all Festivaled out

So, the Festival is over I am exhausted but visually satisfied. I had tons of fun and I will write some more about the highlights next week. You can read the list of award winners here. Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Amy Stein for reppin' SVA in the Canon G9 winner's circle.

New York Photo Awards, 2008 Nominees

Over the next, few days leading up to the festival on the 14th I hope to complete this compilation of portfolio websites for yours and my photographic surfing pleasure. If you have any comments of portfolio suggestions, requests for additions and or removals please email or comment in this post’s comment section.

2008 Nominees

Multimedia Photo / Audio Ed Kashi Jessica Dimmock Vincent Baillais Multimedia Video / Audio Anthony Fuller Brenda Ann Kennealy Christine Gatti Marcus Bleasdale Michele Borzoni Patrick Brown Shannon Ghannam Advertising - Series Chase Jarvis Flynn Larsen John Offenbach Marilyn Minter Marlene Marino Matt Hoyle or is it this guy Matt Hoyle Nigel Parry Raul Krebs Shi Xiaofan Simone Lewis Advertising - Single Carol Friedman David Harriman Dominik Sklarzyk Jason Bell Jill Greenberg Joel Redman Minori Murakami Paul Elledge Editorial - Series Alex Tehrani Balazs Gardi Benny Snyder Brent Stirton Christopher Morris Danny Wilcox Frazier Donald Weber Ed Kashi Elliott Erwitt Espen Rasmussen Jan Banning Marcin Łobaczewski Marlene Marino Michele Borzoni Moises Saman Myriam Abdelaziz Nigel Parry Paolo Pellegrin Paula Bronstein Sally Peterson Tivadar Domaniczky Yuri Kozyrev Editorial - Single Alana Cundy Benjamin Rusnak Benny Snyder Bob Bovin Chenoa Maxwell David Black Deirdre Brennan Ed Kashi Filippo Mutani Francesco Tonelli Igor Stevanovic Larry Louie Lyle Owerko Maciej Nabrdalik Marc Yankus Marcin Łobaczewski Sarah Bones Tanit Sakakini

Personal work / fine art - Series Aaron Hobson Adam Bell Andres Gonzalez Anthony Blasko Bill Armstrong Borkur Sigthorsson Christian Patterson Edgar Martins Erica Mcdonald Greg Merhar Gregg LeFevre Harold Glit Kyoko Hamada Lamia Maria Abillama Leslie Sokolow Loretta Rae Keith Mark W. Mann Martine Fougeron Michael Corridore Santiago Mostyn Will Steacy Personal work/ fine art - Single Andrea Sohler Cesar Lechowick Filippo Mutani Gabriela Herman Jessica Todd Harper Juliana Beasley Marc Yankus Matthew Weston Melanie Einzig Noah Greenberg Paulo Roberto Rob Hann Shannon Fagan Sian Kennedy Sinisa Vlajkovic Tanit Sakakini Ugnius Gelguda Willamain Somma Photography Book Amy Stein Anders Birch Ashley Gilbertson Christoph Bangert Christian Marclay Danny Wilcox Frazier Edmund Clark Jessica Dimmock Jessica Todd Harper Jill Greenberg Jim Reed Joan Villaplana Johnny Miller KayLynn Deveney Lisa M. Robinson Martine Fougeron Matthew Monteith Michael Cogliantry Naho Kubota Paolo Pellegrin Pierre Crocquet Romain Blanquart

Student Categories Student Editorial - Series Christina Clusiau Jesse Slotterback Monique Jaques Steph Plourde-Simard Tobias Kruse Tzu Cheng Liu Student Editorial - Single Alexander Gilfillan Joannie Lafrenière Kevin Kunishi Laurent Peter Markus Linderoth Paul Patrick Borhaug Tiana Markova-Gold Toni Greaves Student Personal work/ fine art - Series Adam Rose Anna Skladmann Annie Thornton Brett Bell Bruno Quinquet Christina Clusiau Christina Tisi-Kramer Daniel Holfeld Jason Reblando Katarina Wos Kelly Heck Laura Glabman Lisa Cook Rick Odell Satomi Shirai Sheila Griffin Tobias Kruse Veilhan Clemence Yanwu YUAN Student Personal work/ fine art - Single Alana Celii Andy Tew Becky Holladay Douglas Emery Emily Burke Harlan Erskine Jasper Sanidad Jill Cole John Sloan Josephine Friedrich Kelci McIntosh Lara Wechsler Lisa Albert Maki Ueno Michael Ott Rhea Karam Rhian Walters Ruthie Shapiro Steve Coleman Tzvetana Tchakarova Student Photography Book Bryan Lear Collin LaFleche Emily Burke Tiana Markova-Gold

2008 New York Photo Award Nominee

Harlan Erskine, “Guest Bedroom. Vero Beach, Florida” 30" x 24" © 2007

The image above was my submission to the Student Personal work / fine art - Single category that is now a nominated work.

