ALAN KLEINBERG: Out All Night

 Caroline Kennedy, 1978

Photograph © Alan Kleinberg

 

Original mock- up of portraits book for Kleinberg made by Marvin Israel

Photographs by Alan Kleinberg

Outlet Gallery's John Silvis with Alan Kleinberg and Susan Forristal,

Hanging the show, May 7, 2014

Carolina Herrera, Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell and Rod Stewart at Studio 54

Photograph 1979 © Alan Kleinberg

I’ve known Alan Kleinberg since I was a teenager in art school in the late sixties. At that time he was one of New York’s most sought-after hairdressers from the prestigious Kenneth salon, working with top fashion photographers and models for Vogue, Glamour and other magazine shoots.

Working with notable photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Saul Leiter, Kleinberg learned how to handle a camera and develop his own film. He credits Leiter in particular, along with Louis Faurer, with influencing his approach to photography and his interest in human subjects.

He later went on to wear many hats. He was Producer on Jim Jarmusch’s independent art house film, Down by Law; also as Producer, he was a nominee for a Grammy Award with David Byrne, directing the one hour Talking Heads compilation music video “Story Telling Giant” and an MTV Award for “Close to the Edit”. His company, Big Z, was formed with the Academy Award winning film director, Zbigniew Rybczynski, created many innovative music video’s.

I’ve never seen Alan without a camera, usually a Leica. He shoot’s in black and white and everything he shoots is great. His extensive archive is a treasure-trove of the coolest history of New York from the 1970’s through today. 

Alan Kleinberg’s debut exhibition opened at the OUTLET Gallery in Bushwick with 29 black and white images from his vast archive of New York City’s downtown scene during the 1970’s....Read more here on L'Oeil de la Photographie

OUT ALL NIGHT

Photographs by Alan Kleinberg
May 9 - June 1, 2014
Outlet Fine Art Gallery
253 Wilson Avenue Brooklyn NY

UP, CLOSE + PERSONAL: Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Up, Close + Personal is a group exhibition curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel based on a photography series of his by the same name. The exhibition aims to explore the relationships of several artists to their close, intimate and very personal with their art creations.From the truly shocking to the most subtlety beautiful approach, Up, Close + Personal highlights the most popular themes of our ongoing contemporary and most current culture.

Participating Artists: Mona Kuhn, David Carol, Alex Prager, Sheri Lynn Behr, Phil Toledano, Amy Elkins, Dawoud Bey, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Timothy Briner, Luis Carle, Michal Chelbin, Adrian Chesser, Jon Feinstein, Rafael Fuchs, Dana Hoey, Lisa Levy, Jennifer Loeber, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Eric Ogden, Cara Phillips, Carlo Van der Roer, Ariana Page Russell, Tyler Shields, Bayete Ross Smith, Trey Speegle, Zoe Strauss, Bill Sullivan, Hank Willis Thomas, Betty Tompkins, Michael Wolf.

Up, Close + Personal

April 4 – May 13

Fuchs Projects

56 Bogart St. Studio 1E, Bushwick, Brooklyn

PAULA McCARTNEY: A Field Guide to Snow + Ice opens at KLOMPCHING Gallery

White Sands #4, 2009  © Paula McCartney 

Image: courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

 Black Ice #1 and Black Ice #2, 2011 © Paula McCartney

Image: courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

 Backyard Snow #2, 2010  © Paula McCartney 

Image: courtesy of Klompching Gallery, New York

“I see winter everywhere, in every environment, in every season and categorize it by pattern, shape, and line rather than merely by substance”– Paula McCartney

A Field Guide to Snow and Ice is a sophisticated set of photographs, continuing Paula McCartney’s visual exploration of truth and fabrication in the photographic image and natural world. The 29 artworks that make up the exhibit at KLOMPCHING GALLERY, are a sequential installation of modestly-sized photographs, interweaving natural elements and constructed environments—we see snowfalls, frozen waterfalls, stalagmites and snowdrifts.

McCartney’s representation of abstracted elements, reveal a nuanced ambiguity of scale and substance, causing what has been photographed, to transcend its origin. This is not an exhibition to take for granted, but one to explore carefully, particularly its use of a collapse between the creative and scientific languages.

