Artist Collin LaFleche writes: “This collection of images documents the everyday lives of a group of teenagers I met in December 2006 and continued photographing for almost a year. The time I spent with them was a time of transition, from adolescence into adulthood: the end of high school, the last summer together, and the move on to college. While the work is in some ways autobiographical, the work is not meant to pass judgment. Instead, I have tried to capture, as objectively as possible, what I see as a sort of banality of adolescence. It is weaved amongst the awkward, arbitrary, and disjointed moments of social sparring, sexual exploration, conformity, vulnerability, and rebelliousness that shape and define coming of age. It is a monotony that is always apparent yet never directly addressed, showing itself only in silent, in-between moments, the moments that are not spectacular or funny or frightening, the moments when these teens are entirely alone with themselves.”
Monthly Archives: February 2012
David LaChapelle
Hired by Andy Warhol as a photographer for Interview Magazine when he was 17 years old, David LaChapelle has since enjoyed a prolific career as a commercial photographer, fine art photographer, music video director, and film director. LaChapelle has become known for his high-gloss, hyper-realistic depictions of celebrity culture – featuring names such as Paris Hilton, Muhammad Ali, Britney Spears, Madonna, and Tupak Shakur. Tim Connor of The New York Photo Review notes, “LaChapelle’s pictures crackle with subversive – or at least hilarious – ideas, rude energy and laughter. They are full of juicy life.” LaChapelle’s images have been widely published, appearing on the covers and pages of magazines such as GQ, i-D, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, and Vogue Paris. His photography has also exhibited at galleries and museums around the world.
Lee Ka-sing
Lee Ka-sing was born in Hong Kong. In the late 1970s, he began working as a professional photographer. He has since received numerous international awards, and in 1989, was chosen as Photographer of the Year by the Hong Kong Artist’s Guild. From 1994-6, the artist served as the president of the Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers. Early in 2002, he was invited to Tokyo for the judging of “New Cosmos of Photography” with Nobuyoshi Araki, Kotaro Iizawa, and Fumio Nanjo. He is now the advisor of Fotofeis—an annual photography festival in Scotland.
Selected exhibitions include “Asian Views,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; and “New Images from Hong Kong,” Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan.
Robert Kushner (b. 1949)
Stefan Kürten (b. 1963)
William Kentridge (b. 1955)
Alex Katz
Alex Katz is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, most often associated with the Pop Art movement. Katz began exhibiting his work more than fifty years ago, and since that time has produced an impressively large body of work, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints. Katz has established himself as a preeminent painter of modern life, whose portraits and landscapes bear a flattened surface and economy of line, combining aspects of both abstraction and representation.
Noah Kalina (b. 1980)
David Johndrow
Yvonne Jacquette (b. 1934)
Julia Jacquette
Julia Jacquette is an American artist based in New York City and Amsterdam. Her work has been shown extensively at galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; The Museum of Fine Arts Boston; and The RISD Museum, Providence Rhode Island; among other institutions. Jacquette’s work was included in the first installment of PS1’s “Greater New York” exhibition, and was the subject of a retrospective at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, and is currently on the faculty at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
Bill Jacobson
Bill Jacobson is an American photographer most known for out of focus photographs. His art is included in many prestigious collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Chris Ironside
Chris Ironside is a Toronto-based artist working in photography and drawing. He currently teaches photography in the Fine Arts department at York University where he is a graduate of the MFA program, and the University of Guelph.
Chad Hunt
Chad Hunt is an award winning documentary photographer. Hunt’s professional career began 1999 when he landed a staff job as a photographer at Richmond, Virginia’s Style Weekly Magazine. In 2004 he moved to New York City. Hunt has made three journeys to Afghanistan as an embedded photographer with the U.S. Military.
Flatiron Area
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)
$1750.00
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
David Hilliard
David Hilliard’s rich, saturated color photographs, usually presented as diptychs, triptychs or multi-panel pieces, present narratives that explore a range of themes and situations, from the awkwardness of adolescence to masculinity disarmed.
Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison is primarily known for her sculpture and assemblage pieces. Her work often incorporates elements of photography and found objects, sometimes layering abstract forms with industrially manufactured elements. Harrison lives and works in New York City.
Christopher Harris
Christopher Harris’s devastatingly beautiful color photographs do not come easily. By means of crudely constructed, hand-made cameras of the artist’s own design in conjunction with the employment of “zone plates” rather than simple pinhole apertures, Harris expertly and lovingly records the landscape near where he resides. The resultant images are imbued with a richness of color and light, in addition to a wholly unique ethereality that is akin to a daydream or the imagination—someplace in the mind. However, the “Palouse Series,” much more than merely a series of pretty pictures, addresses not only Americans’ relationship to their land and its impact on the quality of their lives; the body of work also establishes a wonderful dialogue with the history of American photography in general, and with the tradition of American landscape painting quite specifically. While Harris’s inspiration for this body of work harks back to many of the same aims of American landscape painters of the late 19th century, so do his images manage to access a similar sense of wonder and sublimity. Harris’s photographs intelligently address the important issues of our day, but rather than focusing attention on the negative, the artist chooses to make his point through the depiction of that which he loves—the beauty that yet remains, the beauty that must be preserved.
Karen Gunderson
b. 1943
Karen Gunderson’s black paintings explore luminosity and push the limits of painterly gesture. Working exclusively in black oils, Gunderson focuses the act of painting on the relationship between brushstroke and light. “By using only blacks, I’m forcing the focus onto the brush strokes reflected by the light,” she says. “I paint a form, an image with black paint, and the light makes them visible, like magic.” Gunderson’s highly reflective surfaces cause the paintings to sparkle and shift as the viewer moves about the artwork.
Karen Gunderson was born in Racine, Wisconsin, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wisconsin State University, Whitewater. She earned both a Master of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in Painting and Intermedia, respectively. Gunderson has been the subject of numerous one-person shows in the United States, Spain, and Bulgaria. Shen has received numerous honors and awards, most notably a Lorenzo Magnifico Prize in Painting at the 2001 Florence Biennale (Italy), and has been named by noted critic Donald Kuspit as one of the “New Old Masters.”
Ken Graves (1942-2016) and Eva Lipman
Ken Graves (1942-2016) and Eva Lipman are known for their collaborative photographs capturing surreal images that open a world of interpretive narratives.