Social Photography IX at Carriage Trade

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Now in its ninth year, Social Photography brings together cell phone pictures of participants from a wide range of disciplines, generations, and places. In the spirit of broad access to cell phone image making technology, the emphasis of the project leans toward sensibility and the anecdotal over skill and mastery of the medium of photography.

Taking advantage of technologies that allow for images to be sent from anywhere, which are then formatted, printed, and displayed in an in-person exhibition at carriage trade, the range of participants in Social Photography reflect both the gallery’s community in Lower Manhattan as well those associated with it in other parts of the world. Linking the virtual with the physical through an online display that is then presented in print form, Social Photography IX might be seen as a counterpoint to the increased placelessness of remote exchanges normalized in the pandemic-era.

Spanning nearly a decade, the growing, informal archive of Social Photography cell phone pictures occasionally reflect significant local, national, and international events (Occupy Wall Street, George Floyd protests, U.S. presidential elections, pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong) existing side by side with the everyday, the personal, the urban, and the domestic.

With a limited curatorial directive, trends are inevitable (a slight increase in pet photos this year is most likely a result of increased time spent indoors during the pandemic), while the elusive nature of where to “put” cell phone photography with respect to hierarchies of photographic image production (fine art photography, photojournalism, social media fodder) remains intact. What began in 2011 as an investigation of a novelty medium which simultaneously offered an alternative to the conventional non-profit benefit exhibition has become a kind of tradition, as it sustains and expands carriage trade’s community through its many participants, while helping support the gallery’s upcoming projects.

Social Photography IX Contributors:

Dennis Adams / Peggy Ahwesh / Lucas Ajemian / Graham Anderson / Michele Araujo / Michael Ashkin / Hallie Ayres / Mengfan Bai / Agnes Barley / James Barondess / Madeline Bach / David Baskin / William Beaudoin / Lisa Beck / Philip Bednarski / Peter Bellamy / Catherine Belloy / Amy Ben-Ezra / Theodora Ben-Ezra / Liz Berg / Julien Bismuth / Joi Bittle / Lisa Blas / Ann Bobco Richard Bosman / F.P. Boué / Norman Brosterman / Robert Brush / Christine Burgin / Bibs Carlsen Antoine Catala / Alejandro Cesarco / Danny Chau / Myrel Chernick / Stella Cilman / Mary Clarke / Matt Connors / Eli Coplan / Jeri Coppola / Fred Cray / Jody Culkin / Reilly Davidson / Mira Dayal / David Deutsch / Georgie Devereux / Daniella Dooling / Saskia Draxler / Paul Druecke / Anne-Claire Duprat / Peter Fend / Bernadette Fiscina / Elias Fokine / Andrea Frank / Susan Gamble & Michael Wenyon / Rainer Ganahl / Marc Ganzglass / Victor Esther Garcia / Hunter Gause / Jeff Gibson / Liam Gillick / Andrew Ginzel / Robert Goldman / Jasmine Golestaneh / Kathy Goncharov / Michelle Grabner / Ethan Greenbaum / Barbara Gundlach / Clair Gunther / Cynthia Hawkins-Owen Anthony Hawley / Lorna Hayden / Duy Hoàng / James Hoff / Laura Hunt / Scott Indrisek / E. J. / Bryn Jayes / Neil Jenney / Lulu Jiang / Danielle Johnson / Werner Kaligofsky / Craig Kalpakjian / Simone Kearney / Douglas S. Kehl / Kara Kendall / Mathias Kessler / Anjali Khosla / Anna Kleberg Tham / Essye Klempner / Hilary Kliros / Nicholas Knight / Udomsak Krisanamis / Nina Kuo / Stephen Lack / Justen Ladda / Marc Lafia / Eugenia Lai / Erik LaPrade / Louise Lawler / Elizabeth LeCompte / Mika Lee / Maggie Lee / Simon Leung / Max Levin / Matthew Li / Laura Li / Wenxiao Li / Nora Ligorano / Lysjs Lim Ming Lin / Jeanne Liotta / Hsiang Hsi Lu / Judith Luongo / Stephen Maine / Jiří Makovec / Sakura Maku / Adam Marnie / Vijay Masharani / Esperanza Mayobre / Tom McGlynn / Jessica Mensch / Emilie Meyer Molly Miller / Veronika Molnar / Sojung Moon / Andrew Moore / Lucy Mullican / Real Salvator Mundi / Muntadas / Christian Nagel / Diane Nerwen / Chee Wang Ng / Isabella Norris / Almost Not / John Oakes / Kristin Ordahl / Daylon Orr / Hannah Park Laura Parnes / Stephan Pascher / Gelah Penn / Andreas Petrossiants / Zoe Pettijohn Schade / Michael Poetschko / Jeff Preiss / R.H. Quaytman / Lee Ranaldo / Xander Rapparport / Marshall Reese Calvin Reid / Alejandro Ribadeneira / Walter Robinson / Daniel Roche / Aura Rosenberg / Lorin Roser Betty Roytburd / Ryan Rusiecki / Vicky Sambunaris / Valerie Saputra / Ken Saylor / John Schabel / Jeffrey Schiff / Heidi Schlatter / Diana Schmertz / Nadine Schmied / Kristina Schmidt / Gary Schneider Barry Schwabsky / Michael Scott / Felicity Scott / Anne Katrine Senstad / Jacques Servin / Elaine Sexton Trevor Shimizu / Zhi Shu / Amie Siegel / James Siena / Shelly Silver / Adam Simon / Jason Simon / Day Sinclair / Leah Singer / Janice Sloane / Inna Smolina / Molly Soda / Claudia Sohrens / Andy Steinitz / Gary Stephan / Steel Stillman / Charles Stobbs III / Carol Szymanski / Sikay Tang / Gwenn Thomas / Colin Thomson / Cassidy Toner / Momoyo Torimitsu / Dan Torop / Sophie Tottie / Kristal Uribe / Gail Vachon / Pegi Vail / Kate Valk / Ali Van / Lotte Van den Audenaeren / Liselot van der Heijden / Virginia Inés Vergara / Doris Vila / Julia Wachtel / Chloe Walecki / Max Warsh / William Wegman / Barbara Weissberger / James Welling / Elvia Wilk / Tonero Williams / Scott Williams / Nechama Winston David Winter / B. Wurtz / C. Spencer Yeh / Sun You / H Spencer Young / John Yu / Michael Zansky / Jiajia Zhang

