Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Sculptures and Photographs by Anthony Pearson at David Kordansky Gallery

December 20, 2010 by All Art News  
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Anthony Pearson. The exhibition will run through February 5, 2011. Anthony Pearson’s sculptures and photographs are, on the one hand, records of a studio practice dedicated to non-representational mark-making and the pursuit of free aesthetic movement; on the other, they are the elements of a vocabulary designed to systematize the irrational and inexplicable facets of artistic endeavor. This oscillation between generative and curatorial instincts is manifest in [...]

Platinum Prints & Classic Snaps by Elliott Erwitt at Magnum Print Room

September 16, 2010 by All Art News  
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LONDON.- Elliott Erwitt is one of the most respected Twentieth Century photographers. This Autumn, a set of editioned 30”x40” platinum prints from four of Erwitt’s best known images will be available for purchase in the UK for the first time at Magnum Print Room, London. Shown in the context of a broader selection of fine photographs drawn from Erwitt’s distinguished career, the selection includes photographs of racial segregation in North Carolina (1950), a kiss reflected in the wing mirror of [...]

Solo Exhibition with Photographs by Maura Sullivan at Kahmann Gallery

June 20, 2010 by All Art News  
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AMSTERDAM.- A solo exhibition with photographs from the New York- based artist, Maura Sullivan (1971). Sullivan makes short movies in a single photograph. You can search for the meaning, the words, the tension, to try to explain the story. But not searching for a deeper meaning will still leave you with beautiful, well styled, photography. The beauty is in the restraint: the images reveal enough to draw you in and withhold enough to make you curious. Sullivan is intrigued with [...]

South African Photographer David Goldblatt Exhibits at the Jewish Museum

May 3, 2010 by All Art News  
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents South African Photographs: David Goldblatt, an exhibition of 150 black-and-white silver gelatin prints taken between 1948 and 2009, from May 2 through September 19, 2010. The photographs on view focus on South Africa’s human landscape in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. South African Photographs: David Goldblatt is the largest New York City exhibition of Goldblatt’s work since 2001. For more than half a century, David Goldblatt has been photographing his native South Africa, [...]

Causey Contemporary Features Two Solo Debut Exhibitions

April 19, 2010 by All Art News  
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BROOKLYN, NY.- This April Causey Contemporary presents two solo debut exhibitions to the gallery. Run From View will feature the unique black and white silver gelatin prints of photographer Chuck Kelton. Also on view will be Day For Night, the latest series of paintings by Shelton Walsmith. Run From View | Chuck Kelton The exhibition “Run From View” represents the newest photographic explorations of Chuck Kelton. Drawn from autobiographical experiences, the work celebrates the chaos and fragmentation of life. Kelton [...]

Two Major Donations to the Ogden Museum of Southern Art

February 11, 2010 by All Art News  
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NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Ogden Museum of Southern Art has recently received two major donations to its Permanent Collection: Artist David G. Spielman donated photographs from his “Southern Writers” series and local collectors Dr. Jerry and Carolyn Fortino donated paintings by Thomas Sully. David G. Spielman and “Southern Writers” Over a period of 210 days in 1997, artist David G. Spielman photographed 72 Southern authors, documenting these literary legends in their environs. The book, “Southern Writers: Photographs by David G. [...]

German Photographer Frauke Eigen to Open Solo Show at Atlas Gallery

January 5, 2010 by All Art News  
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LONDON.- Atlas Gallery announced its first collaboration with German photographer Frauke Eigen. For her debut London exhibition, the gallery presents ‘Shoku’, her latest project inspired by recent visits to Japan. Rich, silver gelatin prints capture the concealed minimal qualities of Japanese architecture, nature and people displaying a subtle interplay between them. There is a strong emphasis on surface texture, whether it be the photographer’s careful study of formal grids on a prefabricated structure or a close-up view of a young [...]