Jennifer Williams at Florida Atlantic University Museum of Art

Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed
January 15 - February 28, 2015
Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida

Jennifer Williams' small unique collages and archival pigment prints are featured in Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, which presents works by 23 contemporary artists. While hardly unified in style and content, the artists’ works in Altarations blend photographic images and processes  to produce works that celebrate, contradict and undermine photographic traditions through altered images and references.  The title of the exhibition is derived from Mark C. Taylor’s “Altarity,” a 1987 book of philosopher Taylor’s writing that brings  together his interpretation and synthesis of several modern philosophers’ interpretations of difference and otherness. 

For more information about the exhibition, click here.

Maroesjka Lavigne: Ísland in Slate Magazine

Maroesjka Lavigne: Ísland is featured as one of Slate Magazine's top ten photography shows of the year. Jordan G. Teicher writes,

Belgian photographer Maroesjka Lavigne was just 21 when she drove for months across Iceland to create the images in her series, “Island,” which I saw in April at Manhattan’s Robert Mann Gallery. Full of cinematic portraits and snowy landscapes featuring small, isolated subjects, the photos suggest a loose narrative of mystery and melancholy. Though they do justice to the country’s ample natural beauty, they’re way more odd and interesting than anything you’d find in a travel magazine. 

To read the full article, click here.

The Light in Cuban Eyes in Cuban Art News

The upcoming book The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College's Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography, which will be accompanied by an exhibition at the gallery in the spring, is listed in Cuban Art News' 'Bookshelf'. This bilingual volume highlights the work of 50 photographers, both emerging and established, who have been active in Cuba from the Special Period to the present, 1992–2012. The photos in the book are accompanied by artists’ statements, collector’s comments, and essays by scholars. Collector Madeleine P. Plonsker observes that “Cuban photography has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past twenty years. Cuba's contemporary photographers are poised to reach a broader international audience, and the intent of my book is to bring you their story.”

For the full article, click here.

Robert Mann in Artnet News

Robert Mann is featured as a contributing expert in Artnet's "Market Snapshot: Ansel Adams," in passages such as the below:

...Adams's estate might not see the hysterical fluctuations of other photographers' markets, but that's not to say his work isn't steadily appreciating. “The values have been steadily increasing over the years as the supply in the secondary market diminishes and the demand for his work increases," said Robert Mann, a key player in Adams's secondary market since the 1970s. “Virtually every institutional art collection and many private collections that include photography begin with Adams," he told Artnet via email, “so it is inevitable that the prints will become more scare and ultimately more valuable." 

Click here to read more about the current market for Ansel Adams' work, currently on display at Robert Mann Gallery.

Dorsey Gallery Panel Discussion Featuring Mary Mattingly

Securing Homeland: Rebounding/Rebuilding Sustainable Future
Moderated by exhibition curator Margaret Mathews-Berenson
Panelists: Brian Baer, Cynthia Barton, Deborah Gans, and Mary Mattingly
Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Sunday, October 26, 3-4pm

The panel, moderated by the curator, Margaret Mathews Berenson, will focus on innovative solutions to the problems of homelessness and displacement caused by catastrophic natural and manmade disasters that are dramatically presented visually in the works of art in the exhibition. Panelists will discuss innovative projects and proposals by artists, architects, non-profit organizations and government agencies around the world designed to provide housing for those in need. Among these are: post-Katrina housing in New Orleans and rebuilding efforts for victims of Hurricane Sandy in the New York area. Other topics of discussion will be: designing with sustainable materials; urban reclamation projects in Chicago, Houston and Detroit; collaborations between artists, urban design professionals and local communities; and social entrepreneurship in contemporary art and architecture. In conclusion, panelists together with audience participants will contribute ideas and recommendations for addressing these problems in the future. Hand-outs will include a list of organizations worldwide that provide meaningful solutions in the hopes that audience members might be inspired to assist them in meeting their goals.

For more information and to RSVP, click here.

Cig Harvey Featured as the Cover Story in Pro Photographer

Cig Harvey's deceptively simple photographs tap into the universal elements of the human experience: love, loss, longing and belonging. She's in demand for editorial and commercial work—as well as her for her fine art prints and books.

