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April 10th, Syracuse: Artist Talk by William Wegman
- © 2012 William Wegman
Urban Video Project at the Everson Museum of Art
Artist Talk by William Wegman
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 6:30 pm
This talk is in conjunction with Wegman’s video installation Fo Flow at the Everson Museum of Art. The video is being projected onto the north façade of the museum, it will be on view until April 30th.
“The video, Flo Flow, is William Wegman’s latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970′s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman’s photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman’s uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of ‘animals’ and the strangeness of humans.
About the Artist
William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1965 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he taught at the University of Wisconsin. In the fall of 1970 he moved to Southern California where he taught for one year at California State College, Long Beach. By the early 70s, Wegman’s work was being exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. In addition to solo shows with Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and New York, Situation Gallery in London and Konrad Fisher Gallery in Dusseldorf , his work was included in such seminal exhibitions as “When Attitudes Become Form,” and “Documenta V” and regularly featured in Interfunktionen, Artforum and Avalanche.”
Everson Museum of Art
Artist Talk to be held in the Auditorium
401 Harrison Street
Syracuse, New York 13202 [map]
April 2nd, NYC: Artist Talk by James Casebere
Aperture Gallery 
Artist Talk by James Casebere
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
“While James Casebere‘s earlier bodies of work focused on American mythologies such as the genre of the western and suburban home, in the early 1990s, he turned his attention to institutional buildings. In more recent years, his subject matter focused on various institutional spaces and the relationship between social control, social structure, and the mythologies that surround particular institutions, as well as the broader implications of dominant systems such as commerce, labor, religion, and law.
In 2001, Sean Kelly Gallery presented an exhibition of Casebere’s works from 1999 to the present, including those inspired by the indigenous architecture of the Caribbean Island of Nevis, traditional Japanese architecture, and an imagined gallery space. This exhibition also featured a now well-known body of work inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s utopian Monticello. In the following years he has continued to investigate a wide range of iconic architectural spaces, resulting in increasingly sophisticated layers of interpretation. Two photographs from his most recent series, Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY), were featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.”
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York [map]
(212) 505-5555
April 2012 is Portland Photo Month
“April 2012 is Portland Photo Month! Join us in celebrating the art, history and practice of photography during the 2nd annual Portland Photo Month. Exhibitions, discussions and projections will dot our great city! Venture out, learn about, and celebrate Portland, Oregon’s city-wide focus on photography.”
To see the artist talks and receptions planned throughout the month click here.
To see the many different exhibitions throughout the city, click here.
June 7th-10th, Boston: Flash Forward Festival 2012
Magenta Foundation
Flash Forward Festival Boston
June 7-10, 2012
Admission: Free and open to the public.
This year is “the second annual Flash Forward Festival Boston, an extension of The Magenta Foundation’s successful Flash Forward Annual Competition for Emerging Photographers. Acknowledged as a critically important vanguard for introducing emerging talent from Canada, the UK and the US to a global audience, the annual competition continues to seek new ways to engage those interested in photography. The addition of this festival component is designed to provide opportunities for anybody interested in emerging photography, the evolving image industry surrounding it, and the self-publishing phenomenon.”
“This new installment of the Festival had our Programming Committee [Erin Elder, Clare Jordan, Robyn McCallum, Andy Adams and MaryAnn Camilleri] exploring the topics that interest and influence our industry. The committee, made up of professionals working in the commercial, fine art and social media aspects of the photography world, found loads of common ground and know that they’ve come up with timely and informative topics for lectures, panel discussions and seminars. After all, who doesn’t want to learn how to:
- Make more money as a freelancer
- Build a social media campaign [or even start one, for that matter]
- Raise essential funds for projects or
- Learn how Art Directors find work?
Along with bringing you some top-notch exhibitions, the Flash Forward Festival is all about ‘How to Succeed in Business’, and we are thrilled to share this noteworthy line up of guests and talks with you. Special guests this year include:
- Chris Dixon from Vanity Fair, and Natalie Cusson from enRoute, will talk about their roles as Design and Art Directors of leading magazines.
- John Knight, co-founder and editor of iPad-exclusive Once Magazine, will talk about his experience creating an app that uses this dynamic platform that challenges traditional economic models of publishing and re-imagines what a photo story can be.
