Anna Collette & Christopher Williams Install Shots

Tonight at the Gallery, And FLAK Photo!

Will I see you at the gallery Tonight?




And hey, I made it onto Flak Photo today, check it out!

Flak Photo

Welcome 2 Wednesday: Volume 2

Friday at +Kris Graves Projects

ANNA COLLETTE - INVASIVE SPECIES

OPENING: FRIDAY, JANUARY 22th, 6-8:30pm

Anna Collette is a photographer who explores conflicted notions of the contemporary landscape. Her work began in 2002 with a series rendering urban and suburban environments that focused on how the natural world—and human expectations of it—is being redefined, both visually and metaphorically, by the failed idealism of increasing development.

There is a poetic sadness in this invasion that is not unfamiliar. Much like any invasion, it is violent, swift, and irreversible. The entire world depicted in these photographs has turned green – and while it appears quite peaceful and serene there is an underlying tension that consumes it. These plants were originally brought to the northeast for erosion control, but over the years have spread throughout the area and have taken over the native species. For support, they wrap their vines around the native plants, but this blocks the sunlight and their support system eventually dies.

Collette was born in Massachusetts in 1974. She received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from Yale University. She teaches photography at Purchase College, SUNY, and lives in New York City.



CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS - DRAWINGS

Running concurrently with INVASIVE SPECIES, Christopher Williams will be exhibiting his newest series of stippled ink drawings. He graduated from Southwestern University in Texas, with a B.A in Art History. Williams is a native of Texas and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.




*6 Sell-Outs & Counting! Ruben Natal-San Miguel's image has sold out, Jason Hanasik and my own print still have a few more copies.

Successful emerging photographers from around the U.S. and Canada have joined forces to support the people of Haiti.

Every print is 8x10 inches in size.
Every print is from an edition of 10.
Every print is $50
100% of the proceeds go to Haiti.

Please go to this link and pass the word out!
HAITI PRINT SALE



+KGP Artist Greg Miller has an image in the upcoming group show at Danziger Projects!

The exhibition will be held in Danziger Projects, Thursday, January 21, 2010. 6:00pm - 8:00pm. 534 West 24th Street. New York, NY

Exhibiting Artists:

JOWHARA ALSAUD, CHAN-HYO BAE, THOMAS BANGSTED, MANDY CORRADO, STEPHEN GILL, JOSEPH HOLMES, ALEJANDRA LAVIADA, GREG MILLER, DAVID SCHOERNER, PATRICK SMITH, TOMMY TON, SCOUT TUFANKJIAN, OLIVER WARDEN, KATHERINE WOLKOFF, TSUKASA YOKOZAWA, EVELYN HOFER, HELEN LEVITT, IRVING PENN, JULIUS SCHULMAN, BETTIE PAGE, CHARIS WILSON

More information at DANZIGER PROJECTS



+Kris Graves Projects will be showing work at MadridFOTO this coming May 12-16. We will have a big booth in Spain showing off the work of most of our photographers. More info coming soon. See you in Spain!

MadridFOTO

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Welcome 2 Wednesday: Volume 1

1. SECOND RECEPTION AT THE +KGP: THURSDAY, JANUARY 7th, 6-8pm

SARA MACEL - TEXAS BUNCH
“Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word...A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.”
- John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Sara Macel moved to New York at the age of eighteen. In 2003 she earned a BFA in Photography and Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she also received the Tobias Award for her project titled Kiss + Tell. After graduating, she spent two years as the assistant and studio manager to Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson and subsequently became a still photography producer at Art Department. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Photography at the School of Visual Arts. Macel will have her first solo exhibition next month at +Kris Graves Projects in Brooklyn, NY. The artist currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

CARIN JOHNSON - NUANCES
Running concurrently with TEXAS BUNCH, Carin Johnson will showcase new works on paper. Johnson focuses on awkwardness in relationships and situations, and aims for the outcomes to not be expressly literal. Johnson uses her imagination to express what she sees from day-to-day into that verging on the surreal. She then takes aspects of things she finds interesting at a certain moment combining them into images that carry a clouded idea that is not easily identifiable - in hopes of stirring up the imagination to another plane of thought.

+KRIS GRAVES PROJECTS



2. VERSUS a show curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel of ArtMostFierce (also a +KGP artist), will open at Hous Projects this Thursday, January 7, 6:30-10:30 pm featuring Brian Ulrich, Jen Davis, Eric Ogden, Hank Willis Thomas, Amy Elkins, and Michael Wolf among others (including Kris Graves).

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 7, 6:30-10:30 pm

Exhibition on View: January 7-March 8, 2010

Hous Projects
31 Howard Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York

Hous Projects



3. A Queens Affair - book pre-order
A QUEENS AFFAIR