Eric Ogden review @ The New Yorker

Eric Ogden

Congratulations to Eric Ogden for the amazing review at THE NEW YORKER !!!!
Still on display @ hous projects gallery.
Amazing!

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/04/eric-ogden.html

ON AND OFF THE WALLS: ERIC OGDEN’S VISIONS
Posted by Elisabeth Biondi


It is not at all surprising that Eric Ogden had directed several short movies before he turned to still photography. Each picture in his exhibit at Hous Projects Gallery looks like a beautiful frame from an undated film noir. Time seems frozen, the action suspended, the narrative of the picture arrested. Each picture makes me wonder about what has gone on before and where it will be heading. This sense of mystery is what makes Ogden’s images so seductive.

Whether it is a child on a swing in midair, a husky looming in a hallway, or a beautiful blonde hovering at a gas station, someone is trying to tell a story. Ogden provides the scenario and then lets his subjects either act out their story or directs them to do so. He works with light and shadows, his color is saturated, and the surroundings are lush.

I would have guessed that Ogden had grown up in the South, yet he is from Flint, Michigan. Perhaps the explanation for his Southern bent is his admiration for the legendary Mississippi photographer William Eggleston. When I asked Ogden whether he is familiar with Gregory Crewdson’s photographs, he told me he knows his work, as people often had mentioned it to him. He feels more akin to Philip-Lorca diCorsia, he said, and his real inspiration is Eggleston. But while Eggleston finds his pictures in his own environment, Ogden blends fact and fiction and creates cinematic dreamscapes.

For all of the above reasons we thought Eric was the right photographer to take Neil Gaiman’s portrait, published in our January 25th issue. Have a look below.



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Eric Ogden-A Half Remembered Season-Photographs @ hous projects 3/18/09

Eric Ogden- In Bed, 2010 22 x 30

Eric Ogden -Sleepwalker, 2005 30 x 40


This will be the one great photography opening event to start the AIPAD 2010 Fair weekend festivities. This is Eric Odgen first solo show after his debut @ VERSUS where his works got a lot of recognition and praise. I had seen already some of the works from the show which will have great quality of theme range and beauty.

Do not miss this one!

See you March 18, 2010!

hous projects announces a solo exhibition at the New York gallery of Eric Ogden’s a half-remembered season. A reception to celebrate the artist will be held at the gallery from 6 to 10 pm, Thursday, March 18, 2010. The exhibition will be traveling to the Los Angeles location in the summer of 2010 and dates are to be announced.

Still memory drips, a pipe in the cellar-dark.
- Robert Penn Warren

Eric Ogden chases mythical visions of his childhood in his photography by recreating situations infused with the unruly emotions he associated with the mysteries of everyday objects, such as toys, vacant lots and overgrown houses. Growing up in a working class Flint, Michigan neighborhood, he was ever curious and intrigued not only by his surroundings, but also by the people he encountered. Individuals moved through his young life that he found both terrible and wondrous, like those in the old horror films he indulged in watching. It was the power of suggestion that motivated him. All of those things that as a child you find surreal and are neither able to define, process nor digest, were burned into Ogden’s mind and are translated through his work. As one crosses the threshold to adulthood, these things and places that permeated one's youth become suffused with nostalgia. Fact increasingly blends with fiction, memories and mysteries turn in on themselves and you question: is the truth what events you can recall? Or is the truth feelings you have about something even if it never happened?

Eric Ogden- Recurring Dream, 2007 30 x 40

Like his surroundings, the people in his life were crucially influential on Ogden’s photography. His grandfather was a poet and fed his imagination through a mutual correspondence that unraveled his visual ideas into literary terms. These urges and sensibilities also heightened his work in film before he moved into photography and are very apparent in his cinematic compositions.