From the events Press Release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The New York Photo Festival is pleased to announce the Nominees for the New York Photo Awards View the Nominees at  www.newyorkphotoawards.com Friday, May 16, 2008 Awards Begin at 8pm St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn After Party Begins at 9:30pm The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn Sponsored by PhotoShelter Inc. Music by DJ Disco Wiz Drinks Courtesy of Stella Artois Tickets available at www.newyorkphotofestival.com/tickets.html The nominees for New York Photo Awards have just been announced! View the list at www.newyorkphotoawards.com The New York Photo Festival invites you to celebrate the work of the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the inaugural New York Photo Awards. The New York Photo Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 16 at 8pm.  Selected works of the Winners and Honorable Mentions will be presented on the big screen before a packed audience of industry luminaries. Sixteen major awards will be publicly presented to the Award Winners, and thirty-two artists will receive Honorable Mention certificates. One Award and two Honorable Mention certificates will be presented in each of the following categories: Editorial (series/single), Personal Work/ Unpublished/ Fine Art (series/single), Advertising (series/single), Books, Multimedia (photo/audio and video/audio), and in each of the Student categories: Editorial (series/single), Personal Work/ Unpublished/ Fine Art (series/single), Books, and Multimedia (photo/audio and video/audio). Each category winner will also receive a Canon PowerShot G9 Digital Camera, courtesy of Canon USA. Located in the St. Ann’s Theater, designed to accommodate 500 persons, the ceremony will feature guest speakers, a/v projections of winning works, presentation of the awards and subsequent acceptance speeches. Award Presenters include: Tim Barber (tinyvices.com and New York Photo Festival curator), Michelle Bogre (Parsons New School for Design), David Friend (Vanity Fair), photographer Lauren Greenfield, Bill Hunt (Hasted Hunt Gallery), Meagan Keane (PhotoShelter), Charlie Melcher (Melcher Media), Alison Morley  (International Center of Photography), Jules Naudet (Hachette Filipacchi), Evan Nisselson (Digital Railroad), Jody Quon (New York magazine), David Schonauer (American Photo), Mary Virginia Swanson (Marketing Consultant and Educator), Lauren Wendle (PDN), and the festival founders and co-chairmen, Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency and Daniel Power of powerHouse Books. The New York Photo Awards After Party will be located at The powerHouse Arena and will begin at 9:30pm. Classic soul tunes courtesy of the legendary DJ Disco Wiz. Drinks will be served. Admission to the Awards Ceremony and After-Party is included in the Evening Programming ticket. About the New York Photo Awards: A new international, annual competition launched during the New York Photo Festival, the New York Photo Awards, will honor talented photographers from all over the world whose exceptional work breaks new grounds visually, intellectually and aesthetically. The Awards will give those visual artists the opportunity to reach key decision makers in the photographic community and the editorial, fine art and fashion worlds. All Award Winners and Honorable Mentions will enjoy unprecedented visibility for their work. In addition to the New York Photo Awards ceremony, their work will be showcased on the New York Photo Awards and New York Photo Festival websites, and published in leading photo magazines. These artists are also automatically eligible for inclusion in a beautifully produced New York Photo Awards Annual by powerHouse Books. The Annual will be published in November 2008. Jury: The Chairwoman of the jury is Elisabeth Biondi (The New Yorker). The members of the jury are: Bill Hunt (Hasted Hunt Gallery), Jody Quon (New York magazine), Benjamin Trigano (M + B Gallery), and Charlie Melcher (Melcher Media) from the New York Photo Festival Advisory Board, photographer Lauren Greenfield, Tim Barber (of tinyvices.com, and New York Photo Festival curator), and the festival's founders and co-chairmen: Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency and Daniel Power of powerHouse Books. A separate set of jurors from the multimedia industry will judge submissions in the Multimedia category, including the Snorri Bros. (famed Sprint commercial directors), Bjarke Myrthu (Magnum In Motion), Meredith Birkett (MSNBC) and Greg Clayman (MTV), as well as Lauren Greenfield, Frank Evers, and Daniel Power. As part of PhotoShelter Inc.’s sponsorship of the event, the PhotoShelter Personal Archive will be used to store each photographer’s images, distribute galleries to jury members, support the process of filtering and the ultimate selection of winning images.  The Personal Archive is PhotoShelter’s solution that allows photographers to archive, organize, distribute and sell their images online with powerfull tools including slideshows, lightboxes, ecommerce capabilities, and website customization. DJ Disco Wiz, (born Luis Cedeño), is credited with being the first Latino DJ in Hip-Hop music. Wiz teamed up with Casanova Fly (Grandmaster Caz), to form the Mighty Force crew in the mid-70s in the Bronx. Wiz is also credited for being the first DJ to create a "mixed plate" in 1977 (hip-hop’s first mixed dub recording) when he and Caz combined sound bites, special effects and paused beats. The creator of The Hip-Hop Meets Spoken Wordz Series, a hip-hop and poetry performance series that gives a voice to up and coming Latino talent in New York City, Wiz has performed as a poet at the Apollo Theater and the landmark Nuyorican Poets Cafe. A major contributor to the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, Wiz is also a board member of the Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture, chaired by Afrika Bambaataa of the Universal Zulu Nation. At present time Wiz is co-authoring his memoirs with Simon & Schuster author Ivan Sanchez. The book is titled, It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip-Hop’s First Latino DJ.

