wall space gallery | the flat file

July 31, 2009

Emily Shur

Filed under: architecture, landscapes, portfolio reviews, Review Santa Fe — The Flat File @ 6:30 am


Emily has got to be one of the coolest people I have ever met. I had the pleasure of meeting her in Santa Fe this June at the Reviews.

A commercial photographer by day, her personal work lends itself to her downtime, when she doesn’t have to think on her feet. Reacting to her circumstance, giving us who she is, where she is, and that moment of peace, like an exhale, before gearing up to go out and do it again.
Her work is quiet and unassuming. The structure, color and sometimes the light of the images draws me in. I am not sure if it is the anticipation of whats next in the image, or it often feels like something just happened, and I am disappointed that I missed the event. She calls them small moments, but to me, who soaks up as much life as I can absorb, they all seem important. It seems like the yin and yang of the careless nature of what we do to our surroundings, and finding out it is all so deliberate.


ok, ok, enough. Take a look at the work.
Emily’s statement about the work -

Some of my earliest memories are of light shining through a row of hospital windows and walking down that long hallway with my father, going to visit my mother who was sick with cancer at the age of twenty-nine. I was three years old. I’ve always found it interesting that I don’t remember seeing her in the hospital. I only remember the light coming through the window and forming bright, glowing rectangles in repetition along the floor. Through the years, I’ve thought a lot about how memory subconsciously manifests itself; how small and seemingly insignificant moments become important and meaningful over time; how a lifetime is slowly constructed out of these moments. There’s no doubt this has impacted my photography.

This body of work represents roughly ten years of picture taking and an examination of my individual experiences. These images were made all over the world, under all sorts of circumstances. Sometimes I was led to a place for work, sometimes for fun, but in every situation I found myself celebrating the supposedly small moments. Photography has allowed me to give due importance to all of the bits and pieces in my life. These images are not idealized views of life experience. Instead, they are representative of a conscious choice I have made regarding how and what I choose as my memories. Births, deaths, milestones, and change are a part of every life. A face or a smile is not required for me to associate imagery with emotion. In my world, the subtle, the natural, and the insignificant are just as powerful as the obviously epic.

July 30, 2009

Jon Edwards

Filed under: Critical Mass, maine, portfolio reviews, ReviewLA — The Flat File @ 7:34 am





I saw Jon’s work in Los Angeles at ReviewLA two years ago, and loved it. Have been watching his growth and success ever since. The richness of his work both in content and in process is beautiful. Images of Maine, and its people (I say it as if it were a different country) Jon captures the strength, life and emotional connection of this way of life. Having been to Maine many times and seen this rugged beauty, I am drawn in to these images, remembering how simple and how stunning it is.

Jon’s Statement -

After Practicing civil rights and environmental law for over twenty years, I have spent the last six years photographing inhabitants of islands off the coast of Maine. These individuals live simply, and demonstrate dignity and tenacity when, by choice or lack of opportunity, they are forced to survive under the harsh economics or isolation of island living, or an increasingly difficult way of life. They reside in a remote or isolated beauty and remain a direct connection with the natural environment. Their lifestyles demonstrate how far our society has come from the once organic, symbiotic relationships between human and natural conditions. My photographs are meant to be a celebration of people and places where the human spirit still connects with the natural world. It is my hope that, like my legal work, they will contribute in some small way to social justice and human progress.

July 29, 2009

Laurie Lambrecht

Filed under: landscapes, portfolio reviews, Review Santa Fe, ReviewLA — The Flat File @ 9:49 am


Laurie’s trees are stark, architectural, and just plain beautiful to surround yourself with. Shot in winter, these lovely images really show how life survives. When everything goes dormant, here are these living breathing, survivors in such bleak grey.
I am excited to see Laurie’s work be part of the upcoming Lishui Photo Festival in China this November.

This is what Laurie says about her work – I couldn’t say it any better.

Often a symbol of strength, trees provide visual poetry for our life and its cycles. Throughout history, literature and painting have depicted the ever changing language of landscape.
With appreciation of this tradition, it is the tree that I have chosen to study. Over the past decade I have been photographing trees in urban areas, often revisiting and further exploring their individual character. This series of photographs was begun in November 2oo4 on the edge of Lake Zurich, Switzerland. To date there are almost 25 images in the series. They are photographed at the end of the day in silent moments before dark takes over. I consider them as being in a landscape in my mind as much as an actual place. The images hold some of my emotional experience of the trees rather than merely a physical description of them.


