The Lucie Awards 2010- October 23-27, 2010 NYC

Don't miss it!  See you there!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact:  Sherrie Berger 310.503.4455 press@sherrieberger.com www.lucieawards.com EPK available via ftp or CD  The Official LUCIE FOUNDATION Week's Programming   Capped by the 8th Annual LUCIE AWARDS at Alice Tully Hall, LINCOLN CENTER   Los Angeles, Calif. (October 14, 2010) - The 8th annual Lucie Awards will be preceded by exhibitions, a benefit preview and artist talks during LUCIE WEEK 2010, presented by the Lucie Foundation. The week will culminate with the Lucie Awards, presented at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall; on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. Honorees and top winners from the 2010 IPA competition will be recognized.  The Lucie Awards, produced by the Lucie Foundation, (a non-profit, charitable foundation), honor the achievements of the world’s finest photographers, discover emerging talent through the International Photography Awards and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide.  Tickets are on sale at http://www.lincolncenter.org/ Some of the LUCIE WEEK events scheduled include: SAT. Oct. 23:  The International Photography Awards annual BEST OF SHOW exhibition and party, on Saturday evening, October 23 at Splashlight, 75 Varick Street, 3rd Floor, in Soho. 7-10pm.  Open to the public. RSVP to bestofshow@photoawards.com  or via our Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166679883348052&ref=mf SUN. Oct. 24:  The Lucie Foundation and En Foco co-present a joint artist talk, A Conversation with Graciela Iturbide & Martin Weber, moderated by Elizabeth Ferrer, on Sunday afternoon, October 24 (open to the public with RSVP, limited capacity) also at Splashlight from 7:00 p.m. with a reception/mixer prior to the lecture for Lucie Foundation and En Foco members from 5:30-6:30 p.m.  RSVP: lectures@luciefoundation.org MON. Oct. 25:  The Lucie Foundation presents an exhibition of the work of the 2010 Lucie Foundation participants and scholarship winners.  Additionally there will be a preview showcasing the upcoming online Lucie Foundation benefit auction to support future Foundation programming. Hosted by the Farmani Gallery pop-up space at the Soho Gallery for the Digital Arts, at 138 Sullivan Street, from 6:00-9:00 p.m.  Free with RSVP: foundationevent@luciefoundation.org   TUES. Oct. 26: Special 2010 Lucie Awards Honoree luncheon.  By invitation only. The masters being recognized at the 8th Annual Lucie Awards include: This year the Lucie Awards recognize master photographers and organizations that have made a significant contribution to photography.  The list of honorees includes Tina Barney (Achievement in Portraiture Award),Howard Bingham (Achievement in Photojournalism), James Drake (Achievement in Sports),Graciela Iturbide (Achievement in Fine Art), Lee Tanner (Achievement in Documentary Photography Award), The Center for Photography at Woodstock will receive The Spotlight Award and The Eddie Adams Workshop will be presented with The Visionary Award. Composer and Artist Michael Nyman is the inaugural recipient of the Double Exposure Award – a new award that celebrates individuals who have achieved success in a number of fields, including photography.David Goldblatt will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.  The 2010 International Photography Awards (IPA) Finalists will also compete to receive cash prizes and Lucies.  Each year, Honorees are nominated by the 40 member Advisory Board. The Lucies will also recognize those in the creative community who are integral in crafting an image in the following categories:  Print Advertising Campaign of the Year, Fashion Layout of the Year, Photography Magazine of the Year, Book Publisher of the Year, Exhibition/Curator of the Year and Picture Editor of the Year.  The IPA competition will announce its top winners from the 2009 competition and distribute $20,000 in cash prizes across the top three awards.  IPA prizes include $10,000 for the International Photographer of the Year Award provided by AtEdge, $5,000 prize to the Discovery of the Year Award, and $5,000 to the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year.   Since its formation in October, 2008, the Lucie Foundation, supported by its membership,  has produced myriad events including: MOPLA (Month of Photography, Los Angeles) including exhibitions, workshops, lectures and outdoor photography projections, Lucie Scholarship and Mentoring programs, Fresh Look and Fresh Fair.     The Lucie Awards official media partner is Photo District News.  Additional support is provided by AtEdge, Runway Magazine, L2 Fine Art Mounting and Framing, Sous les Etoiles, and Splashlight Studios. Tickets for the Lucie Awards are on sale at http://www.lincolncenter.org/  About the Lucie Foundation   The Lucie Foundation’s three fold mission is to honor master photographers, to discover and cultivate emerging talent and to promote the appreciation of photography worldwide.  The photography communities from countries around the globe pay tribute to the year’s most outstanding photographic achievements at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony.  The Lucies recognize men and women whose life’s work in photography merits the highest acclaim by their peers.  The Foundation presents year round programming in Los Angeles, Florida and New York and addresses the needs of high school students through Snapshop!, emerging photographers through E-pprentice, an online mentoring program, and provides financial support through the Lucie Scholarship Program to both an emerging and professional photographer.  The sister effort of the Foundation is the International Photography Awards,  where the winners of the Photographer of the Year, the Discovery of the Year and Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year are announced at the Lucies and are awarded cash prizes and statues.  The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable foundation.www.luciefoundation.org  # # #

ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week-Schoolhouse Editions

ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week goes to Schoolhouse Editions of Charles Lane Press.

