Julie Blackmon in Photography & Film Constructs

March 4 – April 2, 2016
Ringling College of Art + Design | Sarasota, Florida
Willis Smith Construction, Inc. Galleries
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday 10-4, Tuesday 10-7

We are please to share the the works of gallery artist Julie Blackmon will be included in the exhibition, Photography & Film Constructs, on view at Ringling College of Art + Design.

“Each artist in this exhibition approaches creating a single image or composite film or video in a different way. The artist may construct a fiction involving a person, objects in a setting, a location and/or narrative, and in each case is challenged to address purely formal issues as well as an invented image."

Opening reception: March 4, 4:30-7:00 pm (during Artwalk)
Curator Tour: March 14, 11:30 am

 

Holly Andres Featured on Photo District News

A Mysterious Family Discovery Inspires Holly Andres's "The Fallen Fawn"
Photo District News
Brienne Walsh | February 16, 2016

When Robert Mann Gallery in New York City invited Holly Andres to do a solo exhibition in the fall of 2015, she was initially at a loss over what to show. In the period since her last exhibition with the gallery in 2012, she had been focusing mostly on commercial and editorial work for clients such as Nike, The New York Times Magazine and TIME. When mulling over a starting point for a new body of work, she kept returning to a story her two sisters—they are 8 and 10 years older than she—had recently relayed regarding a suitcase they had found as kids while playing by a river near their childhood home in Western Montana.  Click here to continue reading.

Sitting in the dark with strangers in Feature Shoot

Inspired by Hopper and Hitchcock, Photographer Creates Magical Miniature Scenes at the Movies
Feature Shoot
Ellyn Kail | January 29, 2016

As the story goes, the 1986 audience at the 50-second silent documentary The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat were so terror-stricken by the picture of a black and white train approaching that they leapt backwards for fear of certain annihilation. The fable, regardless of its veracity, speaks to the power of film to elevate even the most banal scene into the realm of preternatural.

For Sitting in the Dark with Strangers, New York City-based photographer Richard Finkelstein plays on cinema’s inherent ability to merge fact and fiction by fastidiously constructing model sets in which tiny figurines watch movies, pass by posters on the side of the road, and perhaps steal kisses under the illumination of a drive-in theater.
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Jörn Vanhöfen at Museum Haus Ludwig

We are pleased to announce gallery artist, Jörn Vanhöfen's exhibtion Loop at the Museum Haus Ludwig. This show will be on view from January 31 - May 22, 2016 

...the future is not an apocalyptic vision here. It is the vision of a nature that will recapture in a posthuman age their space in a compelling manner.

Not only man, even the man-made breaks and returns to dust. The inorganic part of nature is no exception from the general affairs of becoming, passing away and re-emergence. As long as these processes run, as long as rocks are formed, weather, be removed and re-formed, the planet Earth will live.

 

Photograph magazine Finkelstein review

Richard Finkelstein: Sitting in the Dark with Strangers, Robert Mann Gallery
Photograph | Reviews
By Jonas Cuénin

One could argue that Richard Finkelstein’s work is as much about modeling as it is about photography. In this exhibition of 18 medium-format prints on view at Robert Mann Gallery through January 30, Finkelstein draws us into his miniature, cinematic world, bringing villages, streets, houses, and movie theaters to life. In order to reproduce this environment and explore the experience of film, the subject of the series, Finkelstein conjures a dark, intriguing atmosphere. Movie screens, which are sometimes contemplated by his imaginary characters, are a constant presence in the images, either literally or by implication. The figures and scenes in these photographs are so delicately fabricated that they are endowed with an intangible sense of reality. To continue reading, click here.

Finkelstein in New York Magazine

To Do: January 27 - February 10, 2016
Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read

16. SEE Sitting in the Dark with Strangers
Enter Richard Finkelstein's fantasia.
In this show of photographs (and one light box), trial lawyer turned artist Finkelstein unleashes a fantasy world in miniature, with his sets ans figures producing haunting cinematic scenarios. All the wonder and mystery of Joseph Cornell crossed with Edward Hopper and Alfred Hitchcock. Robert Mann Gallery, through January 30.

Holly Andres Interview with Ken Weingart Photography

Interview with Holly Andres
By Ken Weingart
January 21, 2016

 What do you consider the most important breaks in your career and why?

Okay, this is an interesting question to reflect on because it reminds me how tangential both the fine art and the editorial/commercial world are.

My first solo show at Robert Mann Gallery in New York was a pinnacle. Being represented by an established New York gallery certainly paved the way for more exposure, which resulted in subsequent exhibitions and critical reviews. Sparrow Lane’s review in Art in America, for example, marked a seminal moment.

To read the full interview, click here.

Finkelstein for Flavorwire

Photos of the Cinema-Going Experience Capture the Magic of Movies in Miniature
Flavorewire | Photography
Alison Nastasi
January 22, 2016

The Edward Hopper-esque images are a treat for eagle-eyed cinéastes, as Finkelstein references classic films in every detail, down to the posters on the wall. The act of seeing and watching is emphasized between audience and screen, as well as between figures. “Through his work, Finkelstein not only comments on how movies impact our emotions, but how like a dream, a film allows a viewer to give up the appearance of reality to that which is unreal,” writes the gallery.
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The Stamp Gallery presents: CAPP AT 10: The Shape of Remembering

 

January 28-March 11, 2016

We are happy to share that photographs from gallery artists Jeff Brouws and Susan Rankaitis will be shown in the Stamp Gallery's presentation of the CAPP anniversary event at the University of Maryland.

Celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Contemporary Art Purchasing Program with a special exhibition in and around the Stamp Gallery. Assembled through the talent and dedication of students at the University of Maryland, the CAPP collection includes work by Derrick Adams, Alice Attie, Shimon Attie, Selin Balci, Wafaa Bilal, Jeff Brouws, Edward Burtynsky, Jeremy Dean, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Patrick Jacobs, Luke Jerram, Simen Johan, Sarah Anne Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Doug Keyes, Jae Ko, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, Nikki S. Lee, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Linn Meyers, Maggie Michael, Jiha Moon, Jenny Morgan, John Paradiso, Elle Pérez, Jefferson Pinder, Dulce Pinzón, Barbara Probst, Susan Rankaitis, Hunter Reynolds, Ellington Robinson, and Lorna Simpson.