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Lori Nix | “The City,” Laughing Squid

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From EDW Lynch’s piece for Laughing Squid:

Artist Lori Nix creates intricate dioramas of indoor spaces which appear to have suffered from some mysterious catastrophe in her series “The City.” Nix spends about seven months building each diorama by hand, and two to three weeks photographing them with an 8 × 10 large format camera. All of this occurs in the living room of her Brooklyn apartment.

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Jake Rowland (b. 1971)

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Jake Rowland is an artist based in New York City. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; PhotoEspaña, Madrid; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; and the Villa Noailles, Hyères, France. Rowland’s work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The British Journal of Photography. His commercial photography and retouching has been published in Wired, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Business Week, Time Magazine, and in advertisements by Nike, Ralph Lauren Polo, Calvin Klein, and DKNY.

Julie Mehretu

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Julie Mehretu is an American contemporary visual artist, known for her large, multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes. Her work depicts the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes through the landscape’s alteration of architecture, topography, and iconography.

Brian Paul Clamp and Mary Ellen Mark jury exhibition for PPAC

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Brian Paul Clamp and Mary Ellen Mark jury exhibition for PPAC

Gallery director Brian Paul Clamp and esteemed photographer Mary Ellen Mark juried the “5th Annual Contemporary Photography Competition & Exhibition” for the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, which opens on Thursday, June 12th, from 6.00 to 9.00 pm. Photographs by 44 artists are included in the show.

“5th Annual Contemporary Photography Competition & Exhibition”
June 12 – August 30, 2014

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
1400 North American Street, #103
Philadelphia, PA 19122
(215) 232-5678

For more information on the show:
http://www.philaphotoarts.org


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Brian Paul Clamp, Director

Jen Davis | “‘Eleven Years’ @ClampArt,” Collector Daily

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From Loring Knoblauch’s review about Jen Davis’ exhibition “Eleven Years” for Collector Daily:

As the title of this exhibit explains, Jen Davis has spent the past eleven years making self portraits, and this body of work has already cemented itself as a landmark in the genre; it’s one of the most unflinching, vulnerable, and complicated investigations of identity in recent photography. Part of its tremendous success lies in that she’s shown us something we haven’t seen before – the interior life of a young, overweight woman, and the struggles and pressures (both physical and emotional) that her size has placed on her life – and she’s done it with an unexpected honesty that can’t help but draw us in.

Davis has a talent for the use of light, her well-crafted compositions often echoing classic Dutch painting, even down to the leftover still life orange peels on the kitchen counter. Rich backgrounds of green and blue frame her solitary moments, adding quiet grace to her interior battles, and shadows cross her frames, spotlighting her changing expressions and moods.

For a first solo show in New York, it’s a remarkably mature and accomplished artistic statement.

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Bill Armstrong’s photograph on the cover of a new book by Richard Hytner

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Bill Armstrong’s photograph on the cover of a new book by Richard Hytner

Bill Armstrong’s photograph “Untitled (Film Noir #1401)” is on the cover of Richard Hytner’s new book “Consiglieri.” Hytner’s book on business turns the spotlight on the second-in-commands – the advisers, assistants, and counsellors (or ‘consiglieri’) – who are too often disparaged as the ‘No. 2s’. Far from being also-rans, these are the crucial vice-presidents, first lieutenants, and right-hand men and women whose influence can determine the fate of countries, companies, and individual ventures the world over.

For more information on the book

Browse Bill Armstrong’s “Film Noir” series
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Brian Paul Clamp, Director

Lori Nix | “Post-Apocalyptic Dioramas Warn of Impending Future Disasters,” Complex

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From Kaitlyn Schaeffer’s article for Complex:

When construction is finished, Nix sets up a complex lighting apparatus for the photography session that ensues. Her dioramas often depict familiar locations, such as libraries and restaurants, but with a humorous dark twist. “I am interested in depicting danger and disaster” the artist writes on her website. Her photos capture post-apocalyptic scenes from a world eerily like our own, presenting the viewer with a scenario where “something either natural or as the result of mankind has emptied the city of its human inhabitants.”

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Jen Davis | “Body Image & Beauty,” Duggal Connect

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From the story for Duggal Connect on Jen Davis’ exhibition “Eleven Years”:

Since 2000, ClampArt in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood has developed a reputation as one of the premier contemporary photography galleries in the Big Apple.

From May 22nd to July 3rd, ClampArt will host photographer Jen Davis’ “Eleven Years” exhibition, which studies Davis’ and society’s perception of her body image over eleven years of her life.

Davis began taking self-portraits in 2002 in an effort to challenge traditional views of feminine beauty. Overweight for most of her life, Davis’ exhibition showcases her battle with loneliness, as well as her desire for love, intimacy and acceptance.

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View all of Jen Davis’ work at ClampArt