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GATHER THE TROOPS

2010-11-09T09:23:00.000-08:00

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Jo Ann Walters - Vanity + Consolation

2010-10-22T11:06:00.000-07:00

Jo Ann Walters

Vanity + Consolation

November 4th through December 18th, 2010

An opening reception of these works will be held on Thursday, November 4th, from 6:00-8:30 pm

+KRIS GRAVES PROJECTS is proud to announce the upcoming solo exhibition of photographic artist Jo Ann Walters' series Vanity + Consolation.

Jo Ann Walters has been practicing photography since the early 1980's. This selection of exquisite color photographic portraits from Walters' series Vanity + Consolation were made between 1985 and the present. She has been described by seminal photographer William Eggleston as "one of the few independently original photographers working in color today.” These original color prints have never been exhibited in New York.

Walters uses her small blue-collar hometown, Alton, Illinois, as her continuing inspiration. Approaching her subjects through the eyes of an insider with all of the ambiguities and contradictions this implies. Walters observes the intimate moments of the women, girls, children, and families pictured within the confines of the domestic space, Walters examines the complexities and forcefulness of inner life. “...Here are childhood’s intimations as well as adult recollection; here is a finely chiseled, technically and beautiful piece of art; a pensive, searing, almost sacred meditation on the ordinary.” -Dr. Laura Wexler, Yale University

Jo Ann Walters is a Guggenheim Fellow with work in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, St. Louis Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Biblioteque Nationale, and the Center for Fine Photography, Bombay, India among others. She is currently the Head of the Photography Board of Study at Purchase College, The State University of New York.

Jo Ann Walters’ Vanity + Consolation will be on view during regular gallery hours and by appointment. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the gallery at 917.913.1292 or by email at: krisgravesprojects@gmail.com

2010-10-15T11:48:00.000-07:00

From the website: "Deep Sleep is a quarterly online photography magazine founded by and featuring work from a small group of contributors who share the same office space in Shoreditch, East London. Each issue (published in February, May, August and November) will be on a specific theme and guest contributors are also invited to submit a set of images based on that theme."

A little more than a year ago, Deep Sleep Magazine had it's inaugural issue, titled "Invisible." Since then they have had three other issues, "Alien," "Dance," and most recently "Memory." Each issue shows an interesting, and wide variety of styles and subject matter that attempt to follow along the theme, all with written explanations of the work. Their next issue is slated for a November release.

Design property of Deep Sleep Magazine. Image Property of Ian Teh

Abelardo Morell, 'Ground Work'

2010-09-24T12:15:00.001-07:00

Upcoming is the opening of Abelardo Morell's latest work, 'Ground Work,' at Bonni Benrubi Gallery. This show draws from his Tent-Camera series, his newest expedition into the world of the camera obscura. As opposed to his previous works, which were just the interaction of the projected image with the man made space that looked out upon the landscape, this body of work looks to bring the physical presence of the landscape into the image, projecting the world onto itself.

Opening reception October 7th, 2010 at Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

All images property of Abelardo Morell and Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

Dumbo Arts Festival 9.24-9.26

2010-09-17T14:17:00.000-07:00

Don't forget that starting Friday, September 24th, the Arts community of Dumbo will be hosting the Dumbo Arts Festival!

The exhibition, "Forst," with photographs by Andreas Gehrke will still be on view here at + Kris Graves Projects. Hope you can all make it out this weekend!

Laura Letinsky - After All

2010-09-17T12:17:00.000-07:00

Opening last night at Yancey Richardson, 'After All' marks Laura Letinsky's return to Chelsea, with selections of work from her two latest series, "The Fall," and "The Dog and the Wolf." The show opened with a sudden lightning and rainstorm that drenched all the early gallery goers. Despite this, and the tornado that hit the Brooklyn/Queens area, most of the openings at 535 w22nd began to draw in some viewers after the initial downpour. “After All” was well worth the wet shoes, and the quiet emptiness of the gallery just at 6pm seemed appropriate for this new collection of work belonging to Letinsky.

The Work, although more recent than any shown at Yancey Richardson before, has clear ties to her previous bodies of work, though she seems to be pushing her ideas, and the formal qualities of this new work farther than previously. Her intellect is, as usual, ever present. Close study of the images can reveal the underlying references and critique of contemporary culture. The subtle formal qualities, though, are enough for a visit.

Also open last night at 535 w22nd
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao at Julie Saul Gallery
Danny Jauregui at Leslie Tonkonow

Image Property of Laura Letinsky and Yancey Richardson Gallery

SULTRY II

2010-07-16T11:08:00.000-07:00

SULTRY II, is a continuation of last years SULTRY I show. The conveyed theme throughout the exhibition, deals with the idea of, "sensual imagery" that isn't overly sexualized nor pornographic. Considering the fact that sex, is the most intriguing aspect of today's media, the artists showing in the SULTRY II show push forward the idea of visual stimulation, in a way that describes the human figure rather than exploiting it. Each photograph enables the views to focus on the details of each subject, in a way that isn't forced. Skin, Hair, Sweat, Gaze, Movement, Posture and angle, are all the main qualities that are being suggested within each picture.

SULTRY II a group show showcasing work from many different types of
photographers with various points of view on a particular subject matter.

“ My subject is landscapes as culture. I am not interested in an untouched world. What I am trying to reveal though photography in a deliberate yet subtle way is a sense of history. I want my photographs to describe my relationship to both the tangible and the imagined, to fact and fiction.”- Lois Connor

“He Opened Up Somewhere Along The Eastern Shore is a photography, video, and installation project which engages image making as a platform to intervene inside Western culture’s traditions and expectations as they relate to masculinity, sexuality, and class.We, the men of these images and me, might not sit at an equal distance from the center, but we all have a complicated relationship to what is considered normal to our benefit and our destruction."

- Jason Hanaskin

Featured Artists:

Jowhara AlSaud
Daniell Cohen
Lois Conner
Gregg Evans
John Feinstein
Gabriela Herman
Matt Lacari
Edward Lopez
Kate Moyse
Matthew Pillsbury
Manjari Sharma
Rafael Soldi
Brea Sounders
Michael Cardinali
Jason Hanasik
K Yoland M
Sari Wynne

July 9th-August 14th, 2010

+Kris Graves Projects is proud to announce the opening of Sultry II. Curated by Kris Graves.

