Minor Cropping May Occur

The artists participating in Minor Cropping May Occur (selected diaries 1962-2011), come from a diverse range of backgrounds and geographic locations: Mike Brodie (USA), JH Engstrom (Sweden), Carl Johan De Geer (Sweden), Janine Gordon (USA), Nick Haymes (USA), Hiromix (Japan), Takashi Homma (Japan), Keizo Kitajima (Japan), Daifu Motoyuki (Japan), Walter Pfeiffer (Switzerland), Jacob Aue Sobol (Denmark), Nick Waplington (UK), and Rona Yefman (Israel). Most of the works featured at Lombard Freid Projects will be premiered in the United States and many of them presented for the first time outside their place of making.

Don't miss the highlights of the exhibition both Nick Haymes's and Daifu Motoyuki's work both dealing with family.
"In Nick Haymes photographic series ‘Zoloto,’ there is a brutal honesty that challenges the cliché portrayal of family life in picture perfect photo albums. Photographed daily over a period of over nine years by imploying a diverse range of cameras and techniques, the series exists as a veristic diary that combines both the high and lows, the picturesque and perverse, the sublime and the banal. ‘Zoloto,’ the Russian word for gold (observed by Haymes through his interactions with his Russian in-laws) reflects his affections for his family life-however unhinged it may appear."

Tokyo based Daifu Motoyuki’s intimate family portraits present us with an idea that runs counter to the stereotype of the average Japanese family. Captured over four years, the photographs detail an honest account of the sprawling chaos associated with his large family’s daily life (five siblings and two working parents under one roof). Often hectic and unkempt, Motoyuki’s scenes are candid portraits of a working class Japanese family capturing the endearing dysfunction within.

Memory and Mortality

I will be speaking this Sunday January 31st at B&H as part of their Artist Lecture Series. I will be speaking about my work and process and also share my professional practices and experiences, namely how residencies and grants have shaped my development as an artist, as well as defined my work and career.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/eventDetails.jsp/id/896
Please join me on Sunday afternoon from 1-3pm.

The B&H Event Space is located on the second floor of our Super Store, located at 420 9th Ave, New York, NY 10001.

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Check out Danelle Manthey's Christmas USA at Jenkins Johnson Gallery opening tonight from 6-8pm. 

"A childhood family ritual served as inspiration for Danelle Manthey’s series of photographs entitled Christmas USA; every holiday season, her family loaded into the car and traveled around their South Dakota area, looking at houses covered in Christmas lights, much to the chagrin of Manthey, who would have preferred to be at home opening presents. When visiting her family as an adult, the renewed tradition sparked curiosity within the photographer, causing her to wonder about the people behind the lights. Manthey, who has twice been selected as Chashama’s Artist in Residence, began documenting the families of these decorated homes in front of their masterpieces in December of 2003, and continues to do so each year at Christmastime, shooting in South Dakota, upstate New York, New Orleans, Florida, and New York City, among others. As Manthey states, her “images are but a glimpse into the world of [her] subjects. Identity and the question of individuality are the themes”that are pervasive within the series”; her ultimate goal is to communicate something about the subject and have it understood through the portrait process."

Christmas USA will be on view until January 8th.

Jenkins Johnson Gallery

521 W. 26th St

5th FL.

Things and Time

CARIBBEAN IN AMERICA: THINGS AND TIME

Photographs by MADELEINE HUNT –EHRLICH

On view for a limited time at L.E.S. GALLERY AT THE CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL CENTER 

107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002  

A project made possible by THE LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL  

Opening Night Reception & Fundraiser to benefit the Lambi Fund of Haiti 

Friday, December 3rd 6:00-8:00pm

Join in for a special evening of music, food, dancing, and fundraising in celebration of Madeleine Hunt- Ehrlich’s photography exhibition, Caribbean in America: Things and Time. A series of related works will be on display, curated by Legacy Russell (CONTACTPROJECT.NET, Bruce High Quality Foundation), the infamous DJ Deadly Dragon Sound System will spin classic Reggae, Pastry Chef Hannah Sullivan (Baba Restaurant, Brooklyn) will be offering styled bites, and a set of limited-edition prints will be for sale. All profits will be donated to the Lambi Fund of Haiti, a Haitian-American non- profit working to rebuild the city of Port Au Prince. Event is free and open to the public.

A year ago, photographer Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich began working in Little Haiti, the well-known Haitian-

American immigrant community in Miami, Florida. Soon after she began this work, an earthquake devastated

the city of Port au Prince in Haiti. Families were displaced, and one of the cultual capitols of the Caribbean was

left in ruin. The struggle to rebuild Port au Prince has been followed closely by people around the world, and

as we near the anniversary of this tragic event, there is still much work to be done.

Titled after the classic Reggae riddim, Caribbean in America: Things and Time considers cultural memory in Caribbean-American neighborhoods in New York and Miami. An excerpt of this project was published by the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the complete work will be on view at Clemente Soto Velez for a limited time. This project was funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

F.L.O.A.T Gallery Opens

A new gallery is opening in Brooklyn this week. Check out the opening this Friday night:

Things Fall Apart

I'm heading off to Berlin tomorrow. Next week will be the opening  of Things Fall Apart, Curated by Amy Stein at Pool gallery. So excited to be apart of this show which also features the work of Robin Schwartz, Zoe Strauss, Amy Stein, Juliana Beasley, Lisa Kereszi and Stacy Mehrfar. I can't wait! Will also be stopping by Paris Photo next weekend.

Where I'm Calling From

is pleased to present Where I'm Calling From featuring videos by Dale Hoyt, Jan Peacock,  Anna Shteynshleyger, and Regina Clarkinia and photography by Justine Reyes Reception for the artists, Friday, November 5th, 5-9 exhibition on view October 29th-November 27th "I won't raise my voice. Not even if she starts something. She'll ask me where I'm calling from, and I'll have to tell her. I won't say anything about New Year's resolutions. There's no way to make a joke out of this."                   -Raymond Carver, "Where I'm Calling From" "Where I'm calling from" until relatively recently was a static notion; the phone you were using was stationary, and more often than not you were phoning from home to someone else in their home. Now, the cell phone's mobility, and our general mobility as a society, has shifted that reality and the question of where you are calling from becomes more literal, just as it obscures the surety of notions of "home." Each of the video works in this exhibition employs the phone as the potent, elliptical tool that it is and explores its simultaneous relationship to both place and placelessness, home and distance from home. The photography by Reyes makes palpable the honest yearning of place through her revelatory portraits of her mother and uncle in their home and in hotel rooms in various locales from her series "Home, Away From Home." www.krowswork.com/calling.html Krowswork Gallery 480 23rd St. Oakland, CA 94612