Yearly Archives: 2012

ClampArt | “What Galleries Want,” PDN

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From PDN:

Facing a shaky economy, galleries in recent years have cut back the number of exhibitions they mount to keep their overhead low. That means fewer spots for the artists who are already on the galleries’ rosters, and more obstacles for photographers who are seeking gallery representation. In this climate, what inspires a gallery director to take a risk and sign a new photographer? We asked the owners of four galleries to tell us about the new artists they’ve taken on in the past two to three years. They explain not only how they found them, but what convinced them either to exhibit and sell a few prints, or to embark on a long-term commitment to exhibit and promote a photographer’s work in to the future.

PDF of the magazine article where Brian Clamp talks about Jesse Burke, Gregory Halpern, and Amy Stein
“What Galleries Want”

Browse all of Jesse Burke’s work at ClampArt
Browse all of Gregory Halpern’s work at ClampArt
Browse all of Amy Stein’s work at ClampArt

Gregory Halpern | “End Frame,” PDN

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From PDN:

Some photographers say they avoid looking at other photographers’ work, because they don’t want to be influenced—or intimidated—by it. But Brian Clamp, owner of ClampArt gallery in New York City, says that when photographs come to him seeking representation, he feels it’s important that they know both what’s going on in photography now, and what photographers have done in the past. “If you’re not familiar with Aaron Siskand, that’s a danger sign to me,” Clamp says (see “What Galleries Want,” page 24).

The photographers Clamp has signed recently are keen students of photographic history. Gregory Halpern, who jointed ClampArt last year, says, “I think if you’re not going out of your way to look at great photography, you’re just going to be influenced by the schlock that’s out there. Why not look for good influences?”

PDF of the magazine article
PDN, End Frame

Browse all of Gregory Halpern’s work at ClampArt

Into the Woods

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June 28 – August 17, 2012

Opening reception:
Thursday, June 28, 2012
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

ClampArt is pleased to present “Into the Woods,” a group exhibition including artworks by Corey Arnold, Anna Beeke, Jesse Burke, Caleb Charland, Larry Clark, Lisa DiLillo, Adam Ekberg, Nan Goldin, Gregory Halpern, Collin LaFleche, Sebastian Lemm, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, David Nadel, Ahndraya Parlato, Pacifico Silano, Chad States, Amy Stein, and Robert Voit.

The woods commonly serve as metaphor for many things—including that which is mysterious, perhaps frightening, or simply unfamiliar. The forest marks the edge of mankind’s domain, and for centuries poets, composers, painters, and artists of all media have been inspired by what at first may seem outwardly calm and tranquil, but firmly delineates what should be the boundary of man’s authority.

In recent years a number of emerging photographers have taken to the woods to shoot “minor spectacles” (as described by artist, Adam Ekberg). Images by Ekberg, Caleb Charland, Lisa DiLillo, and Ahndraya Parlato are fantastical scenes—what at first glance appear to be odd exchanges between man and nature; strange science experiments in deep woods with no obvious objective.

Other artists use the forest as backdrop for libidinal, sometimes pagan scenes of lust and excess, such as Larry Clark, Chad States, and Pacifico Silano.

And further pieces included in the exhibition imagine nature in more Arcadian terms, such as those photographs by Nan Goldin, Collin LaFleche, Corey Arnold, and Jesse Burke.

Robert Voit and Anna Beeke employ humor and irony to comment upon man’s rapid depletion of natural resources, while David Nadel’s abstract images of the remains of burned down forests address similar concerns with a quieter, more reserved aesthetic.

“Into the Woods” brings together work by a wide-range of artists all employing lens-based technologies who have found inspiration in the natural world or wish to comment upon human interaction with and dependence upon Mother Nature.

For more information and images please contact Brian Paul Clamp, Director, or see www.clampart.com. Summer hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Willy Bo Richardson

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Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000. He was a painting tech at Cooper Union and a faculty member at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. His paintings have been exhibited internationally. In 2011, his work was included in “70 Years of Abstract Painting—Excerpts” at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York City. The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock. In 2012, Richardson showed work in the exhibition “Watercolors” at the Phillips de Pury headquarters in Chelsea, New York City. His paintings were also featured on the KNME-TV PBS weekly arts series, ¡COLORES!. Most recently, Richardson was a guest artist at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico.

Construction

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Brian Finke is now well-regarded for his photographs concentrating on select groups of people, including high school cheerleaders and football players, male and female bodybuilders, and also flight attendants. In his newest body of work, he focuses upon yet another classification—namely construction workers, who are often imagined in broad and stereotypical terms. However, whereas in his previous series he zeroed in on postures, expressions, and gestures, relaying diversity in uniformity while also detailing the establishment of individual identities in the image of the larger group, in the “Construction” project, Finke much more frequently pulls the camera back, creating much more atmospheric photographs of the whole setting.