Eric Ogden- Boy in Swing, 2006 20 x 24

Ogden describes his photographs as “populated with characters that seem haunted by the weight of the past, images that evoke the strangeness of the everyday, and the mystery of objects and landscapes that seem to hold their secrets and allude to stories never quite explained.”

Eric Ogden-At the Table, 2006 20 x 24


Characters move amid compositions veiled in darkness with glowing highlights of warmth that infuse the
sense of place. Reality blends with fiction and gives the impression you could step right into the frame and watch the story unfold.Moreover, the emotional quality in the play of light and shadow is as much about what you are shown as what you are not. Visions of Graham Greene’s The Destuctors are conjured as you move through the images and meet characters both eerie and innocent.These sentiments thread through Ogden’s photography as glimpses not only into his character’s lives, but also his personal intrigue for psychology and perception.

Eric Ogden lives and works in New York City. His photographic work has been featured in solo exhibitions with Saatchi & Saatchi as well as hous projects and group exhibitions at Stephen Weiss Studio, Edison Place Gallery, Wexler Gallery, Alan Koppel Gallery, Regional Arts Commission,Chronicle Books, ACE Gallery, and Holden Luntz Gallery. Critical attention has been paid to Ogden’s work by Photo District News, American Photo, The Flint Journal and in American Character: A Photographic Journey published by Chronicle Books. Ogden’s assignment images have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire, The New Yorker, W, Rolling Stone, and Interview among others.

Bailey House Benefit 2.25.10 @ ROSELAND= Sustained Fabulousness!

Photographers Eric McNatt , Eric Odgen and friend rocking the evening away!

Very, very fierce benefit party last night!

Great crowd ,Tasty cocktails (I heard not me drinking, gave it up since Ash Wednesday) tasty food and a pretty fierce Manhattan crowd...seriously!

I had not seen some of these people since my heavy duty party day and shares in Fire Island and the Hamptons ...wow!

A great way to rinse myself from some grime that some people had been trying to pull on me lately. No worries, they will all be handled and out of business very soon.

Speaking of real business, congratulations to Bailey House for such a glamorous evening. Tim Gunn and Simon Noonan was just hilarious as a host! Also, by the time the evening was almost over they raised an estimated $250,000.00 dollars. Yes!!!!
This is all to benefit making a difference in the lives of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS.

Oh... I just loved the Tim Gunn talking bobble head that, came as part of the goodie bag...now Am really going to ...MAKE IT WORK!

hous projects @ SCOPE NY 2010

Folks! It is all about SCOPE NY 2010 this coming week!

hous projects is rocking the house too with some new works from most of the VERSUS artists and from the permanent hous artists stable.

Stop by!

See you next week!

BAILEY HOUSE-The 22ND ANNUAL AUCTION & PARTY 2/25/10

Join hosts Simon Doonan and Tim Gunn for an unforgettable evening at the 22nd Annual Bailey House Auction and Party. Bid on one-of-a-kind items at a variety of price points—including contemporary art & photography, vintage furniture, dream vacations and experiences, personal services, designer jewelry, and high fashion. Sip a cocktail, mingle and people-watch, all while making a difference in the lives of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS.

Roseland Ballroom

February 25th, 2010 at 7pm

For more information on Auction 2010 call 212-633-2500 ext. 455.

http://www.baileyhouse.org/auction

Not missing this one. Photographer Eric Ogden whose work is currently being shown @ VERSUS- hous projects has one great image up for auction (see below).

Photo -Eric Ogden- Red Sky-from his Flint, MI project, will be donated to this year's Bailey House Auction. Feb.25th at Roseland Ballroom

Come and place your bid and you might get lucky!

Also, Eric has his first solo show called"A HALF-REMEMBERED SEASON" @ hous projects opening March 18, 2010. (more info about it coming up soon)

See you there!

Speaking of Eric's How about this one by Eric McNatt also part of the Bailey House Auction?
Great no! Go ahead and put a bid on it!

Photo- Eric MacNatt- C-print 20 x 24