More information on the artists as well as upcoming exhibitions are available at http://www.krisgravesprojects.com/

the EXHIBITION LAB

2010-06-11T09:41:00.000-07:00

"Founded by gallery owners Sasha Wolf and Michael Foley, The Exhibition Lab is a study center for people involved in various aspects of fine art photography.The Exhibition Lab will provide a vibrant modern-day salon for artists, scholars and others who are interested in engaging the world’s diverse and vital photography community through the gateway of New York City.Classes, in the form of seminars, workshops and semester-long courses, will be offered on subjects geared to practitioners of the medium as well as to those in the academic community.Located in Chelsea in a space shared by Sasha Wolf Gallery and Foley Gallery, the Ex Lab will function as a hub for the study of photography outside of traditional academic venues..."

http://www.theexhibitionlab.com/

The Exhibition lab opens doors for artists of all ages. It is a great way to network and get inspired. Critiques will be given by Sasha Walf as well as Michael Foley, and are divided as a six group critique once every week. A the end of the eight weeks students will receive two, one on one critiques as well as a group show in Chelsea.

Portfolio review day will take place on Sunday, June 27, 2010, starting at 11:00am - 11:00pm.

The review will consist of four 20-minute reviews with four of the 10 reviewers. Two of them being:

Kris Graves, Director, Kris Graves Projects. Kris received his BFA in photography from SUNY Purchase College. He will be teaching one of the seminar classes in July.

http://www.krisgravesprojects.com/

Jackie Ladner, Assistant Photo Editor, New York Magazine. Jackie is also a SUNY Purchase college graduate.

To apply, please provide the following materials via info@theexhibitionlab.com

1. A written description of your work, no more than 100 words

2. 10 jpegs sent either in a zip file or attached to an e-mail )jpegs should be 72 dpi and 6 inches at the largest dimension. Deadline for submission will be June 12th. Artists will be notified of acceptance by June 14th. Payment is due upon acceptance. There is no cost to apply.

Like It or Not, Artists are Married to Their Dealers by Daniel Grant

2010-06-10T12:42:00.000-07:00

"The art market is an odd mix of money and affection"

Like It or Not, Artists are Married to Their Dealers

In The Huffigton Post, Daniel Grant, discusses the different types of relationships between: dealers, artists and collectors. He raises the many issues that occur when, business and friendship are faced with one another.

"Painter Richard Haas has noted the state of one's relationship with a dealer may be measured in the frequency of phone calls and who's calling whom. "The dealer is calling you most of the time when you're in favor," he said. "When you find yourself calling the dealer most of the time, you're not in favor anymore. There are not enough phone calls, not enough visits to your studio; you don't get invited to dinner. You know you're at an end."

"When Jackson Pollock signed his first contract with collector and dealer Peggy Guggenheim in 1943, he was able to quit his job decorating ties to concentrate on painting. That first contract paid him a stipend of $150 per month, with guaranteed sales of $2,700 annually (if there were less than $2,700 in sales, Guggenheim would be paid the difference in paintings). His second contract with her two years later raised the stipend to $300 per month and gave Guggenheim ownership of Pollock's entire artistic output for the year with the exception of one painting that the artist could retain. The terms of those contracts might not satisfy artists nowadays, but it was beneficial to both Pollock and Guggenheim then, reflecting her trust in his talents and allowing him to work unencumbered by financial constraints. This was a true partnership."

"For better or worse, it is the volume of money pouring into the art market that has led to evolving relationships between artists and dealers. For dealers, that sometimes means dropping an artist after one or two unsuccessful shows, because rents are too high and other artists' work is too sought-after to put energy into nurturing one person's career. For artists, that may mean not committing to a long-term relationship with a gallery. Ultimately, these questions lead to one at the heart of a relationship with a dealer, "Is loyalty a hindrance to my career?"

Article by, Daniel Grant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-grant/like-it-or-not-artists-ar_b_605677.html

The Unreasonable Apple by Paul Graham

2010-03-13T10:54:00.000-08:00

This is from a presentation by Paul Graham at the Museum of Modern Art Photograph Forum last month, that I find to ring true on every front.

