Gina Genis exhibiting at the Women’s Club of Hollywood
© 2009 Gina Genis
Gina Genis will be exhibiting one of her photo collages at the Women’s Club of Hollywood. The exhibit will be for one night only, Sunday, November 22, with a reception from 5-9 p.m. The following is from a press release for the exhibit:
Genis’ work combines the most exceptional elements of nature and technology. Using a camera and software processing systems, a squirrel jaw bone found in the forest becomes an abstracted pattern of delicate beauty. This beauty, however, barely masks a strong presence of danger. The raw elegance of an animal skull reminds us of the tenuous nature of our existence, but through Genis’ photography, celebrates and memorializes life.
The Women’s Club of Hollywood is located at:
1749 N La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046-3009
(323) 876-8383
Fine Art Photography Auctions
The American economy has had an effect on every aspect of our economy, and the fine art world has experienced some knocks along with it. Last year, fine art photography auctions in New York managed to hold steady. Bidders were thinner, and unsold lots were more numerous, but prices didn’t drop as much as expected.
There were a few stand outs that sold for more than the estimates. William Eggleston’s “Jackson, Mississippi, 1972 sold for $158,500 to a European bidder, an impressive $78,500 over the high estimate. One of Richard Prince’s large scale prints from his 1993 “Girlfriend” series sold to a phone bidder for $302,500, $2,500 over the high estimate. Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #106 from 1982 brought $62,500 when the hammer came down. The estimate was $30,000-$50,000.
William Eggleston's "Jackson, Mississippi, 1972
The 2009 Christie’s photography auction is scheduled for October 7 & 8th. Offerings from “The American Landscape: Color Photographs from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman” and “Photographs by Sally Mann from a Private Collection, Washington D.C.” will be offered on the 7th. “Photographs” and “The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs” are up for bid on the 8th.
It will be interesting to see what kind of prices photography will command this year.
By Gina Genis
Tribute to Jerry Burchfield
The art world, students of photography and friends will morn the loss of Jerry Burchfield, who passed away last Friday. Please visit my blog for my tribute to Jerry Burchfield “Loss of a Renaissance Man”
CALL FOR ENTRIES
My long time friend Kent Gunnufson has sent me this call for entries:
As a volunteer, I’m starting up an Environmental Photography Exhibition in conjunction with the Colorado Environmental Film Festival. This is backed by the environmental education community in Colorado and is a once a year event. As any new event, getting a good turnout the first year is important. Hopefully you might be able to help us get the word out. Details are at the link provided
Thanks for your time.
Kent Gunnufson
Info link: http://www.mountainmagazine.com/Photo-last-promo/photo-promolst.html
Civil Rights Photos at the Skirball Center
The following comes from Art Knowledge News:
Bill Eppridge’s Chaney Family as They Depart for the Funeral of James Chaney, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The largest exhibition in more than twenty years devoted to photography of the Civil Rights Movement will open at the Skirball Cultural Center on November 19, 2009, in its West Coast premiere. Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features images that helped change the nation: they shed light on injustices prevalent in America at the time, promoted solidarity among citizens, and dramatically increased the momentum of the struggle for equal rights. Road to Freedom will remain on view at the Skirball through March 7, 2010. Breach of Peace will open simultaneously with Road to Freedom, on November 19, and will remain on view for an extended period through May 9, 2010. In addition to work by renowned photographers, the exhibition displays pictures taken by anonymous or unidentified individuals who made stirring visual documents of marches, demonstrations, and public gatherings out of a conviction for the social changes the movement represented.
The exhibition displays approximately 170 photographs by more than thirty-five photographers drawn primarily from the High’s permanent collection, which includes one of the most comprehensive holdings of civil rights–era photography in the country; many have never before been displayed to the public. Exclusively for this Southern California presentation of Road to Freedom, the Skirball has developed a new section focusing on Los Angeles civil rights history, with new loans from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive in the Department of Special Collections at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute. Among the local events portrayed are the picketing of Kress Store in Pasadena in 1960, the march on Pershing Square on March 14, 1965, and the Watts Riots of 1965.
