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Jesse Burke | “Q-and-A,” Rhode Island Monthly

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From Grace Kelly’s interview with Jesse Burke in the Rhode Island Monthly:

“Wild and Precious,” by local photographer Jesse Burke (who also contributes to “Rhode Island Monthly”), is an exploration of Burke’s time with his daughter, nine-year-old Clover, on the grandest stage of all: the natural world. Burke took Clover on a road trip through New England and beyond, snapping photos of her interacting with her surroundings.

The photos are poignant, simple and quiet, displaying Clover’s curiosity for the world around her as Burke captures the moments. The photos show her snuggling up to a raccoon, lying in a motel bed with pillow marks on her cheek and tracing the circles in cut wood stumps.

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Jesse Burke | “The photographic chronicle,” 20minutos

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From Jose Ángel González’s article for 20minutos:

When Clover was four years old, Burke began to take her as a companion when he traveled from Rhode Island, his family’s home, to work sites where he was hired as the photographer. Travel included rest stops, exploring for traces of animals, hidden places, or environments of natural perfection. Their tradition quickly became habit and every trip an opportunity to better know the world we live in.

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John Arsenault | “How AIDS changed American Art,” The Seattle Times

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From Michael Upchurch’s article for The Seattle Times:

“Arts AIDS America,” a moving new show at the Tacoma Art Museum, charts cultural responses to the HIV crisis—beginning with an artist’s 1981 rendering of Kaposi sarcoma lesions before anyone had realized their significance.

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Tribute to artist Robert de Michiell

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Tribute to artist Robert de Michiell

ClampArt was proud to mount a tribute exhibition to artist Robert de Michiell on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Sadly, de Michiell passed away far too young at the age of 57 the day before the show.

The exhibition featured 22 of de Michiell’s watercolors painted from 1998 to 2015, all inspired by Fire Island Pines, New York’s iconic gay beach resort. The show marked the first time that all 22 of de Michiell’s Fire Island paintings were displayed collectively, along with a 10-foot mural completed just a few months past. The work portrays Fire Island as “a whimsical, sexy, candy-colored Shangri-La, full of pumped-up beach boys frolicking in the waves and finding love beneath the setting sun.”

Best known for his pop culture illustrations and Broadway poster art, de Michiell’s work has been seen regularly in such publications as Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Robert de Michiell was a wonderful person and artist, and will be greatly missed.

Jesse Burke | “At ClampArt,” F-Stop Magazine

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From F-Stop Magazine’s coverage of Jesse Burke’s exhibition “Wild & Precious”:

For five years, Burke and his daughter team traveled to locations throughout their native New England, as well as to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, the Southwestern Sonoran Desert, and the beaches of North Carolina and Florida. They studied the trees, the land, the sky, and the animals they encountered during their hikes through woods and meadows, climbs up hills and mountains, and treks along rugged shorelines and rivers. They documented the routes they drove, the landscapes they discovered, and the creatures they met along the way—from elks to eagles to raccoons. They even charted the quirky roadside motels they slept in when not camping outdoors. In each location, they collected artifacts that they would bring back home to catalog, study, and photograph.

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Jeanette Montgomery Barron | “Relive New York’s Iconic Art Scene,” Wallpaper*

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From Brook Mason’s article for Wallpaper*:

New York’s 1980s art world, then chock a block with Warhol’s infamous Factory, along with regular sightings of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cindy Sherman on the prowl, is now somewhat clouded by today’s hipster galleries that dominate Chelsea. Yet that particular chapter in history can be relived in all its glory via the photographer Jeanette Montgomery Barron’s scrapbook-like tome, “My Years in the 1980s New York Art Scene,” which is packed with her snaps, shot in the studios of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and other now notable artists, as well as gallery posters and “Village Voice” reviews.

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Jesse Burke | “Wild & Precious,” Musée Magazine

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From the Musée Magazine post concerning Jesse Burke’s exhibition at ClampArt:

“Wild & Precious” brings together landscapes, portraits, and still life imagery which Jesse Burke photographed during a series of road trips with his daughter Clover from 2010 to 2015 to explore the natural world. To encourage a connection with nature, Burke used these adventures as a tool to give Clover an education that he considers essential—one that develops an appreciation and respect for the planet’s wildlife and natural resources, the importance of conservation, and self-confidence.

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Henry Horenstein’s “Animalia” at the Southeast Museum for Photography

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Henry Horenstein’s “Animalia” at the Southeast Museum for Phot

Henry Horenstein’s solo exhibition of work from his Animalia series opens at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida on October 16, 2015 and runs through February 7, 2016.

Animalia is a body of work in which the artist presents elegant and engaging representations of an eclectic mix of land animals and sea creatures, emphasizing their unique qualities and characteristics through his evocative and mysterious images. This body of work was created between 1995 and 2001, culled from images taken at various zoos and aquariums.

Elizabeth Werby, Executive Director at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, writes of the series:

“The combination of the scientific and the metaphorical, the artistic and the analytical in these images is what accounts for their extraordinary power.”

Henry Horenstein is author of over thirty books and monographs published by Viking, Chronicle, powerHouse, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, and Pond Press, including Honky Tonk, Humans, Racing Days, Creatures, Aquatics, Canine, and Close Relations. Photography students worldwide have used his textbooks, including Black & White Photography, published by Little, Brown, which has sold close to seven hundred thousand copies to date. Horenstein lives in Boston and is a professor of photography at Rhode Island School of Design.

