LESLIE JEAN-BART : "Memories and Mysteries" at Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba

Motivation of Imbalance

"Memories and Mysteries"Exhibition at

The Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba

Skip The Worry

from the "Reality and Imagination” series

Leslie Jean-Bart

  The Light Within

from the "Reality and Imagination” series

Leslie Jean-Bart 

"Creativity of the Younger Generation"

Leslie Jean-Bart 

 

Photographers Beuford Smith and Leslie Jean-Bart

  Seeker

from the "Reality and Imagination” series 

Leslie Jean-Bart  

 Photographers Herb Robinson (left) with Leslie Jean-Bart (center)

and Cinematographer Jeffrey Akers

Corrine Jennings, Director Wilmer Jennings Gallery

with photographer Herb Robinson

Charlotte Allan viewing Leslie Jean-Bart's prints

Photo: William Avedon

 Artist Joe Overstreet and Corrine Jennings

with photographer Herb Robinson

 Leslie Jean-Bart (photographs) and Alex Mendoza's (paintings)

"Memories and Mysteries" Artist Reception

Artist Reception 

Photo and Video: Charlotte Allan

 

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Photographer Beuford Smith with Artist Joe Overstreet.

Smith recently received "The Culture of Legacy Award"

from the Griffin Museum of Photography

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Leslie Jean-Bart and Alex Mendoza
"Memories and Mysteries"

December 6, 2017 – January 20, 2018 

Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba

219 E 2nd St. 

(between Avenues B and C)
New York, N.Y.10009

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 Joe Overstreet and Corrine Jennings established Kenkeleba House

Kenkeleba House was established by Artists Joe Overstreet and his wife, Corrine Jennings, Director of the Wilmer Jennings Gallery (the sister gallery named for Corrine Jennings's artist-father).

"Named for a West African plant believed to possess spiritual powers, Kenkeleba House is dedicated to the exhibition of artworks by African-American, Latino, Asian-American and Native American artists. Kenkeleba House sponsors six to ten exhibitions a year. Educational programs such as artist talks, demonstrations, performances and lectures are often supplement the exhibits. An outdoor sculpture garden enlivens the property. A satellite space, the Wilmer Jennings Gallery, is across the street at number 219.

Kenkeleba House New York

214 East 2nd Street

(between Avenues B and C)

New York, N.Y.10009

212-674-3939

*all snapshots © 2017 Elizabeth Avedon

except where indicated

BEN LOWY: The Comment Section

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

 © Benjamin Lowy 2017

© Benjamin Lowy 2017

"I’m a big fan of graphic novels—an oft derided literary genre—where morality is drawn in black and white; the hero and the villain. There is little patience for ambiguity in the battle between the two. I am over-simplifying comics, but in its essence it has always been a battle between good and evil. Though, like all good fantasy or science fiction, it masks real world issues under the veil of disposable entertainment. The 2016 election felt like an opportune time for me to combine the illustrations of what I saw, with the textual airings of our collective inner monologues. Twitter as the comic book thought bubble." – Benjamin Lowy, 2017

THE COMMENT SECTION

The Comment Section creatively interprets the divisive political landscape during the 2016 United States presidential campaign. Through illustrations and curated public comments, Lowy depicts the enmity between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, globalists and nationalists, among others. He pairs documentary images turned into illustrations taken during the yearlong run-up to the presidential election, with the absurd rhetoric that filled newsrooms and social media news feeds. The Comment Section gives readers a visual peek into what shook the psyche of a nation. It is a reflection on the growing mis/use of social media and the breakdown of dialogue.’

BUY IT HERE

lowyimages.com/books/the-comment-section

All illustrations were made from unaltered photographs taken on assignment by photojournalist Benjamin Lowy for Time Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. All tweets and comments were publicly accessible. "Special thanks goes to my partner Marvi Lacar and my editors Stacey Baker, Olivier Laurent, Paul Moakley, Sarah Morse, Kira Pollack, Abby Sher, and Kathy Ryan."

