WENDEL WIRTH – NO VACANCY

Posted on 2017-08-07

Wendel Wirth is best known for her landscape photographs with a minimalist palette. Her large-scale color photographs taken from a single vantage point explore atmospheric nuance in swiftly changing environments. Choosing to shoot in atmospheric conditions, Wirth creates monochromatic images that distort the viewer’s perspective of the landscape. Her compositions prompt the viewer to contemplate our place in the world. Wirth’s purpose is for the viewer to look inward at how the image moves them. “My intent is that the complexities and pensive nature of the photographs are universal, and yet, intimately personal”, Wirth states.

Opposite – Broom

Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2017

Gilman Contemporary
661 sun valley road
Ketchum
Idaho 83340

www.gilmancontemporary.com

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FRIDA KAHLO

Posted on 2017-08-07

This exhibition will highlight the playful and candid portraits of Frida taken by artist and close companion, Lucienne Bloch (1909-1999). By an encounter with the great Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera, Bloch was subsequently introduced to Frida, and the two developed a deep friendship. During Diego’s turbulent stay in the United States, Bloch became an important figure in Frida’s life, helping her overcome a number of obstacles that would later reflect in the artist’s most important paintings. Bloch would also document many of Diego’s prominent mural works including “Unity Panel” at the New Workers School in New York, 1933, (included in the exhibition) and the only surviving photographs of the controversial Rockefeller Center mural, which was destroyed in 1934.

Also featured in this exhibition are the vibrant color and black & white photographs of Frida Kahlo by the master photographer and Frida’s long time lover, Nickolas Muray (1892-1965). Throughout their ten years on and off affair, Muray would photograph Frida during his visits to Mexico and while she was in New York for her solo exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery. The images included by Muray reveal the eccentric, colorful and forceful figure that was Frida through both candid moments and studio settings.

Opposite – Nickolas Muray, Frida Painting Me and My Parrots, 1939

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2017

PDNB
1202 Dragon Street
Ste. 103
Dallas
75207 TX

pdnbgallery.com

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ABSOLUT PRESENTS #KISSWITHPRIDE

Posted on 2017-08-04

Shot by acclaimed photographer Sam Bradley in support of Stonewall, the series has been launched to raise awareness of the fact that it is still illegal to engage in same-sex activity in 72 countries worldwide. It will be the first time the full series of photographs will be displayed for the public to view.

Exhibition runs August 4th through to August 6th, 2017

Protein Studios
31 New Inn Yard
London
EC2A 3EY

kiss-with-pride
www.stonewall.org.uk

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COLIN O’BRIEN – DECISIVE MOMENTS

Posted on 2017-07-31

Colin O’Brien once exhibited work at Hanbury Hall, which is the location chosen for our upcoming exhibition. In a retrospective collection of his black-and-white ‘social documentary’ style photographs, taken in the UK and on the Continent, we capture many of the ‘decisive moments’ of this late, most engaging and sympathetic, East London based photographer.

Exhibition runs through to August 12th, 2017

Hanbury Hall
22a Hanbury Street
(between Spitalfields and Brick Lane)
London E1 6QR.

www.colinobrien.co.uk

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FRAGILE WATERS

Posted on 2017-07-31

Water is very much on the minds of Californians after six years of drought. Fragile Waters celebrates this precious, essential resource and encourages dialogue about water conservation. One hundred and seventeen black-and-white photographs by three artists whose works span a century create a powerful collective statement. Ansel Adams’s early prints, made from 8-by-10-inch glass plate negatives, are some of the most iconic images in the history of photography. His reputation as an artist is matched by his role as a founder of the modern conservation movement. The exhibition will feature thirty-seven works by Adams— including rarely seen historic images from his family’s private collection—along with photographs by Ernest H. Brooks II and Dorothy Kerper Monnelly.

Opposite – Ernest H. Brooks II, Pirouette, Santa Barbara Island, 1981

Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2017

San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market Street
San Jose
95113 CA

sjmusart.org

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GEORGE AWDE – SCALE WITHOUT MEASURE

Posted on 2017-07-24

Awde’s photographic work explores themes of contemporary masculinity, the male body, friendship, sexuality, and notions of physical and psychological strength, as seen through young men with whom he identifies. The men and boys whom Awde has photographed over the last ten years include migrants to Beirut from Syria. Many are now close friends, allowing for an intimate portrayal of their everyday life. His pictures explore the way that people interact with one another, and in them one senses a longing to belong.

As the global refugee crisis escalates, and the early executive orders of a new and contentious president attempt to block refugees from entering the United States, the themes of artist George Awde’s work seem prescient. Raised by Lebanese immigrants in a suburb of Boston, and currently living in the Middle East, Awde’s experiences inform his perspective on the world, his place in it, and his practice as an artist and a teacher.

Opposite – Untitled, Beirut, 2013

Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2017

Light Work Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
316 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse
13244 NY

www.lightwork.org

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