I really enjoyed this assignment. Domino is an amazing factory. I have rode my bike past many times going over the Williamsburg Bridge. I photographed it over two days at various times. I love how when you are close enough you can still smell the brown sugar sweetness wafting through the air reminding you that what used to go on there is still sticking around.
The first night I biked there and while I was photographing I noticed another photographer appeared in front of me also photographing the same decaying factory. If you look closely at the cover image and follow the “M” in DOMINO you can see him looking through his camera on the tripod. Right now that’s about all this factory is good for; photographic urban decay. What happens to this factory will affect the dynamic of the entire neighborhood. Redevelopment could transform the area into a more vibrant place or it could turn it into an overcrowded mess. The L train is already stretched so thin many people can’t get on what would another 2000 family’s do to that capacity? Does EVERYTHING on the waterfront have to be a glass condo? I like the idea of Domino being converted to a community school or university building. Maybe there is something else that would fit there we are not thinking of yet?
Here is the other shot in the article. I’ll post some outtakes later in the week.
When I first started watching Work of Art I wasn’t so sure about how well time art challenges would work out. I still think the show has serious problems. One of those problems is the show doesn’t teach enough people from outside the art community why some of the art is successful and other’s art is not. This is a teachable moment. Where is the teaching about the references and art history? I am worried this show leaves the general public in the same state of cluelessness about contemporary art as before the show. England is much better about educating through TV and Bravo could learn something from them.
That being said I think the show came through in the end and the finalists were all strong artists. I’m looking forward to tonight’s opening as well as seeing the “Work of Art” winner, Abdi Farah at his prize solo show at the “world famous” Brooklyn Museum. Farah’s show runs August 14–October 17, in their Projects Gallery, 5th Floor.
Miles Mendenhall, Black, White, but more so the Gray In-between, 2010. Silkscreen on cotton rag, ed. of 3, 42 x 36 inches
Miles Mendenhall, Light Bank, 2010. Silkscreen on cotton rag, ed. of 3. 30 x 48 inches
A few years ago I began to be interested in the 24-hour guards and entrances to the skyscrapers of midtown. I made regular trips up to midtown and photographed from 12 am to around 5 am. Sometimes the guards would stay in the same place for several minutes; unconsciously posing for my camera. I love how the mood of the image reminds me of midtown night: quiet but alive in its own way, just like much of New York.
The Camera Club of New York 2010 National Juried Competition
Juried by James Casebere
Announcing the 2010 National Photography Competition Winners
and Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by James Casebere
July 8 – August 14, 2010 Opening reception: Thursday, July 8, 6–9pm
First Place Winners:
Rachel Barrett
Erin O‘Keefe
Second Place Winners:
Juliane Eirich
Selena Salfen
The four top winners will be a part of the upcoming exhibition.
James Casebere also selected ten artists as Honorable Mentions.
All selected artists’ work and links to their respective websites can be seen below.
There is an Online Forum going on now presented by the Guggenheim Museum on in relation to their current exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. Every photographer should take a hard look at the debates in this forum and the art in the show. The show is one of the best group photography shows I have seen in a long time. Many of the artworks I have seen before or have learned about in school but its great to see them in relation to other works that are unfamiliar.
Tonight there is an Live Forum. I’m looking forward to seeing how its run and comparing it to how we have been doing #artphotochat.
PARTICIPATE ONLINE IN THE GUGGENHEIM FORUM
Panel Discussion: Mon, June 21–Fri, June 25
Live Chat: Thurs, June 24, 3 pm EDT Join thinkers from a variety of fields to discuss the cultural impulse toward repetition in life and art, inspired by the current exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. Learn how reenactment and reiteration have become important devices in contemporary artistic practice across creative mediums.
The Guggenheim Forum is a continuing series of moderated online discussions catalyzing intelligent conversation on the arts, architecture, and design. This fourth installment, titled On Repeat, runs now through Friday, June 25. Visitors from around the world are invited to share their thoughts and participate in a live chat session with participants on Thursday, June 24, at 3 pm EDT.
Participants
Drew Daniel, professor at Johns Hopkins University, author of 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and one half of the electronic music-duo Matmos
Simon During, professor at the University of Queensland and author of Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity
John Malpede, director of acclaimed theatrical, installation, and public-art projects. His workBright Futures was shown at the 2009 Performa Festival
Amy Taubin, contributing editor of Sight & Sound and Film Comment magazines, a frequent contributor to Artforum, and former curator of video and film at the Kitchen
It’s hard to believe that a year ago was my SVA MFA Thesis show. Tonight is the opening for this year’s crop of artists. I’m looking forward to seeing how their work developed over their Thesis year of school.
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Our awkward program name – photography, video, and related media – is becoming ever more apt. This year, the thesis show includes photographic prints, videos, multi-media installations, sculpture and oil paintings. With the swift advance of digital technology, students are using still or moving images merely as points of departure to invent a wide array of forms. Željka Blaskic, for example, produces a five-channel video installation inspired by her childhood in war-torn Croatia. Jan Ebeling (aka Janosch Parker) commissions oil paintings based on photographs of his witty performances. Irene Bermudez combines projected images, freestanding sculpture and a neon sign to create an immersive environment meant to evoke bodily sensations. Allyson Ross creates sculptural reliefs devoid of color based on iconic nineteenth-century photographs of Yosemite National Park. And John Messinger installs a small historical exhibit based on the life of a homeless man. These results and others are exciting to behold and, I confess, daunting for a curator trying to make visual or conceptual order from it all.
If there is an overall trend, it is the trust that students place in personal experience. Robert Gill, for example, embraces the obsession with fitness in our culture. Selena Salfen explores the crushing effects of post-traumatic stress disorder through the history of her own family. Tamar Latzman investigates themes from Jewish-European history by inventing memories of dreams and performing them for the camera. And Laura Oberg explores race in America by interviewing members of her mixed-race family. It may be that the confessional turn of our culture – much enhanced by social networking media – explains the willingness of students to reveal themselves in their work. But the students are not self-centered; they look inward in order to look outward. Growing up with the caveats of identity politics and challenges to the objectivity of representation, our students no longer feel at home with the relatively simple norms of documentary or straight photography. Instead, each student invents a new strategy for using images to make art.
In the past few years the New York Photo Festival came out of thin air to become the top hit on the Google Search for “Photography Festival” This years programming looks really diverse and engaging with interesting topics and speakers for everyone. Also, take a look at the Main Exhibitions and the Satellite Exhibitions. I will be covering the events on this blog as will as tweeting along. If you are there please introduce yourself – I would live to meet you.
INSTITUTE presents:Where Storytelling Lives – 30” (Featuring new works by Academy Award nominated filmmaker James Longley, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield, Gillian Laub, Guillaume Herbaut, Jehad Nga, Zed Nelson, Lorena Ros, and Jeff Jacobson).
The relevant quotes about my series, Imaginary Wars are:
Subjects range from obsolete machinery (Joseph Holmes’s renderings have a lustrous gravity) to staged reenactments of imaginary wars (as strikingly captured by Harlan Erskine, they look at once casual and emphatic) to issues of personal and familial identity (multiple examples).
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A sense of the cinematic informs many of these images — either overtly, with Bates, or associatively, as with Erskine. His combat reenactments are like war movies infiltrated into home movies and vice versa.
EXPOSURE: The 15th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition will be at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, 832 Commonwealth Ave., through June 20. Please stop by if you are in the area.
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