Susanna Pozzoli – On the Block. Harlem Private View, 2007-2009
Presented by The Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasio Arte
111 Front Street, Suite 200
Susanna Pozzoli was invited in 2007 by the international art residency program Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasio Arte (HSF by MA) to develop a photographic project. The result was a three years long fascinating portrait, On the Block Harlem Private View (2007-2009), of all the buildings interiors (private houses, school, church, bar, doctor s office) present in one single city block, the one where HSF by MA is located: 121st Street between Lenox Ave and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.
Though the total absence of human presence, these portraits strongly allude to the controversial social phase of gentrification, which consists of an invasion by middle-class or higher income groups in a neighbourhood traditionally belonged to African American community.
After Pozzoli became part of the Harlem community and she convinced her neighbours to let her enter in their houses, she started photographing their private spaces with her 6×6 Rolleiflex. Considering that Ms Pozzoli wasn t allowed to set up anything, nor to stage any lights, her work immediately gain more value and significance. As a completion of the photographic work, a book -.containing the photographs and bilingual texts by Raffaele Bedarida, Mario Calabresi, Alessandra Coppa and Daniele
Astrologo Abadal has just been published by Allemandi/Montrasio Arte.
Feeling What No Longer Is
Presented by A.I.R Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 228
FEELING WHAT NO LONGER IS, curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu will be on view in Gallery II from April 28th - May 23, 2010. Feeling What No Longer Is begins with a moment, an experience, or a person from the past as it is reimagined in the present, at the time of the making by the artist. The artists selected for this exhibition work from both imaginary memories as well as ones constructed from actual lived experiences. The work of Eleanor Antin, Elaine Angelopoulos, Doris Salcedo, Kata Mejia and Elena del Rivero, Sophia Petrides, and Sophie Calle will be included in the exhibit.
Clicks From Abroad
Presented by Almacen Unlimited Art
111 Front Street, Suite 222
Present In The Rearview Mirror
Presented by Caption Gallery
55 Washington Street, No.802
In cataloging technology's various effect on culture, Marshall McLuhan wrote, "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future." Timothy Briner and Matthew Gamber adopt this premise to reveal how photography can confuse our perception of information and history. Though a variety of approaches in black and white, Briner and Gamber reconsider the accuracy of our memory by envisioning the present as a past that never existed.
Featured Artists: Timothy Briner& Matthew Gamber
Select Gender
Presented by Farmani Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 212
Farmani Gallery is proud to present Select Gender, introducing fourteen rising photographers communicating their contemporary viewpoint within fine art photography. The exhibition, co-curated by budding artists Rafael Soldi, Paolo Morales and Elle Perez, will present a diverse selection of innovative artworks that focus on the theme of gender perceptions and the role of sexual assignments in America and abroad. This exhibition embraces the mission of the gallery and the curators in their support of promising talent and our hopes to further a conversation through photographic works of present-day subject matter.
Select Gender revolves around the themes of gender-based identity, self-awareness and gender-specific culture. Whether they are discussing their own identity or that of others, this diverse group of emerging photographers shows us different aspects and interpretations of perceived gender roles. The juxtapositions of gender queer, hyper masculinities, and ambiguous representations force the viewer to question his or her own perceptions and the legitimacy of a gender binary. Ultimately the goal of Select Gender is not to expose, shock, or titillate, but to offer reflection on the constructs and wide range of possibilities for gender expression.
Beyond The View
Presented by Klompching Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 206
KLOMPCHING GALLERY is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by British artist Helen Sear. There will be a reception with the artist on May 13th, from 6pm to 8pm.
In this new series of work, Beyond The View, Helen Sear continues her investigation into the sublime—and an engagement with the retinal and digital—through her innovative use of image superimposition and erasure. The dialogue between the artwork and viewer, as well as the labor of the artist’s hand, is enhanced by a shift in scale that emphasizes the artist’s concern with the viewer’s habits of looking.
Beyond The View was photographed in and around the agricultural lands south of Milan, in response to the ‘hidden’ presence of women in this rural environment on the edge of the city. Within this context, Sear develops her interest in the presence of women within the clichés of landscape and portraiture, particularly referencing the Northern Romantic tradition of painting.
This exhibition follows Helen Sear’s highly successful first show with Klompching Gallery in January 2009. Later that same year, she was named as one of the UK’s 50 most significant artist photographers by Portfolio.
The artwork of Helen Sear (b. 1955) has been published in Arts Review, Creative Camera, HotShoe, Art Newspaper and Art Monthly amongst others. Her photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s with her photographs becoming widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Collections holding her work include Ernst & Young, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Council (Rome) and the Paul Wilson Collection. She lives and works in Wales (UK).