The Unreasonable Apple

This month I read a review in a leading US Art Magazine of a Jeff Wall survey book, praising how he had distinguished himself from previous art photography by:
“Carefully constructing his pictures as provocative often open ended vignettes, instead of just snapping his surroundings”
Anyone who cares about photography ‘s unique and astonishing qualities as a medium should be insulted by such remarks, especially here, now, in 2010, in this country, in this city, which has embraced photography like no other.
Now this is maybe just an unthinking review, but what it does illustrate is how there remains a sizeable part of the art world that simply does not get photography. They get artists who use photography to illustrate their ideas, installations, performances and concepts, who deploy the medium as one of a range of artistic strategies to complete their work. But photography for and of itself -photographs taken from the world as it is– are misunderstood as a collection of random observations and lucky moments, or muddled up with photojournalism, or tarred with a semi-derogatory ‘documentary’ tag.
This is tremendously sad, for if we look back, the simple truth is that the majority of the great photographic works of art of the 20th century operate in precisely this territory: from Walker Evans to Robert Frank, Diane Arbus to Garry Winogrand, from Stephen Shore traveling across America in Uncommon Places; Robert Adams navigating the freshly minted suburbs of Denver in The New West, or William Eggleston spiraling towards Jimmy Carter’s hometown in Election Eve, who would seriously propose that these sincere photographic artists were merely “snapping their surroundings”?
So what is the issue? The broader art world has no problems with the work of Jeff Wall, or Cindy Sherman or James Casebere or Thomas Demand partly because the creative process in the work is clear and plain to see, and it can be easily articulated and understood what the artist did: Thomas Demand constructs his elaborate sculptural creations over many weeks before photographing them; Cindy Sherman develops, acts and performs in her self-portraits. In each case the handiwork of the artist is readily apparent: something was synthesized, staged, constructed or performed. The dealer can explain this to the client, the curator to the public, the art writer to their readers, etc. The problem is that whilst you can discuss what Jeff Wall did in an elaborately staged street tableaux, how do you explain what Garry Winogrand did on a real New York street when he ‘just’ took the picture? Or for that matter what Stephen Shore created with his deadpan image of a crossroads in El Paso? Anyone with an ounce of sensitivity knows they did something there, and something utterly remarkable at that, but... what? How do we articulate this uniquely photographic creative act, and express what it amounts to in terms such that the art world, highly attuned to synthetic creation -the making of something by the artist- can appreciate serious photography that engages with the world as it is?
Now, please do not get me wrong, I admire the work of Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall and Thomas Demand - I have zero problems with it, and it is emphatically not an either/or situation. Nor should you misunderstand me in the other direction: I am not arguing for some return to photographic fundamentalism of Magnum style Leica reportage 35mm black & white work or whatever - far from it, for we are clearly in a Post Documentary photographic world now. Both of these disclaimers not withstanding, I have to say that the position of ‘straight’ photography in the art world reminds me of the parable of an isolated community who grew up eating potatoes all their life, and when presented with an apple, though it unreasonable and useless, because it didn’t taste like a potato.
Am I ‘Tilting at Windmills’ here? Perhaps so, but as with the great Don – Cervantes that is – it is to make a point, earnestly, yet with good humor. The point is certainly not the art world versus the photography world, because it is not apples or potatoes, anymore than it is sculpture or painting. The point is that we need the smart, erudite and eloquent people in the art world, the clever curators and writers, those who do get it, to take the time to speak seriously about the nature of such photography, and articulate something of its dazzlingly unique qualities, to help the greater art world, and the public itself understand the nature of the creative act when you dance with life itself - when you form the meaningless world into photographs, then form those photographs into a meaningful world.
Thankfully, as the glass clears, it has become apparent just what Robert Frank or Garry Winogrand or Diane Arbus or Robert Adams accomplished back in the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s, and for that we must be grateful. For the great exhibitions at the Met, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and of course MoMA itself; for the books, the catalogues, the enlightened essays: I thank you. But... what of those who work today with equal commitment and sincerity, using straight photography in the cacophonous present? I will not name names here, but for these serious photographers the fog of time still obfuscates their efforts, and the blindness j’accuse some of the art world of suffering from, narrows their options. It means their work will almost never be considered for Documenta, or placed alongside other artists in a Biennale, or found for sale in major contemporary art galleries and art fairs. This does not just deprive the public of the work, and the work of its place, it denies these artists the self-confidence that enables them to grow, to feel appreciation and affirmation, not to mention some modest financial reward allowing them to continue to work. It is also, most importantly, seeing the world of visual art in narrow terms. It is seeing the apple as unreasonable.
So, what is it we are discussing here - how do we describe the nature of this photographic creativity? My modest skills are insufficient for such things. However let me make an opening offer: perhaps we can agree that through force of vision these artists strive to pierce the opaque threshold of the now, to express something of the thus and so of life at the point they recognised it. They struggle through photography to define these moments and bring them forward in time to us, to the here and now, so that with the clarity of hindsight, we may glimpse something of what it was they perceived. Perhaps here we have stumbled upon a partial, but nonetheless astonishing description of the creative act at the heart of serious photography: nothing less than the measuring and folding of the cloth of time itself.

Presentation by Paul Graham at first MoMA Photography Forum, 16th February 2010.
http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/index.html

TOMORROW: FIRST THURSDAY D.U.M.B.O.

2010-02-03T07:05:00.000-08:00

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 6 - 8:30pm

1. Anna Collette & Christopher Williams - Second Viewing

2. Kris Graves & Eric Hairabedian - A Queens Affair @ FARMANI GALLERY

3. Amy Stein & Brian Ulrich - Instruments of Empire @ CAPTION GALLERY

ANNA COLLETTE - INVASIVE SPECIES

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.

A Queens Affair
Photography by Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian
Book pre-Launch and Exhibition
February 04-13, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 04, from 6-8PM

(January 15, 2010, Brooklyn, NY) The Farmani Gallery will host the book pre-launch for A Queens Affair, a collaborative photography endeavor by Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian, due out summer of 2010. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 4, 2010 from 6-8PM at which time book pre-orders will be made available. A Queens Affair is priced at $40 and for the first 100 individuals to pre-order will receive one 8x10” signed archival pigment print from each photographer. These artists prints are exclusive to the book pre-order and will not be reprinted in this style once they are sold out. Both artists will attend the reception and the exclusive artists prints will be made available to take home with a pre-order during the reception.

A Queens Affair is a culmination of eight years of photographing the development, fixed characteristics and spirited nature of Queens, New York. Both Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian were born and raised in and around Queens and through their photographic partnership share a visual history of their beloved borough.

A special selection of images from the book will be on exhibit and available for purchase for the duration of the show. After which these images will be available in small editions at the Farmani Gallery web site.

Kris Graves, photographer and creative force behind the +kris graves projects is a graduate of SUNY Purchase College and is currently exhibited in Versus, a group show at Haus Projects in New York. His Queens photography will have its debut with this exhibition at the Farmani Gallery.

Eric Hairabedian, photographer and graduate of both SUNY Purchase College with a B.F.A. and the School of Visual Arts with an M.F.A. has been exhibited in the group show, Ten Photographers, Ten Days and his solo show, Remembrance.

FARMANI GALLERY

Caption Gallery is pleased to announce a dual exhibition of photographs by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich. The exhibition links two powerful photographic series, Ulrich’s recent “Dark Stores,” and “Stranded,” here presented for the first time.

“Dark Stores” examines the all-too-familiar landscape of global brands and big-box retail in the context of a market economy in crisis. His work is a form of visual sociology, providing a portrait of empty spaces, darkened outlets, and, by implication, people left out when the boom recedes.

Amy Stein’s “Stranded” offers us a vision of people at the mercy of forces beyond their control. Metaphorically, the images stand in for the people we don’t see in Ulrich’s photographs. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Stein had the idea to take portraits of motorists she saw stranded by the roadside. The series became, in her words, “a meditation on the despondence of the American psyche stuck in an unfamiliar space between distress and relief.”

The powerful, dystopic visions of Stein and Ulrich expose the transformation of human beings into consumers, with little power or agency. They recall Napoleon’s dictum: “In the eyes of the empire builders, men are not men but instruments.”

CAPTION GALLERY

Anna Collette & Christopher Williams Install Shots

2010-01-24T15:33:00.000-08:00

Tonight at the Gallery, And FLAK Photo!

2010-01-22T08:47:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-20T07:41:00.000-08:00

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

+kg

Welcome 2 Wednesday: Volume 1

2010-01-06T07:06:00.000-08:00

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

VERSUS - Group Show - I'm in it!