Two of Cig Harvey's most iconic photographs have one thing in common—they depict a young girl staring back at the photographer with an enigmatic expression.

In Emie in the Truck (2008), a little girl gazes expectantly out the rear window of an old red pickup truck idling in the snow. In Devin and the Fireflies (2011), a different girl in a white dress stands atop a hill at twilight holding a birdhouse as the grass sparks with yellow flashes. The former image, not staged, conjures a sparse, rural life. The latter, carefully planned by Harvey, speaks of innocence in a magical landscape.

Harvey has used Devin in several of her photographs over the years. "She responds to my stare in a way that is confusing," she says. "I am always searching for the look I don't understand. I photograph people I know, but I'm interested in the moment when they respond with a look I don't know."

Harvey works in the space between scripted drama and pure improvisation, taking a conceptual rather than a documentary approach to the people around her. She uses herself, her family and her friends to embody her own ideas and concerns.

Read an excerpt of the article here.

Julie Blackmon in The Cut by New York Magazine

Julie Blackmon started photographing her kids in 2001, after her family moved into a 100-year-old house in Springfield, Missouri, that happened to have a darkroom. She'd dabbled in photography in college and thought it might be worth revisiting. "I really just wanted to get some good black-and-white pictures of my kids that I could put on the wall," she explains. "That was when the Pottery Barn look was in, so I was just trying to make my living room look cool, basically."

Blackmon's own three children are now teenagers and in their early 20s, but she's continued photographing the kids in her hometown: nieces, nephews, and neighbors — "just kids who happen to be around," she says. "We have a kind of little relationship going. We like to work together." This month, a new book, Homegrown, features her most recent work: photographs taken between 2008 and 2014, inspired by the domestic scenes of the Dutch painter Jan Steen, as well as her own chaotic and confusing experiences as a parent.

Blackmon spoke with The Cut about helicopter parenting, living in the same town you grew up in, and how people respond to autobiographical work about motherhood.

Read the full interview and view the slideshow here.

Mary Mattingly at The Brooklyn Museum

Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond
Brooklyn Museum
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 5th Floor
October 3, 2014 - January 4, 2015

Reflecting the rich creative diversity of Brooklyn, Crossing Brooklyn presents work by thirty-five Brooklyn-based artists or collectives. The exhibition and related programming take place in the galleries and on the grounds of the Museum, as well as off-site in the streets, waterways, and other public spaces of the borough.

Emphasizing artistic practices that engage with the world, the exhibition includes artists who aim to expand their focus and have an impact beyond the studio and the museum. The resulting work defies easy categorization, taking on diverse forms that include public and private action, the use of found or collected objects, and interactive and educational events, among others. Alongside the drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, videos, and performances on view are several site-specific works.

While acknowledging Brooklyn's heightened profile, Crossing Brooklyn presents a multigenerational picture that recognizes the borough's long-established role as a creative center. Other themes explored in the exhibition include history and memory, place and geography, community, nostalgia, exchange, ephemerality, and politics, both local and remote.

Read more about the exhibition here.

Jeff Brouws at Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham

And Now it's Dark: American Night Photography
Djanogly Art Gallery
Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park, Nottingham
September 6 - November 9, 2014

For the first time in the UK, And Now it's Dark showcases the work of three leading American photographers—Jeff Brouws, Todd Hido and Will Steacy—who all make images at night.

On peripatetic road journeys through the US, Jeff Brouws captures the glow of headlamps and neon—the illuminated attractions and distractions of the American roadside that give a troubling picture of commercial encroachment on the landscape.

Read more about the exhibition here.

New Series by Paulette Taormina

Robert Mann Gallery is excited to announce a new series by Paulette Tavormina, Bodegón. Meaning "from the pantry," Bodegón is inspired by the paintings of 18th-century Spanish still life painter Luis Meléndez. Featuring the elegant everyday cookware of the rustic kitchen, these new works by Tavormina bring the artist's signature gift for rich simplicity to a new cornucopia of fruits, vegetables, breads and sweets.