Winter's Berlin
Presented by Kris Graves Project
111 Front Street, Suite 224
Luke Abiol follows the traces that industry, war, nature, and time have left upon our urban spaces. Abiol has been using photography as a means to explore the layers of Berlin's history-drenched landscape. Abiol's first solo exhibition, "Winter's Berlin," is a series of large format photographs which confront a history visible on the city's streets; an apartment complex built on top of a bunker from the second world war to the small architecture of a playground structure- a remnant of Soviet East Berlin.
Billy Caliente
Presented by Magasin Totale
10 Jay street suite 724
Informed by film, and anchored in memory, Magasin Totale presents the super-saturated color photography of Billy Caliente.
States
Presented by Randall Scott Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 204
Christopher Griffith had nothing less than a radical reinterpretation of American iconography in mind when he assembled a crew to travel the sideways and byways of a forgotten America to shoot everyday, utilitarian things found dotting our contemporary landscape. Searching out abandoned gas stations, remote industrial plants, budget motels, strip mall car lots, utility fields, roadside ditches, and even graveyards, Griffith and his team constructed huge backdrops around each painstakingly selected specimen, creating stark, decontexturalized and utterly magnificent renderings of the myriad of things we see and forget without noticing.
Featured artist: Christopher Griffith
10,157.5 miles: An American Road Trip
Presented by Superfine
126 Front Street
"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."
-Jack Kerouac “On the Road”
Me, my car, my camera, and 10,157.5 miles of road.
I drove with no direction but forward, pressing on through 100 degree heat, sunburn, exhaustion, fast food, terrible coffee, and break downs both mental and mechanical.
Prisons, trailers parks, rodeos, sleepy towns and southern plantations, Sin City and the relentless desert.
Sturgis, South Dakota, San Francisco, California, Mitchell, Oregon, Clarksdale, Mississippi, Idaho, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, I-95, Rte. 66.
These photographs represent a cross section of the reality I collided with while traveling the highway of my American Dream. People I met, people I stayed with, people on the road like myself. Everyone had a story. Everywhere I went, they wanted to know why. Why would I want to drive across America? What’s out there? I didn’t know that’s why I went.
This series of work is an homage to the long standing tradition of the open road. The ability to drive in any direction, or no direction at all. To tap into an artery that connects everybody to each other. To wake up in Arkansas and fall asleep in Santa Fe.
I had lone control over the road ahead and the freedom to drive ten, twelve, sixteen hours a day, dictating the speed, the climate, the route, the music, the angle of my seat back.
“You go out and explore and whatever you come across you bring home...” -Lena Young, The Navajo Nation, AZ
I left home looking for something. What I found was in the freedom of doing what you wanted.
I just wanted to see what was out there.
Featured Artist: Simon Biswas.
Graphic Intersections and the Portrait as Allegory
Presented by Umbrage Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 208
Graphic Intersections is a collaborative project loosely based on the old Surrealist and Dadaist game The Exquisite Corpse. Designed to unite disparate artists in an interconnected photographic relay of images inspired by one another, or as the Surrealists put it, to exploit “the mystique of accident”, this project strives to emphasize a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction.
This exhibition includes photographs by Ben Alper, Anastasia Cazabon, Thomas Damgaard, Scott Eiden, Grant Ernhart, Jon Feinstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Alan George, Hee Jin Kang, Drew Kelly, Michael Marcelle, Chris Mottalini, Ed Panar, Bradley Peters, Cara Phillips, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Irina Rozovsky, Brea Souders, Jane Tam and Grant Willing.
The Portrait As Allegory is an exhibition that examines the work of three artists who utilize the figure metaphorically in service of a broader discourse on the human experience. In addition to exploring the personal identities of their subjects, these portraits simultaneously become vehicles which speak to a variety of social, historical, and familial histories.
This exhibition includes photographs by Timothy Briner, Birthe Piontek and Susan Worsham.
Documenting the Build of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park
Presented by Julienne Schaer
55 Washington Street, Suite 319
Since the beginning demolition of the Port Authority Piers on March 13, 2008 Julienne Schaer has documented the transformation of Brooklyn's industrial waterfront into a world-class park. As the site transformed from a civil engineering project to a scenic park, the images showcase the park’s sustainable infrastructure and construction methods, as well as showing the dramatic panoramas of the park
Robert Brodie
Presented by Bo Concept
79 Front Street
My core influences in photography began during my childhood when I would visit my grandparents’ home on Central Park West in New York City. They subscribed to Life Magazine, and I was captivated by the harsh realities of the 1960's as introduction to the world that we occupy.