This two of the new editions released are my favorites. I find both of them  theme's interesting and  visually quite endearing.

Happy Shopping!

Stephen Shames

Pump
1980
11" x 14"
Pigment Print
Edition of 10
$750.00

Carolyn Drake

Uighur Disco
2008
11" x 14"
Digital C Print
Edition of 10
$750.00

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Paul Strand in Mexico featured in NY 1 News

10/10/2010 01:35 PM

"Paul Strand In Mexico" Comes to Chelsea Gallery

By: Stephanie Simon

A new photography exhibit in Chelsea takes a look at the people of Mexico in the early 1930s in the years after its revolution. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report.

The harsh reality of Mexican life in the years after its revolution in 1910 are now on display in a new photo exhibit at Aperture gallery on West 27th Street. To chronicle this unique moment in Mexican history, premiere Mexican composer Carlos Chavez invited New York photographer Paul Strand to come with his camera.

"Paul Strand spent two, almost three years there really getting into what it meant to be sort of in this new nation and presented a great look at the people, the architecture, and the things they valued, the details, the religious details of that time," said Paul Strand in Mexico Editor Lesley Martin.

The exhibit includes more than 100 prints from Strand's time in Mexico in the early 1930s, plus a film he made as well.

A group of students from Baruch College who recently visited the exhibit say the beauty of the photographs are in the eye of the beholder.

"His sense of photographing people and the way he used light and texture, I've always found to be really remarkable," said Baruch College Professor of Photography Leonard Sussman.

"You see what's kind of like what in our culture might be, like a doe-eyed female girl, and even so, like even in that innocence, there's like a tension behind it, so that's what caught my eye," said Baruch College student Dov Zamore.

"A lot of the images, the ones not of the people, but of the religious icons, were more striking than the people themselves. Because a lot of the crucifixes, you could actually, they were so vividly made, that you could see the blood dripping from Jesus or the look, expression on his face and I found that particulary interesting," said Baruch College student Ravendra Persaud.

If you find Strand particularly interesting, you can see every image he took in Mexico in a new book titled "Paul Strand in Mexico." It goes on sale at bookstores next month, but is available now at Aperture. There is also a small showcase of his prints currently at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

"We wanted this to be sort of a community wide celebration, both of Paul Strand but also of the incredible dynamic cultural exchange that's existed between Mexico and the United States," Martin said.

For more information, visit www.aperture.org.

Thank you Christopher Paquette for your Goodwill !

''Goodwill'' By Christopher Paquette

Today during the Second Session of Fall Portfolio Reviews NYC, I had the pleasure of looking at the work of photographer Christopher Paquette. Among the images there was one called Goodwill that always liked and stayed on my head since Christopher posted it a while back on Facebook. The minute I saw it ,  loved it!

So today,  after I had a face to face encounter with Goodwill and Christopher out of his kindness and goodwill gave me the image as a present. Needless to say this made my day! It was a very busy, but very productive day with great variety of talented photographers work to look at.

Thank you  so much Christopher!. Today with your generous gesture you reminded me why, I love photography and how lucky I am of doing what I do! 

I love it! Looking already for a frame for it and a very happy and great addition for my art collection. It is going up!

Please take a look at Christopher work here.
http://chpaquettephotos.blogspot.com/

Michal Chelbin- Black Eye @ Andrea Meislin Gallery

MICHAL CHELBIN

THE BLACK EYE
SEPTEMBER 28 - NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Red Faced Boy, 2006
C-Print
37 x 37 inches
Edition of 7

Matvey, Russia, 2009
C-Print
37 x 37 inches
Edition of 7

Hold, Ukraine, 2006
C-Print
37 x 37 inches
Edition of 7

A great show with beautiful , painterly color photographs! Also, take a look at Michal Chelbin monograph- Black Eye book  published by Twin Palms . Go and see it!

