LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER – SELECTED WORKS

Posted on 2015-05-11

Presented here, for the first time in New York, are recent colour images that were part of Frazier’s installation Born By a River at the Seattle Art Museum. These images are an extension of her prior work and document Braddock from the air—a dramatically different vantage point by which to view her community and the landscape-in-crisis that has informed Braddock’s history and the experiences of Frazier’s family.

LaToya Ruby Frazier (born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, 1982) received her BFA in photography and graphic design in 2004 at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and her MFA in 2007 from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, New York. In 2011, Frazier completed the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and shortly thereafter was appointed Critic in Photography at the Yale University School of Art. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first New York solo exhibition, A Haunted Capital, was held at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. Frazier has received numerous grants and awards, including a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2015 TED Fellowship.

Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2015

Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th St
fourth floor
New York
10001

www.aperture.org

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TYLER UDALL – BOYS

Posted on 2015-05-04

As an emerging photographer, Tyler Udall, 34, has already made a big impact in the world of photography. In his four short years as a photographer he has shot for several prolific fashion and art magazines, published a sold-out book of his haunting imagery, and had his debut exhibition in London (2013). His images are reminiscent of other great fine-art photographers Juergen Teller and Ryan McGinley

Based in London in the early 2000’s, Tyler Udall was Senior Fashion Editor at Dazed & Confused, Another, and Another Man and was involved in creating iconic covers of Kate Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Tilda Swinton and Nathalie Portman. He returned to New York to take up the role of Creative Director for the agency ‘Fred and Associates’, where he teamed up legendary fashion greats with world leading artists. He is currently based in Vancouver as Fashion Director at the Blanche Macdonald Centre – Canada’s top fashion school.

Talking about his photographs Udall said: 
”Photos are meant to be a kind of diary for me. It’s a record of the people and places in my life and how I see them. I suppose I want to present a body of deeply honest memories, often times through distortion. Everyone I photograph is very near and dear to me for one reason or another.”

Exhibition runs through to June 7th, 2015

The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ

www.thelittleblackgallery.com

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JUERGEN TELLER & XIANG JING

Posted on 2015-05-04

Works by Juergen Teller (b. 1964, Erlangen, Germany) and Xiang Jing (b. 1968, Beijing, China), juxtapose and subsequently explore disparate expressions of desire. While Teller’s photographs are laden with overt references to human sexuality and desire, Xiang Jing strips such notions from her sculptures of female bodies.

In Teller’s photographs of chef Antonio Guida’s extravagant menu at Hotel Il Pellicano on the Tuscan coast in Porto Ercole, Italy, the glistening, candy-colored dishes conjure a level of fetishized decadence bordering on the grotesque.

Xiang Jing’s approach to her hyper-realistic sculptures of nude female figures presents a way for her to circumvent the traditional notions of the male gaze that construes a woman’s body as an object of desire. The nude and often hairless figures rendered in fiberglass or marble are stripped of the overtly sexualized markers of the female form, and are personally representative, for the artist, of a pure, virginal state of being that is unaffected by patriarchal constructions.

Opposite – Food No.23, Hotel Il Pellicano 2010, 2010

Exhibition runs from May 21st to June 27th, 2015

Lehmann Maupin
407 Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central, Hong Kong

www.lehmannmaupin.com

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PHOTO LONDON

Posted on 2015-05-04

With the generous support of the LUMA Foundation, Photo London has commissioned four exhibitions at Somerset House to open concurrently with the fair this May: Beneath the Surface, some 200 rarely-shown photographic works from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Photographs Collection; previously unseen large-format platinum prints from Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis series; the first UK exhibition of Iranian photographer Kāveh Golestān’s Prostitute series and The Teaser, a public lightbox installation to be shown in the courtyard produced by Rut Blees Luxemburg in collaboration with Alexander García Düttmann and Nuno Salgado.

