Yearly Archives: 2012

Gregory Halpern | “Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker

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Vince Aletti from The New Yorker writes:

…The sense of disillusionment is underscored by images of physical decay: houses collapsing or, in once instance, on fire, while aluminum siding melts into smoke. Halpern also has a sharp eye for incidental beauty and saving grace, as seen in pictures of a shard of glass glinting in the dirt and of trash burning on an embankment at dusk, one ember lifted into the air, like a flaming planet.

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Brian Finke’s work is featured in “Orchestrated Vision” at the St. Louis Museum of Art

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Brian Finke’s work is featured in “Orchestrated Vision” at the

Brian Finke’s work is featured in “Orchestrated Visions: The Theater of Contemporary Photography” at the St. Louis Art Museum, February 19 – May 13, 2012:

“The Theater of Contemporary Photography” is a compelling survey of contemporary photographers, many presented in St. Louis for the first time. Seen together, the works reveal the remarkable potential of the photographic medium in contemporary artistic practice. On view will be over 40 works from an international group of artists which includes Thomas Struth, Carrie Mae Weems, and Gregory Crewdson.

These photographers have focused on the elements of scene setting and directing to meticulously construct environments that are mesmerizing in their large scale, absorbing in their uncanny beauty, and haunting in their elusive meaning. They inventively exploit photography’s unique capacity to operate in the boundaries between fact and fiction. Each image is the product of the painstaking execution of the ambitious vision of the artist.

Curated by Eric Lutz, associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs, with Ann-Maree Walker, research assistant, “An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography” will be on view in the Main Exhibition Galleries.

For more information on the exhibition:
http://www.slam.org/OrchestratedVision/about.php

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JoJo Whilden

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JoJo Whilden writes: “Skid Marks developed for several years as I tried to figure out how to photograph marks on the highway without getting hit by a car. It was exciting. The images were taken on road trips through Upstate New York, Long Island, Connecticut, and California. The skid marks were ubiquitous, and yet each one so unique. Each traumatic moment soiling a place on the highway represented an individual’s experience of fear and excitement, and possibly loss. The concept of rubber necking is about people wanting to know what happened at the trauma sight. They want to hear about fear. It seems to be a very human response to trauma.

“The project’s inception coincided with my desire to draw with charcoal. In a frustrated effort to command my hand’s movement on a piece of paper, I searched around for a different way to make drawings. These skid mark images were printed on a matte surface, which gives them the appearance of having been drawn. Though the subject matter may have a narrative or psychological value, the intent of the work is also formal in its attempt to honor the work of 20th century Modernist photographers and their aesthetic approach towards photography and nature. The framing and formality of the photographs, as well as the richness inherent in silver lining of black-and-white photography, suggest images of beauty, and at the same time, the marks represent something potentially more traumatic. Skid Marks as a project represents the fleeting and forgetful qualities of the new century and the obsession to look, but only for a second.”