2009-12-28T09:49:00.000-08:00

VERSUS

Curated by ruben natal-san miguel

January 7 - March 8, 2010
Opening Night January 7- 6:00PM-!0:00 PM

Brian Ulrich V Alex Leme
Mickalene Thomas V Nadine Rovner
Hank Willis Thomas V Cara Phillips
Amy Elkins V Molly Landreth
Matthew Pillsbury V +Kris Graves
Phil Toledano V Elizabeth Fleming
Zoe Strauss V Ruben Natal –San Miguel
Jen Davis V Eric Ogden
Michael Wolf V Gina LeVay

HOUS PROJECTS
31 howard street, 2nd floor
new york ny 10013
T 212.941.5801
info@housprojects.com

Sara Macel, Carin Johnson, Jonna Twigg, Terry Girard

2009-12-28T09:37:00.000-08:00

SECOND OPENING: 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

Texas Bunch is a collection of photographs taken in Sara Macel's home state since 2004. This show marks the ten-year anniversary of her relocation from Texas to Brooklyn, New York. In stepping outside of the landscape of her youth, Macel was able to see the state with an outsider’s eyes. recognizing its strangeness while remembering its familiarity.

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.

Carin Johnson graduated from the Rhode Island School Of Design in 2005, with a B.F.A. in Illustration. She is a native of Maryland and currently resides in Queens, New York.

TERRY GIRARD & JONNA TWIGG

Also on display at the +KGP will be new works by artists Jonna Twigg and Terry Girard. In light of the Holiday Season, Terry and +KGP have come together to offer a limited edition printing of ICELAND, a twenty image 11x14" portfolio, with prices starting at $100. Please visit the website for more information and to see the images.

Jonna Twigg is a Brooklyn based artist who grew up in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design with a degree in painting and printmaking. She has shown her work at Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn, Mahan Gallery in Columbus, Art Gotham in New York, and ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus. Her work was also part of the Yili Art Foundation Annual Show. Artists that inspire and influence her Ralph Steadman, Takashi Murakami, Yoshimoto Nara, and Inka Essenhigh.

Nathan Vincent - Artist Talk now accepting RSVPs

2009-12-17T08:27:00.000-08:00

NATHAN VINCENT - Artist Talk

Thursday Jan. 7th at 6:00 pm

ALL CLASSES AND EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT:

Lion Brand Yarn Studio
34 W. 15th Street
New York, NY 10011

Join the fascinating Fiber Artist, Nathan Vincent for an evening of fiber art. Nathan appeared on the Martha Stewart Yarn show last season, and his new work is currently featured in our fiber gallery wall . Nathan will give a slide show of his work and talk about what goes into all those wild creations.

Come get inspired.

Nathan Vincent Lecture

Mex and the City Preview Launch this Friday

2009-12-16T06:45:00.000-08:00

Hey all, our lovely friend and poet Marina Garcia-Vasquez, is throwing a stellar event this Friday evening, please come out! You may remember Marina and Luke Abiol's "Belongings" exhibition at +KGP earlier this year.

Mex and the City with Photographer Carlos Alvarez Montero Debut "Racial Profiling" Portrait Series

Date:

Friday, December 18, 2009
Time:
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
SANSIERRA STUDIO
Street:
330W 38th St. Studio 907
City/Town:
New York, NY

A mixer to celebrate the soft launch of Mex and the City and the editorial partnering of photographer Carlos Alvarez Montero in the debut of “Racial Profiling” a stylish Q&A profile and portrait series, highlighting prominent and influential Mexicans in New York City. The title “Racial Profiling” speaks to the heady issue of the mixed race and the multicultural experience that makes up a contemporary Mexican identity.

Mex and the City

Please come and support!

TONIGHT! Sara, Carin & more...

2009-12-11T07:25:00.000-08:00

So we have a lot of excitement in the gallery. We have Sara Macel's new series TEXAS BUNCH, we have Carin Johnson's NUANCES, neither of which are pictured here, because you need to come see the show in person.

We also have some great stuff going on in our project(project) space. A shotgun by Nathan Vincent. Excuse me, a crochet shotgun already owned by +kg, but you can get your own, he also has handguns and a fantastic website of imagery.

Jonna Twigg will have two cut paper works up, which need to be seen in person to capture the real essence.

Last but not least, we have our Christmas present to you! Terry Girard's ICELAND, an installation of twenty unforgettable images. Each 11x14 is available for $100. not a typo. $100, edition of 12, archival pigment prints. more info on the +kgp website.

BAM!
+kg

Sara Macel
Carin Johnson
Nathan Vincent
Jonna Twigg
Terry Girard
+KGP

Blog 2 Blog: Manjari Sharma interviews Greg Miller

2009-12-09T07:44:00.000-08:00

Manjari Sharma on Greg Miller Photo of Greg Miller © Manjari Sharma

ASMPNY presents Greg Miller at School of Visual Arts

2009-12-07T12:54:00.000-08:00

WHEN:
Thursday, December 10, 2009,
Doors: 6:30 pm
Lecture: 7 PM - 9 PM
Artist reception to follow at 10 PM, Cash Bar; Light food will be provided.

WHERE:
School of Visual Arts
Amphitheatre
209 E 23rd St
New York, NY 10010-3994
212)-592-2340

COST:
ASMP members, Non-ASMP members, Students - Free

Greg Miller is the recipient of a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography. His most recent series of photographs, entitled Distant Relatives (photographs of his hometown, Nashville, TN), has shown in Los Angeles, is currently on exhibit at the Cheekwood Museum in Nashville and is scheduled to exhibit at +Kris Graves Projects in Brooklyn, NY in March 2010. Miller was born in Nashville in 1967. He received a full scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts in NY, and graduated with a BFA in 1990. Since 2001, he has taught at the International Center of Photography in NY. His work is widely exhibited and collected.

In Distant Relatives, Miller returns to neighborhoods and residences in Nashville where he grew up as starting points for his photographs. In these locations he chooses to photograph people and places that loosely conjure the familiar character of his own past. While obliged by a large format camera to interact with his subjects, Miller still retains the spontaneity of the photographic moment. What emerges are well-detailed stories set in evocative landscapes with a trace of distant memory.

Greg Miller will have a solo exhibition at +Kris Graves Projects during the month of March, opening on March 4th.