DAVID REINFELD : The Reality of Illusion at Piermont Fine Arts Gallery

 from Reality of Illusion © David Reinfeld

from Reality of Illusion © David Reinfeld

 from Reality of Illusion © David Reinfeld

 from Reality of Illusion © David Reinfeld

David Reinfeld : The Reality of Illusion
August 04, 2016 - August 21, 2016

Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, Piermont NY 

"In the early ’70-s, as a graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design, I had the great privilege of studying with Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Lisette Model, and Minor White. Their classes were my introduction to the world of art, and their teachings remain a fundamental part of the way I see. Before RISD, as a young street photographer from New York, I never thought about what made photographs good or bad . . . I just took pictures."

"Spending time with my teachers outside of school was an equally important part on my education. I drove Lisette from New York to Providence every week. Those were sacred hours for me, filled with discussions of everything from photography to philosophy. On a trip with Aaron to Goblin Valley, I remember his great excitement as he set up his camera in front of a rock. Not seeing the rock as anything other than ordinary, I looked through his old Rollie, and there it was— the picture was right there, hidden in plain sight. Through the lens of Aaron’s camera, the rock was brought to life."

"What makes a picture come alive? Why do some photographs remain in our consciousness, while others fall away? These are the questions I ask, as a photographer, in a world where the boundaries of well-crafted commercialism and fine art have blurred. I tell myself the seeing should be clear but not too obvious. Spending countless hours at my computer, I have to remind myself not to remain at the surface. Beautiful prints are very seductive and can have considerable visual impact. I pause to remember art is not only an arrangement of form and content, but of responsibility and awareness, of visual impact and contemplation. Art is our affirmation that life is worth living, like Siskind’s ordinary rock that is full of life and charm, frozen in time, kept alive by human connection." – David Reinfeld 

Visit David's Website

from Reality of Illusion © David Reinfeld

 from Reality of Illusion © David Reinfeld

 from Reality of Illusion © David Reinfeld

David Reinfeld : The Reality of Illusion
August 04, 2016 - August 21, 2016

Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, Piermont NY 

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*The above photographic composited images from Reality of Illusion, were selected from an ongoing series in Oaxaca, and various locations.

MARY ANNE MITCHELL: Reflecting Back

kaleidescope eyes

Photograph © Mary Anne Mitchell

masquerade

Photograph © Mary Anne Mitchell

"Mary Anne Mitchell's work is derived from her experiences and visual "dreams" that move her to create. Her work documents the world in a manner that transforms the subject into something quite different from reality. The images depict situations, often mysterious, which draw the viewer into a narrative. The subject often appears isolated in a strange or surreal setting. In each piece, the artist invites the observer into her curious world. The images evoke ambiguous moods and each viewer’s response to them will be tempered by their own experiences. Mary Anne's artwork is primarily shot on film and printed by the artist as silver gelatin photographs."

I met Mary Anne Mitchell at Atlanta Celebrates Photography's ACP Portfolio Reviews in 2014. The above images are from one of my favorite of her series "Reflecting Back." View all of her work here.

Mary Anne Mitchell 

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Atlanta Celebrates Photography

 

TOD PAPAGEORGE: Studio 54, 1978-1980

Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

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Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

Studio 54, 1978-1980

Photograph (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

Galerie Thomas Zander presents its first exhibition of works by the American photographer Tod Papageorge. On view is a series of seventy black and white photographs from the legendary New York night club Studio 54, that was frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Mick Jagger and Grace Jones. Papageorge always had his camera at hand and between 1978 and 1980 he celebrated with the rich and beautiful, the artists and starlets; even today viewers can witness the eccentric and hedonistic party nights in his photographs. They revive the feeling of the disco era and express a profoundly urban spirit of directness, which condensed in New York at that time.

In the 1960s, Tod Papageorge had a close artistic exchange with Garry Winogrand. Both artists used to meet almost daily to take photographs in the streets of New York. During those days, some icons of photography history originated, which with their intuition and intensity exude a unique kind of lightness. As a recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and a teaching professor at Yale University for many years, Papageorge’s influence on contemporary photography can hardly be overestimated.