For more information, please contact Sara Rosen, Publicity Director New York Photo Festival, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: 212-604-9074 x105, Fax: 212-366-5247 email: sara[at]nyphotofestival.com

Tonight!!! William Greiner opening at Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Loungers
Noac, 1995, Digital C-Type Print, Signed & Numbered Verso

I am exhausted, spent and still unfinished with my final projects for the School year but I have to go to this for a bit tonight. I'm looking forward to seeing the final images in printed form. So far, I have only viewed Greiner's work on his website and his blog.

FALLEN PARADISE — William Greiner
May 1 — June 27

OPENING RECEPTION: May 1, 6pm — 8pm

This is the underbelly of pre-Katrina New Orleans. Greiner presents an image of a city that was already devastated, by neglect and abandonment, long before natural disaster struck. His imaging of New Orleans' urban vernacular is perceptively pictured through a carefully constructed use of color, form and content.

William Greiner's modus operandi is the American Color Tradition — the snapshot that isn't. Here, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. The seemingly objective actuality of the city, its banality, its ordinary everyday impression, is transformed into a vista of flush saturated palettes of color. Born, raised and (until Katrina) living and working in the city, New Orleans has always been an importnt source of inspiration for Greiner's work.

Here, a decade of looking and picturing his immediate environment, is brought together and displayed for the first time. Fallen Paradise is a celebration of apparent incidental imagery that is, of course, abound in formal devices — frame, vantage point, shape and line. Although there exists an autobiographical subtext, Greiner is most successful in compelling us to also look, not just at his city, but at the photograph itself. Whilst the importance of his subject does not disappear, these images function as photographic artifact — at once, they are observation and cultural object.

William Geiner lives and works in Baton Roughe, Louisiana.

KLOMPCHING GALLERY

111 Front Street, Suite 206
Brooklyn, NY 11201

What is wrong with AIPAD?

Photo of the 2008 New York APAID show by Susan Sermoneta.

A few weekends ago, I went out to see The AIPAD Photography "show". I wouldn't call it a show - that would give it too much credit. The only thing that was like a show was the price.

$25 dollars for the day.

No student ticket pricing.

Zero.

What is wrong with these people? Are they that elitist that they need to overcharge EVERYONE? Even the bigger more prestigious and more historically significant show, The Armory Show has a fair student price of $10. I am glad I didn't post this right after I went since I was in a angrier mood then and I maybe would have said something rash.

I almost didn't go until I found an artistic method of entry. As for how the fair was? It was ok there were some highlights and some embarrassments. I would post them here but I wouldn't want to help them. One thing I will note is how interesting it is to see who isn't represented at these fairs but are in other fairs. Those famous Germans with the big price tags weren't there at all as far I saw.

So, next year AIPAD please consider at student pricing all the cool Art Fairs are doing it.

Lots of blog coverage here here here here and countless others...

