OSCEOLA REFETOFF – KINEMATIC EXPOSURES

Posted on 2020-09-07

The term Kinematic Exposure was coined by the artist to describe the handheld exposures he makes while moving about with a pinhole camera. Most of the images featured in this exhibition were all taken during a recent trip to Antarctica.

Osceola Refetoff’s images exist within traditional means – landscape, portraiture, editorial – and are variously produced using film, digital, infrared, and pinhole exposures, according to what best expresses the character of his subjects. Thus, despite his documentarian impulses and the fact that his images deliberately depict quite ordinary, even mundane, subjects, he trains on them a hyper-realistic and nuanced vision, often yielding surreal, even dreamlike images. His process generally happens “in camera,” at the moment of capture, in a kind of alchemical reaction that transforms the external world into something both unchanged and extraordinary, realistic and magical.

Opposite – Maximum Twilight, Antarctica, 2020

Exhibition runs through to October 30th, 2020

Von Lintel Gallery
1206 Maple Ave #212
Los Angeles
CA 90015

www.vonlintel.com

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WHAT IS HOME?

Posted on 2020-09-07

What is Home? features work by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Omar Imam and Rubén Martín de Lucas. The Webster dictionary defines home as “one’s place of residence; the social unit formed by a family living together; a familiar or usual setting.” If you ask most people how they define home, it is either where they currently live, or where they grew up. But for many people today, home is not always tangible, due to displacement, border restrictions, or lack of safety. What is Home? brings together three photographers who each interpret the concept of home in very unique ways.

Opposite – Rubén Martín de Lucas, Minimal Republic 3 (Top), 2015

Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2020

Catherine Edelman Gallery
1637 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago
IL 60622

www.edelmangallery.com

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HOME ON THE RANGE

Posted on 2020-09-07

Home on the Range, is an artistic exploration of cowboys in the American West from 19th-21st Century through photographs and objects. The exhibition will feature a selection of photographs from Obscura Gallery’s contemporary photographers William Albert Allard and his legendary Vanishing Breed cowboy book, Kurt Markus’s poignant After Barbered Wire cowboy photographs, Joan Myers’ recently published Where the Buffalo Roamed photographs of the ‘new’ West, and Manuello Paganelli’s photographs of African American cowboys in the West. In addition, the exhibition will be accompanied by legendary 19th Century ranching photographer Laton Alton (LA) Huffman from Montana, as well as images from one of the first female ranching photographers, Elsa Spear Edwards Byron.

Opposite – LA HUFFMAN, Saddleing a Wild Horse, 1907

Exhibition runs through to November 7th, 2020

Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe
NM 87505

www.obscuragallery.net

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MARVIN E. NEWMAN – LOOKING PAST SHADOWS

Posted on 2020-08-31

From his earliest days as a photographer on the streets of Chicago, Marvin E. Newman has worked to harmonize formal experimentation with a sensitive, ever-present humanism. Whether on editorial commission for Sports Illustrated or Look Magazine (two of the many publications that he contributed to for the better part of five decades), or whether he was capturing the shadows and silhouettes cast by pedestrians on city streets, Newman’s photography has always been structured by a deep fascination with the medium’s fundamental duality: light and shadow.

A pioneering color photographer, Newman helped define a standard for editorial work in that format during the 1950’s, a time when few photographers were shooting in color outside of fashion and advertising.

Looking Past Shadows presents a selection of photographs that spans the breadth of Newman’s career, from his earliest experiments in Chicago up to present day pictures of beachgoers and sunbathers.

Opposite – Coney Island, 1953

Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2020

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
NY 10022

www.howardgreenberg.com

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JP TERLIZZI – THE GOOD DISHES

Posted on 2020-08-31

‘The Good Dishes’ by NYC-based artist JP Terlizzi integrates memory, legacy, and metaphor with the artist’s response to loss. Through colorful still life table settings, Terlizzi offers a visual rumination on the centrality of food and the dinner table to his large Italian family. Growing up, Terlizzi recalls how his mother’s “good dishes,” like in many families, were brought out only for very special occasions-like the priest coming over for dinner.

Over the years, Terlizzi has been tasked with the job of cleaning out the homes of loved ones that have passed away. With ‘The Good Dishes’ series, the artist pays homage to the way in which his family’s fine china has always been an item given to the person that most cherishes its memory and sentimental value. Utilizing the passed down heirlooms of friends and family, ‘The Good Dishes’ celebrates family and togetherness.

Opposite – Empress Royal Hague Blue Floral with Orange, 2019

Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2020

Foto Relevance
4411 Montrose Boulevard, Suite C
Houston
TX 77006

fotorelevance.com

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I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE

Posted on 2020-08-31

I’m Not the Only One, is a group exhibition that explores solitude alongside our relentless yearning to connect, in photographs and videos from 20 artists that echo and reflect our current socially distant world.

Opposite – Alec Soth, Facebook. Menlo Park, California, 2013

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2020

Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary Street
San Francisco
CA 94108

fraenkelgallery.com

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