Renowned photographers like Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Gregory Crewdson, or Anna Gaskell were among his students. All of Tod Papageorge’s works are based on an interest in people as social beings. Be it his images of sports stadiums, his photographs of everyday life in Central Park or the images from Studio 54, in all his photographs people are characterized through the group they belong to and their experience of the present moment. His works are intense portraits of America marked by a powerful authenticity. (text courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander)

TOD PAPAGEORGE / STUDIO 54

January 25 – April 12, 2014

Galerie Thomas Zander
Schönhauser Str. 8, 50968 Köln, Germany

DAVID SCHEINBAUM: Hip Hop Portraits Book

 Professor Griff of Public Enemy, 2002
Photograph © David Scheinbaum

The Executioners, 2004

Photograph © David Scheinbaum

 Method Man and Redman, 2002

Photograph © David Scheinbaum

 Mos Def, 2002

Photograph © David Scheinbaum

New Publication

Hip Hop: Portraits of an Urban Hymn

"Since its inception in the 1970s, hip hop music and the culture surrounding it has become a hugely influential and popular musical form in America and around the world. Its popularity extends beyond the urban centers where it was born, and pervades and influences youth culture around the globe.  However, few artists have created serious and powerful photographs that explore the breadth of the phenomenon.  With this volume, David Scheinbaum has done just that.  His portraits of Erykah Badu, Chuck D., George Clinton, Common, Mos Def, Del-Tha Funkee Homosapien, Sage Francis, Professor Griff, KRS One, Mike Relm, Tajai, Wu-Tang Clan and Yelawolf (among others) approach hip hop as a positive cultural influence akin to the youth movement of the 1960s.  Scheinbaum's photographs are accompanied by essays by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Michael Eric Dyson, an artist conversation with Frank H. Goodyear III and an introduction by Brian Hardgroove of Public Enemy."

Pre-order David Scheinbaum's

Hip Hop: Portraits of an Urban Hymn 

David Scheinbaum is former Director/Chair of the Photography Department at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and Professor Emeritus, College of Santa Fe. He is also one half of the well known fine art photography gallery, Scheinbaum and Russek LTD, the exclusive representatives for the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate and for the Eliot Porter Estate.

Here is a little background. In 1978, Scheinbaum moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico with the hope of meeting and working with the pre-eminent photography scholar, Beaumont Newhall. This dream came true. Their professional relationship had many facets and a friendship quickly developed. In 1979 David began printing for Beaumont Newhall. The many people who came to work and study with Beaumont often asked to see his photographs – thus David found himself in the position of creating a “meeting place” for photographers and collectors. The idea for a gallery evolved and in 1980 when Janet Russek moved to Santa Fe they opened their doors with a retrospective of Willard Van Dyke’s work.

While David continued to work with Beaumont Newhall, Russek began assisting Eliot Porter. Their relationship also grew from the studio to the gallery and the gallery began to expand representing both local and international photographers. To date they have exhibited and worked with over 300 photographers. Scheinbaum and Russek have approached the gallery world through their roles as educators, artists, and collectors and bring to their gallery an appreciation of photographers, the fine print and the history of photography.

David Scheinbaum's other publications include, Bisti, photographs of New Mexico's Bisti Badlands (University of New Mexico Press, 1987), Miami Beach: Photographs of an American Dream (Florida International University Press, 1990), and Stone: A Substantial Witness (The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2006). He and his wife, Janet Russek, have collaborated on two projects; Ghost Ranch: Land of Light, Photographs by David Scheinbaum and Janet Russek (Balcony Press, 1997) and Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching (The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005). And now his most recent publication, Hip Hop: Portraits of An Urban Hymn (Damiani Editore) will be released in November 2013. This work was featured at The National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, entitled Recognize: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, and at the Norton Museum of Art. His current work focused on the Lower East Side of New York.

I attribute my renewed love and appreciation for Photography to Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum. Their educational evenings, generously given in their Gallery on the fine art of printing and the history of photography, were highlighted by the most extraordinary examples of vintage original prints by Eliot Porter, Ansel Adams, Atget, Callahan, Kertesz, among so many other great photographers. Check out the Scheinbaum and Russek Gallery on your next visit to New Mexico.