Black Sun Project, debuts at Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL (UPDATED x2)

UPDATE: The show will be up for on more gallery walk this Saturday April 12th 7-10PM. Although I can't be down in Miami the gallery will be open, please invite everyone you know, stop by, check it out and let me know what you think.


On Saturday, March 8th, 2008, I opened my first solo show at the Bas Fisher Invitational. It was great to be back in Miami to get some fresh air and see all my friends there. Please check out the images of the show below the Press Release.

PRESS RELEASE

The Bas Fisher Invitational presents “Black Sun Project,”
a new series of photographs by Harlan Erskine.

Harlan Erskine
“Black Sun Project”
March 8th - April TBD, 2008

Opening Reception: March 8th 2008 7-10PM
Closing Reception: April 12th 2008 7-10pm

other viewings by appointment only: lightofman[at]gmail.com

Bas Fisher Invitational
upstairs on the 2nd floor
of the Buena Vista Building
180 NE 39th St. Suite 210
basfisherinvitational.com

Black Sun Project

“The sun is not fiery after all, but a dead planet. We on earth give it its light.”
—Minor White

My photography certainly began in a formalistic project based practice but this particular project is very much a departure for me because I am experimenting in photographic abstraction. Not long after photography’s invention, many photographers experimented with abstraction of photographic space. Even the early contact prints of plants produced by the inventor of the Calotype, Henry Fox Talbot, are in essence an exploration in photographic abstraction. I am particularly interested in the later abstraction from the 1930’s of Man Ray and his then assistant Lee Miller and their rediscovery of Solarizations or the Sabattier Effect. Particularly interesting are the more direct echos of my project in the singular images from Ansel Adams and Minor White. Their Black Sun images, through overexposure solarization, are the analogue version of my images. Therefore, in a similar way, they explored abstraction in relation to the contemporary photographic technology of their time–this exploration, titled Black Sun Project, explores photography through a significant contemporary technology, the mobile phone.

Contemporary practice has very much brought a particular kind formalism into vogue but with new sets of guidelines. I am certainly guilty of applying many of these parameters within my own work but in moving away from my previous methods of working, I have found some clarity in my previous explorations as well as a new avenue to explore. I will continue to work the way I used to but every so often, it is beneficial to perform radical change and see where it leads. Taryn Simon’s photograph of the albino tiger is good example of a photographer who is photographing an evolutionary glitch/mistake. Nature normally weeds out albino tigers born in the wild since they are not well suited to their surroundings and have a very tough time surviving–they tend to get horribly sunburn and stick out in its surroundings. By the same logic, technology companies normally weed out glitches from their products (we hope they do anyway) to improve their products. The manufacturer of this cellular phone eventually weeded out the black sun solarization effect so this artwork is self–reflexively about that mistake or glitch in the technological evolution of mobile photography and photography in general.



The Bas Fisher Invitational is a artist run alternative art space, located in the Buena Vista Building in Miami’s Design District. It was founded in July 2004 by artists Hernan Bas and Naomi Fisher in the wake of losing their favorite alternative art space “the House” to Miami’s rapid gentrification. Their premise is to simply invite artists who they are inspired by to publicly showcase their work, exposing additional exciting voices to Miami's growing art scene.

For additional information please contact the gallery at lightofman[at]gmail.com or contact Harlan Erskine at Me[at]harlanerskine.com






Black Sun 0006, c-print on diasec in wood frame, 48" x 64"


Black Sun 0009, c-print on diasec in wood frame, 48" x 64"


Black Sun 0181, c-print on diasec in wood frame, 48" x 64"


Infinite Black Suns, 104 c-prints, 4" x 6" each

Selections announced for Humble Arts Foundation's "31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography"

Image by Sara Padgett Heathcott

Hot off the mass email today Humble Arts Foundation has announced the 31 selections out of over 1000 submissions for the upcoming show “31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography.” The exhibition opening reception on Saturday, March 1st at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn and the show will stay up for the month.

I went through the Exhibiting photographers and found as many websites as I could. They may be showing newer work then what they have on their websites but it was still nice to take a look at some new voices as well as the friends and fellow SVA Students and Alumni that made it in. If any of these websites are wrong please let me know and I will correct it.

Congratulations to all.