*Preview begins Wednesday, July 21 at 2PM / Online sales begin Friday, July 23 at 2PM

https://socialphotography.carriagetrade.org

 

Material Matters

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at Seager/Gallery in Mill Valley, California on view March 3-31, 2020.  Artists include Robert Adams, Dean Allison, Gale Antokal, Adrian Arleo, Kay Bradner, Joe Brubaker, Lia Cook, Stephen Paul Day, Daniella Dooling, Jane Hambleton, Michael Janis, Lisa Kokin, Dana Lynn Louis, Jann Nunn, Emily Payne, Sibylle Peretti, Ross Richmond, Jane Rosen, Liz Steketee, Susan Stover, Tim Tate, Jessica Williams and Aggie Zed.

 

 

Maintaining Sanity

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at Kerry Schuss Gallery, 73 Leonard Street, New York, NY with Robert Barber, Daniella Dooling, Ryan Foerster, Monica Forrestall, Joanne Greenbaum, Rudy Heintze, Ken Johnson, Vince Leo, Les LeVeque, Alice Mackler, Anna Rosen, Hal Saulson, and Jocko Weyland

Earthly Delights

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at Re Institute, Millerton, NY

July 20th – August 24th

Opening July 20th, 4pm to 7pm

 

Earthly Delights, curated by Susan Jennings, Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres, will present artwork of vastly varying sizes and media from 50 artists. The works will be installed directly on the gallery floor— without supports, pedestals, or work on the walls— to create an intimate and tantalizing installation without the hierarchy of placement. By exhibiting artwork on a level playing field, the curators hope to enable a grounding experience of attentive and active looking. Please join us for a stroll through this labyrinthine garden of work at equal footing.