Also on view at the Skirball will be Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge. This companion exhibition displays more than a dozen contemporary portraits by photographer Eric Etheridge of Freedom Riders, as they came to be known. In 1961, these young women and men converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws and were arrested and convicted of the charge “breach of the peace.” Etheridge’s images of the Freedom Riders, now senior citizens, will be displayed alongside their original mug shots. Breach of Peace originated as part of the High Museum’s Road to Freedom exhibition, but has been expanded for the Skirball presentation to encompass related historical objects, including student activist buttons and newspaper clippings.
Exhibition Overview
Tracking the twelve-year span between Rosa Parks’ famed act of resistance against racial segregation aboard a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1956 and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Road to Freedom chronicles such historical turning points as the Freedom Rides (1961), the March on Washington (1963), the Selma-to-Montgomery March (1965), and the Poor People’s Campaign (1968). Iconic images include Bob Adelman’s Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, 1963; Morton Broffman’s Dr. King and Coretta Scott King Leading Marchers, Montgomery, Alabama, 1965; Bill Eppridge’s Chaney Family as They Depart for the Funeral of James Chaney, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964; and Builder Levy’s I Am a Man/Union Justice Now, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968.
“The indelible images in Road to Freedom portray the hope and courage of the men and women who took to the streets and campaigned peacefully for social change,” remarks Robert Kirschner, Skirball Museum Director. “The Skirball is proud to bring this remarkable exhibition to Los Angeles as part of its ongoing mission to promote justice, equality, and human dignity in American life.”
“In many ways, the history of the Civil Rights Movement cannot be understood without contemplating the photographs that helped shape public opinion,” adds Cox. “Most of the photographs were taken by professional photojournalists sympathetic to the cause and by activists motivated to record newsworthy events with an objective and informing eye. Because of the moral energy they radiate, these are among the most important and beautiful photographs of our nation.”
“Press photographers defied threats of jail or worse to capture on film the fire hoses and police dogs of Birmingham, Alabama—and immortalized the spirit of those who withstood their attacks,” notes Erin Clancey, Skirball Associate Curator and managing curator of the exhibition’s presentation at the Skirball. She continues, “To this day, their images have the power to move, shock, and inspire.”
In the new section on local history added by the Skirball, photographs of the Watts Riots of 1965 document the violence that occurred in Los Angeles during the Civil Rights Movement. Yet other images illustrate the bravery of Angelenos who used nonviolent protest to fight discrimination in schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and public places and who stood in solidarity with Southern civil rights workers by staging sympathy boycotts and vigils, such as the one held at Los Angeles Valley College in 1965.
Accompanying all photographs in the exhibition are extensive, informative captions, as well as related archival objects and documents. For example, Rosa Parks’s police fingerprint paperwork and the blueprint of the bus on which she made her fateful stand are shown alongside contemporaneous photographs. The exhibition also brings together newspapers, magazines, and posters from the period, demonstrating how, in the hands of community organizers and newspaper and magazine editors, photographs played a pivotal role in raising awareness of key issues and influencing public sentiment.
The exhibition also includes a short documentary film, Voices of Freedom, produced, edited, and directed by Neal Broffman, son of photographer Morton Broffman, whose work is represented in the exhibition. This poignant film weaves together historical footage and recent interviews with photographers, reporters, and activists from that time period. Co-produced by Julian Cox, the film was awarded the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award and the CINE Special Jury Prize in the “Arts and Exhibits Programs” category in 2008.
Visit the Skirball Cultural Center at : http://www.skirball.org/
Posted by Gina Genis
Photo Exchange Member Jim Koch in 2nd City Council Gallery Exhibition
Big Island, Hawaii 2006
Photo Exchange member Jim Koch will have a photograph in the 2009 Membership Exhibition at 2nd City Council gallery in Long Beach.
