Yearly Archives: 2012

Sebastian Lemm (b. 1970)

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Sebastian Lemm, a native of Germany, relocated to New York City in 2000 after graduating from Berlin University of the Arts.

Sean Kelly Gallery featured Sebastian’s photo-based work in “Unframed First Look” curated by Adam Fuss, Jack Pierson and Cindy Sherman in 2004. Since then, Sebastian had group and solo shows at galleries and cultural organizations throughout the U.S.

Lemm has received critical recognition from Art in America, The New Yorker, Art World (U.K.), NY Arts Magazine, Time Out Chicago, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and numerous visual art blogs. His work has also been selected for editorial features in H-Magazine (Spain) and Someone’s Garden Magazine (Japan), and was included in the book ‘Light and Lens’ by Robert Hirsch. In 2008, the Goethe-Instituts in Chicago and New York hosted artist talks with Sebastian Lemm and critics Gregory Volk and Michael Weinstein. Lemm’s work is included in numerous private and institutional art collections.

Cranston Richie

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1964/1974

(Center for Photographic Studies, Portfolio 3)

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71),
Printed April 1974

Edition of 130

Credit stamp, verso

7 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount

Contact gallery for price.

“This image probably owes some of its inspiration to the abnormal characters in the stories of Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 collection, A Good Man is Hard to Find. But Meatyard was also looking at Giorgio de Chirico and the European Surrealists and here employs their penchant for the lifeless mannequin figure. A headless dressmaker’s dummy is set up on a chair at a level suggesting a woman’s height. Ritchie stands to ‘her’ left, his stiff pose and artificial limb making him seem her unnatural match. One reading of the fanciful coupling might be the marriage of an injured Civil War veteran and an African-American woman. The marriage theme suggests another, more remote model: that of Jan van Eyck’s fifteenth-century masterpiece, “Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife” (1434).

—Judith Keller, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002), pp. 28-9

Untitled (Figure and Boat)

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1961/1974

(Center for Photographic Studies, Portfolio 3)

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71),
Printed April 1974

Edition of 130

Credit stamp, verso

7 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount

Contact gallery for price.

Untitled (“Motion-Sound” Landscape)

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1969/1974

(Center for Photographic Studies, Portfolio 3)

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71),
Printed April 1974

Edition of 130

Credit stamp, verso

7 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount

Contact gallery for price.

“Meatyard searched continually for a non-objective art that would be wordless poetry, spontaneous music without sound. The ‘Motion-Sound’ pictures of his later years brought Meatyard’s passion for music and, paradoxically, the silence of Zen Buddhism together in photography. In creating the series, he focused the camera on a natural scene (or one containing plain rural architecture) and then moved it slightly. The result of this action is an image that suggests sound while abstracting natural forms. The landscapes of the ‘Motion-Sound’ series are in stark contrast to the evocative, more traditional views of the Red River Gorge that Meatyard was executing during the same years.”

—Judith Keller, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002), p. 122

Robert Voit

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b. 1969

Robert Voit Resume

Robert Voit, born in Erlangen in 1969, lives in Munich. He studied under Gerd Winner at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and under Thomas Ruff at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Voit has exhibited at the Fotomuseum and Haus der Kunst in Munich, at the Nuremberg Kunsthalle, and at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, among other institutions.

Pacifico Silano

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Pacifico Silano is an artist whose work explores issues of identity, sexuality, and forgotten histories. He received a BFA from the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, and an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York City. He has exhibited internationally, including group shows at the Bronx Museum; Context Art Fair, Miami; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and ClampArt, New York City. Awards won by Silano include the 2012 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation; Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize; First Prize at the Pride Photo Awards in Amsterdam; and a Work Space Residency at Baxter St/Camera Club of New York.