Paula McCartney
A Field Guide to Snow and Ice
January 10 – February 15, 2014
Artist Reception: Thursday, January 9, 6m–8pm

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Brooklyn

Paula McCartney gained an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in California (2002). She has been the recipient of several awards including a 2013-2014 MCP/McKnight Artist Fellowship. McCartney’s photographs have been widely exhibited and her work is held in the collections of the Deutsche Bank, Walker Art Center, MOMA and Yale University amongst others. Accompanying the exhibition is On Thin Ice, In A Blizzard—a limited edition artist book, featuring a selection of photographs from A Field Guide to Snow and Ice. (Text: courtesy of Klompching Gallery)

KERRY SKARBAKKA: 10 Years of Falling at Kopeikin Gallery

 Blue Tree © 2002 Kerry Skarbakka

 Reflected © 2003 Kerry Skarbakka

 Studio © 2003 Kerry Skarbakka

Ten Years of Falling 

July 20 – September 7

Ten Years of Falling is a significant selection of work from Kerry Skarbakka's long term project, The Struggle to Right Oneself. "Skarbakka photographs himself perpetually falling to an uncertain fate in a series of ambiguous narratives. These images stand as ominous messages and reminders that we are all vulnerable to losing our footing and grasp. Moreover, they convey the primal qualities of the human condition as a precarious balancing act between the struggle against our desire to survive and out fantasy to transcend our humanness."(Kopeikin Gallery)

KERRY SKARBAKKA

Kopeikin Gallery, L.A.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY: Annual Summer Show Curated by W.M. Hunt + Darren Ching

 Mountain IV, 2012 from the Mountain series ©Peter Croteau
Pigment Print, 46" x 36" image on 50" x 40" sheet
Edition of 5, from $4,850 ($4,000 unframed)
www.petercroteau.com

Blue Organza, 2012 from the Fabrication series ©Maxine Helfman

Pigment Print, 17" x 25" image on 24" x 36" sheet
Edition of 12, from $2,400 ($1,800 unframed)
www.maxinehelfman.com

FRESH 2013: ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW

July 18 - August 10

The FRESH exhibition is curated, from an international open call for submissions, by the esteemed collector/curator, W.M. Hunt and Klompching Gallery owner, Darren Ching. Five photographers were then selected from the 300+ submissions.

"This is an opportunity for the gallery to present work by upcoming photographers, who we would not normally have the opportunity to work with. It's also an excellent platform upon which to alert collectors to five new voices in photography and invest in their photographic artworks–through acquisitions–early in their careers. With this in mind the exhibition has been carefully curated, with each of the photographers well represented, through having several photographs from one body of work included in the exhibition."(KLOMPCHING)

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Suite 206  |  Brooklyn  NY 11201

Artists Reception: July 18th, 6pm–8pm

An Interview With W.M. Hunt

BILLY & HELLS: After Hours

 

Billy + Hells 1978 

from the series “The Astronaut’s Wife”

Billy + Hells

Flug, 2007

 

Billy + Hells
Oskar, 2008

After Hours, at Fahey/Klein in L.A., is the first U.S. exhibition from contemporary photographers Billy+Hells. This retrospective exhibition is comprised of their ethereal portraits and atmospheric landscape series. “Billy + Hells” is the pseudonym for the creative duo comprised of Berlin based photographers Anke Linz and Andreas Oettinger.

"Billy+Hells’ photographs exist in a world of in-betweens. Their deceptively simple, straightforward portraits convey a certain complexity. The archetypal characters depicted in their photographs—mothers, soldiers, cowboys, nurses, and teachers— possess an underlying sense of mystery, hinting at the duality of the sitter as well as the fictional world they inhabit. Although Billy + Hells’ images call upon historical and art historical references, their portraits are not burdened by the stipulations of historical recreations. Instead, seamlessly blending past and present, reality and fantasy, their photographs become a nostalgic diary, purposefully left open for interpretation."– Fahey/Klein 

 BILLY + HELLS / After Hours

Fahey/Klein Gallery thru December 8, 2012

 BILLYUNDHELLS

UN / COMMON SKIN: 2012 Thesis Exhibition Curated by Michael Foley

The Well of Renewal 

Lauryn Gerstle 

 

