Jack Pierson was born in 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and educated at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson’s work spans an array of media, including photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings, and artist’s books. He is considered to be part of a group of photographers known as the Boston School, which includes David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisroe, and Doug and Mike Starn, among others. Pierson’s “Self-Portrait” series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and his works are represented in the collections of major museums worldwide.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips is most known for his paintings of human obsessions that reference sexuality, politics, power and death. Phillips alters the would-be setting of his portraits: images of politicians are re-cast in neon, while supermodels are represented as academic paintings. Phillips currently lives and works in New York City.
Walter Pfeiffer
Walter Pfeiffer is a Swiss artist most known for his portraits of friends, lovers and the youth surrounding him in cities he spent time in, such as Zurich, Paris and New York. Pfeiffer’s work has been linked to the revival of realistic photography in the 1990s and early 2000s
Rachel Papo
Rachel Papo was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine arts high school in Haifa. At age eighteen, she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer. She earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University (1991-96), and an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2002-05).
Rachel’s photographs are included in numerous public and private collections, and have been exhibited and published worldwide. She currently lives in Berlin working on personal projects, as well as accepting commissioned projects. Her first book, Serial No. 3817131, was published by powerHouse Books in 2008. She was selected as a finalist for the “Santa Fe Prize for Photography,” and was been awarded a NYFA Fellowship in 2006. In 2009 Rachel won a Lucie Award for “Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year.”
Alan Ostreicher
Alan Ostreicher has been making photographs for over 20 years. Born in New York in 1964, he first learned darkroom photography in high school. He graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in American Studies in 1987. His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in numerous corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe. His photographs have been published in Diffusion Annual, Black and White Magazine, The Photo Review, Conscientious Photography Magazine, and San Francisco Magazine.
Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie is an American photographer who studies the connections between the mainstream and counter-culture. Opie lives and works in Los Angeles.
Lori Nix/Kathleen Gerber
b. 1969/b. 1967
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Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber have been making art collaboratively for over sixteen years. Originally from the American Midwest, now based in Brooklyn, they construct meticulously detailed model environments and photograph the results. For the last decade they have found inspiration in their urban surroundings, imagining a future mysteriously devoid of mankind. Their miniature fake landscapes and interiors reflect a love of science fiction and dystopian entertainment (think “Blade Runner,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Logan’s Run”), an appreciation for great architecture, and an affinity with the Sublime painters of the Hudson River School.
Their images of faux landscapes and gritty urban interiors have gained wide acclaim in both the U.S. and Europe, and Nix is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow in photography.
Morten Nilsson
Morten Nilsson is a Danish artist that trained as a photojournalist. Nilsson is most known for their series of portraits of ballroom dancers.
Gregory Halpern | “Hope in the Dark,” The Great Leap Sideways
From The Great Leap Sideways:
Gregory Halpern’s A begins with a warning, an invitation and a sort of subtle disclaimer. In fact it begins before this and in a more complex way, but we can leave that for later on. The first photograph of the sequence is of a kitten not quite yet cat, pausing mid-stride to turn and in baring its sharp teeth warning us off as intruders who have barely entered the fray. The cat seems to be crossing an unremarkable byroad that could as readily traverse the countryside as the outskirts of a small city. Its location, its provenance, the reason for its deep hostility or fear – all of this and more remains unclear, unspecified, unexplained. For a viewer new to Halpern’s work, to begin with such a photograph could well seem wilfully obtuse or irreverent or deliberately misleading in some way, but a kitten not yet cat will warn off a stranger for fear that they may stray too close, seek to touch or worse still take hold of them, and in taking possession of them do them harm – rob them of something that is essentially theirs. The photograph works as a mirror as well as an admonishment or alarm – as much for the photographer as for the viewer. It warns us to have a care, to tread a little lightly and with caution, to be careful as to what it is we seek to take hold of, careful about what it is that we think we might possess. It warns us not to try to get too close.
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Charles and Seventh
2013
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival pigment print
38 x 27 inches, sheet
(Edition of 9)
$2800.00
22 x 17 inches, sheet
(Edition of 15)
$1400.00
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Blue Coming Through
2013
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival pigment print
38 x 27 inches, sheet
(Edition of 9)
$2800.00
22 x 17 inches, sheet
(Edition of 15)
$1400.00
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat is a contemporary Iranian visual artist best known for her work in photography, video, and film (such as her 1999 film “Rapture,” which explores the relationship between women and the religious and cultural value systems of Islam).
Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, he was known for his unconventional use of materials such as food, diamonds, magazine clippings and trash. Muniz creates work referencing old master’s paintings and celebrity portraits then photographs them. Vik’s work has been met with critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide.
Yasumasa Morimura
Yasumasa Morimura is a conceptual photographer and filmmaker from Osaka, Japan. Using a combination of props, costumes, makeup, and digital manipulation, Morimura produces self portraits in which he inserts himself into art historical masterpieces, as well as images sourced from mass media and popular culture. Morimura’s self portraits simultaneously appropriate, subvert, and reinvigorate their source material; deconstructing the notion of the “masterpiece,” while also examining Japan’s complex absorption of Western culture, and undermining the concept of the “male gaze.”
Morimura’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions around the world, and is held in the collections of such prominent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Abelardo Morell
Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962, where he went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and his MFA from The Yale University School of Art. Morell has also received honorary degrees from Bowdoin College in 1997, and Lesley University in 2014.
He has been the recipient of a number of awards and grants, which include a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994, and an Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography in 2011. In November 2017, he received a Lucie Award for achievement in fine art.
Morell’s work has been collected and and exhibited by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; The Art Institute of Chicago; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and many others in the United States and abroad. Morell lives and works in Boston.
Frank Moore (b. 1946)
Jeannette Montgomery Barron
b. 1956
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Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and studied at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She first became known for her portraits of the New York art world in the 1980s, which were later published in a monograph titled Jeannette Montgomery Barron (Edition Bischofberger, Zurich, 1989). Next, in 1988 a collection of her still life photographs titled Photographs and Poems—a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham—was published (Scalo, Germany, 1998). Her following body of work, Mirrors, was also published as a monograph (Holzwarth Editions, Germany, 2004), and includes a text by the celebrated author Edmund White. In 2006 Holzwarth Editions also published her book Session with Keith Haring—twenty photographs taken by Montgomery Barron in Haring’s studio one afternoon in 1985. In My Mother’s Clothes, Montgomery Barron created a poignant and enduring portrait of her late mother through still life images of her cherished clothing, shoes, and personal possessions. As her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s progressed, robbing her of any remembered past, Montgomery Barron began this unique visual album as a way of both sparking her mother’s memories, and coping with her own sense of loss. In April 2013, powerHouse Books published Scene, a collection of Montgomery Barron’s iconic downtown portraits.
Montgomery Barron’s works are in numerous public and corporate collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Kunsthaus, Zurich; and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Montgomery Barron lives in Rome and Connecticut with her husband and two children.
Andrea Modica
Andrea Modica is best known for her black and white portrait photography, which she produces using an 8×10″ large format camera; as well as her platinum palladium printing.
Her photographs have been featured in many magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and American Photo.
Modica’s work has exhibited extensively, at institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, New York City; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the George Eastman House, Rochester; and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
Modica was born in New York City and now lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of a Knight Award.
Doris Mitsch
Doris Mitsch writes: “I’m looking for perspectives on this heartbreaking, beautiful world. A review once described my work as ‘fleshy and tender.’ That’s more or less what I’m after.”
A few notes about process:
The photos of flight trails (birds, bees, etc.) are not time-lapse images, but composite digital photographs combining hundreds and sometimes thousands of shots taken over the course of a few seconds or a couple of minutes, showing the same animals in different positions in space over time.
And the process employed for some of the still lifes is a bit unusual, with digital technology replacing not only the darkroom, but the camera as well. Mitsch sometimes uses a flatbed scanner as a camera, which offers interesting opportunities and limitations. Unlike a traditional camera, a scanner captures an image by slowly moving both the light and the lens across the subject, essentially lighting and photographing it from multiple angles in one long exposure. This produces a single image stitched together from thousands of tiny slivers, to which the artist then makes endless, minute adjustments. This offers a view that cannot be seen through a camera lens or by the naked eye, and a kind of illumination that cannot be duplicated with fixed lights. It also offers a uniquely detailed view, as the artist magnifies each image and works on it down to a level of detail that will never be seen in the finished print. Full-resolution prints of some of the images can be as wide as sixty inches, and enlargements as big as 300 inches (25 feet) wide have been made without significant loss of detail.
People sometimes refer to this kind of work as scanner photography, scanography, scanograms, art scans, scanning, and so on. Mitsch still refers to it as photography, because “photo-graph” means a picture made with light, and today there are many alternative processes for making photographs, including various camera-less methods.
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach is an American photographer often credited with the introduction of color to ‘fine’ art photography in the 1970s. He is known for the use of large-format traditional cameras.