Alana Celii
Amy Elkins
Ahndraya Parlato
Allison Grant
Ashley Lefrak
Alejandra Laviada
Alex Van Clief
Catherine Maloney
Dina Kantor
Dru Donovan
Elaine Stocki
Hannah Whitaker
Helen Maurene Cooper
Jaimie Warren
Jessica Bruah
Jessica Roberts
Ka-Man Tse
Kate and Camilla
Kelly Kleinschrodt
Manya Fox
Marta Labad
Mary Mattingly
Molly Landreth
Nadine Rovner
Rachael Dunville
Reka Reisinger
Sara Padgett Heathcott
Sarah Small
Sarah Sudhoff
Tealia Ellis Ritter
Talia Chetrit

Tonight: Screening and Talk with Filmmaker Jem Cohen

I first came upon filmmaker Jem Cohen (wiki) (Video Data Bank) in a 2002 show at EYEBEAM. He was showing Chain, a new three channel piece shot in 16mm film, with a fantastic soundtrack by Godspeed You Black Emperor. The film washes the viewer with images in a Koyaanisqatsi (wiki) style and I remember his film being the highlight of that show so It will be interesting to see him talk tonight.

The Change You Want To See Gallery
Monday, January 28th, 7:30pm, free
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

Fall Auction Season begins

Last Saturday and Sunday, I visited the Phillips de Pury & Company auction house in Chelsea for their Fall Photography Auction preview. Auctions provide a great opportunity to view artwork up close and to inspect it in atypical ways. For example, if the artwork that is not in an artist's frame you may ask them to un-matt and inspect the print-there is usually interesting writing and markings on the back of the work and you can see how the print is aging. When you see the art out of its frame you get to know the print in a completely different way. Sometimes the print was yellowing and sometimes you could see that it was even more stunning then any catalogue or mechanical reproduction could ever match-take that Walter Benjamin! Below are a few choice shots of their artwork viewing room.


Alec Soth's Cadillac Motel, 2005 "Color coupler print. 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.3 cm). Signed in ink on a label affixed to the reverse of the frame. One from an edition of 7." On the wall at Phillips during sunset.


The art examination room at Phillips. Back wall left to right: Alec Soth, Elger Esser, and Lucinda Devlin.


Leni Riefenstahl's Nuba Portfolio on a viewing desk. "Berlin: Fine Art Photography, 2002. Thirty color coupler prints. Each approximately 22 3/4 x 17 in. (57.8 x 43.2 cm) or the reverse. Each signed and titled in pencil on the mount; each numbered 13/15 in ink, copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on the reverse of the mount. Two colophons, one in English and one in German. Contained in two linen clamshell cases."

Daniel Eatock

When I first started designing my website I wanted a very simple design that would be ultra straight forward and easy to get to the work while not being too showy or flashy. I ended up going with what I thought would be most logical-a menu of chapters on the left with a simple drag out menu that I found online for free and the portfolio on the right. About 6 months after I had launched the website I came across Daniel Eatock and his philosophy of web design was essentially what I has made but even simpler.

Recently Daniel Eatock teamed up with some developers and turned the philosophy of simple web design into a simple web program called indexhibit. It looks so good I may convert my website into that system just because it might be easier to upload images. For more info please read the history of the project notice I am listed in the "Early User List" area and that the software was introduced on 12.03.07 and no thats not the future he is just using the europe date format DD.MM.YY (I always like that formate better because it goes from small to large) Anyway, there is also a good and very funnyvideo lecture posted at the Walker Art Center where he used to work.

New Andreas Gursky work

© Andreas Gursky.

Looks like Andreas Gursky is getting talked a lot about lately. He is showing his new work and I can't wait to see it up close. Here is a nice pdf of his work. I found a good article and exhibition images in a Wallpaper Portfolio. Here is a good blog post with nice detail shots of the new images.

Also check out a haus der kunst translated page
via jm Colberg

If you happen to be in London tonight looks like there is a show up for another few days in London at Sprueth Magers London Gallery and also at White Cube.

He opened a show in New York yesterday. Anyone go? if you did how was it? I need to get up there soon. If you didn't go the show is at:

Matthew Marks
522 West 22nd Street
New York

Andreas Gursky
May 4-June 30, 2007

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.


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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.

Miami Art Museum: The Machine, the Body and the City

Ted Croner, Taxi, New York Night 1949, gelatin silver print, 15 3/8 x 15 1/8 inches
Collection Miami Art Museum , fractional and promised gift of Charles Cowles
© Ted Croner Estate Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC

I am excited to announce, although already a week overdue, that I have been included in an exhibition at the Miami Art Museum entitled: Miami Art Museum: The Machine, the Body and the City. It's a great show and even if I were not in it, I would recommend it to any fan of photography.