- Tina Ahrens from Emphas.is will inform photojournalists and photographers about the ins and outs of HOW TO FUND THEIR PROJECTS!
- Canadian photographer Tony Fouhse will talk about the twists and turns of working on a project, what happens to influence that process, and how to adapt to change along the way.”
Set within the Boston cityscape, the five-day festival is based out of the Fairmont Battery Wharf, offering an in-depth experience through organized networking events and educational programming that brings internationally respected industry professionals together to share their knowledge with the next generation of photographers. Programming includes curated indoor and outdoor exhibitions, a Harborwalk exhibition series featuring work from local galleries, along with lectures, panel discussions, and nightly events. This official program guide contains all the information that you will need to plan your itinerary.”
-Information from Flash Forward March newsletter.
To learn more about the festival, visit their website: www.flashforwardfestival.com.
March 30th, Houston: Lecture with W. M. Hunt “The Unseen I…A Life in Photography and Other Digressions”
Houston Center for Photography
Lecture with W. M. Hunt The Unseen I…A Life in Photography and Other Digressions
Friday, March 30, 2012, 6:00-7:00 pm
Free and open to the public. Book signing and reception to follow.
“In conjunction with his new book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, W.M. – Bill – Hunt has created a special performance piece suggested by his text for the book. This monologue with projections and video will consist of ruminations on his many years of collecting and a life in photographs. Mr. Hunt has been a collector since his early years as an actor. The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious presents an idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: magical, heart stopping images of people in which the eyes are obscured, veiled, or otherwise hidden. The gaze of the subject is averted. The pictures present a catalog of anti-portraiture, characterized at first glance by what its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals.”
HCP Main Gallery
1441 West Alabama
Houston, Texas 77006 [map]
Tel: 713-529-4755
March 29th, Houston: Lecture by Catherine Wagner “Photographs and Public Projects”
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Lecture by Catherine Wagner Photographs and Public Projects
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
“Catherine Wagner is an artist who works with elements of contemporary society and transforms them into conceptual images that investigate culture. For over thirty years she has been a keen observer of the built environment, examining institutions of learning and knowledge, such as art museums and science labs, as well as the ways we construct our cultural identity. Ms. Wagner’s process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls ‘the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves.’”
- © 2012 Catherine Wagner
Brown Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, Texas 77005 [map]
Co-sponsored by the Houston Center for Photography and Photo Forum at MFAH.
March 27th, NYC: Performance with W.M. Hunt “The Unseen Eye: A Life in Photographs and Other Digressions…”
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
The Unseen Eye: A Life in Photographs and Other Digressions…
A multimedia performance piece with W. M. Hunt
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
“W. M. “Bill” Hunt will recreate this unique performance piece suggested by the text for his book, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious (Aperture, 2011). Hunt debuted A Life in Photographs and Other Digressions… last October when the book was launched. Hunt, who is known for his wit and larger-than-life personality, has created a special performance piece suggested by his text from the book. This evening is one of information and digression, hopefully bringing to light many of the names and stories left out of the book.
This monologue, accompanied by projections and video, will be a rumination on his many years of collecting, on a life in photographs. Hunt has been a collector since his early years as an actor. He has been a fundraiser (Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund), a dealer (Ricco/Maresca Gallery and his own Hasted Hunt) as well as a writer and a teacher.
His book, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, presents a wonderfully idiosyncratic and compelling collection of photographs assembled around a particular theme: magical, heart-stopping images of people in which the eyes are obscured, veiled, or otherwise hidden. The gaze of the subject is averted. The pictures are characterized by what, at first glance, its subjects conceal, not by what the camera reveals.”
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York [map]
(212) 505-5555
March 15th, Houston: Reception & Artist Talks with Julie Blackmon, Bastienne Schmidt & Priya Kambali
Houston Center for Photography
Opening Reception Thursday, March 15th, 6:00-8:00 pm
Artist Talks Thursday, March 15th at 5:30 pm
Free and open to the public.
- © 2012 Julie Blackmon
Julie Blackmon: The Power of Now and Other Tales from Home
Exhibition in the Main Gallery; on view until April 22nd.