Here is more info about the show:
Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of The Black Eye, Michal Chelbin's second solo exhibition with the Gallery on September 28, 2010. Reception and book signing with the artist will be held on October 14th from 6 to 8 pm. Andrea Meislin Gallery exhibited Chelbin's previous body of work, Strangely Familiar, in September 2008 to great critical and commercial success. The Black Eye continues her exploration of the world of athletes and performers from across Russia and Ukraine. Published as a monograph by Twin Palms, The Black Eye also features an original short story by Tel Aviv-based filmmaker and fiction writer, Etgar Keret. 

The athletes and wrestlers in this series are studies in contrasts: youth and manhood, strength and weakness, tenderness and rigidity, odd and ordinary, splendor and roughness. Revealing little about the lives of the subjects, Chelbin exposes an internal drama, capturing a tension between the gaze and the presence of each individual. These athletes are exhausted after a hard training session or fight. Some are breathless, sweaty, and fatigued. Chelbin unearths a certain expression in which they have almost calmed their breath but not yet fully regained their self-awareness. It is a moment when they have lifted their mask and surrendered to the camera. In exposing this moment, she opens up the contradiction between the person and the persona. 


Chelbin eschews digital processing and all of her photographs are printed by hand. As a result, these intensely hued photographs both authentically record their subjects and are striking to behold. 

Israeli-born artist Michal Chelbin has previously appeared in solo shows at Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. Her work has been short-listed for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Chelbin is included in many prestigious private and public collections including The Jewish Museum, New York, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Portland Art Museum and The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.


http://www.andreameislin.com

Watch FRED TOMASELLI @ work!

ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week-Fred Tomaselli

This one comes from ACRIA. At $400.00 edition of 100 it surely beats the prices of the paintings and photograms currently on display at his wonderful solo show at the Brooklyn Museum, NYC(see info below). You can see the pattern in the painting below as part of this print.
Get yours today! 

Happy Shopping!

Fred Tomaselli

Gallery: James Cohan Untitled 
Archival Digital Print
11 x 8-� inches
Edition: 100
Price:  $400 Unframed

Larger View

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Fred Tomaselli (American, b. 1956). Big Raven, 2008. Acrylic, photocollage, and resin on wood panel, 84 x 72 in. (13.4 x 182.9 cm). Private collection, courtesy of the artist, White Cube, London, and James Cohan Gallery, New York

October 8, 2010–January 2, 2011

Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor

This focused mid-career survey presents a selection of Fred Tomaselli’s unique hybrid paintings and collages from 1990 to the present. These layered paintings combine cutout images of plants, birds, smiling mouths, and hands (clipped from field guides and magazines) with passages of paint and actual prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants to create highly stylized, eye-popping compositions. Tomaselli’s artwork draws upon a wide range of sources from both popular culture and art history, and from his own hobbies of gardening, kayaking, and bird-watching. Growing up near the desert in southern California, Tomaselli felt the influence of nearby theme parks, with their manufactured reality, and the music and drug counterculture of Los Angles in the 1970s and 1980s. His distinctive melding of these influences coalesces into a folk-driven, utopian vision of the mythic American West and of lush gardens as sites of contemplation, loss, and possible redemption. One of the pioneering artists who moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the 1980s, Tomaselli continues to live and work in the borough.


This exhibition is organized and toured by the Aspen Art Museum and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. The Brooklyn Museum presentation is coordinated by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum.

Presenting sponsor

The exhibition has also received support from Sotheby’s; Glenstone; James Cohan Gallery; The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Foundation; White Cube, London; Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman; Amy and John Phelan; Mickey Cartin; Greg Feldman and Melanie Shorin; Scott and Meg Mueller; and other generous donors.

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But wait...I found ANOTHER print and this one is actually in the Brooklyn Museum show!!!
It is a little more but is only an edition of 80.Also is part of his latest body of work!
This one is for another great cause PROSPECT NEW ORLEANS.
Here it is:

Fred Tomaselli, "August 31, 2005". 8-color silkscreen, 16” x 14.5”. Courtesy: James Cohan Gallery.

FRED TOMASELLI

August 31, 20058-color silkscreen
16” x 14.5”
Edition of 80

$1,000 + $50 Shipping
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or to http://www.prospectneworleans.org/order by phone, please call 212.680.5305.

Join our SNAP! Benefit Party! 11/1/10

This is part of the Aperture Foundation Benefit Auction & Gala. Come,  see and bid for the emerging artists auction with works of great artists... us truly included.


