ARNOLD KRAMER – DOMESTIC SCENES

Posted on 2019-04-01

This solo exhibition will present a series a small scale vintage gelatin silver prints from Kramer’s celebrated body of work, Interior Views. The exhibition re-evaluates Kramer’s photographs with the inclusion of many recently discovered views from the artist’s archive, after his death in 2017.

These black and white photographs, with their sharp eye for the pattern and details of domestic settings, established Kramer as a distinct talent whose avoidance of “romantic bombast” and “emphasis on formal clarity,” made his pictures particularly fresh, when they were exhibited by Jane Livingston at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1978. In their emphasis on emotionally restrained, frontal views of rooms they look back and reference the work of Walker Evans, especially Evans’ Message From the Interior. In their attention to pattern and line as visual motifs within everyday spaces, he reveals his bond with another 20th century photographic master, his mentor Minor White.

Opposite – Interior View, 1977

Exhibition runs through to April 12th, 2019

Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
92037 CA

www.josephbellows.com

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CALEB CAIN – A BRIEF MOVEMENT AFTER DEATH

Posted on 2019-04-01

Caleb Cain Marcus was inspired to create “A Brief Movement After Death” after the birth of his first child. He writes, “As I watched my daughter interact with the world, I saw how many experiences were ahead of her that I’d already lived. She was moving toward life in all its brilliance and I toward death.” This realization induced the artist to contemplate what happens when we die and how to artistically capture that passage from life to death.

“A Brief Movement After Death” breaks new ground for the artist as he expands beyond traditional photography to create these unique art objects that combine digital and hand-applied mediums. The digital photograph component of the work captures sky and ocean in a vast color range and richness along the coasts of New York and California. A narrow, solid color band at the base of the art object reflects an aggregation of all color within the above sky image. Finally, the artist has created a series of grease pencil markings that form patterns like a flock of birds across the object. These markings are created by suspending a grease pencil from a pendulum and then both swinging the grease pencil and moving the pendulum across the photograph. These three components combine to form these intimately sized unique art objects.

Opposite – A Brief Movement After Death 24, 2017

Exhibition runs through to April 9th, 2019

Rosier Gallery
1915 Tunnel Road
Berkeley
94705 CA

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KERIK KOUKLIS – FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

Posted on 2019-03-25

Kerik states that his job is to deliver the message, the mood, the thought, the emotion. The image is the starting place, and printmaking is the language. He makes all his prints in his darkroom, using hands-on processes – wet plate collodion, platinum/palladium and gum bichromate. These experience-based processes allow him to shape the way an image is interpreted – and they bring him the satisfaction of creating something with his own hands. To Kerik, that physical connection between maker and object confers value on both.

Kerik photographs the elements around him that he loves, or finds beautiful or fascinating. From the beginning, the Land has been his primary subject. Over time, friends and family have also found their way in front of his lens, often as characters transformed into different versions of themselves. And In recent years, Kerik has been drawn as well to create still lives of strange objects that present themselves as specimens, or as artifacts of some odd scientific study.

Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2019

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center
2015 J. Street, Suite 101
Sacramento
95811 CA

www.viewpointgallery.org

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CLOSE TO HOME

Posted on 2019-03-25

Close to Home is a group exhibition of four photographers (Erica Deeman, Mark McKnight, Eva O’Leary, and Larry Sultan) that mine their personal experiences–past and present–to express moments of intimacy within larger social and political structures. Engaging with the deep and complicated history of photographic portraiture, each artist renders his or her subjects in part as extensions of themselves, coded with personal and cultural references.

Opposite – Larry Sultan, Close to Home, 2019

Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2019

Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles
616 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles
90036 CA

www.shulamitnazarian.com

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RON ROSENSTOCK – SCENES FROM ICELAND & GREENLAND

Posted on 2019-03-25

“The original subject matter for my photographs – land, sky, Ice, and glaciers – serves as my initial inspiration. I then work with the image on my computer as I once did in the darkroom to bring out what I felt at the time of exposure. My personal goal is to be in communion with the land. For me photographing the landscape of Iceland and Greenland is like experiencing the birth of our planet where natural forces are still at work creating and shaping the land. I feel that remarkable energy both in Iceland and Greenland and strive to express it through my photographs.”

About the Artist: Ron Rosenstock has been creating images of the world and its people since the 1950’s. His work has had many incarnations from vivid colors to black and white, from the darkroom to digital, from large format cameras to full-frame digital, from early dawn to infrared dusk. His images are real, though real is hardly subjective. Viewed in objective terms, color is far more real than black and white is – if only because color is such a defining element of reality as experienced by the human eye.
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2019

Vermont Center for Photography (VCP)
49 Flat Street
Brattleboro
05301 VT

vcphoto.org

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