PHOTOVILLE 2018: United Photo Industrie's 1st Annual Photo Picnic in Brooklyn Bridge Park • Plus 93 Exhibitions • 50+ Talks • Workshops • Special Events • Free To Public • Dogs Welcome

"United Photo Industries' Photo Picnic" 

Brooklyn Bridge Park 

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

6–9PM 

Experience a special preview of Photoville and explore innovative visual projects under the Brooklyn Bridge while enjoying libations by Brooklyn Brewery and Kings County Distillery, and cuisine served by our friends at Smorgasburg!

With the purchase of a picnic basket  you will be supporting UPI’s free public programs - see below for more information on the evening. And if you can't attend - consider donating to UPI!

 

Link to Purchase A Picnic Basket for 

United Photo Industries' First Annual Photo Picnic 

at Photoville 2018!

 

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PHOTOVILLE in Brooklyn Bridge Park

September 13–23! Free To The Public! 

 

Photoville will present work by more than 600 artists in 90 photography exhibitions and outdoor installations, providing an accessible venue for the public to experience both challenging and entertaining visual stories from a diverse group of artists, curators and organizations.

In addition to exhibitions in and around the freight containers, Photoville offers panel discussions, artist lectures, professional development seminars, hands-on workshops, extraordinary nighttime programming, and our Education Day that brings together hundreds of public school students for a unique photo-based field trip.

Photoville remains open to the public— dogs included—free of charge, making it unlike any other photo festival in the world.

PHOTOVILLE LINK TO

 

 93 Exhibitions • 50+ Talks • Workshops • Special Events

 

 

LENSCULTURE EMERGING TALENT AWARD EXHIBITION : KLOMPCHING GALLERY

Untitled IV © Victoria J. Dean

Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Candy Beach © Bambi No Muere

Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Ti Pinsik, Aux Poteaux, Gonaïves, Haiti © Thomas Freteur

Juror’s Pick, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Zoran, 10, and Zia, 13, rehearsing for a show they will perform for their parents small family Circus “Les Pêcheurs de Rêves” (The Fishermen of Dreams) August 2017, Avignon © Stephanie Gengotti, Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017 

 Cabin. Kazanlak, Bulgaria, 2015 © Vladimir Vasilev

Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

Morning Prayer, Lingshed School, isolated from the world by the towering peaks of the Northern Himalayas, between Ladakh and Zanskar © Jarek Kotomski, Winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017

LENSCULTURE EMERGING TALENT AWARD EXHIBTION

Klompching Gallery and LensCulture present the laureates of the 2017 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards. The 50 photographs are a selection of the strongest and most memorable work sent in by photographers working in over 160 countries around the world. You'll discover serious documentary and photojournalism projects, as well as our aesthetic celebrations of the interplay of light, color, form and texture, creative work from all parts of the globe. A single photograph has been chosen from each award-winning series, curated by Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching.

LensCulture Emerging Talent Award Exhibition

March 7 – 17, 2018  

 Reception: Thursday, March 8, 2018

The Opening Reception is Changed Due to the storm about to hit NYC Postponed to Thursday, March 8, 2018 6pm-8pm. Darren and Debra will be at the gallery Wednesday, 11am–3pm to welcome any photographers wishing to drop by.

 Klompching Gallery

89 Water Street

Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

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Check out all of the LensCulture 2017 Competition Winners

HELEN SEAR: Klompching Gallery to April 28

 Becoming Forest No. 7 (2017)
39.3" x 39.3" image | 43.3" x 43.3"'' sheet
Archival Pigment Print
Edition: 5+2AP

Becoming Forest No. 2 (2017)
39.3" x 39.3" image | 43.3" x 43.3"'' sheet
Archival Pigment Print
Edition: 5+2AP

Helen Sear (b. 1955) studied Fine Art at Reading University the Slade School of Art, London. Sear's work explores ideas of vision, touch and re-presentation of the nature of experience, with particular reference to the human and animal body and her immediate environment in rural Wales and France.

Writer and curator, David Campany, described Sear as "one of photography's foremost innovators. For her the medium is one of magic as much as realism. It is never pure, fixed or entirely knowable. Each new series presents a new set of challenges that offer up her fascination with craft and our habits of looking."

Sear represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2015, has won several artist's awards, including The Major Creative Wales Award from Arts Council Wales (2011) and lives and works in Wales and France.  

