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Scott Daniel Ellison | “Let Your Mind Take a Trip,” The Vernissage

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From the review for The Vernissage:

Who knew that a few subway stops could transport you not only to another place but also to another time? This past week the E train took us to the end of October. Scott Daniel Ellison transformed the space of ClampArt into a Halloween party, populated with skeletons, ghosts, flying demons and bats. “Iowa, Ohio” is an exhibition of a series of painting that take inspiration from childhood fears and horror stories (through September 6th). Through children-like graphics and dark colors, these works evoke Tim Burton’s imaginary universe. The figures were playful in an obscure way, which blurred the lines between nightmares and dreams. Ellison’s delicate and ironic approach to the world of monsters and fears enrobed the subjects with a lyrical note.

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Scott Daniel Ellison | “Studio Tracks,” Blouin Artinfo

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From the article about Scott Daniel Ellison’s studio playlist for Blouin Artinfo:

“I spent a lot of time in the woods growing up,” said painter Scott Daniel Ellison, whose exhibition “Iowa, Ohio” opened last night at ClampArt in New York. “I spent an equal amount of time watching late night horror films and reading ‘Fangoria.’ I sort of tap into this part of my life from time to time, especially for these new paintings.” Those works are raw and loaded with an enigmatic symbolism: images of bats, claw-like hands, and green-skinned forest bogeymen. Ellison shared his current studio playlist, from Black Sabbath to the Delta Blues.

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Henry Horenstein | “Picture Perfect,” Rolling Stone

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From the story for Rolling Stone:

Photographers featured in a special Los Angeles exhibit [“Country: Portraits of an American Sound” at the Annenberg Space for Photography] talk about their star subjects, from Dolly Parton to Keith Urban.

Henry Horenstein writes about his famous portrait of Dolly Parton at Symphony Hall in Boston in 1972: “Dolly was just starting out, really. She was the girl singer in the Porter Wagoner band, a big country act back in the day, and I photographed her backstage between appearances. Since she was just a featured act, she only had a few songs so we had a lot of time with her. ‘We’ was me, Ken Irwin and Marian Leighton—friends of mine who had just started Rounder Records, which was to become an important indie label featuring what we now call Americana music.

“[Dolly] was sweet, self-depreciating, charming, and gorgeous. I had a terrible crush on her and nodded at anything she said. One thing I recall she said was the reason she looked the way she did was that people didn’t come out to see her looking like them. She was talking about rural people at a music show, but I think this is good advice for any creative person.”

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Join ClampArt for the 5th annual Chelsea Art Walk!

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Join ClampArt and over one hundred Chelsea galleries and studios for the 5th Annual Chelsea Art Walk on Thursday, July 24, 5.00-8.00 pm.

The neighborhood will welcome visitors on Thursday, July 24th, for the 5th Annual Chelsea Art Walk, when galleries will be open late until 8.00 pm. Free and open to the public, the walk will showcase the galleries’ summer exhibitions as well as host artist talks, receptions and other special events.

Chelsea Art Walk is organized by the community to promote exciting group exhibitions and unique projects only available to audiences over the summer. For the past four years, the walk has attracted thousands of guests to this one-night-only event. Spanning venues from 16th to 30th Street between 9th and 11th Avenue, Chelsea Art Walk continues to display the value of these art spaces and the vibrancy of their exhibitions.

The Chelsea Art Walk coincides with the opening reception of Iowa Ohio, ClampArt’s upcoming exhibition of Scott Daniel Ellison’s newest paintings.

For more information and a complete list of participating galleries, please visit http://artwalkchelsea.com/.

Blog post by:
Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Scott Daniel Ellison | “Iowa, Ohio,” Wall Street International

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From the post on the website for Wall Street International:

Ellison’s newest body of work imagines macabre vignettes inspired in equal parts by Scandinavian folklore, obscure horror films, and childhood fears and preoccupations. About his rearing in rural upstate, Ellison writes: “As Halloween approached I would get on my bike and ride around the developments and back roads of Warwick, New York looking for the witches, werewolves, vampires, and zombies that were put out on front lawns, placed in windows, or propped up on lawn chairs as decoration.” These explorations emerge in this body of work as arcane subjects, re-invented as children’s drawings—dark fantasies of an imagination gone wild.

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Forest Kelley, Frances F. Denny, Julie Gautier-Downes, Maya Krinsky, Mo Costello, RaMell Ross, Vanessa Godden | “Seven Stories Tall,” Musée Magazine

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From Cory Rice’s review for Musée Magazine:

This week ClampArt presents the work of RISD’s 2014 MFA graduating class under the title “Seven Stories Tall.” A blend of photography, drawing, and video installation, the show explores familial and cultural narratives as they shape identity and place.

As a group, the artists included in “Seven Stories Tall” show great promise, and the exhibition deserves a visit before it closes on July 19.

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Manjari Sharma’s Lord Brahma included in the Aperture Foundation’s Summer Open

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Image: Manjari Sharma, “Lord Brahma,” 2013.

The Aperture Foundation’s “Summer Open” exhibition features 103 prints from 97 different artists selected by Executive Director, Chris Boot, from over 860 submissions, and is organized by visual category. One of the selections, under the ‘Flowers’ category, is our own Manjari Sharma’s Lord Brahma from her series “Darshan.”

From Chris Boot:

The work submitted for the exhibition left me with one overwhelming impression that caught me by surprise: that serious photography today, for all its self-awareness and sophistication, is characterized above all by a sense of joy. Serious photography used to be, well, serious—about itself, its place in the world, its social and aesthetic agendas. When did it free itself of these constraints and become so playful?

Congratulations to Manjari on her inclusion in the exhibition!

Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
July 17 – August 14, 2014

Monday through Saturday
10:00 am–6:00 pm
http://www.aperture.org/exhibition/aperture-summer-open/

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Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

dancer, OperaHouse

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1989

Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso

Chromogenic print (Edition of 10)

16 x 12 inches, sheet

Sold.

Literature:
Burkhard Riemschneider, ed., with an essay by Simon Watney, Wolfgang Tillmans (Hamburg, Germany: Taschen, 1995), n.p., full-page illus.

Stiefelknecht III

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1993

Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed in ink, verso

Chromogenic print (Edition of 10)

12 x 16 inches, sheet

Sold.

Literature:
Burkhard Riemschneider, ed., with an essay by Simon Watney, Wolfgang Tillmans (Hamburg, Germany: Taschen, 1995), n.p., full-page illus.