ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the ARMORY SHOW WEEK

Resting my feet and getting ready for another day of Art Fair Mania!!!

Seen a lot of wonderful things and this one is my picks for the Art Fair Week Mania.

Trine Søndergaard - VOLTA Art Fair-Julie Quottrup Silbermann from Martin Asbæk Gallery has a wonderful print and book  from the series Strude of photographer Trine Søndergaard . It is only an edition of 20 and only $800.00 USD.


Trine is represented in Denmark by Martin Asbæk Gallery  and in NYC by Bruce Silverstein which is also featuring her work @ The Armory Show. A Win- Win and a must have!

Martin Asbæk Gallery

Bredgade 23

1260 Copenhagen

Denmark

www.martinasbaek.com

phone: 0045 3315 4045

cell : 0045 2681 2887

iseeyou- Michael Wolf at Bruce Silverstein Gallery -10/28/10

Don't miss this show!

See you at the opening!

Artist:	Michael Wolf
Title:	Street View Manhattan #01
Year:	2010
Size:	40 X 60 inches
Medium:	Chromogenic print

Artist:

Michael Wolf

Title:

Street View Manhattan #01

Year:

2010

Size:

40 X 60 inches

Medium:

Chromogenic print

iseeyou


Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present iseeyou, a groundbreaking and provocative exhibition by German photographer Michael Wolf. Encompassing four bodies of work—Transparent City, Architecture of Density, Tokyo Compression, and Street Views—iseeyou addresses the realities of 21st century metropolitan existence, one defined by constant access, vanishing privacy, and unlimited exposure.
By sampling images from Google’s Street Views, Wolf’s series becomes a postmodern departure from the 20th century definition of photography. Wolf creates his series from a subset of images made without human intervention, rather, by an automobile with nine mounted cameras capable of a 360° perspective, automatically recording without discrimination. Wolf’s Street View photographs are slightly unsettling in nature, and these images press us to consider what is left of our privacy in an era when many of our actions are publicly recorded, traced, and archived.
To create Street Views, Wolf substitutes the camera lens for the computer screen—hunting for, isolating, cropping, and enlarging images of anonymous city dwellers captured by Google’s automobile mounted Street View cameras. Wolf’s deliberate and engaging compositions highlight the artist’s innovative vision, reflecting a new approach to imaging our world’s most photographed cities. These beautifully composed, blown-up pixilated moments appropriated from Google’s much-contested copyrighted images, depict people engaged in private or awkward moments and occasionally implicated in shocking interactions. They are a pointed commentary on the increasing ubiquitous presence of this omniscient American corporation.
His three earlier bodies of work provide a context for Wolf’s Street View series and demonstrate the artist’s pursuit of a new perspective on urban life in the digital age. Tokyo Compression is a series of images of Tokyo subway passengers crushed against the glass of a crowded train car, unable to protest Wolf’s photographing them. The images are painterly and sometimes abstract in appearance, pain and discomfort marks those faces that are visible. Wolf’s two best-known series, Architecture of Density and Transparent City, are large-scale, formulaic studies of Hong Kong’s highly compressed, brutal concrete architecture and Chicago’s pervious transparent skyline. While Wolf’s flattened images of these massive structures in Hong Kong only allow the viewer to imagine the thousands of lives contained within each building, his photos of Chicago’s glass skyscrapers permit the viewer to permeate the buildings’ facades and arouse the voyeur in each of us. As with Street View, Wolf was drawn to those instances where people’s daily lives were exposed, scouring every inch of these cityscapes for even the smallest human elements and details to drastically enlarge and complement his Transparent City images.
Michael Wolf was born in Munich, Germany. He grew up in the USA and studied at University of California, Berkley and at the University of Essen in Germany. He has been living and working in Hong Kong for the past 16 years. A number of books have been published on his work, which was most recently featured at the Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2010.
http://www.brucesilverstein.com

On the Scene: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, Zoe Strauss @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Mattress Flip by Zoe Strauss

It is my pleasure to let you all know that our dear ''La Divina '' Zoe Strauss, currently doing an artists residence in Spain, is also part of this great exhibition titled On The Scene at the Art Institute of Chicago!

If you happen to be in the Windy City seeing this show, should be on top of your agenda.

Don't miss it!

On the Scene: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, Zoe Strauss
September 19, 2009–January 24, 2010
Gallery 188
Overview: The Art Institute of Chicago is committed to collecting and exhibiting the most dynamic new work by emerging artists. On the Scene: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, Zoe Strauss is the third in a series of exhibitions presented by the Department of Photography, each of which explores the diverse range of art being produced today. This show brings together the work of Lazarus (born 1975), Plöger (born 1972), and Strauss (born 1970), including some of the department’s recent acquisitions.

11/12, 6-7 p.m. Price Auditorium Free
Artist Zoe Strauss discusses her work now on view in the exhibition On the Scene.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/onthescene09

Photographer Zoe Strauss is represented in New York City by The Bruce Silverstein Gallery.

Tod Hido- A ROAD DIVIDED @ Bruce Silverstein Gallery 9/10/09

Artist:Todd Hido
Title:5154
Year:2006
Medium:Chromogenic print
Size:38 x 48 inches

Here is another great show for you to see during the US OPEN of the Chelsea Gallery District , September 10, 2009. A must see!

Press Release: A Road Divided


Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce A Road Divided, an extraordinary exhibition of recent large-scale landscape photographs by Todd Hido. Following his earlier debut of previously unseen portraits, Hido has focused his attention once again to the American landscape, a subject explored in his widely acclaimed series Roaming. Presented mostly in large scale, these photographs hit a new mark. Looking from the vantage point of his car seat, and shooting outward through ever changing layered mixtures of condensation, grit, and reflecting glare upon the car’s windshield, Hido masterfully transforms the mundane terrain peripherally sandwiching the myriad of roads typically dotting the outskirts of American cities, into inexplicable poignant images, filled with cinematic gravitas and dream-like sublimity, often “crossing the double lines’ between painting and photography.

While Hido embraces the aesthetic, it is not without a critical eye. He is drawn to austere scenes that characterize America as an empty place, evidenced by crossroads, dead-end streets, broken trees, and seemingly endless highways. Moody and psychological, like the times we live in, these landscapes are metaphors for personal emotions, evocative of the dark things that keep us up at night.

TODD HIDO (b.1968, Kent, OH) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist who received his M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1996 and his B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, and are included in numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as in many other public and private collections. His work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Metropolis, The Face, I-D, and Vanity Fair. In 2001 an award-winning monograph of his work titled House Hunting was published by Nazraeli Press and a companion monograph, Outskirts, was published in 2002. His third book, Roaming, was published in 2004. His latest book, Between the Two, focusing on portraits and nudes, was published in 2006. His upcoming monograph A Road Divided will be published in 2010. He is an adjunct professor at the California College of Art, San Francisco, California.