July 28, 2009

Brian Buckley

Filed under: photograms, portfolio reviews, Review Santa Fe — The Flat File @ 6:35 am

Brian Buckley participated at the Santa Fe Reviews, and I was enchanted by his Photograms.

A series filled with color, light, organic shapes and dimensionality. A total treat. This particular group is lighthearted, but he also has explored more intense themes. Today – I want lighthearted fare. Maybe some other day, I’ll expose his Love Lost work. I’ll go with the simple elegant Circles, and a few from Organics.

Let me know what you think.

July 27, 2009

Mark Menjivar

Filed under: portfolio reviews, Review Santa Fe — The Flat File @ 9:30 am




So I have been thinking alot about who we are, what we carry with us and what we become without our stuff. I have had to shed a lot of my stuff these last few months, streamlining shall we say. Most of it precious, and some stuff just had been around too long. Everyone has baggage, some visible, some subsurface.
Mark Menjivar has found a really interesting way of looking at who we are – through food. you are what you eat is this great study of organized chaos in a small space- our habits, needs, comfort, control, and desire all in one footprint, without a single face to see. We see what baggage people bring to something so vital as food. I am really compelled by the rorsach test that these images become. I want to know more about them, see them, but being deprived of a face to a fridge, I also appreciate not knowing, and enjoying their anonymity as they would respect mine.

From the top -

Bar Tender | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4PM daily. | 2008

Street Advertiser | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Lives on $432 fixed monthly income. | 2007

Red Cross Board Member | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Sleeps with a loaded .45 pistol on nightstand. | 2008

Midwife/Middle School Science Teacher | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household (including dog) | First week after deciding to eat all local produce. | 2008

Here is Mark’s statement about the work –

You Are What You Eat is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the Untied States.

For three years I traveled around the country exploring the issue of hunger. The more time I spent speaking and listening to individual stories, the more I began to think about the foods we consume and the effects they have on us as individuals and communities. An intense curiosity and questions about stewardship led me to begin to make these unconventional portraits.

A refrigerator is both a private and a shared space. One person likened the question, “May I photograph the interior of your fridge?” to asking someone to pose nude for the camera. Each fridge is photographed “as is.” Nothing added, nothing taken away.

These are portraits of the rich and the poor. Vegetarians, Republicans, members of the NRA, those left out, the under appreciated, former soldiers in Hitler’s SS, dreamers, and so much more. We never know the full story of one’s life.

My hope is that we will think deeply about how we care. How we care for our bodies. How we care for others. And how we care for the land.

July 26, 2009

PhotoNola

Filed under: new orleans, PhotoNOLA, portfolio reviews — The Flat File @ 1:03 pm


Really great news!

PhotoNola is coming! Mark your calendars – the event is from 3-13 December, 2009.
I was honored to be part of this event last year, to participate in the portfolio reviews, and I had the greatest time ever. I cannot recommend it enough. The reviews were top notch. Not only was there an incredible group of reviewers, but the quality of the work we reviewed was well conceived, crafted and a total visual treat and feast for the eyes. I met great artists like Wallace Merritt, Katrina D’Autremont, Frank Relle, Victoria Ryan, Sarah Wilson and Mary Ellen Bartley. These very talented photographers have been highlighted in Black&White Magazine (Wallace Merritt), Color (Frank Relle) highlighted at Foley Gallery in New York (Sarah Wilson), and part of a group exhibition at the Griffin (Katrina d’Autremont) and Mary Ellen is up now at PCNW thanks to Jen Bekman’s curatorial jurification.
This is a year to build relationships, and heading to New Orleans in December wouldn’t be such a bad idea. If you are thinking about a Portfolio Review event, this one should be on your calendar.
If I’m lucky enough, I’ll see you there!
(images shown – Mary Ellen Bartley, Sarah Wilson, Wallace Merritt and Victoria Ryan)

For more information head to PhotoNola’s website or drop them a line at info@photonola.org

July 12, 2009

Fantastic Plastic – The Greatest Toy Camera Show on Earth

Filed under: Uncategorized — The Flat File @ 10:45 am

Holy Moley! What a show!

