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ClampArt at Art on Paper in NYC
Image: Copyright Randhy Rodriguez (RandhyRodriguez.com).
Please come visit ClampArt at Art on Paper, now through Sunday evening at 6.00 pm.
Art on Paper is located on the Lower East Side in Manhattan:
Pier 36
299 South Street
New York, NY 10002
Click here for a complimentary ticket
The gallery is in Booth 601 right at the front of the fair showing a selection of gallery artists including Aziz + Cucher, John Button, Jen Davis, Adam Ekberg, Jill Greenberg, Chris Ironside, Robert Voit, and Marc Yankus.
Blog post by:
Brian Paul Clamp, Director
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Jill Greenberg | “Tumultuous Paintings,” Wired
From Jakob Schiller’s article for Wired:
Jill Greenberg makes paintings, only to destroy them.
The artist’s swirling, abstract expressionist patterns are meticulously crafted and photographed, then discarded. The photograph, not the painting, is the point of her work. It’s a subtle but nevertheless pointed commentary on the notion that photography isn’t always taken as seriously as painting.
“If there is a painting you are not going to question whether it’s art,” she says. “But with a photo it’s not always art, or seen as valuable.”
View the original article in full
View Jill Greenberg’s exhibition “Paintings” at ClampArt
Browse all of Jill Greenberg’s work at ClampArt
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Bob Avakian | “Night Photography,” Dodho Magazine
From the article on Bob Avakian for Dodho Magazine:
As [Avakian’s] photographic vision has evolved he has been drawn to the natural landscape and an exploration of night photography. “Night photography is my main focus,” he explains. “I love low light situations. You get an altered reality, something that goes beyond what you remember in a scene. It takes on a painterly quality.” A common thread in Bob’s work is the element of mystery. He drives around the island [Martha’s Vineyard], he explains, searching for isolated scenes that contain an unusual light source or another mysterious quality.
“I photograph the landscape at night and at dawn. The camera captures the frames as stills, freezing time, regardless of the length of the exposure, and creating an image different from what the eye perceives. I like to believe that these resulting images are from a moment suspended between night and day.
Mark Morrisroe is featured in the new issue of “Aperture”
Mark Morrisroe’s work is featured in the new issue of “Aperture” with an article by Eva Respini, Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (formerly Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City). The issue focuses on queer photography. Respini writes:
Following are some stories about the life and times of Morrisroe. He was the illegitimate son of the infamous Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo. His mother was a drug-addicted prostitute. He ran away from home at thirteen and was taken in by hustlers. While turning a trick in drag, he was shot by a john who realized Morrisroe wasn’t a woman. He was shot by a trick who was tracing drawings on his back with a gun. He was the subject of a snuff film and left for dead. And more.
Aperture
Issue #218 (Spring 2015)
http://aperture.org/shop/aperture-218-magazine
Browse all of Mark Morrisroe’s work at ClampArt
Blog post by:
Brian Paul Clamp, Director
Janet Delaney | “San Francisco’s Gentrification,” Hyperallergic
From Laura C. Mallonee’s article for Hyperallergic:
The genesis of SoMa’s gentrification began in the 1960s, when blue-collar workers started moving out as starry-eyed bohemians flooded in. It changed again in the late 1970s with the city’s aggressive efforts to renew the derelict neighborhood. That’s when photographer Janet Delaney arrived. One night, she watched as workers bulldozed a residential hotel where many poor people had made their homes — an experience that inspired her to begin documenting the vanishing community with a 4×5 view tripod-mounted camera.
Today, South of Market bears little resemblance to its old self, but a one-room exhibition of Delaney’s series at the de Young Museum offers a reminder of the working class neighborhood that once was — one image shows a blacksmith working away in his shop, another captures the smiling husband-and-wife owners of a hamburger joint. Through the series, Delaney offers a tribute to the sidelined, disposable community and a questioning look at the cost of progress.
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Showers
Huntsville, Texas 1968
Signed and dated in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches, sheet
Sold.
Diagnostic Center is a processing center for inmates entering prison. Men arrive there from county jails throughout the state. After about a month they are classified and assigned to a unit to begin their sentence.
This image is from Lyon’s book Conversations with the Dead.
Cell Block
Huntsville, Texas 1968
Signed and dated in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches, sheet
Contact gallery for price.
The Ramsey prison farm is set on 16,000 acres of Brazos River bottomland about 30 miles south of Houston and is populated by 1400 men. The prison is divided into a newer and older unit—Ramsey One and Ramsey Two.
This image is from Lyon’s book Conversations with the Dead.
Six-Wing Cell Block
Huntsville, Texas 1968/2011
Signed and dated in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches, sheet
Contact gallery for price.
The Ramsey prison farm is set on 16,000 acres of Brazos River bottomland about 30 miles south of Houston and is populated by 1400 men. The prison is divided into a newer and older unit—Ramsey One and Ramsey Two.
This image is from Lyon’s book Conversations with the Dead.
Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Kew Gardens, Queens. He studied history at the University of Chicago, and graduated with a B.A. in 1963. Lyon is best-known for his images of the Civil Rights Movement, outlaw motorcyclists, and prisoners in Texas penitentiaries.
Lyon received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for photography in 1969, and for film making in 1979.
The Yard
Huntsville, Texas 1968/2011
Signed and dated in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches, sheet
Contact gallery for price.
The Walls is a walled penitentiary. It is the oldest unit of the system and is located near the center of the town of Huntsville.
This image is from Lyon’s book Conversations with the Dead.
Two Years, Burglary
Huntsville, Texas 1968/2011
Signed and dated in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches, sheet
Contact gallery for price.
Ferguson is a prison for young men, ages 17-21.
This image is from Lyon’s book Conversations with the Dead.
Chuck Samuels | “Before the Camera,” Musée Magazine
From the post concerning Chuck Samuels’ exhibition reception for Musée Magazine:
ClampArt presented on February 19th “Chuck Samuels: Before the Camera.” While his work has been exhibited internationally quite extensively since 1980, this is the artist’s first solo show in New York City.
View the exhibition at ClampArt
Browse all of Chuck Samuels’ work at ClampArt
Brian Buckley | “Neue Kunst mit alter Technik,” fotoMAGAZIN
From Anja Martin’s article for fotoMAGAZIN:
When Polaroid ceased their production of instant print film, Brian Buckley went blue: The New Yorker shifted to the cyanotype process, which had not thrilled him much up to then. But, from that point on, Buckley began to understand the different shades of blue as a challenge: “The fascination lay in the limit,” he says. Buckley mixes the chemicals himself in order to manipulate the colors better, as he wishes to achieve a cyan that is about a midnight blue or gray-blue.