Programmed in spaces ranging from cafés to lecture theatres around the site and beyond, Photo London’s lively talks and lectures programme, curated by Professor Francis Hodgson, will feature some two dozen luminaries from the field, including Don McCullin, Sebastião Salgado, Susan Derges, Todd Hido, Mitch Epstein, Rineke Djkstra, Rankin and Stephen Shore. The programme will also carry a special focus on collecting photography and the issues surrounding it, whether for the individual collector, corporations or major cultural institutions.

Celebrating London’s vibrant music scene, the Deadhouse space beneath the courtyard will host four evening events as part of the public programme, in which music photography will be matched to live DJ sets. This programme will include collaborations with YoYo, Just Jam and Rinse FM with imagery from Beth Lesser and disco photographer Bill Bernstein.

Photo London runs from May 21st – 24th, 2015

TICKET PRICES
Adult Day Ticket (over 17): £20
Child (4 – 16): £14
Concession: £17
Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Kids): £52
Sat and Sun Entry: £29
Groups 10+: £18.20 each

Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

www.somersethouse.org.uk

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BABE – EDITED BY PETRA COLLINS

Posted on 2015-05-04

Curated by one of today’s most sought-after photographers, this collection of work by young female artists captures the voices and visions that are shaping a generation of women.

21-year-old Canadian photographer Petra Collins is leading the way in a contemporary girl power revolution that proves feminism and sexuality aren’t mutually exclusive. “Babe” includes work by Collins as well as over 30 artists who have been part of her online collective “The Ardorous”. Though their work is aesthetically varied, it all represents a current zeitgeist characterized by explorations of female identity, scrutinization of the role of the Internet and social media, and a penchant for pastel colors. The artists in the book, such as Arvida Bystrom, Sandy Kim, Harley Weir, Jeanette Hayes, and Kristie Muller, hail from a variety of places, including New York, London, Moscow, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Toronto. Together they reflect an all-accepting, affirming, distinctly female point of view that teens and young women everywhere can respond to. With a Foreword by Tavi Gevinson, writer, actress, fashion blogger, and creator of the online magazine Rookie, this is an inspiring collection for a new generation of creative, forward thinking women.

Released May 1st, 2015

Opposite – Maisie Cousins

www.randomhouse.de

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THOMAS RUFF

Posted on 2015-04-27

Thomas Ruff is one of the internationally most renowned photographers. One is immediately captivated by the original prints of his photographs, which have always been subject to technological advancements. Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle presents two series that reference one of the oldest genres of the arts: nudes.

Propelled by his curiosity and his conceptual photography practice, the scholarly artist Thomas Ruff has always created something new in each of his series.

In his series of “nudes,” Thomas Ruff takes on the classical subject of the female nude for the first time in his career. Upon considering how a nude photograph might look in his own artistic mode of expression, Thomas Ruff conducted research in the then rather novel internet, eventually stumbling upon pornographic websites with low-resolution images. His first “nude” was inspired by his interest in the structure of these digital images and in processing the pixel structures. Today, his “nudes” are well-known all over the world – and Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle presents various examples and forms of his digital nude photography in this exhibition. Thomas Ruff is renowned for constantly developing original methods and expanding traditional concepts of photography. His most recent series, “Negatives,” is no different. In it, he references the beginnings of the medium using photographs from the nineteenth century. Consisting solely of shades of blue, the new set of works recalls the cyanotype – a technique for producing photographs made famous by the natural scientist Anna Atkins, who used it to make a precise record of various plants. Pictures of artists’ studios, portraits, and nudes were some of the key visuals on the historical nineteenth-century photographs Thomas Ruff acquired. He scanned these old photographs, digitally inverted the color scale, and created blue-tinted photographs in the size of the original negatives.

Opposite – nudes ck02, 2012

Exhibition runs through to June 6th, 2015

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Amalienstraße 41
80799 Munich
Germany

www.galerie-schoettle.de

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