CNN on Julie Blackmon's "Fever Dreams"

Charming, chaotic scenes of family life in small-town America blend reality with fiction

By Jacqui Palumbo

In Julie Blackmon's photographs, her quiet neighborhood in Springfield, Missouri, is transformed into a theatrical stage where children reign. They gather poolside in the balmy summer; direct talent shows in the garage; and prepare to take flight off of kitchen chairs, leaving toys and household ephemera strewn about. Adults, when they do appear, are often cropped out of frame, obscured like the unintelligible grownups of Charlie Brown's world.

The artist has lived in Springfield her entire life, calling her home city in the Ozarks region the "generic American town."

Blackmon's forthcoming show at Fotografiska, "Fever Dreams," plays on fiction and reality.

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JULIE BLACKMON FEATURED IN WHITEWALL

Photographer Julie Blackmon Takes Us Home to Missouri and Relives “Fever Dreams”

By Eliza Jordan

Today, almost 90 percent of the United States is under a government-enforced “stay at home” policy. Necessary businesses are the only ones open—like hospitals, grocery stories, and pharmacies. That unfortunately omits most art institutions, and they’ve since had to shutter their exhibitions early. One of these museums is the brand-new Fotografiska in New York, where there’s five exhibitions on view behind closed doors.

Whitewall got in touch with Fotografiska about one of those exhibitions—“Fever Dreams” by Julie Blackmon—to see it virtually. The Missouri-based artist spoke to us about her personal relationship with photography, and how it reflects the place—down to the very same Springfield neighborhood—she’s been living in all her life.

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Blind Magazine on Julie Blackmon

Julie Blackmon’s Surreal Photographs of Contemporary American Life

By Miss Rosen

When the body is fighting infection, our immune system goes to war, turning up the heat quite literally to try to stop temperature-sensitive pathogens from further ravaging us. The result is a fever, which is known to produce hallucinatory, nightmarish dreams that evoke the sensation of watching a sci-fi film, and can be recalled in minute detail, turning the familiar and mundane into something of a horror show.

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Julie Blackmon featured in A Cup of Joe

I Can’t Stop Looking at Julie Blackmon’s Photography

By Joanna Goddard

The oldest of nine children, photographer Julie Blackmon now has 100 relatives living in her Springfield, Missouri neighborhood. She photographs her nieces and nephews in beautiful but unsettling scenes — maybe a child is floating upside down in a pool or climbing too high on a rope. “It’s like, how do I explore the charm and grace of everyday life and still reveal a little bit of the dark side?” says Julie. 

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MARY MATTINGLY'S SCARRED LANDSCAPES OPENS AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB

WHAT: Brooklyn-based artist Mary Mattingly’s work explores issues of sustainability, climate change, and displacement. The artist combines photography, performance, portable architecture, and sculptural ecosystems into poetic visions of adaptation and survival. Mattingly has exhibited at the International Center for Photography, Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, and Storm King Arts Center.

Scarred Landscapes is on view from February 3 through 28. Galleries are open Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Admission is free. For evening and weekend hours, contact The National Arts Club at 212-475-3424.

WHEN: Opening reception, Monday, February 10, 6:00-8:00 PM

WHERE: The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South

MORE: www.nationalartsclub.org/exhibitions

Stars Down to Earth: Mary Mattingly & Dario Robleto at the Brooklyn Public Library

Stars Down To Earth is a multi-site exhibition, with artwork at Central Library and programming at the new Greenpoint branch, which is focused on ecological revitalization. Further programming will continue from March to June, in partnership with the Prospect Parks Alliance and More Art.

From wonders of the cosmos to urgent questions around habitable futures on earth, this exhibition brings together the scientific inquiries and complex visual systems of artists Dario Robleto and Mary Mattingly. Robleto’s work spans the mysteries of outer space and the human body, while Mattingly’s has been leading conversations around the role of the arts in sustainable futures. These two artists are deeply engaged in inter-disciplinary work as citizen scientists, artist ambassadors and ethicists collaborating with scientists in a variety of ways.

Stars Down to Earth includes Mattingly’s living sculpture and nature morte photographs which look at extractive industries, as well as Robleto’s intricate sculptures comprised of fossils and other carefully sourced natural artifacts. Through public art, artist talks integrated with the sciences, and intensive public workshops focused on ecology you are invited to imagine possible futures and gain hands-on knowledge.

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Maoresjka Lavigne featured in Ignant

MAROESJKA LAVIGNE PHOTOGRAPHS THE WORLD’S MAJESTIC LOST LANDS
BY STEPHANIE WADE

Belgian photographer Maroesjka Lavigne’s debut monograph is Someone, Somewhere, Sometime, and includes four of the artist’s series: Island, Not Seeing is a Flower, Land of Nothingness, and Lost Lands. Lavigne has shared with IGNANT a selection of images from the last chapter of the book, Lost Lands; compelling images of sublime landscapes and their inhabitants.

Lavigne has traveled extensively—her preoccupation with documenting the earth’s vast range of natural landscapes has seen her travel to Iceland, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Namibia, China, and America’s West, among others. The monograph collates together a decade’s worth of work, and in her latest release she continues her exploration of the aesthetic qualities of earth; bringing to light the majestic spectrum of colors it demonstrates. For Lavigne, nature is unconquerable and omnipresent. “When you take a picture in a beautiful place, you have to realize that nature isn’t the background for your photograph. Rather, you are its prop,” she remarks in a statement on the Robert Mann Gallery’s website.

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Cig Harvey featured in Klassik International

Cig Harvey We are only this moment – the length of a photograph Devon, UK

November 16, 2019 by Laura Gomez

Cig Harvey is an artist whose practice seeks to find the magical in everyday life. Rich in implied narrative, Harvey’s work is deeply rooted in the natural environment, and offers explorations of belonging and familial relationships.

Cig Harvey (born 1973 in Devon, UK) is a fine art photographer known for her surreal images of nature and family. Her work has been compared to René Magritte and has been described as revealing “the mysticism in the mundane”. Harvey’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman Museum, and the Farnsworth Art Museum. She is the author of three sold-out books, You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Gardening at Night and You an Orchestra You a Bomb.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROBERT MANN GALLERY – NEW LOCATION
14 EAST 80TH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10075

Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce the exciting news of our relocation to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Returning to the neighborhood where Robert Mann Gallery began in the mid-1980s, we will be located in an elegant townhouse space that is half a block away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in close proximity to many other wonderful galleries.

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