American Society of Media Photographers

Blog 2 Blog: RING MY BELLE @ +KGP

2009-12-05T14:52:00.000-08:00

Ring My Belle at +KGP

Go see the Ring My Belle Jewelry Exhibition at +KGP, look how amazing it looks! Sadly we wont get to see it up, as we are in Miami right now, but that doesnt mean you should miss out!

+kris

OUR BOOTH, BABY!!!!

2009-12-02T13:54:00.001-08:00

HERE ARE THE AWESOME PICTURES OF OUR BOOTH! Gotta run!

Anna Collette & Steve Smith @ Sasha Wolf Gallery!

2009-11-12T08:13:00.000-08:00

There is a great opening tonight at Sasha Wolf Gallery. Two photographers, Anna Collette and Steve Smith, will be showing their amazing works.

Steve Smith has two images in our +KGP Group Show "OF LAND" currenty on display at our gallery, while Anna Collette will have a solo exhibition in our space opening January 22nd.

See You in Tribeca!

Sasha Wolf Gallery
Anna Collette Photography
Steve Smith Photography

"He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore" and Aperture!

2009-11-09T10:03:00.000-08:00

I am very, very, very excited to share that "He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore" has been recognized by Aperture Magazine in their annual Portfolio Competition! I grew up looking at Aperture and this is an incredibly humbling award to receive. Aperture's website will be updated sometime in January with an editorial statement regarding my project as well as works from "He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore." Here is the blurb from their press release announcing the winners.

All of us at Aperture Foundation would like to thank everyone who submitted work to the 2009Aperture Portfolio Prize. This year, Aperture’s editorial and limited-edition print departments—four staff members and three work scholars in all—reviewed over seven hundred portfolios. Our challenge was to select one top prize and five honorable mentions from this overwhelming response. Thus, we are pleased to present Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge/Pastoral as this year’s winner. Congratulations also to Keliy Anderson-Staley, Off the Grid; Alejandro Cartagena, Lost Rivers; Maureen Drennan, Meet Me in the Green Glen; Jason Hanasik, He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore; and Mark Lyon, Landscapes for the People.

http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=4658

Blog 2 Blog: 52 Editions

2009-11-05T06:40:00.000-08:00

For this week only, 52 Editions is selling one of my personal images for very inexpensive, $45 to be exact. This is the cheapest way to get any of my images; and plus it is amazing! :) Please check out the site for more info.

Mister Softee, Astoria, NY (2005)
Kris Graves

8.5"x11" Archival Pigment Print
Limited Edition of 275

This edition is available this week at a price of $45 unframed or $125 framed
at 52 editions.com.

After this week, if not sold out, it will be available in the 52 Editions catalog for $75 unframed and $165 framed.

Photo editions prints are cool and affordable gifts. It is easy to give a print edition or a gift certificate from 52 Editions

52editions.com
52editions.blogspot.com

Kate Bush Dance Troupe at the Kitchen this weekend!

2009-11-04T14:58:00.000-08:00

My friend Renata is performing with the Kate Bush Dance Troupe at The Kitchen this weekend, check it out!

Tickets

Gregg Evans Limited Edition Print Sale

2009-11-03T13:31:00.001-08:00

Gregg Evans, whose book sells at the gallery, is having a limited edition 8 x 8" print sale of the above two images from his recent series "The Things I Once Owned". Each print is $50 and is a Digital C-Print, in an edition of 15, signed and numbered. Interested parties should contact Gregg at gregorycevans@yahoo.com, and be sure to include they're contact information in the body of the email, along with which print they want. Help Gregg help himself and take home a beautiful photograph for a song.

Here's a few links to recent features about the project on The Exposure Project, and an interview about it on Mull It Over.

Hurry: Mike Cardinali running the Marathon!

2009-11-01T09:45:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, you can track our artist Michael Cardinali running the marathon, come out and see him!

ingmarathonnyc.org

Mike's bib # 26122

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Amy Stein - Domesticated - Closes Saturday

2009-10-30T08:01:00.000-07:00

This goes without saying. You only have two days left to check out Amy Stein's Domesticated at CLAMPART in Chelsea. It is definitely something you should be checking out this Halloweekend!!

http://clampart.com/index.html

Blog 2 Blog: Greg Miller on NPR

2009-10-28T21:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/10/nashville.html

"The first five minutes of any run always feels like a bad idea," said occasional NPR contributor Greg Miller over the phone. "Same thing with photographing." He was explaining the self-doubt that crept up on him during the first few weeks of his Guggenheim Fellowship, which he had chosen to spend not in a distinguished European city or dangerous developing country but in Nashville, Tenn.

Photos Mazu SF

2009-10-28T09:57:00.000-07:00

If you live in San Francisco and you're a fan of Pan-Asian cuisine, get yourself down to Mazu, a very cool new bar and restaurant in the Richmond district recently opened by writer Leah Abiol and sisters KK and Silma Salamin, former chef at Ozumo. It's a family affair, as Leah Abiol's sibling Luke Abiol is one of the artists represented by KGP, and Mazu's website was designed by the one and only Kris Graves.

Featuring Pacific Rim inspired dishes and cocktails like Asian pear-glazed duck breast stuffed with sugarcane and a grapefruit cocktail with Thai chili, the restaurant's owners envision the space as a gathering place for a local community of international artists and DJs, and have invited a roster of creative talents to exhibit and spin in an intimate setting.

On a related and shameless self-promotional note, I'm excited to have been invited to display a few of my prints at Mazu until the end of November, with a small reception this Thursday night, October 29th from 7-9pm. The work is from one of my favorite series of photographs taken in Vietnam. So stop by, support a great woman-owned business and let me know what you think!

Mazu, 3809 Geary Blvd. at 2nd Avenue

Thursday October 29th, 7-9pm

through November 30th

Steven Paneccasio's Print - Last Day for $45, a steal!