The show runs Saturday, August 15, 2009 – Thursday, September 17, 2009. The artist reception is Saturday, August 22, 2009 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
2nd City Council is located at
435 Alamitos Ave
Long Beach, CA 90802-1643
(562) 901-0997
http://www.2ndcitycouncil.org/
To see more of Jim’s work go to http://www.jimkochstudio.com/
By Jim McKinniss
Photo Exchange Member Ellen Butler in 2nd City Council Show
A good story is often better than the truth
Photo Exchange member Ellen Butler will have a mixed media work in the 2009 Membership Exhibition at 2nd City Council gallery in Long Beach.
The work is a burned Altoids tin out of which a paper “book” unfolds. The rest of the construction is paper (mostly gessoed), photo transfers and other various objects.
The show runs Saturday, August 15, 2009 – Thursday, September 17, 2009. The artist reception is Saturday, August 22, 2009 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
2nd City Council is located at
435 Alamitos Ave
Long Beach, CA 90802-1643
(562) 901-0997
http://www.2ndcitycouncil.org/
By Jim McKinniss
Mission Viejo Installs Drivable Art Exhibit
The following was posted on an arts information web site:
Mission Viejo’s drivable gallery will boast permanent exhibits and changeable art pieces featured in 16 art pilasters within the median islands.
Mission Viejo has installed the first changeable art exhibit along Crown Valley Parkway, as part of the final touches of the Crown Valley Parkway widening project. The “Parkway Gallery” is Orange County’s first art gallery the public can enjoy by car.
The drivable gallery will boast permanent exhibits and changeable art pieces featured in 16 art pilasters within the median islands. Motorists, this fall will also savor a sculpture created over a two-year period by Mission Viejo residents along with works inspired by modern medical technology at Mission Hospital.
Mission Hospital and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art teamed up to produce the first exhibit, “The Art of Imaging” which includes a first-of-its-kind exhibit exploring advanced medical imaging through the lens of contemporary artists that will be on display through November. Advanced medical images, such as 3- and 4-D ultrasound, mammography and x-rays serve as the basis for the creative pieces that were developed and sold as a fund-raiser for Mission Hospital. The hospital, which selected the creative pieces, generously gave the City the unique opportunity to share them with the public along Crown Valley Parkway.
Parkway Gallery includes impressive sculptures including “Spirit” by artist James Hill that was installed roughly two years ago by Mission Hospital at the corner of Medical Center and Crown Valley Parkway.
The City has long worked with the community to develop a second sculpture – “Mission Viejo’s Iconic Leaves.” The series of three large leaves were carefully created over the past two years by Mission Viejo families at several City special events under the direction of local artist Aileen May. The series includes an oak, sycamore and olive leaf, representing the iconic trees of Mission Viejo. The sculpture is expected to be installed this fall.
For detailed information about the images along Parkway Gallery and artists’ biographies, visit the City’s Web site cityofmissionviejo.org/arts.
Open Call at Barnsdall Park
EXHIBITION / ARTIST CALL ANNOUNCEMENT
Open Call LA 2009
Presented by
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
August 13 – September 27, 2009
Opening Reception: Sunday, August 16, 2-5pm.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
323.644.6269, fax 323.644.6271
E-mail, cadmag@sbcglobal.net
Web site, http://www.culturela.org
Hours, Thursday – Sunday, noon to 5:00 p.m.; First Fridays, Hours are extended until 9:00 p.m.
Admission is free. The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is a facility of the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
Eligibility: Open to all artists residing in Southern California
All entries must be original and have been completed after January 2007.
ONE ENTRY PER ARTIST
Delivery of Artwork: Saturday, July 18th, 9am to 6pm.
(Or until gallery reaches 1,000 pieces)
Entry fee: $20 per artist, cash only
Entries should be delivered to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027; 323.644.6269
FOR COMPLETE DETAILS AND PROSPECTUS GO TO
http://www.culturela.org/events/eventpdfs/OpenCall2009Prospectus.pdf
