We are please to share with you that gallery artist, Maroesjka Lavigne has won the 2015 Harry Pennings Award. "Galerie Pennings started the Harry Pennings Award in 2007. Firstly, in memory of its founder and as a tribute to the founder of the oldest photo gallery of the Netherlands. On the other hand to create a platform for starting photographers in the gallery of the late Harry Pennings. He had a keen eye for young talent and that made him a unique gallery owner. Especially since he never ran his gallery for profit. Passion for photography - and its makers - was his motivation. And this is the motivation to launch this award." To read the press release announcing Maroesjka's selection as the award recipient, please click here.
Elisabeth Hase in Sotheby's Magazine
In the Frame: Through Her Lens
Christine Schwartz Hartley
December 2015 - January 2016
Art lovers can today name three women from the history of photography with ease, but that ease was slow in coming, as many photography scholars neglected female practitioners. Yet because the art form has always be learned by doing - requiring no validation from schools that restricted female access to painting and sculpture - photography has been more open to women, who have been more involved in the medium than any other visual art. Major exhibitions are now making this plain. Who's Afraid of Women Photographers? at the Musée d'Orangerie and the Musée d'Orsay covers 1939 to 1945in two section s and presents 65 women photographers both renowned (Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Diane Arbus) and more obscure talents. For curator Marie Robert, a standout among the latter is Elisabeth Hase, who was discovered to be a Cindy Sherman precursor when her 1930s self-portrait as various characters surfaced posthumously. Read the full article in the December 2015 - January 2016 issue of Sotheby's Magazine, and by clicking here.
Mike Mandel Lecture and book signing at the PRC
Artist Mike Mandel will be giving a lecture at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University on December 2. Mandel will be speaking about his latest publication, a limited edition boxed collection entitled Good 70s. The collection features facsimiles of Mandel's original publications, previously unpublished works from his various projects and a pack of ten baseball cards from the 1975 series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards. Copies of the collection will be available for purchase and can be signed by the artist. For more information about the lecture, click here.
Robert Mann discusses O. Winston Link at Foto/Industria
Recently Robert Mann had the honor of speaking about the work of photographer O. Winston Link during the Foto/Industria Biennial of Industrial Photography in Bologna, Italy.
Link is known for his body of work that focuses on the the end of an era in modern transportation: the steam locomotive. His photographs from 1955-1959 capture the trains of the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last of the Class I railroads to use steam engine trains. In Link’s effort to chronicle the last of these railway giants, he explored new techniques with night photography. To read more about Link at Foto/Industira 2015, click here.
Holly Andres: The Fallen Fawn in The New Yorker
Holly Andres's Adolescent Fairy Tales
October 25, 2015
Photo Booth by The New Yorker
Holly Andres’s photo series seem to unfold in the darkened corners of a fairy-tale dream space—a place where the private lives of girls intersect with the mysteries, and occasional dangers, of the adult world. The stories she tells—in lush, cinematic scope, like movies made up of only still images—are often drawn from stories in her own childhood: the adventures of a group of adolescent girls hungry for new experience; the trauma of two young sisters who venture too close to a hornet’s nest. Her latest series, “The Fallen Fawn,” which will go on display at the Robert Mann Gallery on October 29th, tells the story of two sisters who discover a woman’s abandoned suitcase by a river behind their house. Treating it as a valuable treasure, they bring it home, hide it underneath the bed, and secretly dress up in the “mystery woman’s” belongings at night. In this story, as in her other work, the young protagonists project both the plucky curiosity of Nancy Drew and the fragile innocence of a sleeping Snow White.
To view the article, click here.
Respresentation of The Estate of Elisabeth Hase
The gallery is excited to announce the representation of the estate of Elisabeth Hase (1905 - 1991). This new discovery is a rich body of work by a female artist who was photographing during the time of the transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and through post-WWII Germany. Hase's photographic compositions, some of which survived the air raids on Frankfurt in 1944, are comparable to a number of her avant-garde contemporaries such as Florence Henri, Ilse Bing, and Germain Krull.
O. WINSTON LINK FEATURED AT FOTO/INDUSTRIA
Foto/Industria 2015
Biennial of Industrial Photography
October 3 - November 1, 2015
The gallery is pleased to announce that the work of O Winston Link is currently being displayed at the Biennial of Industrial Photography. Link is known for his body of work that focuses on the the end of an era in modern transportation: the steam locomotive. His photographs from 1955-1959 capture the trains of the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last of the class I railroads to used steam engined trains. In Link’s effort to chronicle the last of these railway giants, he explored new techniques with night photography. To read more about Link at Foto/Industira 2015, click here.
Cig Harvey Portfolio Review in Photograph Magazine
Portfolio
September/October 2015
Cig Harvey: Gardening at Night
By Jean Dykstra
The small miracles and slow ripening narratives of the domestic sphere have absorbed photographers from Gertrude Käsebier to Sally Mann. It’s a perplexing fact of contemporary art criticism that artists -- female artists, in particular -- should have to defend that terrain as the subject of their creative practice, but a recent New York Times piece asked: “Why Can’t Great Artists be Mothers?” Cig Harvey rejects the premise. Harvey’s fanciful, dreamlike photographs are rooted in the natural world, in fantasy, and in her experience as a mother.
As Harvey noted in the Times article, “Art, in any form, demands that you turn yourself inside out. You must be obsessed for it to be any good.” But, she added, an artist can be obsessed with her art and with her children, and in her case, those twin obsessions have resulted in a series of quietly beautiful, oped-ended photographs, Gardening at Night. Click here to continue reading.
Ellen Auerbach: Classic Works and Collaborations in The New Yorker
Ellen Auerbach
The New Yorker
August 3, 2015
This valuable addendum to MOMA's current exhibition “From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola” centers on Stern’s partner in the avant-garde photography studio known as ringl + pit. Their Bauhaus-style collaborations, most produced as advertisements in the thirties, are the most arresting images here, juxtaposing models and mannequins, balancing sensuality and restraint. Following a split with Stern, Auerbach’s work became more varied, including portraits of Bertolt Brecht and Willem de Kooning, sensational shots of the dancer Renate Schottelius in midair, and a lovely group of muted color pictures from Mexico—reliquaries, paper roses, an outdoor market—made in collaboration with Eliot Porter. Through Aug. 14.
Mary Mattingly for Art in America on Collaboration in Cuba
Push/Pull: A Cultural Exchange in Cuba
By Mary Mattingly
June 26, 2015
For the past eight years, I've focused on co-creating sculptures that address public food, energy production and cyclical water use. These works have almost entirely been created for people in the United States. My most recent sculpture, Pull, was created through a cultural exchange led by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Habana and the Bronx Museum of the Arts as a collective effort alongside the 12th Bienal de La Habana, titled "Between the Idea and the Experience." The artwork consists of two mobile, inhabitable spheres that contain living ecosystems. One of the spheres of Pull currently functions as a temporary autonomous zone in Havana's Parque Central, while the other half is stationed inside the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes as part of exhibition "Wild Noise" (through Aug. 16). Continue reading the article here.