Featured Artist: Robert Brodie.
Photography
Presented by Dewey's Candy
141 Front Street
The images to be featured @ dewey's are part of a series commissioned by dewey & executed by myself at the time of the launch of the shop in the new year. The idea was to turn some of our most beloved & recognizable sweets into abstract, enticing visual images. Giving the viewer a slight twist from the ordinary & making them think for a moment what it is they are looking at & then for them to experience the feeling of recognition & perhaps taste perception. Candy evokes fun, comfort, indulgence & most of all pleasure, which I hope is experienced by the viewer of the images too.
Paul Sunday
Presented by 68 Jay street bar
68 Jay Street
My show at 68 Jay Bar coinciding with the New York Photo Festival is dedicated to my long relationship with the 68 Jay building, a grand old industrial castle which became my muse. In 1991 I leased a studio on the second floor of 68 Jay and worked there for a dozen years. I fell in love with the building's chalky, distressed brick walls and the beautiful vaulted ceilings, pillars and labyrinth like halls.
Arriving there for work in the mornings, the dank, shadowy recesses of the stairwells and passages always felt desolate, foreboding and oddly inspiring. The building and the area became an integral element of my work of that period.
68 Jay Street --I miss your old bricks and rusty catwalks and the rumbling of the Manhattan bridge vibrating through your core.
Featured Artist: Paul Sunday.
Zsolt Sarvary Bene & Alan Lupiani
Presented by Water Street Restaurant
66 Water Street
Zsolt Sarvary Bene:
Zsolt, a Hungarian native, is an accomplished photographer for both the music and entertainment industries in the US and Europe. Among the celebrities and musicians he has photographed are: Bill Cosby, Madonna, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, REM, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, David Bowie, Kiss, Metallica, Seal, Lenny Kravitz, Depeche Mode, Ozzy Osbourne and numerous others. His work can be seen in a variety of international publications including: Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Spin, GQ, X Ray, Maxim, among others. Zsolt served as one of the main photographers at the following annual events: Live Earth '07, Woodstock ’94, Lollapalooza ‘94-’98, MTV's Video Music Awards, K Rock's Dysfunctional Family Picnic '96-04 and Z100’s Annual Christmas Bash in New York ("Jingle Ball") ‘94-’97. Currently, Zsolt lives in New York, while traveling to Europe several times a year. In 1999 he was a director of photography for an experimental movie "Alice Underground" directed by Robert E. Lee. This short film was a significant success and has won numerous film festivals in its category.
Alan Lupiani:
Alan Lupiani considers himself a mid-career, emerging artist. He has been working as an artist in Brooklyn, NY since 1996 and has maintained a studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn since 2007.
This will be Lupiani's first public showing of his photographs. He works in multiple mediums and utilizes photography as a means to explore and contextualize local environments.
For this photographic essay at the Water Street Restaurant as part of the New York Photo Festival, Lupiani focuses on capturing the ephemeral nature of everyday objects and environments that he discovers while living in New York City.
Lupiani also utilizes Photoshop in some of the images to be presented at the Water Street Restaurant to create a connection between past and present, a sense of humor, and an illusion of the surreal in everyday life.
Arthur Osmanov & Ben Yomtov
Presented by O'Crepes
143 Front Street
Arthur Osmanov:
When Arthur is not Art Directing interactive projects for global brands, he is busy traversing remote regions of Asia, capturing the world through his third eye - Nikon D300.
Ben Yomtov:
My goal is to illustrate our 3dimensional world as best as I can, within the limits of this two-dimensional photographic medium. How we see is a very personal thing. Keeping this in mind, I believe a great photograph is not merely documenting a scene, rather it is about melding the essential vision of the artist with the scene.
Douglas Ljungkvist
Presented by Mikey's Hookup
70 Front Street
Brooklyn based photographer Douglas Ljungkvist is currently showing at Mikey's Hookup. Part of the project is a formalist still life study about the objects of ping pong with a focus on space, color, and form. From the banal to the absurd, conceptual work will also be exhibited that simultaneously pays homage to and pokes fun at both Pop Art and (Asian) culture at large.
A selection of prints are to be shown alongside slideshows (from Ping Pong events including Halloween at SPiN and Oneida Correctional Facility, and more) on TV monitors in the store. And there is a regulation size ping pong table and paddles on location should you get inspired and want to play! The Ping Pong project was recently accepted to the juried Review Santa Fe.