Chrysalis 

Mariana Becker

 

Reflections of a Collective Memory

Fadi Asmar 

Alone | Together 

Ksenia Tavrina

 Glimpse (Desire for a presence) 

Christopher Borrok

Thoughts Unsaid, Then Forgotten

 Gaia Danieli

 Desire of Men

Chris Sellas

Voiceless 

Rebeca Saborio

 

 My Son

David Forney

 

 Greener Grass

Alexandre F. Nunes

Bound To Be

Giovanna Grueiro

 

 

Hoboken Passing

John Delaney

 

Making the Unconscious Conscious

Lisette Ranga

Tabula Rasa

Maryana Hordeychuk Recipe For Hunger  

Tanya Ghosh

In Search of the Divine 

Charles Putnins

 

Within (Dance Photography)

Jenna Miller

Sugar High

Hyun Suh Kim

 Perception | Veil

Marsha Wilcox 

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“un/common skin” 

Curated by Michael Foley

Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography-

2012 Thesis Exhibition

 

“We are all brothers under the skin—and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” Ayn Rand

Michael Foley: “un/common skin brings together 19 beautiful, creative and expressive minds in a coherent visual examination of their worlds. As artists, we share in common our need and desire to make sense of our existence by creating a visual language and yet we are all capable of expressing a profound vision of the world that is clearly unique to each one of us.”

MPS Digital Photography Chair Katrin Eismann: “This year’s graduating class mirrors the great diversity of the School of Visual Arts and New York City. Students came from Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Lebanon, India, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine and the United States, to delve into contemporary digital photographic techniques and practices.” 

 

“un/common skin” 

SVA Gallery 209 East 23rd Street, New York, NY

October 18 – November 10, 2012 

Opening Reception: October 24, 6 – 8pm

LAURIE LAMBRECHT: China 2009

Hangzhou (#2), 2009

Photograph (c) Laurie Lambrecht

 

Hangzhou Koi, 2009

Photograph (c) Laurie Lambrecht

Hangzhou Pond, 2009

Photograph (c) Laurie Lambrecht

These places are something I am curious about - to be experienced. A lot of these pictures have to do with relationships formed in my mind and known from art history or painting from China... At the same time, there were unexpected things, aspects that provided an intimate relationship with my experience of these places. - Laurie Lambrecht on China, 2009 

"Of her experience photographing in China in 2009, Ms. Lambrecht states, "...the thousands of years of visual artistry and poetry that preceded these scenes. I wanted to feel that landscape for myself that others had interpreted for eons, with some sense of feel for a newer time frame. How we perceive time is a real cultural difference."

"While Ms. Lambrecht is best known for her extended portraits of artists, particularly her work with Roy Lichtenstein in the early 1990s (Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio, The Monacelli Press, 2011) she has applied the same dedication to her landscape work for over 25 years."–Rick Wester Gallery

LAURIE LAMBRECHT: CHINA, 2009

RWFA Rick Wester Fine Art

September 20 - November 3

MARIA MARTINEZ-CAÑAS: Photo Paintings

Untitled 004 [PC], 2012
Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22 Street, New York

Untitled 001 [FB+EM], 2011 (left) and Untitled 004 [PC], 2012 (right)

Julie Saul Gallery is exhibiting Maria Martinez-Cañas large-scale works, described as “Photo Paintings”. "This body of work stems from an inversion of Francis Bacon's process, which originated in cinematic formats and photographic sources that were then turned into paintings. Martinez-Cañas takes his paintings as a reverse starting point; each unique work is of mixed media, incorporating image transfer, painting and collage onto wood veneer, measuring either 96 x 96 or 36 x 48 inches. Her new series, as those that have come before it, wrestles with origins, identity, perceptions and ideas of source, translating the inspirations that have empowered and informed her work into physical manifestations."

MARIA MARTINEZ-CAÑAS
PHOTO PAINTINGS
September 6-October 20
Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Julie Saul: Le Journal de la Photographie

THOMAS ALLEN: Beautiful Evidence Opens Foley Gallery's New Space

from the series Beautiful Evidence
Photograph (c) Thomas Allen/Courtesy of Foley Gallery, NY

After eight years in Chelsea, the Foley Gallery relocated to the Lower East Side on Allen Street. Opening the new gallery space is their fourth solo exhibition of artist Thomas Allen.

