Image: Adrian Chesser, “Sage Field,” Lone Pine Ridge, Idaho, 2006-2012. Adrain Chesser’s first monograph, The Return, has been listed on three end-of-year lists as a notable photography book! PDN, FlakPhoto, and Photo-Eye have all named The Return as one of the best photo books released this year. Chesser was praised
Please come visit ClampArt at Miami Project, now through Sunday evening. Miami Project is located in Midtown Miami’s Wynwood Arts District: 110 NE 36th Street Miami, FL 33137 Click here for a complimentary one-day ticket The gallery is in Booth 117 showing a selection of gallery artists including Jill Greenberg,
Left: Scott Daniel Ellison, “The Birthday Party,” 2009, Acrylic on panel, 6 x 6 inches. Right: Lori Nix, “Beauty Shop,” 2010, Archival pigment print. Both Scott Daniel Ellison and Lori Nix have artworks featured in the Girl’s Club’s exhibition, “The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona.” (November 7, 2014 – September
Image: John Bailly, “Lyon,” 2007. Painter John Bailly and Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco first exhibited their collaborative project about cultural identity, Place of Mind, at ClampArt in early 2013. The artist and his collaborator will give a gallery talk at the Center for Visual Communication in the Wynwood Arts District
Image: Christopher Churchill, “Hudderite Classroom,” 2005, Gelatin silver print. ClampArt is pleased to announce that photographs by Christopher Churchill are now available. You can view images from his series “American Faith” here: http://clampart.com/2014/03/christopher-churchill-b-1977/. Churchill writes: I started this project just out of curiosity about religion. I felt both frustrated and
Bill Armstrong’s work is featured in “The Noir Effect” at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles from October 23, 2014 – March 1, 2015. “The Noir Effect” traces the influence of film noir into recent times, exploring how the genre has continued to impact American popular culture, art, and
Image: Corey Arnold, “After All Night,” 2012, Chromogenic print. The Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) benefit event “Connect The Dots” brings together those creating photography (artists) with those experiencing photography (audience), through cocktails, conversation, a plated dinner, silent and live auction, and a raise-the-paddle donation opportunity. This year, in addition to
ClampArt director, Brian Paul Clamp, in conversation with collector Douglas Nielsen at the Center for Creative Photography.
Image: Pipo Nguyen-duy, “Circle,” 2012, Archival pigment print. ClampArt is pleased to announce that photographs from Guggenheim Fellow Pipo Nguyen-duy are now available. You can view twenty images from the series here: http://clampart.com/2014/10/pipo-nguyen-duy/. Pipo Nguyen-duy’s series East of Eden originally shared a perspective with John Steinbeck’s novel of the same
Photographer Jen Davis’ first monograph is the culmination of eleven years of self-portraiture. Along with five other artists whose books were published by Kehrer Verlag, Davis will be signing copies of Eleven Years at the International Center of Photography on Friday, October 3rd, 2014. Books will be offered for sale
A brand new installation from Jessie Burke’s series of photographs “Wild + Precious” is on display in the Cushing Gallery at the Newport Art Museum as part of the NetWorks RI Program through January 19, 2015. Produced by Joseph A. Chazan, M.D., NetWorks is an ongoing project showcasing and recording
Image: Marc Yankus, “Two Men with Turbans,” 2014, Archival pigment print (Edition of 15), 17 x 11 inches. On a recent trip to India, ClampArt’s own Marc Yankus, known for his highly detailed and slightly surreal images of New York City buildings, was able to capture a number of striking
Image: From “McCarren Park Pool Locker Room” by Amy Touchette. Known for her “portrait profile” series, Amy Touchette’s most recent work is dedicated to the vulnerable subject of young women at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool locker room. This work is being displayed as part of We Live in Brooklyn,
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
Amy Stein and Jill Greenberg are both included in the Humble Arts Foundation’s online exhibition, “New Cats in Art Photography”
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
Image: Jen Davis, “December 18, 2009.” Jen Davis’ “Webcam” series is included in the exhibition “The Play and Staging of the Self: Five Photographers on Identity” at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in New York City. [The exhibition] explores the construction of identity and its ongoing evolution, with a special emphasis
Image: Marc Yankus, “Ancient,” 2008. Marc Yankus’ self-published photobook, The Point of Secret, is included in an exhibition of publications curated by Rebecca Senf for INFOCUS, the Photography Support Organization of the Phoenix Art Museum. The purpose of the exhibition is to explore the range of ways that artists are
Image: James Bidgood, “Willow Tree (Bruce Kirkman),” mid-1960s. The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art recently acquired Willow Tree by James Bidgood from ClampArt for their permanent collection. The photograph will be on display from August 14 – September 28, 2014, as part of the exhibition Permanency: Selections
Image: Adrain Chesser, “Back of the Truck,” 2006-2012 Adrain Chesser is a self-taught photographer whose first critical success came with “I have something to tell you,” a personal exploration of what it meant to disclose a life-altering diagnosis of AIDS. Adrain gave a fantastic and very emotional TEDx talk in