“Julie Blackmon’s images from The Power of Now and Other Tales from Homenarrate and amplify the tales of a contemporary household. The photographs are part fiction, part fact. Like a highly edited reality television show, they consist of rehearsed moments stitched together to create compressed and exaggerated scenes. Blackmon’s photographs shatter the idea of domestic perfection, an ideal that is sold through lifestyle magazines, consumer products, the media, and the retail world. Pop culture edits works toward perfection, while Blackmon’s edits showcase real flaws such as boredom, self-absorption, and obsession. Each of Blackmon’s photographs is a commentary on the conflicted imperatives of contemporary culture. They are tales from home, spun from art history, popular fiction, and personal experience.”
- © 2012 Bastienne Schmidt
Bastienne Schmidt: Home Stills
Exhibition in Galleries X & Y: on view until April 22nd.
“Like Jack Kerouac in On the Road or Travis Henderson in Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas, Bastienne Schmidt’s character roams America’s suburban terrain. She demurely shields her face from the camera’s gaze, tempting us to daydream about her inner thoughts while we participate as curious onlookers in her journeys. We travel through Schmidt’s deadpan cinematic vignettes with an anonymous feminine creature who is forever discovering her local environs. In her series, Home Stills, Schmidt explores the ethos of America in relationship to nature, as well as American culture’s traditional and contemporary gender roles. In some photographs, Schmidt actualizes the yearnings for freedom of the foreigner who once wandered America before the onset of family duty. Introducing family into later scenes, Schmidt portrays life further along in the cycle of womanhood – seeking to find her purpose as a housewife through controlled experiments performed and photographed within her home.”
- © 2012 Priya Kambali
Priya Kimbali: Color Falls Down
Exhibition in the Learning Center Gallery; on view until April 22nd.
“Pairing customs reminiscent of a different place and time with her contemporary American life, Priya Kambli foregrounds the ideas of displacement through storytelling. Kambli’s photographic language consists of entangled autobiographical artifacts that carry diverse temporal and cultural meanings. In front of the camera, Kambli dually performs her ancestors’ histories, as well as her own in attempts to journal what it means for her to be bicultural. She shuffles all of these journeyed objects – including her representation of self – to form a family tree of disjointed stories The juxtapositions of old and new bridge gaps in time and space, transforming the artist’s attachment to the past and present.”
Houston Center for Photography
1441 West Alabama
Houston, Texas 77006 [map]
p: 713-529-4755
March 6th, Albuquerque: Artist Talk by Joel Peter-Witkin
University of New Mexico Art Museum 
Artist Talk by Joel Peter-Witkin, Matter Into Spirit
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Free and open to the public (suggested donation of $5).
“Joel Peter-Witkin (American, b. 1939) remains one of the most innovative and controversial living photographers who is best known for his provocative tableaux that are highly symbolic amalgamations and contemporary versions of the medieval tradition of the momento mori; that is, images that serve to remind the viewer of her/his own mortality. Witkin’s oeuvre is distinguished, perhaps like no other in the international pantheon of vanguard photography, through his constructed versions of heaven and hell, suffering and deliverance, morbidity and beauty laced with Christian iconography and pagan myth. The aura of the photographs are enhanced by deliberate manipulation of the surface to make them appear aged, an act that comments on the nature of the photographic image by calling into question its permanency.”
The Art Museum is located in the Center for the Arts, UNM Main Campus [map].
Paid parking available in Structure accessed at Central and Stanford.
March 4th, Riverwoods, IL: Opening Reception & Artist Talk with Colleen Plumb “Animals Are Outside Today”
- © 2012 Colleen Plumb
Ryerson Woods, Brushwood
Colleen Plumb’s Animals Are Outside Today
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 4, 2012, 1:00-3:00 pm
Artist Talk at 2:15 pm
Free and open to the public.
“In this solo show Animals Are Outside Today, Colleen Plumb examines relationships between humans and animals, studying how animals are woven through the fabric of culture. Living and dead, real and fake, as displays or companions, these images investigate our ambivalence or perhaps multivalent attitudes toward animals, exposing both our kinship and disjuncture from other creatures of the Earth. Opening reception includes a talk by the artist and a book signing.”
The exhibition will be on view until April 29, 2012.
Riverwoods, Illinois (just west of Deerfield, IL) [map]