Foley Gallery writes, "Playing the role of scientist, Thomas Allen enlists mid 20th-century books on the natural phenomenon of science (astronomy, physics, electricity, biology) and presents his research as if through the eyes of his 8-year old daughter. How would she understand and portray these theories and absolutes of science?"

"Allen’s signature use of cutting and repurposing book illustrations has not vanished. Instead of the pulp fiction genre, Allen plays with 50’s era versions of clean cut youths and domesticated moms. His unmistakable talent for creating the illusion of 3D in photography with his deft cuts and crimps, establishes a magical world in which a boy and girl play tag creating their own kind of electricity, a milkman makes a very special delivery in space, young toughs play marbles with the solar system and a mother busily sews her own version of “string theory.”

THOMAS ALLEN | FOLEY GALLERY
Sept 9 through Oct 14, 2012
97 Allen St, NYC
Open Wed – Sun 11AM – 6PM

LAWRENCE SCHILLER | Photographs at Steven Kasher Gallery through June 30

Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand on the set of "Let's Make Love, 1960"
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Marilyn Monroe, 1962
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Marilyn Monroe and Wally Cox.
Monroe's 36th Birthday Party. June 1st, 1962
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.

Self-Portrait, Lawrence Schiller, 2012

Wiener/Schiller Archives

Lawrence Schiller began his career as a successful photojournalist with Look, Life, Paris Match, making a name for himself with exclusive photographs of Marilyn Monroe, many taken on the set of her unfinished last film, George Cukor’s Something’s Got To Give, 1962.

"I had three Gods in my life in Photography. One was Yousuf Karsh, one was W. Eugene Smith and one was Dick Avedon. There was another one who was a kind of semi-God, which was Hiro, who was Dick’s assistant for a lot of years...he did extraordinary work."

Lawrence Schiller's exquisite exhibition
Marilyn & Me
Steven Kasher Gallery

"...a contact sheet she killed all except the one frame"

Contact Sheet, Marilyn Monroe "Let’s Make Love,"1960
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.

Let’s Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, 1960.
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

"With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching memoir. Revealing and readable, it’s a book I couldn’t put down." —Tina Brown

"In the new book (Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words & Photographs, Taschen Books 2012), there are at least thirty images that came from the shooting for Look Magazine. I’m not exaggerating, until last year I had never looked at that shooting since the day the film was sent into Look Magazine and Marilyn approved the contact sheets. They went into the Look Library, I owned the copyright. Look ran one picture of mine, some with Bob Vose, some with Guy Villet and John Bryson, who was a God to me. I just never looked at it. Now I look at it and I come up with this image, the first picture I ever shot of her. This picture [above] was never published; it’s on the cover of the Talese book (Marilyn & Me, Nan A. Talese/Random House). It comes from a contact sheet she killed all except the one frame. She said to me as I’m shooting, “Oh you’ll never get a good picture from that angle. Go over there where the light will be better and I’ll show you what a good picture is.” Then she turns and that’s that. Over fifty-two years I never looked at this contact sheet..." as told to me in Le Journal de la Photographie. Read the Interview with Lawrence Schiller here.

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota

My Dakota (Radius, 2012)
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Rearview Mirror
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Blackbirds
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Storm Light
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota
Photography and text by Rebecca Norris Webb
Edited with Alex Webb

"In 2005, Rebecca Norris Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people. It’s a land of powwows and rodeos, a corn palace and buffalo roundups. Dominated by space and silence, South Dakota’s harsh and beautiful landscape is sometimes prey to brutal wind and extreme weather. The next year, however, everything changed for Norris Webb, when one of her brothers died unexpectedly of heart failure. “For months,” she writes in the afterword to this volume, “one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota…I began to wonder — does loss have its own geography?” My Dakota — which interweaves her spare text and lyrical photographs — is a small intimate book about the West and its weathers, and an elegy for a lost brother." –Radius Books

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Ricco Maresca Gallery, NY
June 21 - August 17, 2012