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Lori Nix’s work in a show at The Lodge Gallery

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Lori Nix’s work in a show at The Lodge Gallery

Lori Nix’s work is featured in “Post Human Utopia” at The Lodge Gallery in New York City from April 22 – May 31, 2015.

Will our ever-expanding footprint on the natural world lead to an ecological collapse and a mass extinction of the human race? Will it be our meteoric advances in the development of artificial intelligence that does us in? Perhaps a biochemical calamity or a nuclear war will be our undoing. There are a lot of dark scenarios in which the world might go on without us.

In his book, “The World Without Us,” Alan Weisman poses a fascinating thought experiment: if you take every living human off the Earth, what traces of us would linger and what would disappear? Will the footprint of humanity ever fade away completely or have humans so irrevocably altered the environment that the impact of man will continue to shape the earth’s landscape far beyond the days of our departure?

This spring, The Lodge Gallery takes a unique look into a seemingly dystopian situation and contemplates the variable repercussions of our absence in “Post Human Utopia.”

The Lodge Gallery
131 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
http://www.thelodgegallery.com/post-human-utopia/

See Lori Nix’s series “The City”
Browse all of Lori Nix’s work at ClampArt


Blog post by:
Brian Paul Clamp, Director

Brian Finke | “Hip Hop,” L’Oeil de la Photographie

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From The Staff at L’Oeil de la Photographie:

Since 2012 American photographer Brian Finke has been capturing behind the scenes images from hip-hop video shoots throughout New York City’s 5 boroughs. In 2015, Finke plans to expand the series—tentatively titled “Hip Hop Honeys”—shooting for the first time outside of NYC, in Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles.

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See Finke’s series “Hip Hop Honeys”
Browse all of Brian Finke’s work at ClampArt

Jan Rattia’s work at The Low Museum

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Jan Rattia’s work at The Low Museum

Jan Rattia’s photography is featured in “#Masculinity” at The Low Museum in Atlanta, which opened on Monday, April 13, 2015.

“Masculinity” denotes a combination of different elements, both human and nonhuman—behavioral (strength, violence, aggression), bodily (phalluses, muscles), aesthetic (dark, heavy, sharp)—which do not necessarily or naturally belong together. Unified, these elements characterize a force. We perform masculinity; our bodies register its effects. The presence of #masculinity is thick, yet difficult to pinpoint. It crumbles when contested.

How do we ‘prove’ masculinity, and how do we measure it? How do we interact with masculinity? How does masculinity operate in our daily lives? And how do we subvert its effects?

Masculinity and femininity are both co-substantiated—each needs the other to exist. Our goal is to question the nature of masculinity and what it demands of us; bodily and performatively. This way, we can understand what it will mean to remove dangerous aspects of social structures—such as heteronormativity and patriarchy—from our understandings of #masculinity.

The Low Museum
550 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue, NE
Unit A
Atlanta GA, 30312
http://thelowmuseum.com/MASCULINITY
Browse all of Jan Rattia’s work at ClampArt


Blog post by:
Brian Paul Clamp, Director

Robert Voit | “Awkward Trees,” CBS News

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From Radhika Chalasani’s article for CBS News:

German fine art photographer Robert Voit’s “New Trees” seem like everyday plants at first glance, but when one looks closer it’s apparent they aren’t trees at all. They’re cell phone towers disguised (one might say badly) by telecom companies in an attempt to blend in with their urban and rural environments.

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See Robert Voit’s series “New Trees”
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Lindsay Morris will be signing copies of You Are You at AIPAD

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Lindsay Morris will be signing copies of You Are You at AIPAD

Lindsay Morris will be signing copies of her book, You Are You, at the ClampArt booth at The AIPAD Photography Show on Friday, April 17, 2015, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

You Are You documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families. This camp offers a temporary safe haven, where children can freely express their interpretations of gender alongside their parents and siblings without feeling the need to look over their shoulders.

Writes Dr. Norman Spock:

“These are just photographs of children. The children may look different from most others; they might cause one to wonder ‘what’ they are and how they might be classified; they might be an affront to those who would force people to play by preset rules. But when we look closer–at our own lenses and then at the photos themselves–we see that the true worth of these photographs is the undeniable demonstration that the children portrayed here are like every other child on earth: playful, beautiful, contemplative, strong.”

Signed copies of the publication (Kehrer Verlag) are available for purchase for $50.00. ClampArt is planning an exhibition of the photographs for Summer 2015.

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue (at 67th Street)
New York, NY 10065

ClampArt, Booth #124
April 17, 2015
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Browse all of Lindsay Morris’ work at ClampArt
More information about the book, You Are You

Blog Post By:
Keavy Handley Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Luke Smalley | “A Luke Smalley Retrospective,” Advocate

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From Christopher Harrity’s article for the Advocate:

There is something so enjoyable and likable about Luke Smalley’s work, that it only emphasizes the early loss of his talent. Inspired by school athletics and high school yearbook photos, Smalley takes the gay male gaze past the closet-y subterfuges of Bruce Weber and into a more analytic perception of youth, male ritual, and sexuality.

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Lindsay Morris | “Children who don’t conform,” aCurator.com

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From Julie Grahame’s post for aCurator.com:

May all our future children be so encouraged! In 2007, Lindsay Morris began attending a summer camp for gender-creative kids where they could have the freedom to be as fabulous, or not, as they wish, whilst partaking of the usual summer activities. Over the years, Lindsay has made a wonderful series of intimate and real and loving photographs, which appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine in 2012, and which have subsequently been widely published. Many have been collected into a book: ‘You Are You’ is out now from Kehrer.

View the original slideshow at aCurator.com

View the exhibition
Browse all of Lindsay Morris’ work at ClampArt