2009-10-28T08:10:00.000-07:00

Every week, 52 Editions presents a new original photograph, selected by Arnaud Gregori.
This week's edition:

Yellowstone Falls - Wyoming
Steven Paneccasio
8.5"x11" Archival Pigment Print
Limited Edition of 275
$45.00 Unframed

Jason Hanasik at P.P.O.W Gallery in Chelsea

2009-10-27T09:54:00.000-07:00

I have an image in the show Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea. The show opens this Thursday, October 29th. The image, Steven (spotlight), is from the project He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore. Here is the press release:

Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards

Curated by Capricious & Tammy Rae Carland

Becca Albee / Arielle Falk / Jason Hanasik / K8 Hardy
Desiree Holman/ Whitney Hubbs / Ace Lehner Stephanie Leibowitz
/ Elizabeth Moy

October 29 – December 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8pm

P•P•O•W Gallery, in conjunction with Dotty Attie's exhibition, is pleased to present Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards in Gallery 2 curated by Capricious and artist Tammy Rae Carland. This exhibition is inspired by the forthcoming "Feminist Issue" of Capricious Magazine based on an open call for work about feminist feelings.

By insisting that a dialogue on feelings inflames the specter of feminism, and by asking what the world of feelings looks like, the curators have selected photographic and video works that hold potential for transformative ideas and experience. Empathetic vision, relentless loss, identity melancholia, compulsive hope, political depression, retooling trauma, shameless shame and feelings that have no names are all contending with one another in this group show of eight emerging artists. The curatorial selection gives the personal, political, social and emotional equal weight and emphasizes a generational lens on hope, humor and limitless self-invention.

Capricious Publishing was founded by Swedish photographer Sophie Mörner in 2004. It is a biannual publication dedicated to showcasing emerging fine art photography. Its contributors and collaborators span the globe. Capricious has an affinity for subjects such as animals, androgyny, opposition, reclaimed life, lust, natural as well as urban life, intimacy, revolution and nostalgia. Capricious Publishing has since produced GLU (Girls Like Us), LTTR V, Famous and Screen Capricious - a DVD compilation of short films.

Capricious Books is the group's latest endeavor. Their first book "The Known World," is a photographic collaboration by Anne Hall and Sophie Mörner, released in November 2008, and the second is a monograph, also of photographic work, by Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo, "I Have a Room With Everything." Next year Capricious will work together with K8 Hardy to publish her first artist monograph. Capricious Space is located in Brooklyn, NY. Founded in June 2008 as an offshoot of Capricious Magazine, it serves as a physical venue for work of the "capricious" aesthetic.

Tammy Rae Carland was born in Portland Maine in 1965. She received her MFA from UC Irvine, her BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts where she also chairs the Photography Program. She is represented by Silverman Gallery in San Francisco and primarily works with photography, experimental video and small run publications. Capricious chose to collaborate with her because her work, throughout her career, is seen as pioneering in the realm of contemporary queer and feminist culture.

Blog 2 Blog: ArtMostFierce Exhibit in D.U.M.B.O.

2009-10-20T08:35:00.000-07:00

UNseen: A Photographers Salon

Thursday, October 22, 2009, 6:30-9pm
Randall Scott Gallery
111 Front Street - DUMBO (our building)
October 22- November 21, 2009

Unseen is an introduction to some of New York’s most promising, hard working, and creative minds in the photography field whose bold ideas, themes, and techniques work to transcend the history of photographic art.

Adam Krause, a third generation Holocaust survivor, creates portraits of Neo Nazis. Nicola Kast, A German, explores and deconstructs German History. Cara Phillips Singular Beauty is a haunting social critique on modern surgical rooms while Phil Toledano’s portraits of plastic surgery patients is a classic aftermath of the surreal. Portrait work by Chad States, Natasha Gornik, Eric McNatt, Richard Renaldi, Bon Duke, and Ryan Pfluger examine the notions of self and the other. Leah Oates and Megan Cump visit serene, painterly landscapes while Nadine Rovner sends us back to retro the seventies through feel and color. Elizabeth Fleming examines the simplicity of the moment in a child’s world, Clayton Cotterell documents his brother now serving in the US military, and Alex Leme searches random urban settings.

Ruben Natal-San Miguel
Art Collector and UNSEEN curator
http://artmostfierce.blogspot.com/2009/10/unseen-photographers-salon-102209.html

Nashville Memoir - Greg Miller

2009-10-20T07:49:00.000-07:00

Cheekwood is pleased to announce the exhibition of Nashville Memoir: Photographs by Greg Miller.

In this body of work, Miller attempts to reconstruct distant memories by photographing, as starting points, familiar spaces from his childhood. Miller often photographed complete strangers cast in scenes, drawn from the lasting emotional remnants of his past, against a backdrop of contemporary Nashville. A resident artist of New York for 20 years, Miller returned to photograph his hometown after receiving a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

This exhibit opened Oct 3 and runs through February 21 2010.

This exhibit will be traveling to our gallery in New York for March 2010, displaying during every major NY art fair.

http://www.cheekwood.org/Calendar/Event_Details.aspx?d=2009.10.03&e=5ee23a89-f397-45f4-bb9a-938521be96aa

TOMORROW: OF LAND

2009-10-15T08:29:00.000-07:00

OF LAND

featuring the photography of Lois Conner, Jed Devine, Jan Groover, Laura McPhee, Ray Mortenson, Victor Schrager, Steve Smith, and Jo Ann Walters, among others.

Curated by Kris Graves & Diana Scarpulla

Friday, October 16 through November 21, 2009

A Opening Reception of these works will be held on Friday, October 16th, from 6:00-8:30pm

+Kris Graves Projects is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition: “OF LAND” which features eight remarkable and influential photographers. Lois Conner, Jed Devine, Jan Groover, Laura McPhee, Ray Mortenson, Victor Schrager, Steve Smith, and Jo Ann Walters have all used the medium of photography to interpret landscape. The exhibition will also include works by Peter Baker, Andreas Gehrke and Amy Finkelstein

The ideas and images in OF LAND are reminiscent of the work included in William Jenkins 1975 exhibition: New Topographics. Much like the photographers in that exhibition these seven photographers are interested in exploring and depicting the urban and suburban realities of landscapes altered by man. The work of these artists examines different aspects of looking at how the land has been manipulated throughout time. These artists depict landscape from a variety of approaches and with varying techniques to bring together a diverse display of land.

JED DEVINE is known for constructing images with an elegant sensibility and great passion. The photographs that are featured in OF LAND are panoramas made from joined medium format negatives picturing both rural and urban American vistas.

STEVE SMITH has recently been documenting the transition of the western landscape into suburbia. Working in both Utah and Nevada, Smith has made photographs that are not only aesthetically pleasing but that possess a hint of humor in their juxtaposition of unnatural objects set within the natural.