Susan Burnstine and Carol Watson have juried a mammoth show in Texas, at the Watson Studio Gallery. The Fantastic Plastic show has a huge cast – 45 artists. Some of our favorites are on the list, some new faces we are looking forward to seeing.
Here is the list -

Bill Barber – Sugarland, TX
Phil Bebbington – Bath, UK
Lori Bell – Santa Maria, CA
Tatyana Bessmertnaya – Plano, TX
Tami Bone – Austin, TX
Susan Bowen – New York, NY
Chris Bucher – Indianapolis, IN
Jean Caslin – Houston, TX
Carol S. Dass – Colorado Springs, CO
Faustinus Deraet – Austin, TX
Mark Finlayson – Goonellabah, Australia

Karen Florek – Venice, CA
Megan Green – Astoria, NY
Laura Greenwood – Austin, TX
Warren Harold – Houston, TX
Jennifer Henriksen – London, ON
Dan Hessing – Leicester, UK
Mark Hickman – Morganton, NC
Cathy Van Hoang – Long Beach, CA
Hugh Jones – Arlington, VA
David Keenan – Austin, TX
Rocky Kneten – Houston, TX
Adam Lanigan – Hawthorne, NJ
Adam Laskowski – Toronto, ON
Erin Malone – San Francisco, CA
Tootie Nienow – Santa Ana, CA
Heather Oelklaus – Colorado Springs, CO
Rebecca Pendel – Farrell, PA
Becky Ramotowski – Tiejeras, NM
Deon Reynolds – Eureka, NV

Carol Schiraldi – Cedar Park, TX
Laura Shindollar – South Bend, IN
Deborah Smith – Austin, TX
Herb Smith – Wimberly, TX
Aline Smithson – Los Angeles, CA

Jennifer Spelman – Santa Fe, NM
Amanda Stahl – Johnson City, TX
Daryl Tebbitt – Leicester, UK
Ann Texter – Georgetown, TX
Rebecca Tolk – Burke, VA

Larry Joe Treadway – Lawrenceburg, KY

Dyana Walker – Kerrville, TX
Kristin Ware – Austin, TX
Kathy Weaver – Los Angeles, CA
Jon Witsell – Brooklyn, NY

July 7, 2009

Jarrett Murphy

Filed under: portfolio reviews, Review Santa Fe — The Flat File @ 11:01 pm





In Santa Fe, another fabulous portfolio plunked down in front of me was Jarrett Murphy’s.
In a technicolor vision, his work exposes fabulous landscapes, unbelievably flawless, showing us a life we seem to drive through without thought. Each image has a distinct life of its own, as well as mystery and story. I found them so surreal, I couldn’t stop looking at them, dissecting them, looking for flaws in their flawless presentation. The blue was intense, greens otherworldly, and his use of a grey scale – the night trees, fences and structural objects that frame our subject are almost three dimensional.
I have stories swirling in my head, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry. I see the west and its unromantic underbelly.
While Jarrett is not relegated to western subjects, he has a solid body of images that expose the city as well. Check out his website for more.

I hope ya’ll like these as much as I do.

Megann Gould

Filed under: portfolio reviews, rayko photo center, Review Santa Fe — The Flat File @ 10:02 am









Megan’s photographs tell stories. of us.
They question who we are, what were we thinking, and what’s next.
Me – I have been curious about the world around me since birth (no really, ask my mom, she said I couldn’t stop looking around from the moment I opened my eyes…) So I loved this work, these stories she tells in Verso. They are mini Rorschach tests.
What do think when you see them? Are you as drawn in as I am?

Megann’s creativity and curiosity doesn’t stop at Verso, she wants us to think about what we leave behind when we walk out of a room, close a window, move along…Her series of Blackboards is a study in what were they talking about, and why is that there?

I see she has a show coming up at Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco and I encourage everyone to stop by and push yourself a little. Look at her work, think about who you are, or tell stories about the people you don’t see. Get creative on your own.

July 6, 2009

Critical Mass + Photolucida

Filed under: Critical Mass, Photolucida, portfolio reviews — The Flat File @ 10:33 am


It’s that time again!

Don’t miss out on an opportunity to show your work to some of the best and most influential people in photography and art. Critical Mass is a great way to put your work front and center to dealers, collectors, fellow photographers and dare we say movers and shakers?
How can you not participate? You don’t even have to travel to be part of this event.

Angela Bacon Kidwell, one of our newest artists at the gallery participated last year and made the top 50. See how easy that was? If you have a body of work that you think should be seen by some of the worlds best, put it out there. I’ll look forward to reviewing it when it comes through.