There isn't too much about it online at this point but there is a write up in the Miami Herald and V Magazine.

I would like to thank guest curator, Andy Grundberg, Peter Boswell Senior Curator at MAM and Charles Cowles for his contributions to the Miami Art Museum.

The exhibition will be up until April 15, 2007 in MAM's Plaza Level Gallery.

Locust Projects annual fundraiser 2006

Tomorrow is the annual fundraiser for Miami cutting edge space Locust Projects. I participated last year and the show was very fun with people racing around to get their favorite artwork after their names are drawn at random. See flyer below.



I have donated one of the pieces from my series "ten convenient stores" that was shown at Art Basel Miami Beach 2005. Please see below for web reference. I hope to see you there tomorrow night.

All enquires please contact Ambrosino Gallery.

#10535, 20"x30", 1 of 6, © 2004 Harlan Erskine all rights reserved.

OPTIC NERVE, Tonight MOCA Miami

I few weeks ago I was asked to Judge the prestigious Optic Nerve experimental film festival and tonight is the opening screening. I hope to see you there.

The Artists include:
Clifton Childree
Lou Anne Colodny
Studio El Condor
Matthew Cox
FG
Liz Haley
Jiae Hwang
Storyteller
Duda Leite
Alejandra Leibovich
Ali Prosch
Nicholas Raftis
Geoffrey Thomas
TM Sisters
Friends With You
David Rohn

Schedule:
Friday, August 18 at MOCA
Joan Lehman Building, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami
7 pm First Screening
8 pm Artist Roundtable with Starbucks
9 pm Second Screening

Saturday, August 26 at MOCA at Goldman Warehouse
404 NW 26th St., Wynwood Arts District
7 pm Screening

See the press release here.

Cloud City by Friends With You - Art Basel Miami Beach 2006

Yes, believe it or not I haven't finished posting about Basel. I wanted to post more while it was going on but work and art sometimes don't mix. Below is my documentation of The Cloud City by Miami Collective Friends With You that was showing from December 1, 2005 until January 29, 2006 at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Miami at the Goldman Warehouse
I hope they het a chance to product this show in a more permanent way. So, kids (of any age) can come an play in the Cloud City another day.

Links:
New York Times Article
Mami Chan & Norman Bambi (PonPoko)



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Happy 80th North Miami!

What does a respectable city do to celebrate its 80th Anniversary?

If you said "Have a creepy carnival," then you should win a Chinese manufactured plush toy and an Elephant ear. I could only stand to be there for so long (plus I had places to go) So, here is the digital documentation I have (I shot a little film too I'll try to post that later).


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This is the view from 125th Street as I parked... of what was to come.



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"Get the Water in the Hole and win a prize kids." The Carnie announced over the build in pa system.



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Unfortunately they were out of Elephant Ears.



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These creatures of MoCa watched the Carnival celebration from their MoCA lake perches.



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Revolver Party - Friday night, December 02, 2005 Art Basel

I meant to post this several months ago but I have been working so much I have had little time for sleep and no less posting. Now that things have slowed down I will try to catch up. I'll start with some pictures from Art Basel Miami Beach 2005. Yes, ok that was in December but I'll catch up to the present, quick, I hope.



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Carlos D. and Steve Aoki
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Mark, The Cobra Snake was having a good time.
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Harold Hunter (Zoo York) was serving free Red Stripes. Why Harold Hunter? Who knows and who cares, it is free beer after all.


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© 2005 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


I finally compiled the pictures from last weeks Vice Magazine sponsored party over at Revolver at the Pawn Shop. I still have two more days worth of Art Basel Pictures so stay posted for more...

DISTANCE, by JEPPE HEIN at the Moore Space.

This past Thurday, during Art Basel I got a chance to go to The Moore Space to check out Jeppe Hein's installation.


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MOSAIC in the Design District

MOSAIC was one on the many Miami Design District collaborative art shows that sprouted during Art Basel. There was lots of work from China including a foam pit.


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The 26 Hour Day.

Considering all the events/parties going on this weekend, I will be outside and not on the computer. I'll post a post-baselmaddness wrap-up sometime next week. Tonight's event is Revolver at The pawn Shop:
Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeah's)
Carlos D. (Interpol)
Steve Aoki (Kidmillionare/Dim Mak Records)
MisShapes (NYC)
Ben Cho (Sway Sundays/NYC)

Art Basel LINKAGE.

Here we go again.