LOIS CONNER is interested in photographing urban development and culture any where from Brooklyn to Shanghai and the American west. Photographing with a 7”x17” format banquet camera she creates elongated images allowing the subject to describe it’s environment with great detail.

JO ANN WALTERS has always been intrigued and inspired with the subtlety of the world around her. Her attention to detail and a muted color palette create a beautiful combination for describing the bleak midwestern winters that her images portray. These rural and industrial sites that she has documented are representative of what the landscape is evolving into throughout the world.

In his series DIE MARK the German photographer ANDREAS GEHRKE explores the aesthetic character of the cultural landscape of the German federal state of Brandenburg. Like in his other body of work, Gehrke documents an atmosphere of the in-between: The traditional architectural profile of the cultural landscape of Brandenburg is no longer existent while the projected is not yet fulfilled; traces of past and future functionality blend into each other.

OF LAND will be on view during regular gallery hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00-6:00pm and by appointment. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the gallery at 212.796.7558 or email us at: krisgravesprojects@gmail.com

Luke Butler: Captain! (SF Bay Area)

2009-10-02T18:54:00.001-07:00

Bridge, 32x38 inches, Acrylic on Canvas, 2009

A stellar show is currently up at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. I highly recommend checking this show of paintings and collages out before October 17th when it closes. Here is the website: http://www.silverman-gallery.com/

If you need further prompting to go, check out a review I have contributed to the website The New Gay
here.

ERIC HAIRABEDIAN WANTS YOU!

2009-09-29T10:43:00.000-07:00

FREE PORTRAIT!!!!!!

Hello friends and family of Kris Graves....

I wanted Kris to forward this email to you all because I am trying to find some fresh faces to be photographed. If you're interested in being photographed by me I'd love to do it! I am trying to make a big chunk of new images so I can try and convince Kris to put me in a show sometime in the future. Check out the portraits on my website to get an idea of the types of photographs I'm looking to create and contact me if you're interested. We can shoot around some ideas and figure something out. In return for helping me out I can make you a nice 8x10 print.

Thanks for your time and I hope to hear from some of you soon,

Eric Hairabedian - erichairabedian@gmail.com

Blog 2 Blog: Anywhere That Gets You There

2009-09-29T07:24:00.000-07:00

Your friend and mine, Terry Girard, went to Iceland, by himself, and took some amazing work, and is not done uploading yet! Check these out!

http://anywherethatgetsyouthere.blogspot.com/

A Stellar Review & Exhibition Shots

2009-09-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

If you haven't been over to visit Gravelle and I at the gallery, you are missing out. James Wagner's poignant review should have you here in an instant!

http://jameswagner.com/2009/09/jason_hanasnik_at_kr.html

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Joelle Jensen Interview

2009-09-10T08:55:00.000-07:00

ASSASSINATION: Joelle Jensen, Artist Represented by wall space gallery, Art Critic, and Curator

Joelle was awesome enough to mention us towards the end. She is really working her @$$ off!

Gregg Evans included in REGISTERED at White Columns

2009-09-08T09:32:00.000-07:00

I know this is the same night at Jason's opening, but if you're in Chelsea before heading out to DUMBO, Gregg Evans is included in REGISTERED, a new group show curated by Ryan Evans and Amie Scally at White Columns. Information below:

WHITE COLUMNS

NEW EXHIBITIONS
OPENING THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 6-8PM

GALLERY: REGISTERED
Elena Bajo, Margarida Correia, Gregg Evans, and Claudia Weber
curated by Ryan Evans and Amie Scally

WHITE ROOM: GAVIN WATSON

WHITE ROOM: RICK MYERS

OTHER PEOPLES PROJECTS: 2nd CANNON PUBLICATIONS

THE BULLETIN BOARD: BRIAN KENNON

SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 24
TUESDAY - SATURDAY, NOON - 6PM

WHITE COLUMNS
320 WEST 13TH STREET
(ENTER ON HORATIO STREET)
NEW YORK, NY 10014
WWW.WHITECOLUMNS.ORG

OUR 2009/2010 SEASON IS A PART OF WHITE COLUMNS 40TH YEAR OF CONTINUOUS OPERATION - THANKS FOR YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT

Home is something I carry with me

2009-09-02T08:41:00.001-07:00

If you are in the Bay Area, please join me at 951 Shotwell in San Francisco on Sept 4th for the opening of the show, "Home is something I carry with me." This is a group show funded by an Alternative Exposure Grant from Southern Exposure. Curator Adrienne Skye Roberts has put together an incredible roster of artists and I am honored to be showing with them. For the show, I have installed 21 new pictures running from the entrance of the building up to the second floor. Hope to see you there!

Here is more information about the show:

SCHEDULE

Press and artist preview Thursday, September 3, 7-9 p.m.
3352 24th Street and 951 Shotwell Street

Opening Friday, September 4, 4-8 p.m.
3352 24th Street and 951 Shotwell Street

Film screening Friday, September 4, 9 p.m.
348 Shotwell Street

Open House Saturday, September 5, 12-5 p.m.
3352 24th Street and 951 Shotwell Street

Home is something I carry with me> is an alternative art exhibition and film screening featuring over forty local Bay Area artists whose work considers the elusive and highly contested notion of home. For one weekend, two homes in San Francisco’s Mission District will transform into exhibition spaces and the backyard of a third home will be used for an outdoor film screening. (See schedule below). By reinventing our homes as art venues and opening them to the public, Home is something I carry with me exercises the rights of renters to use private residences for what we deem public good; an action that can be considered in resistance to the current housing crisis and the lack of economic sustainability for artists. Individual rooms within the homes will act as galleries organizing the work around themes of shelter, migrations, domestic space and memory, mapping, borders, neighborhoods and identities.

Participating artists: Mara Baldwin, Taha Belal, Jesse Brown, Michael Campbell, Julie Cloutier, Pablo Cristi, Cindy DeLosa, Amy Wilson Faville, Jonathan Fischer, Molly Goldberg, Pablo Guardiola, Alvaro Guillen, Jason Hanasik, Amber Hasselbring, Malak Helmy, Amanda Herman, Nanci Ikejimba, Josef Jacques, Amy Keefer, Claire Kessler-Bradner, Lynn Marie Kirby and Lisa Robertson, Milena Korolczuk, Laurel Lee, Lauren Mardsen, Lynne McCabe, Klea McKenna, Ranu Mukherjee, Jeff Norman, Alexis Petty, Simon Pyle, Hilary Schwartz, Renetta Sitoy, Bayete Ross Smith, Lewis Watts, Mira M. White, Anna Whitehead, Megan Wilson and Carmen Winant.