I mean seriously – here is the list -

Andy Adams, Editor/Publisher, Flak Photo
Jeanne Adams, Ansel Adams Galleries
Laura Addison, New Mexico Museum of Art
Kate Alpers, Art Historian, University of Arizona
Paul Amador, Amador Gallery, NYC
Kathy Aron Dowell, Kathy Dowell Art + Service
Daniel Augschoell, Ahorn Magazine
Susan Baraz, Co-Chair, Lucie Awards
Jayne H. Baum, JHB Gallery, NYC
Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC
Nathalie Belayche, Food for your Eyes, Paris
Linda Benedict-Jones, Carnegie Museum
Harvey Benge, Curator / Photographer
Chris Bennett, Newspace Center for Photography
Ellen Boerner, Independent Curator
Howard Bossen, Kresge Art Museum
Ellen Boughn, Stock Agency Strategist
David Bram, Fraction Magazine
Leslie K. Brown, Curator, PRC, Boston
Elizabeth Brown, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Paul Buckley, Penguin Group, USA
Susan Burnstine, Black and White Photography Magazine
Alessandra Capodacqua, Studio Marangoni Foundation
Clinton Cargill, NYTimes Magazine
Jean Caslin, Caslin Gregory & Associates
Jim Casper, LensCulture
Darren Ching, Klompching Gallery/Photo District News Magazine
Brian Paul Clamp, ClampArt Gallery, NYC
Joerg Colberg, Conscientious
Alison Collins, Iris Gallery of Fine Art, Boston
Linda Connor, Photographer/Educator
Daniel Cooney, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC
Sean Corcoran, Museum of the City of New York
Tony Decaneas, Panopticon Gallery, Boston
Rodrigo Corral, Rodrigo Corral Design
Lucy Davies, photography critic, Daily Telegraph
Luca Desienna, Gomma Online
Alexa Dilworth, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
Crista Dix, wall space Gallery, Seattle
Catherine Edelman, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation
Jim Fitts, Photographic Resource Center
Melanie Flood, Melanie Flood Projects
Roy Flukinger, Harry Ransom Center
Harris Fogel, Mednick Galleries, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Taj Forer: Daylight Magazine
Hannah Frieser, Light Work
Andy Freeberg, Photographer / Previous CM Book Award Winner
Jason Fulford, Photographer / J & L Books
Aprile Gallant, Curator, Smith College Museum of Art
Helen K. Garber, Photographer / Consultant
Diana Gaston, Associate Curator, Fidelity Investments
Judi & Bernard Gerson, Galerie BMG
Christian Gerstheimer, El Paso Museum of Art
Anna Gianesini, FotoGrafia Festival Internazional, Rome
Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director, The Center for Fine Art Photography
Fabian Goncalves Borrega, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.
Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis
David Haberstich, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Bruce Haley, photographer, Features Editor, ARTWORKS Magazine
Lisa Hatchadoorian, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
Gary Hesse, Independent Curator / Consultant
Tom Hinson, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cherie Hiser, Photolucida Board
Lisa Hostetler, Milwaukee Art Museum
Jason Houston, Orion Magazine
Lisa Hunter, writer, The Intrepid Art Collector
Konstantinos Ioannidis, Art Historian, Athens
Karen Irvine, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Michael Itkoff, Daylight Magazine
Cory Jacobs, Independent Editor / Curator
Ann Jastrab, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
Jen Jenkins, rep, Giant Artists
Brooks Jensen, Lenswork Publishing
Tom Jimison, Curator, Baldwin Photographic Gallery
Whitney Johnson, The New Yorker Magazine
Jessica Johnston, Assistant Curator, George Eastman House
Maya Jones White Sturgeon Art Gallery, Vancouver, WA
Russell Joslin, SHOTS Magazine
Ron Jude, Co-Founder, A-Jump Books
Mindaugas Kavaliasuskas, Kaunas Photo / F Galerija, Lithuania
Arlette Kayafas, Gallery Kayafas, Boston
Eric J. Keller, Soulcatcher Studio, Santa Fe
Anne Kelly, photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe
Gerardo Montiel Klint, Photographer / Educator, Mexico City
Debra Klomp Ching, Klompching Gallery, NYC
Lisbeth Neergaard Kohloff, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Golden, CO
Paul Kopeiken, Paul Kopeiken Gallery, Los Angeles
Thomas W. Kuhn, Educator / Critic, Dusseldorf
Marten Lange, Photographer / Publisher, Farewell Books
Zuzana Lapitkova, Central European House of Photography, Bratislava
Shane Lavalete, Photographer / Publisher, Lay Flat
Sam Lee, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
Jain Lemos, Photography & Publishing Consultant
Andy Levin, 1000 Eyes Magazine
Russell Levin, Levin Gallery, Monterey
Maren Levinson, rep, Red Eye Agency
Stu Levy, Portland Art Museum Photo Council, Photolucida Board
Stephanie Lewis, Educator
Jim Leisy, Portland Art Museum Photo Council, Photolucida Board
Kevin Longino, Watermark Fine Art Photographs & Books, Houston