The Artists:
Adrian Meraz, Alexander Ross, Ashley Yang-Thompson/Miss Expanding Universe, Becca Van K,Carl D’Alvia, Christina Tenaglia, Claire Sherwood, Claudia Tienan, Colin O’Con, Courtney Puckett,Courtney Tramposh ,Dan Devine,Daniella Dooling, Elisa Lendvay, Elisa Soliven, George Spencer, Gelah Penn, Guy Walker, Jeff Starr, Jess Gaddis, Joan Grubin, Katharine Umsted, KK Kozik, Laura Kaufman, Leah Guadagnoli, Linda Stillman, Madison LaVallee, Matt Frieburghaus, Meg Lipke, Michael Tong, Michelle Segre, Millicent Young, Monique Luchetti, Nicole Cherubini, Nikako Kanamoto, Nurya Chana, Stuart Farmery, Stephen Maine, Susan Meyer, Susan Scott, Tamara Zahaykevich, Terri Moore, Will Simons

http://thereinstitute.com

The Object in Art

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Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

July 2nd – August 18th

full color catalog published July 16, 2019

Four-D Projects

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Four-D Projects: Issue 2 at the Church Troy

Opening August 25th, 6:00-9:00

On view August 25th-September 9th, 2018

 

Poughkeepsie Journal

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Hudson Valley artists create concept of time travel in Dorsky Exhibit

Poughkeepsie Journal

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s ninth annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibit is open and this year, Anastasia James, curator of Exhibitions and Programs, asked artists to submit work that engages with the concept of time travel.

With more than 290 submissions, James selected 11 artists to exhibit their work in “Time Travelers.” In her curatorial statement, James wrote: “Physicists have long discussed the possibility of curves that form closed loops in space-time, allowing objects to return to their past.”

As visitors enter the gallery, there is a feeling of spaciousness with the selection of fewer artists.

Michael Berstein’s colorful pieces are strung through the ceiling struts and tied down with weights. Their bright colors and designs might remind viewers of the Quilters of Gee’s Bend.

Kyle Cottier creates work informed by architectural forms created out of found raw materials, such as wood, rope and stones. Two of his shaman-like pieces are featured on the central floor space of the main gallery.

Harry Leigh’s wall-mounted sculptural wood piece “Journey” is at the far end of the gallery — the dimly lit space creates a sense of reverence, as if visitors are entering a sacred space. The curved and linear wood structure reads as if it could be a deity from another time, aligning with the space-time continuum.

Alison McNulty, “Untitled (Hudson Valley Ghost Column 1)” was created from historic Hudson Valley-made Lahey bricks and originally installed on a working farm’s path to an animal’s watering hole. The hollow brick column is constructed with Cormo sheep wool instead of mortar, resulting in an artwork that pays homage to past industries that were the economic heart of the Hudson Valley.

Daniela Dooling also turns to obsolete techniques with her sculptural pieces created from vintage typewriters preserved in clear resin. Dooling’s works reference a personal history with a great-grandmother that typed more than 2,000 pages documenting messages she received from a peace envoy traveling on spaceships from Venus to Earth. The works are wall-mounted with what appears to be surgical steel armatures, giving the works the feel of entering a lab to see historic specimens that have in the past provided messages that could be important today.

Antonella Piemontese creates sculptural hand-sewn fabric masks. Her suite of works, “Twelve Angry Masks,” are installed in one line across the gallery wall. Each mask has individual characteristics, however, they feel foreboding since many of them have no way to see out. Piemontese provided background about her idea in making the masks that seems like the opening to a science fiction story that begins: “In a not so distant future, preserving anonymity will be essential to in-person human interaction.” If each person must choose which mask to wear, this foretells a future not yet in sight, but with historical references to ancient rituals.

Yvonne Muller’s beautiful abstract prints have meanings that can be teased out from the titles, such as, “Raven,” “Snake,” “Mouse.” Muller “challenges the viewer to think about whether time travel is something humans do or whether time, itself, travels around.”

Linda Marston-Reid is an artist, writer, and executive director of Arts Mid-Hudson. The column appears every other week in Enjoy! Contact her at 845-454-3222 or lmr@artsmidhudson.org

If you go

“Time Travelers” is on view at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, through Nov. 11. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday (the museum is open only on weekends in August)

“Special Time Travelers” related events:

2-3 p.m., July 15: Gallery talk with exhibiting artists Alison McNulty, Antonella Piemontese, Harry Leigh and Tony Moore

2-4 p.m., Aug. 12: Family Day, exhibition-inspired activities for children and their families; register at: http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/learn/familydays

2-3 p.m., Sept. 23: Gallery talks with Daniella Dooling, Gregory Slick, Kyle Cottier, Lynne Oreese Breslin, Michael Bernstein and Millie McKinley

https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/entertainment/2018/07/11/samuel-dorsky-museum-art-exhibits-valley-artists-annual-show/772518002/