See you November 1, 2010 ! Party on and then cast your vote the next day!


www.aperture.org

Second Session of Fall Portfolio Reviews- October 16 2010

Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century features the latest, greatest, and newly up-and-coming artists responsible for this furor. A com­pendium of more than 120 image-makers from around the globe,

Second Session of Fall Portfolio Reviews 2010-  10/16/10

10/9 -10/16, 2010- Receive a FREE Aperture Foundation Photography book by signing up for TheFall Portfolio Reviews- NYC . Reviewers are Michael Hoeh- Art Collector/Curator/Editor in Chief ofModern Art Obession Arts Blog

 Elizabeth Houston - Owner of hous projects Gallery NYC-LA 

and Ruben Natal-San Miguel- Architect/Photographer/Art Collector/Curator/Editor in Chief - Artmostfierce Art blog.

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Paul Strand in Mexico Symposium 10/15-16/10

Here is some great activities courtesy of Aperture Foundation and the work of the great photographer Paul Strand for this coming weekend for... you!. They are also free!

Enjoy!

The long awaited publication of Paul Strand in Mexico brings together photographs and documents never before published from a pivotal time is this seminal artist’s career. On the occasion of the release of this comprehensive volume and exhibition on view now, Aperture in association with The John B. Hurford ‘60 Humanities Center at Haverford College has organized a two day symposium curated by scholar James Krippner, to take place at Aperture along with screenings of Strand’s films Manhatta & Redes taking place at the Cantor Film Center, NYU. This series of panels features prominent scholars and practitioners from the field discussing art historical context for this body of work by Strand from a number of perspectives. Join for any or all of the following discussions and events:

Friday, October 15
2:00 PM - Introduction by James Krippner

3:00 PM - Photographs as Historical Sources
Linda Gordon + John Mraz

4:30 PM - Strand, Mexico and Modernist Photography
Ester Gabara + Fred Ritchin

7:00 PM - Screening of Paul Strand’s Manhatta & Redes at the Cantor Film Center, NYU

Saturday, October 16th
2:00 PM - Photography in Mexico and United States Southwest
Anne Hammond + Leonard Folgarait

3:30 PM -Strand in the History of Photography
Mike Weaver + William Williams

5:00 PM - Final remarks by James Krippner

Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York

Cantor Film Center, NYU
36 East 8th Street
New York, New York

All events are FREE and open to the public.

Click here for more information about the Paul Strand in Mexico Symposium

Click here to view new book Paul Strand in Mexico

Jowhara Alsaud @ Witzenhousen Gallery- 10/14/10

Jowhara Alsaud

Going to this opening!

Do not miss it!

jowhara alsaud @ witzenhausen gallery ny

jacob witzenhausen personally invites you to a reception to celebrate the exhibition of jowhara alsaud at witzenhausen gallery new york.

please join us for the reception for the artist on thursday october 28 from 6 - 8.

at

witzenhausen gallery
547 w 27 street, 5th floor
between 10th and 11th avenue

the exhibition of jowhara alsaud opens on thursday october 14 and ends on saturday november 13.

please rsvp to chelsea@witzenhausengallery.nl.

for any additional information or assistance, please
contact the gallery at chelsea@witzenhausengallery.nl
or +1 212 239 1124

http://www.witzenhausengallery.nl/exhibition_detail.php?blNY=1&idxEvent=272

John Baldessari Supreme Decks

Fall is already here and so is our dear Squirrel. Here is another deal for your ART stasch.At only $78.00 each....Get yours now!

Happy Shopping!

John Baldessari

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The Richard Misrach Triptych 6 months later, is turning into some real mula$$$$$

A few months ago this Richard Misrach  triptych was featured here as ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week. Remember?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010

Richard Misrach Limited Edition...Hurry!-Artmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week

Only 20 left... a Triptych for only $350.00. Go get it now!

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You can thank the Squirrel afterwards!

Well...somebody really paid attention and not only bought it but, decided to put it to the test in the auction market 6 months later (Not me, BTW mine is still in a box buried somewhere in my apt.). Here is being featured at Christie's Auction. Oh ...check out the estimated price on it now. From $350.00 to $3,000.00-$ 5,000.00 it really pays up to be in the know. Always remember you snooze ...you lose. They are some people pretty happy right now with this  beautiful classic triptych adorning their walls. Enjoy! 

Fall Portfolio Reviews 2010- 10/9, 10/16/10

10/9 -10/16, 2010- Receive a FREE Aperture Foundation Photography book by signing up for TheFall Portfolio Reviews- NYC . Reviewers are Michael Hoeh- Art Collector/Curator/Editor in Chief of Modern Art Obession Arts Blog

 Elizabeth Houston - Owner of hous projects Gallery NYC-LA 

and Ruben Natal-San Miguel- Architect/Photographer/Art Collector/Curator/Editor in Chief - Artmostfierce Art blog.

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reGeneration 2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today

William A. Ewing (editor)
Nathalie Herschdorfer (editor)

Paperback with flaps
9" x 10 5/8"
224 pages 
208 black-and-white and four-color images

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