Spencer Tunick @ The Dead Sea

EIN GEDI.- A group of naked men take directions from US artist Spencer Tunick (off camera to left) and look left towards the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea, as some women take showers to remove the greasy water of the Dead Sea when some 1,000 people stripped down and took to the Dead Sea, at Mineral Beach, north of Ein Gedi, on 17 September 2011. Tunick creates environmental, mass-nude art installations and photographs them in order to show the human relationship with the environment The Naked Sea project is supposed to raise awareness to the plight of the Dead Sea, with its mineral-rich water levels drastically lowering.

Plank Road- Salomon Contemporary- Opening-9/15/10

Spencer Tunick-Mountak 4, 2009 Courtesy of Salomon Contemporary, NY.

Don't miss this one. I was part of the Spencer Tunick project shown above a year ago.  James Salomon, several friends and I are part of this photo. A great group show!


See you there!

SALOMON CONTEMPORARY proudly presents


PLANK ROAD
15 September - 30 October, 2010

Salomon Contemporary NYC
526 W 26, #519

Reception for the Artists: Wednesday, 15 September, 6 - 8pm

Arwa Abouon, Christopher Astley, Alice Aycock, Noah Becker, Maziar Behrooz, Chick Bills, Michael Bilsborough, Dianne Blell, Michael Combs, Peter Dayton, Pia Dehne, Sally Egbert, Jameson Ellis, Sebastian Errazuriz, Margaret Evangeline, Eric Fischl, Luis Gispert, Michael Halsband, Nir Hod, Alice Hope, Scott Hunt, Rima Mardoyan, Richard Pasquarelli, Alexis Rockman, Wael Shawky, Ned Smyth, Mike Solomon, Sabina Streeter, Billy Sullivan, Donald Sultan, Spencer Tunick, Lawrence Weiner, Su-en Wong and Darius Yektai.

Salomon Contemporary is proud to begin its 2010/2011 season with PLANK ROAD, a group show that celebrates the five-year anniversary of Salomon Contemporary Warehouse, East Hampton, with over 30 works in various media that highlight the exhibition program. In August 2005 the Warehouse opened with a Michael Halsband photography exhibition. Since then, Salomon Contemporary has had the privilege of working with many talented emerging and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists. Their work will now be presented together in our Chelsea space for the first time.
 www.salomoncontemporary.com

LQQK BETTER NAKED

Photos  by Kate Maier for the East Hampton Star (we were not allowed to photograph during the event)

Photo from David E. Rattray for the East Hampton Star ( not mine , we were not allowed)

Photographer Spencer Tunick  instructing the crowd

Photo assistants testing the morning light.

Crowd gathering at Montauk Lighthouse parking

Well... another adventure for me to remember !

Monday morning I was up at 2:00 AM to be part of photographer Spencer Tunick Montauk , NY photo shoot. I did not sleep , I was sort of excited and nervous at the same time but, so most people doing it with me. The road from East Hampton to Montauk was surreal, desolated at dark , kind of like a David Lynch movie. I am  such a big fan of Spencer Tunick works of art and for the longest time wanted to be part of one of his works.

When we got to the parking,  they were tons of people waiting, some young, some men but, the majority were women over 30. The crowd was composed of all walks of life people , short, tall , slim , fat, dark,white , tattooed and even body piercings (genital too) were on display...ok?

After signing a release form and address info (yes to get the  free print ok!) we marched like little soldiers and obeyed to take our clothes off and get to it...OMG ...Ok I am in shape , my body has good proportions, I got no scars, no tattoos, had being photographed before  and even visited nude beaches  but this...was different... for a few seconds , I was terrified!!! ha ha ha!

Oh... did I mentioned how cold it was...we were all shaking (me more for being nude in front of over 200 PP).

So after getting over that , it was great, got over the fact that were nude in public and enjoyed the whole experience. Spencer was  extremely cool, gregarious and professional and really made things better. Seeing in the crowd were photographer Sarah Small, Art Dealer James Salomon  from Salomon Contemporary and photographer  Casey Kellbaugh  who was working for Spencer Tunick. 

We did five different poses and it all went pretty  fast. The last shot was all women by the Lighthouse and it looked beautiful! (See photo) . No cameras were allowed so I only took photos at the parking gathering only. 

Will I do it again? ...ABSOLUTELY YES!

Do I recommend people to live it up and do it? ...HELL YEAH!

And just remember...HAVING SUN TAN LINES will NOT get you in front of the photo.

For those who don't know about international photographer Spencer Tunick see his web site:

www.spencertunick.com/

East Hampton Star article about it here:

http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Arts/SpencerTunickatMontaukPoint/tabid/9194/Default.aspx

Now, I am eagerly waiting for my print to come in the mail and to attend the party celebration in a few months. Thanks Spencer! 

You set me free!!!