New York Gallery go-round

© Jeff Wall.


A few weeks ago I was up in New York for the weekend and there is a lot of great work being shown. I couldn't get to all of it but here is the photography shows I was digging in no particular order.

Jeff Wall at
MoMA

Thomas Struth at
Marian Goodman

Mitch Epstein
Sikkema Jenkins

Elger Esser at
Sonnabend Gallery

Andreas Gefeller at
Hasted Hunt

Lisa Kereszi at
Yancey Richardson Gallery

I also lucked out and made it to a lecture at the Aperture Gallery by Taryn Simon,
more on that later.

Zoe Strauss: Works-in-Progress Slide show

Last October I was lucky enough to find myself in Philadelphia at the same time as one of Zoe Strauss's Works-in-Progress Slide shows. I have been meaning to post the images I took while I was there for some time so here they finally are.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.



© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.



© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.



© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.



© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.



© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.



© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


The whole slide show was a really nice experience. Zoe Strauss has a recap of the slide show I went to on her blog. After the show, Zoe told everyone to take the pictures off the wall and keep them at no extra charge. There were also signed laser prints (?) for sale for $5 or $10 and an assortment of postcards. The whole experience was the opposite of many art show at a traditional gallery there was no pretense and inaccessibility of the $100,000 9-foot print. All of that was striped away and what I got in return was very satisfying.

Artists look different

According to this study, artists look different. No, they don't mean physically - apparently "artists" look differently at images visually examining more of the whole image then just key features.

I wonder who their study used for the artists and did they include photographers in this pool of artists to study? Maybe they see differently from other artists? maybe they see the same or maybe this is why some magazines have been separating photography from art all along.

THEME magazine, PROFILE Jaie Hwang

Last November, I shot a portrait of Jiae Hwang for THEME magazine Issue 8, Winter 2007 Transplants. I have been meaning to post the tear sheet and put it on my portfolio site (along with a bigger update) for sometime. Below is the much delayed tear sheet. Also, the Profile is on their website with a different choice for the portrait. I will repost the a larger picture out side of the tear sheet on my web site soon.




© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

Rest in Peace
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007

Meet the Artist: Matthew Barney

Recently Nancy Spector gave an interesting Keynote address at the Society for Photographic Education in Miami. I don't see he keynote address online but I did find this talk she did with Matthew Barrney at the Hirshhorn from January earlier this year. enjoy.

Meet the Artist: Matthew Barney