In ” The Five-Point Weekend Escape Plan” travel article by Carrie Culpepper, number 3: “Meet Hudson’s Emerging Artists and Photographers” features the Davis Orton Gallery, “in the emerging belo3rd district” and June’s artists: Lisa Kessler and Elliot Ross.
The Davis Orton Gallery is a sponsor of this year’s Hudson Pride 2010 Weekend events on Saturday and Sunday June 19th & 20th 2010. Go to the Hudson Pride website for complete information.
Thanks to Mary Kocol, featured artist at the Davis Orton Gallery for one of her panorama collages – this time – of the Davis Orton Gallery. Through May 30, the gallery is exhibiting Mary’s stunning c-prints, “Gardens and Arboreta” as well as “Short Stories,” paintings by Rebecca Doughty, Mary and Rebecca were in town for the artists reception.
Two of Nadine Boughton’s photocollages, including “Evening News,” exhibited recently at the Davis Orton Gallery, have been selected for inclusion in the 16th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Griffin Museum of Photography. Juried by Joerg Colberg, author of the photography blog, “Conscientious,” a website dedicated to contemporary fine-art photography, the show will run from June 30 – August 29, 2010.
Meg Birnbaum who exhibited at Davis Orton Gallery in September, 2009 is the featured photographer at Tanto Tempo Gallery and Cafe in Kobe, Japan, February 6 – March 21, 2010. She is showing work from two series: “Corn Dogs, Blue Ribbons …” and “Daylight Savings.” Meg creates her evocative black and white images using plastic toy cameras (Holgas and Dianas.) She will be giving an artist talk at the gallery on March 13.
Cow Girl by Meg Birnbaum featured at Tanto Tempo Gallery, Kobe Japan
Meg’s work has also been selected for exhibition in juried shows in SoHo and San Francisco. In SoHo, her photograph “Cheek to Cheek” will appear in Soho Photo Gallery’s 12th international Krappy Kamera competition, March 2 – April 3. In San Francisco a photograph will be featured in RayKo Photo Center‘s Third Annual Juried Plastic Camera Show.
Cheek to Cheek by Meg Birnbaum in SOHo exhibit
John Chervinsky, who will exhibit at the Davis Orton Gallery from August 26 to September 19, 2010, is a featured artist in a three person exhibition with Laura Lentinsky and Olivia Parker, “Marking Space” at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design from January 22 to February 26.
photograph by John Chervinsky
An exhibition of the 83 photographs that comprise Robert Frank’s 1956 ground breaking photo book, “The Americans,” is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through January 3, 2010. It originated at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. (You’ll find good resources on both sites.)
Regardless of your familiarity with the work, this show and the accompanying catalog will add greatly to your understanding by providing a detailed examination of the book’s design roots and its organizational principles which variously link images thematically, formally, conceptually and linguistically.
The exhibition illustrates the influence of Michael Wolgensinger, a Swiss commercial photographer with whom Frank apprenticed and trained and the influence of both the photography and contemporary photo book design of among others, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans and Alexey Brodovitch. The exhibition and catalog include contact sheets which reveal the method of Frank’s shooting, and a context for his edits — from 28,000 negatives to 1000 workprints to 85 prints to the final 83.
And there is the history of the publishing of the book itself and the dense, beautiful, rambling first draft of Jack Kerouac’s introduction – [Frank] “sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.”
Also recommended: Maelstrom: Roxie Payne (roof sculpture til Nov 29) and The Lens and the Mirror, Self-Portraits through December 6, 2009 (photographs, drawings, prints, paintings, ceramics)
Also at the Met, Surface Tension (the photograph as a window, the photograph as an object.)