Participating filmmakers: Terry Berlier, Michael Goodier, Amanda Herman & The Morris Family, Lynn Marie Kirby, Katherin McInnis, Gloria Moran, and Kari Orvik with Veronica Majano & the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center.

Catalog essay by Zachary Royer Scholz

Curated by Adrienne Skye Roberts

Contact: homeissomethingicarrywithme@gmail / 415/519-0378

Billboard Photo Contest

2009-08-28T10:18:00.000-07:00

I get to judge this for PDN and Billboard, how cool is that!

http://www.billboardphotocontest.com/aboutpro.shtml

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A Nice Profile for Jason Hanasik

2009-07-26T08:52:00.000-07:00

Head over to THE EXAMINER website to see a nice profile on Jason Hanasik. Jason will open the Fall Season at our gallery on September 10th, we hope to see you there!

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5330-SF-Photography-Examiner~y2009m7d25-He-Opened-Up-Somewhere-Along-the-Eastern-Shore-Jason-Hanasik

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Introduction-Jason Hanasik

2009-07-16T14:33:00.000-07:00

(Image above: Installation image from the exhibition: 10 Days/10 Photographers. My work is on the left. Dana Gentile's work is on the right.)

So, Kris asked me to start contributing to the gallery's blog and I figured I would start by just posting a quick introduction of who I am and what I am interested in writing about.

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About Me: Since it seems to work for ArtForum, why not: My Current-ish Top Ten

1. Julia Sugarbaker- The den mother of the Sugarbaker design enterprises in downtown Atlanta, Julia is always poised with great advice and prepared to take down the incipient and closed-minded who walk among us. Played by Dixie Carter on the television show Designing Women, Julia Sugarbaker is the epitome of what a fine Southern person should be: full of charm, wit and above all character.

2. Rufus, Rufus, Rufus- The 2006 re-performance of Judy Garland's seminal concert at Carnegie Hall by Rufus Wainwright was nothing short of a masterpiece. Wainwright's near perfect echo of Garland brought us back to that moment in 1961 when the world was about to change. His dedication to boyfriend, Jorn, mid-concert reminds us how far we have come in a little over 30 years.

3. Paul Cadmus- An exquisite painter who work taught me, across a seven decade divide, how to spot my people with red neckties, a sideways glance, and a lingering eye. My one major art regret is that I wasn't born ten years earlier (and a dancer) for I would have found him in Connecticut and commissioned a nude drawing.

4. Lincoln- This complicated man left us with a treasure trove of thoughts and words that, if redeployed correctly, just might help us mend our current union. The compassion he shows in his letter to Mrs. Bixby after the loss of her five sons needs to find it's way into the hands of the current administration immediately.

5. The Hustler Series by Philip-Lorca DiCorcia- DiCorcia managed to do two things I love: get around a law set up to protect "family values" and make some of my favorite images of the male body.

6. "Disease" by The Ark- While I was living five miles from Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network few things made me happier and sadder at the same than blaring this Swedish glam rock band's song from my car's speakers at full blast. A vocal portrait that starts out with the line, "and the lions ate the Christians and the Christians burned the witches," the song updates the Romeo and Juliet allegory for a second wave AIDS generation.

7. The Stonewall Experiment- An out of print book that looks at the psychohistory of the gay male self image from the Uranians to the gays to the dandies to the queers. A book that is not apologetic for who its reader is, young gay men, but welcomes everyone else to read over his shoulder.

8. Jesper Just- A Danish artist working in film who makes me both want to pick up a video camera and wonder if I can really add anything to the discussion. The pairing of the screaming men's choir with vocal standards was the best sucker punch I have ever experienced (first hand) in a gallery setting.

9. The Hunt- Even though I love my boyfriend, there is nothing that can replace that rush of coming upon a gay male public sex area. Surprisingly, it's not the voyeurism that gets me going. Instead, it's the hunt, the men circulating around me and me around them. Above all, the ingenuity of the sex dens that some of them create.

10. San Francisco, CA- The catch phrase for all things hedonistic and liberal, a big small town, located on the water, a place I used to be able to get married in, and my current home. This town continues to surprise me every couple months. Sorry NYC, I think I only need to visit you on holiday from now on.

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As for the blog, I am interested in writing about the following: the art scene in San Francisco, the MFA world (just finished getting one of those), teaching (something I am doing at the ASUC art studio on the UC Berkeley campus), and what artworks and publications related to the art world which fascinate(d) me.

Like any "blogger," comments are always welcome.

BUSINESS EDITION

2009-07-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

it's not quite over yet...there's still some unfinished business:

Pocket Utopia presents: "Business Edition," Thursday, July 16th @ 6pm till 9pm

"Business Edition," a one-night exhibition of artist-produced editions and prints, and a selection from the recently inaugurated Kris Graves Projects - Pocket Utopia Flatfile collection.

The evening's highlights will include: a new Pocket Utopia limited edition by Adam Simon, a 246 Editions by Sharon Butler, an intaglio hand-worked print by Andrew Piedilato published by Randy Wray's Element Editions, a Brece Honeycutt Byproduct, a recent Maggie Michael painting on paper from +KGP&PU Flatfile, and works in progress by Pocket Utopia's current artist in resident, Sharon Butler.

Please join us for a wine reception from 6 to 9 pm

ARTISTS:
MICHELE ARAUJO
DANA GENTILE
TERRY GIRARD
PETER MALLO
MAGGIE MICHAEL
MATTHEW MILLER
KEVIN REGAN
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS

Pocket Utopia
1037 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11237
www.pocketutopia.com
L to Morgan Ave.

After the evening, Pocket Utopia will continue as a far away space run by artist Austin Thomas.

pictured: Christopher Williams, Twizzlers, Gouache.

VIMBY: Eric Hairabedian & +KGP

2009-07-09T08:37:00.000-07:00

Here is a video made by Anne Paas. She is the best, the absolute best!

The video has over 32,000 hits as of today, and I believe its only been up for a tiny time now, hope you enjoy!

Does anyone else dislike the sound of their recorded voice?
+kg

VIMBY - Kris Graves Projects & Eric Hairabedian