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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 The monograph, Robert Heinecken, expands our knowledge of his artistic practice by including several unpublished works from the 1950′s and reassembled magazines created in the 1990′s. The focus of the discussion will concentrate on Mr.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 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 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 6th, Portland: Critical Mass 2011 Opening Reception
Newspace Center for Photography
Opening Reception for Critical Mass 2011
Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness & Everything Else
Friday, April 6, 2012, 6:00-9:00 pm
“The aim of Photolucida’s Critical Mass program is to give exposure to emerging and mid-career photographers across the globe. In 2011, over 500 artists entered their work for the chance to be seen by over 200 professionals in the photography world. Curators, gallery directors, editors, and publishers juried the work of these artists, and through a truly democratic process, narrowed the field down to the Critical Mass TOP 50. This exhibition, juried by Darius Himes, will travel from Photo Center NW in Seattle to Newspace Center for Photography, and RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco, furthering the mission of all four photography organizations to bring top emerging talent to the public.”
The exhibition will be on view until April 29, 2012.
1632 Southeast 10th Avenue
Portland, Oregon [map]
Tel: (503) 963-1935
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 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.
Deadline April 9th: “PhotoPlace Open” Call for Entries
PhotoPlace Gallery
Call for Entries: PhotoPlace Open
Deadline: Monday, April 9, 2012 at 12:00 am EDT
Fee: $25 for 5 images; $6 for each additional.
“PhotoPlace Gallery is pleased to welcome Kyohei Abe as the juror for the 3rd annual PhotoPlace Open. Kyohei Abe is Chief Curator and Director of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. Abe holds an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his photos are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the Detroit Institute of Art, and numerous private and corporate collections around the world. He is a faculty member at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit.
For PhotoPlace Open, 2012, Abe will select forty photos for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery from June 12 through July 9, 2012. He will also choose an additional thirty-five photos for the gallery’s “Online Annex.” All selected work will be included in a full-color exhibition catalog available for purchase. To help artists defray costs, PhotoPlace Gallery offers to mat and frame work selected for exhibition free of charge, providing artists print their images to our pre-cut mat and frame sizes.
For the PhotoPlace Open, PhotoPlace seeks photographs of any subject in any style or medium.
- Only digital files accepted.
- Image size should be 72 ppi at 1024 on the longest side.
- Save as JPEG only and as sRGB for best display.
- Files should be titled as follows: LastName_FirstName_1Title.jpg The number should correspond with the number on the application form. If you include the application form as a word or pdf document, please title it LastName_First.
- All work must be the original work of the artist.
- E-mail digital files and application form to photos@vtphotoworkplace.com.
- OR mail CD (not DVD) with all materials on CD to:
PhotoPlace Gallery
3 Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753
CDs must be received by the submission deadline.“
Click here for the application form.