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Los Angeles,
2013

Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso

Archival pigment print

30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
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13.5 x 13.5 inches
(Edition of 10)
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For You!

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In his latest series, For You!, John Arsenault captures the beauty of the everyday by photographing roses close-up. Though Arsenault has pursued many different projects, including an ongoing series of self-portraits, these photographs show a tender, romantic side of the artist steeped in the history of art. In the aesthetic tradition of Georgia O’Keeffe, the tightly-focused images of the details of flowers are a 21st-century update on a subject that fascinated many artists back to 17th century Dutch flower painters.

Making the photographs with his iPhone and uploading to Instagram, Arsenault is able to receive instant feedback on new images from his followers. This new technology allows for images in this series to be made at a moment’s notice.

Arsenault has said of this work: “I’ve always loved taking photographs of flowers because it reminds me of my late grandmother Elizabeth, and this is a way for me to honor her and my family roots.”

Mark Beard | “Art: Mark Beard, Alter Egos,” Gayletter

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From Mossy’s story for Gayletter:

I am best acquainted with the first persona, Bruce Sargeant, whose homoerotic-fueled paintings of dressed and semi undressed men with titles like “Athletes,” “Locker Room,” “Gondolier,” and “Two Wrestlers” are a pure delight, and expertly executed with a timeless unwavering palette. Apparently the re-invention doesn’t end there. . .

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Mark Beard | “Mark Beard: Alter Egos,” Wall Street International

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From the post on the website for Wall Street International:

“Alter Egos” at ClampArt is a showcase of works by Beard’s first five personae—Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938), Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849-1930), Edith Thayer Cromwell (1893-1962), and Brechtholt Streeruwitz (1890-1973). However, recently more artists have emerged, and the exhibition will feature paintings by Beard’s newest personalities, including the Hudson River School painter Beard Beard (b. 1885) and the queer contemporary figure Buggereau (b. 1956).

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“Mark Beard: Alter Egos”

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ClampArt is pleased to announce “Mark Beard: Alter Egos”—the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery.

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“Mark Beard: Alter Egos”

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Henry Horenstein to lecture on country music in LA

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Henry Horenstein to lecture on country music in LA
Image: Henry Horenstein, “Loretta Lynn,” 1975.

Henry Horenstein will give a lecture at The Annenberg Space for Photography as part of their Iris Nights Lecture Series, focusing on his series Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music and other experiences from his career.

Country music is both an important subject and a passion for Horenstein, as can be seen in his film “Spoke,” which debuted as part of the “Country” exhibit. Horenstein’’s lecture will concentrate on the work from his earliest days as a photographer in the 1970s. He will discuss the images that led to his book “Honky Tonk” and other experiences from his 40-plus year career.

Several of Horenstein’s photographs are on display at the Annenberg Space for Photography as part of their current exhibition, Country: Portaits of an American Sound.

Iris Nights Lecture Series
Henry Horenstein: Honky Tonk
September 11, 2014, 6.30 p.m.
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Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Amy Stein and Jill Greenberg included in New Cats in Art Photography

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Left: Amy Stein, “New Homes”; Right: Jill Greenberg, “Glitch Cat (Morris)”

Amy Stein and Jill Greenberg are both included in the Humble Arts Foundation’s online exhibition, New Cats in Art Photography!

Why do we love cats? Why are they one of the most viral entities known to post Generation X’ers and Millennials? Why are feline musings simultaneously click-bait dreams and equally one of the largest causes of social media animosity and “de-friending?” This exhibition won’t answer any of those questions. Nor will it project any theories on the impact of cats in our rapidly shifting contemporary photographic landscape, but it will give you a glimpse into how cats make their way into the work some of today’s most challenging (and diverse) photographers.

Cats are always a tempting subject for photographers to shoot — and we at ClampArt are glad to see two of our own represented in this clever array of photographs (alongside internet sensation Li’l Bub, no less!).

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Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Amy Stein & Stacy Arezou Mehrfar | “The Photograph Explained,” Large Format Photography Australia

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From Stacy Arezou Mehrfar’s post for Large Format Photography Australia:

We had limited time in each location so many of our subjects were lined up before we started our road trip. However, we also left ourselves open to the chance encounters that occur while photographing on the road – making sure to leave time at each stop to discover our surroundings. This image was made in one of those ‘chance’ moments and ended up becoming the cover of our book. The two outstanding trees were a perfect fit – portraying the idea of standing out from your surroundings. When I first stepped out onto the balcony of the motel we were staying at and saw those trees peering at me, I knew that this was an important photograph that had to be made.

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Jill Greenberg’s work featured on the cover of Newsweek

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Image: An outtake from the “Monkey Portraits” series by Jill Greenberg.

One of Jill Greenberg’s monkeys–actually one of Jill Greenberg’s chimpanzees (which technically makes him an ape)–graces the cover of last week’s edition of Newsweek. The image is certainly an eye-catching way to illustrate the cover story about the potential for a US outbreak of the Ebola virus, currently a hotly discussed topic in the international and medical communities.

The licensing fee from the photograph was donated in its entirety to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation. Currently, MSF are working in the epicenter of the most recent Ebola virus outbreak.

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Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Adrain Chesser | “Portraits of America’s New Nomads,” Hyperallergic

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From Allison Meier’s article for Hyperallergic:

White Eagle and Chesser met at a 2007 ceremony in Tennessee, each interested in this symbiotic relationship with nature. White Eagle’s writing tends to embrace more of an idealization of returning to the root fields and abandoned orchards from an American Indian culture that was moved aside by American settlers’ brutal Manifest Destiny, while Chesser’s photographs are less gentle, showing the hardships along with the beauty. His previous projects have often been sharply personal and emotional, such as I have something to tell you where he photographed his friends right after he told them his HIV-positive diagnosis, and Orange Blossoms, Fire Ants, and the Tyranny of Memory where he documented his harrowing returns to his conservative hometown in South Florida.

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Adrain Chesser | “Life on the open road,” Daily Mail

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From Jessica Jerreat’s article for the Daily Mail:

The group drift from Idaho, to Nevada, Oregon and California, sleeping under the stars or in shelters based on the traditional homes of the Native Americans. Their progress, as they rear and slaughter goats, or forage for wild cherries, was documented by Chesser for his book, The Return. His inspiration for the work came at a time when he was feeling trapped by society. ‘I knew that I had to follow them out west,’ he told Vice. ‘My soul needed images of people living wild and free, untethered from society.’ The resulting images reveal the beauty of some of the more remote regions of the U.S. and the joy of those brave enough to follow a hard but fulfilling life as they follow ancient traditions.

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Vadim Gushchin | “The Unfamiliar Familiar,” Tricycle Magazine

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From Henry Shukman’s article for Tricycle Magazine:

The world is dynamic and changing; therein lies its freshness. But our ideas about it tend to grow static and calcified, even our ideas about the most important things: who we are, how things are, why the world is the way it is. Especially these, perhaps. Our accustomed way of seeing is just one way, yet as it hardens through habit, it tends to become our only way. To see the world anew is of a piece with wisdom.

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