
Center for Creative Photography, CCP Auditorium
The University of Arizona
1030 North Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0103 [map]
April 19th, Tucson: Curator’s Talk with Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
Center for Creative Photography
Curator’s Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 5:30
Free and open to the public.
“Claudia Bohn-Spector will discuss the current CCP exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976, that she co-curated with Sam Mellon. Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent scholar and curator in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Munich, Germany. A specialist in American art and culture, she has curated numerous fine art exhibitions, including a critically acclaimed survey of Los Angeles photography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, entitled This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs. With Sam Mellon, she is currently working on a book-length study entitled WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to 1975, for publication in 2013.”
This lecture is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heineken, 1961-1976. It will be on view until June 17, 2012.
Center for Creative Photography, CCP Auditorium
The University of Arizona
1030 North Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0103 [map]
Pittsburgh: April 18th Gallery Talk & Reception for Silver Eye Benefit Auction on April 29th
Silver Eye Center for Photography
Gallery Talk and Reception
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 6:30 pm
“Get a behind the scenes look at the Auction and photographs up for bid by joining Ellen Fleurov, Silver Eye’s Executive Director, and Brian Lang, Curator, Corporate Art Collection, BNY Mellon, as they discuss the pleasures of collecting photography and highlight works in the Auction. Many of the local artists whose work is showcased will also be present. Free but RSVP requested; please contact 412.431.1810, ext. 12 or jzipay@silvereye.org.”
Silver Eye Center for Photography
1015 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203-1109 [map]
Tel: 412.431.1810
2012 Benefit Auction and Brunch
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Event Tickets and Bidding
“Tickets are $75 per person and includes a day of great art, a silent auction, delectable food from Chef Bob Sendall of All in Good Taste Productions, outstanding wines from Engine House No. 25, and signature cocktails from Boyd & Blair Vodka.
This event is always a sell-out, so purchase your tickets online today at the Auction website, www.biddingforgood.com/SilverEye. You can also order tickets by contacting Juliana Zipay at 412.431.1810, ext. 12 or at jzipay [at] silvereye.org.
Auction bidding online is now open through April 26th. The Auction website also features the Auction catalog, absentee bid instructions and forms, directions, and other information about the event.
Auction Preview (Online and In-Person)
This year’s Auction features a dazzling array of vintage and contemporary photographs, ranging from images by esteemed masters of photography to new work by the stars of tomorrow. You can view the work and bid online (check back often for new items added every week) or see the photographs in person at the Preview Exhibition now open through April 25, 2012.
Aaronel deRoy Gruber (1918-2011), whom we honor this year, is but one of the more than 40 artists in the Auction. You’ll also find great vintage and modern prints by Walker Evans, Charles “Teenie” Harris, Carrie Schneider, Scott Conarroe, Duane Michals, Ed Panar, Fran Forman, Henry J. Simonds, Akihiko Miyoshi, Rebecca Sittler, Daniel Kramer, Aaron Siskind, and Abelardo Morell, to name just a few.
Sara Friedlander, a specialist in Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s, New York, is the auctioneer for the afternoon.
New to the Auction this year are exclusive travel packages, tickets to theater, cultural and top-tier sporting event, and many more unique items and experience guaranteed to delight and surprise.
Buy Great Art and Invest in Silver Eye’s Future
Place your bid online now at www.biddingforgood.com/SilverEye or at the live event, knowing that you are helping support Pittsburgh’s nationally-acclaimed center for contemporary photography. See you at the Auction!
The fundraiser will be held at the Clear Story Studio on Pittsburgh’s historic Southside.”
Clear Story Studio
1931 Sidney Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [map]
April 22nd, NYC: Panel Discussion “Photographs Not Taken”
MoMA/PS1
Panel Discussion and Book Signing: Photographs Not Taken
Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:00-4:00 pm
“Join ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 for a panel discussion and book signing for Photographs Not Taken, a fascinating collection of photographers’ essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked more than 60 photographers to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph and instead make one using words. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind it. Panelists include contributors Nina Berman, Gregory Halpern, Amy Stein, and editor Will Steacy, and the event is moderated by Daylight Publishing cofounders Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff.”