Southeast Museum for Photography
Daytona State College
1200 International Speedway Boulevard
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
(386) 506-4475
http://smponline.org/ex_HHorenstein_Animalia.html#.ViEMNBNVhBc

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Henry Horenstein | “Animalia,” On View Magazine

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From Robert Horenstein’s article for On View Magazine:

The rich sepia-toned prints that comprise “Animalia” represent Horenstein’s distinct exploration of animal portraiture. Drawing on elements of his strong documentary background, Horenstein offers no cuddly, sentimental moments. Instead, deconstructing his subjects into ambiguous fragments of skin, scales and hair, Horenstein challenges our anticipated ways of seeing, inviting us to pause, look closely, and think about what is in front of us. In doing so, he engages our curiosity and draws us into careful consideration of his subjects. By encouraging the viewer to really look, Horenstein’s abstracted images become more truly representative than traditional animal photographs.

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James T. Murray

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This series came about as a result of James T. Murray’s belief that we are approaching a point where everyplace has been photographed. Murray loves travel and photographing landscapes and vistas, but the once exotic places he dreamed of going when he was younger now have been photographed, uploaded, and downloaded ad infinitum. So, he decided to begin looking inward instead. This series was shot in Murray’s studio in New York City using a very high resolution digital back and studio lights. What exactly was photographed is about as inorganic a substance as you can think of. The artist was drawn to how natural and organic it appears in imagery. The subject’s lack of scale and context is mysterious and fascinating.

Jesse Burke | “Wild & Precious,” Juxtapoz Magazine

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From Canbra Hodsdon’s article for Juxtapoz Magazine:

In his newly released book “Wild & Precious,” photographer Jesse Burke visually explores a five year time period of his daughter Clover’s youth. The book spans from her days as a curious and fearless child to her transformation into an intuitive and confident adolescent. Through their journeys across the country, Burke provided an education for his daughter that encouraged a thorough understanding and strong bond with nature.

A solo exhibition of work from “Wild & Precious” will open at ClampArt (531 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001) in New York on October 14 and remain on view through November 14. There will be an opening reception and book signing with the artist on Thursday, October 14, from 6-8pm.

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Jesse Burke | “Take a Walk in the Wilderness,” Slate

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From Jordan G. Teicher’s article for Slate:

When Jesse Burke’s oldest daughter, Clover, was nearly 5, he took her on a road trip from their home in Rhode Island up the coast to Canada. His plan was to photograph landscapes, but inevitably, he started taking photos of Clover as well. Halfway through their journey, he realized that those photos were the most interesting ones. Wild & Precious, which will be published by Daylight Books on Oct. 15, collects photos from more than two dozen trips the pair took together over the next five years.

Sometimes they’d just hop in the car and roam New England for the weekend. Other times they’d get on a plane and spend weeks in another part of the country during school vacations. The goal was always to further instill in Clover a knowledge and appreciation of nature.

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Rachel Papo | “The Lives of Home-Schooled Children,” Slate

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From David Rosenberg’s article for Slate:

When Rachel Papo moved to Woodstock, New York, in 2010, she met a mother who was home-schooling her 5-year-old daughter. Papo had never met anyone who home-schooled his or her child and was intrigued. Turned out, it was fairly common in the area. Over the next couple of years, Papo photographed these students along with their families for her series “Homeschooled”; she currently has a Kickstarter campaign to help turn it into a book.

“I choose a topic that I think will have some kind of visual interest, and then I kind of dive in and spend a few hours and let them do what they do, and I follow them around,” she said. “I never really plan anything.”

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Jesse Burke | “Father-Daughter Road Trip,” PDN

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Jesse Burke’s series “Wild & Precious” selected as a top pick by editor Holly Stuart Hughes in Photo District News:

“I want my children to genuinely understand how magical the world we inhabit is and how we, as humans, are an integral part of the system,” Burke writes. “I want them to feel a deep connection to every aspect of their surroundings.” Many of the photos in “Wild & Precious” show the forests and rocky coastline they explored, but much of the series conveys his awe and delight in his daughter’s adventurous spirit. He shows Clover staring out to sea from atop a rock on the shore, nestled in the tall grass of a field, holding a butterfly, and also tucked into a bed in a roadside motel.

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John Arsenault | “Barmaid,” Out Magazine

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From Out Magazine:

The site of the leather bar Eagle LA in Los Angeles has been home to three highly popular leather bars over the decades—the Shed from 1968-1972, the Outcast from 1972-1983, and the famous Gauntlett II from 1983-2005. The Eagle LA, which opened its doors in 2006, follows a long-standing tradition of leather fetish and uniform set forth by leather Eagle bars around the country.

In 2011, photographer John Arsenault (born 1971) took a job as a barback or “barmaid” (as he liked to refer to the position) at the Eagle LA where he felt he was meant to be at this moment in his life.

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Frances F. Denny | “Rose-Colored Glasses,” A Women’s Thing

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From Allison Geller’s interview with Frances F. Denny for A Women’s Thing:

Remember Warheads candy? The pictures that make up AWT contributing photographer Frances F. Denny’s newest series, “Pink Crush,” are something like reverse Warheads: sweet on the outside with a pop of acid on the inside. Shot in a palette that would make Lisa Frank proud, the photographs examine relics of 90s girlhood through the critical lens of an artist who lived it.

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