 

NADAV KANDER: Bodies. 6 Women. 1 Man

Audrey with toes and wrist bent, 2011. Chomogenic print. © Nadav Kander

Courtesy of the artist and Flowers Gallery, New York/London

NADAV KANDER

Jan 11 - Feb 9

FLOWERS GALLERY

21 Cork Street. London

RICHARD GERE: HH The Dalai Lama in NYC

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, West Bengal, 1996
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

Ulan Bator (The Arrival of His Holiness), Mongolia, 1995
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

Arms With Mala, 1996
Photograph (c) Richard Gere /All Rights Reserved

HH THE DALAI LAMA, NYC

Richard Gere's organization, Healing the Divide, and The Tibet Center, founded by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, are hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings in New York City May 20th, 21st, and 22nd. HH will teach Nagarjuna’s Commentary on Bodhicitta (download text here in English, Mandarin and Tibetan), and A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, by Shantideva. www.dalailamany.org. Purchase Tickets

PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD GERE FAHEY/KLEIN GALLERY

KEITH CARTER: Juror | PhotoPlace Open April 12 call for entries deadline

Bubble
Photograph (c) Keith Carter 2009 /All Rights Reserved

Radio Flyer
Photograph (c) Keith Carter 2009 /All Rights Reserved

Dancing Bear
Photograph (c) Keith Carter 2004 /All Rights Reserved

PHOTO PLACE OPEN | KEITH CARTER: Juror

April 12th, 2010 is the deadline for entries for the PhotoPlace Open with Keith Carter as Juror. Forty photographs will be chosen for exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery in May and in PhotoPlace’s on-line gallery. An additional group will be selected for on-line exhibition only. Submit Here

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“A poet of the ordinary” –Los Angeles Times

"Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. In 1998, he received the Beaumont Texas Lamar University’s highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award, and he was named the Lamar University Distinguished Lecturer. He now holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University. Carter is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey Grants and the Lange-Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Thirteen monographs of Carter's photographs have been published: A Certain Alchemy, Opera Nuda, Ezekiel’s Horse, Holding Venus, Keith Carter Photographs: Twenty-Five Years, Bones, Heaven of animals, Mojo, The Blue Man, From Uncertain to Blue, and most recently, Fireflies. His work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of fine arts, Houston; the George Eastman House; and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican Photography.” Thanks to MVS for this update!

Keith Carter Website
About Fireflies

HASSELBLAD MASTER AWARDS WINNERS

Photograph (c) Lyle Owerko /All Rights Reserved

20/01/2010: With submissions from almost 3,000 photographers, ten photographers have been awarded the coveted title of Hasselblad Master.

Congratulations to the 2009 Hasselblad Masters Awards Winners!

Up-and-Coming: Lyle Owerko, NYC, USA
Wedding: Joao Carlos, NYC, USA
Portrait: Claudio Napolitano, Miami, USA / Caracas, Venezuela
Fashion: Dirk Rees, London, UK
Product: Mark Holthusen, San Francisco, USA
Fine Art: Quentin Shih, Beijing, China
Architecture: Stephan Zirwes, Stuttgart, Germany
Landscape: Bang Peng, Hong Kong
Editorial: Nina Berman, NYC, USA
General: Mark Zibert, Toronto, Canada

Read more about the competition HERE, with two of my favorite finalists, Sean Perry and Brad Wilson.

JEFF BRIDGES CRAZY HEART: Stephen Bruton Tribute

Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jeff Bridges /All Rights Reserved

Bruton Tribute Video

Stephen Bruton, with music collaborator and fellow Texan, T-Bone Burnett, created the original 'classics' for the film Crazy Heart.

JEFF BRIDGES won the Best Actor SAG Award and the Best Actor Golden Globe Award for his amazing performance in Crazy Heart...and he received lengthy standing ovations both nights! This week you can view Bridges must-see photographs he took while making Crazy Heart here. More about Crazy Heart's soundtrack and video's here. More about Jeff Bridges Wide-lux Camera here.