MoMA/PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, New York 11101 [map]
Tel: 718.784.2084
April 12th, Akron: Artist Talk by Bea Nettles
- © 2012 Bea Nettles
Akron Museum of Art
Artist Talk by Bea Nettles
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public: Reservations required.
Book signing at 6:00 pm
“The photographs of Bea Nettles often depict the artist’s intimate family life, yet they also speak to the broad ideas of what it means to be a mother, teacher and artist, which she describes as her greatest roles. The focus of this exhibition, a survey of the museum’s collection of Nettles’ photographs, is the artist’s use of autobiographical imagery, animated by her experimental processes.
Many of her images contain metaphoric views of domesticity and motherhood. This poetic approach is apparent throughout her career with the inclusion of text in images, inventive bookmaking and self-publishing. The museum’s collection also contains works made from Polaroids, etchings and digital and dye transfer prints, all of which are gifts of the artist.”
This talk is being presented in conjunction with her exhibition, String of Hearts: Photographs by Bea Nettles, on view until July 22, 2012.
Akron Art Museum
1 South High
Akron, Ohio 44308 [map]
April 11th, Chicago: Columbia College Photography Auction for Student Scholarships
Columbia College Photography Department
Inaugural Photography Auction for Student Scholarships
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:00-8:00 pm
“Join the greater Chicago photography community for a night of music, food, drinks, and camaraderie. Works will be available through a raffle type of auction, allowing for participation for a wide range of guests.”
Manifest Gallery Space
1006 South Michigan Avenue, 1st floor
Chicago, Illinois 60605 [map]
April 18th, NYC: Upcoming Exhibition at MoMA “The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook”
Museum of Modern Art
The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook
Exhibition Opens: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
“This exhibition, covering the period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of photography’s role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements—with a special emphasis on the medium’s relation to Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Constructivism, New Objectivity, Conceptual, and Post-Conceptual art—and in the development of contemporary artistic practices.
The shaping of what came to be known as “New Vision” photography bore the obvious influence of “lens-based” and “time-based” works. El Lissitzky best summarized its ethos: “The new world will not need little pictures,” he wrote in The Conquest of Art (1922). “If it needs a mirror, it has the photograph and the cinema.”
Bringing together over 250 works from MoMA’s collection, the exhibition features major projects by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Germaine Krull, Gerhard Rühm, Helen Levitt, Daido Moriyama, Robert Heinecken, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, and Walid Raad, among others. Photographic history is presented as a multivalent history of distinct “new visions,” rooted in unconventional and innovative exercises that range from photograms and photomontages to experimental films and photobooks.
Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography.”
April 10th, Albuquerque: Lecture by James Enyeart “Lee Friedlander: Truth In Excess of Fact”
University of New Mexico Art Museum
Lecture by James Enyeart: Lee Friedlander: Truth In Excess of Fact
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
“James Enyeart is a renowned authority on photography and has authored or edited over two dozen publications including, Lee Friedlander: Sticks and Stones, Architectural America. He has been internationally recognized and awarded the Josef Sudek Medal from Czechoslovakia; the Photographic Society of Japan Achievement Award; the Photokina Obelisk in Cologne, Germany, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Mr. Enyeart has served several institutions in leadership capacities including three directorships: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; and, founding director of the Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the former College of Santa Fe.
Book signing with Jim Enyeart featuring Lee Friedlander: Sticks and Stones following the evening’s lecture.”
UNM Art Museum
1909 Las Lomas Road Northeast
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 [map]
April 10th, San Francisco: Artist Talk by LaToya Ruby Frazier
© 2012 LaToya Ruby Frazier
Pier 24 | California College of the Arts | SFMOMA
Artist Talk by LaToya Ruby Frazier
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
“LaToya Ruby Frazier‘s photography and video work employs such themes as the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and human complexity. Frazier’s nine-year artistic collaboration with her family has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Village Voice.”
California College of the Arts, San Francisco Campus
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, California 94107