Karsten Lund, Independent Curator
Celina Lunsford, Fotografie Forum International, Franfurt
Mary Ann Lynch, Not for Profit Photography
Allen Maertz, Blue Sky Gallery exhibition committee, Portland
Lee Marks, Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, IN
Nadja Masri, GEO Magazine
Michael Mazzeo, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, NYC
Mary McClean, Knopf Art Department, Random House
Melanie McWhorter, Books Division manager, photo-eye Books
Raymond Meeks, Photographer
Kate Menconeri, Independent Curator
William Messer, Independent Curator
Jennifer Miller, Independent Photo Editor
Kevin Miller, Southeast Museum of Photography
Evan Mirapaul, collector
Robert Morton, Editor / Book Packager
Laura Moya, Director, Photolucida
Claire Annette Mussard, Curator / Consultant, Switzerland
Ruben Natal-San Miguel, collector
Julianne Newton, Visual Communication Quarterly
Brady Nichols Sloane, Independent Curator
Deborah Paine, Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle
Joaquim Paiva, Collector
Paul Paletti, Paul Paletti Gallery, Louisville, KY
Ann Pallesen, Gallery Director, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle
Stephen Perloff, Photo Review
Mark Pinsukanjana, Modernbook Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Terry Pitts, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Jan Potts & Elizabeth Corden, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco
Phillip Prodger, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Christopher Rauschenberg, Blue Sky Gallery / Photolucida Board
Shawn Records, Photolucida Board
Mary Ann Redding, Curator, Palace of the Governors / New Mexico History Museum
Rixon Reed photo-eye Books and Prints
Richard Renaldi, photographer
Ema Ribeiro, Lab65 Gallery
Doug Rickard, Founder / Publisher, American Suburb X
Arianna Rinaldo, Freelance Photo Editor
Conor Risch, Photo District News Magazine
John Rohrbach, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Miriam Romais, En Foco
Laura Russell, 23 Sandy Gallery, Photolucida Board
Dana Salvo, Co-owner, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Tina Schelhorn, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
Jennifer Schlesinger, VERVE Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe
Martha Schneider, Schneider Gallery, Chicago
David Schoemer, Hassla Books
Randall Scott, Randall Scott Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Camille Seaman, Photographer / Previous CM Book Award Winner
Becky Senf, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Ariel Shanberg, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Elizabeth Shank, Silverstein Photography, NYC
Carla Shapiro, Educator / Photographer
P. Elaine Sharpe, Independent Curator
Mark Sink, Gallery Sink, Denver, CO
Karen Sinsheimer, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Mike Slack, Ice Plant Books
Mark Sloan, William Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston
Susan Spiritus, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Amy Stein, Photographer / Previous CM Book Award Winner
Joni Sternbach, Photographer / Previous CM Book Award Winner
Jennifer Stoots, Stoots Fine Photography
Alex Supertano, Independent Curator
Lisa Sutcliffe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Mary Virginia Swanson, Consultant and Educator, M.V. Swanson & Associates
Martha Takayama, Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston
J.D. Talasek, Curator and Director of Exhibitions, The National Academy of Sciences
Barbara Tannenbaum, Chief Curator, Akron Art Museum
Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum for Photography, Winchester, MA
Leya Simmons Oswald, Oswald Gallery, Jackson, WY
Laura Valenti, Newspace Center for Photography / Photolucida Board
Annie van Avery, Photographic Center Northwest
Herman van den Boom, Hexgalleries, Belgium
Michael Van Horn, Curator, The Joseph Monsen Collection
Marie Via, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
Anna Walker Skillman, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Jennifer Ward, Exhibitions Coordinator, FotoFest
Kate Ware, New Mexico Museum of Art
John Weber, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College
Carla Williams, Editor, Exposure
Rick Williams, Educator
Clint Willour, Executive Director / Curator, Galveston Arts Center
Rhonda Wilson, Seeing the Light, Rhubarb-rhubarb, Birmingham, England
Bryan Wolf, Photolucida Board
Laura Wzorek, Center, Santa Fe
Carol Yarrow, Photographer
Del Zogg, Works on Paper Study Center, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Manfred Zollner, fotoMAGAZIN

for more information – log onto the PhotoLucida website.

Older Posts »

Theme: WordPress Classic. Blog at WordPress.com.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 114 other followers