HELEN SEAR
February 22–April 28, 2017

Klompching Gallery

89 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

FREDERIC WEBER: Primary Light and Memento Mori at Klompching Gallery

 Untitled #53, 1994

from Memento Mori series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 Untitled #77, 1995

from Memento Mori series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 Untitled #108, 1997

from Primary Light series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 Untitled #122, 1998

from Primary Light series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 

Frederic Weber

Primary Light and Memento Mori

Frederic Weber brings to his photographic practice, a visual sensibility that challenges the viewer to determine quite what they’re looking at. On show at the Klompching Gallery are selections from two bodies of work, Memento Mori and Primary Light, both of which draw attention to Weber’s penchant for making photographs that don’t always look like photographs.

Memento Mori is constructed from a combination of images, that the artist has excavated from comic books, magazines, newspapers, television, paintings and other printed matter. He presents images of tightly cropped heads of black and African subjects, presenting them almost as relics of a time past. The photographs are challenging, almost visually overwhelming, and difficult to fix within a specific framework. At once iconic, they echo historical post-mortem imagery, with a time-stamp that is not fixed or even knowable. Made of several layers of different images, the photographs are rich in color and painterly.

The Primary Light series share this painterly quality. Here though, it is the reference to photography’s Pictorialism past, that is most evident. Weber presents torsos and heads that are rendered in soft-focus, with each emerging from a depth of blue so saturated, the color transforms into an abyss, out of which the human forms glow like fire-flies. The ghostly figures seem nostalgic, classical even and partly unknowable. (text via Klompching Gallery)

Klompching Gallery
89 Water Street, Brooklyn
 through July 9, 2016 

CORNELIA HEDIGER : Puppenhaus

Bono in Lago, Italy, 2014 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

Bathtub, 2015 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

In Memory of Chancie, 2016 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

  Lily’s Dream of Fish, 2016 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

 Cornelia Hediger: Puppenhaus

Puppenhaus series, by Cornelia Hediger forms the artist’s third exhibition with Klompching Gallery and showcases the artist’s handmade photo-collages. Made between 2014–2016, the series is inspired by the likes of Hannah Höch, John Heartfield and Grete Stern among others. The photographs are constructed out of a combination of pigment and gelatin silver prints, with imagery originating from various sources including the artist’s studio practice, and scans of wallpaper, paint and cardboard. These are combined with recent photographs of travels in Europe, the patriarchal home in Switzerland and other family artifacts.

The hand of the artist is up front and center across the Puppenhaus series—pencil marks, irregular cuts left exposed, paint, hanging string, and individual elements attached in low relief, which together draw attention to the unusual focal planes, angles of view and shifts in scale. All of this combines perfectly with the seemingly whimsical narratives, that take the viewer on a journey through the artist’s fictionalized world. The use of self-portraiture prevails, linking this series back to the previous Doppelgänger work. We see ‘Cornelias’ having tea, balancing cups, acting out in odd domestic spaces and going on journeys. In one piece, reminiscent of the 19th Century Spencer y Cia Chilean Ladies, we see 100 heads—all of the artist—receding back into the distance. Hediger has created theatrical scenes, as if on a stage, images which are extraordinary and which pull you right into their three-dimensional space. (text via Klompching Gallery)

 Klompching Gallery
89 Water Street, Brooklyn

 through July 9, 2016

RICHARD TUSCHMAN: Once Upon a Time in Kazimierz at Klompching Gallery

 Couple in the Street, 2014
© Richard Tuschman/Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

 Pale Light, 2015
© Richard Tuschman/Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

Working Morning, 2014
© Richard Tuschman/Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

Measuring, 2015
© Richard Tuschman/Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

Richard Tuschman’s latest project, “Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz,” will debut at Klompching Gallery from March 2nd to April 9th. The project is Tuschman’s long awaited followup to his well-received “Hopper Meditations.”

“Once Upon a Time in Kazimierz” is a visual novella, which portrays a fictional Jewish family in 1930s Poland. Tuschman's images are visually stunning, his process labor intensive and meticulous—the result of a sophisticated marriage of hand-built miniature dioramas with life-size models. Whereas the 'Hopper Meditations' were an homage to the paintings of Hopper, his new project is a much more personal narrative—his family immigrated from the vicinity of Kazimierz, and his wife went to university in Kazimierz.

RICHARD TUSCHMAN

"Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz"
March 2–April 9, 2016

Reception: Thursday, March 3rd, 6:00–9:00pm

Klompching Gallery

89 Water Street

Brooklyn, NY 

Text and images courtesy of Klompching Gallery