ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week- Carrie Mae Weems @ Light Work

Carrie Mae Weems - Kitchen Table Series
Untitled, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990/2010
Silver gelatin print, 9 7/8 x 9 3/4" image on a 14 x 11" sheet
Signed and numbered print in a limited edition of 100 

ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week this week goes to the wonderful work of Carrie Mae Weems and one of my favorite secrets Light Work.

This print is beautiful and so worth the money. Her work was just on display at the Studio Museum of Harlem.

Carrie Mae Weems - Kitchen Table Series $1,000.00

Here is more info:

The seminal Kitchen Table Series by Carrie Mae Weems is widely recognized as a masterpiece of performance and story-telling within the photographic image. In this series, Weems uses a subtle vocabulary of props, gesture, and gaze to frame complex questions about identity, gender construction, representation, parenthood, and the nature of human relationships. Weems describes her intention of Kitchen Table Series as a personal view on the world around her, "I endeavored to intertwine themes as I have found them in--racial, sexual, and cultural identity and history--and presented them with overtones of humor and sadness, loss and redemption." The nonlinear narrative and issues presented in Weems' Kitchen Table Series remain as topical and thought-provoking today as when the images were first created in the early 1990s. Rendered in exquisite black-and-white, this silver gelatin print is hand-printed by Griffin Editions in New York City.

"This black and white photo comes from Weems' "Kitchen Table Series" which portrayed Weems in various domestic scenes in which the artist performs various stories, creating a narrative about relationships, family, race, sex and society. The work is evocative, mysterious and dramatic. What more can one hope for in the art we live with?"
-- Jim Hedges, The Huffington Post

About the Artist:
Carrie Mae Weems is an internationally recognized artist who has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2005-2006 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship and the Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies, a retrospective, was held at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Spain in 2010 and has been nominated for a prestigious European exhibition award. A book of the same name as the exhibition was published concurrently with the exhibition and is available through Light Work. Weems' art can be found in various permanent collections, such as at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was recently featured on PBS' Artists in the 21st Century series. For more information about Carrie Mae Weems, see www.carriemaeweems.net.

VERSUS- Review @ Fraction Magazine by Mary Goodwin

Jen Davis vs. Eric Ogden

Many many thanks to Photographer David Bram and Mary Goodwin , Associate Director of Light Work for the great review of the show VERSUS. Fraction Magazine is fantastic publication and , I encourage all you readers to keep up with its great articles.

This made my morning! Thank you so much!

Here is the review by Mary Goodwin:

The exhibition versus should be on your short list of shows to visit in New York City between now and March 8. Curator/collector/artist/blogger Ruben Natal-San Miguel has assembled an eye-popping array of images by some of contemporary photography’s most intriguing artists. The list of 18 participating photographers is indeed impressive, including some well-known names, such as Zoe Strauss, Michael Wolf, Brian Ulrich, Mickalene Thomas, Eric Ogden, and Hank Willis Thomas, among others. More interestingly, San-Miguel has paired these more high-profile artists with those who may be a little less familiar to you, at least for now.

These pairings, from which the show garners its name, are a simple device that accomplishes a lot with elegant economy. In most cases, such as putting Mickalene Thomas’s work together with Nadine Rovner’s, the pairings amplify similarities in theme and approach, in this case, a retro seventies feel concerned with sleekness, glamour, and its impact on identity and narrative. When curator san-Miguel poses the question, “If it wasn’t Penelope Cruz peeking through the window, if it was Jane Doe, would the scene be as powerful, lush, and tantalizing?” about Ogden’s work, placing Jen Davis’s images next to Ogden’s answers with a resounding “Yes!” Sometimes the juxtapositions presented in versus are so refined that you may have to squint to tell where one photographer’s work stops and another’s begin, such as with Phil Toledano vs. Elizabeth Fleming.

Versus takes on additional complexity when work by “unpaired” photographers start to speak to each other from across the room. This synergy happens best when the deserted, signless storefront in Brian Ulrich’s Toys-R-Us reverberates with the erased-logo mints tin in Hank Willis Thomas’s Now That’s Funny; these connections between unpaired works form the connective tissue that holds the whole exhibition together as a survey.

Ultimately, versus is an exhibition about relationships both on the walls and beyond them. The backstory of how the show was conceived, put together, and promoted provides a great case in point. That versus was conceived of, organized, and then promoted on Andy Adam’s Flak Photo website in a matter of weeks is a testament to the strength of the connections among the many players. The quality and richness of versus is proof that hous projects and Ruben Natal-San Miguel really know how to put on a show.

Those who can’t visit versus in person can get a flavor of what it has to offer at the hous projects website.

—Mary Goodwin is the Associate Director at Light Work in Syracuse, New York. Light Work was founded in 1973 as a non-profit, artist-run organization. We provide direct support to artists working in the media of photography and digital imaging through residencies, publications, exhibitions, a community-access digital lab facility, and other related projects.

Here is the link of Fraction Magazine issue #11 that you should read!

http://www.fractionmagazine.com/reviews/versus

www.lightwork.org

www.davidbram.com

ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week

Judy Natal
$275.00

Beauty from the series Earthwords
Silver gelatin print, 12 x 9"

ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week goes to Photographer Judy Natal. I do not know if we are related but, I hope we are since we have the same last name and I saw her photo and she can easily pass for a family member! Anyway...I had been looking at her work for a while and find it quite interesting. This image is available at Lightwork for a very affordable price and the title says it all ...BEAUTY!

Also MoCP (Museum of Contemporary Photography )has another Judy Natal limited edition print available from the EarthWords series. See below.


NATAL, JUDY
$300.00
On the Road, from the series: EarthWords, 1999
Gelatin silver print, selenium toned
8 1/8 by 10 5/8 inches on 11 x 14 inch paper
Edition of 50

(American, b. 1952)

Natal created 200 images while in Joshua Tree National Park, Ca, and has extended her study of "earth words" to landscapes in France and Italy. With this exhibition, it is her intent to "explore the parallel relationships between art and language, photography and language, and the origins of art and language, connecting the symbolic use of text and the visual aspects of language, with the constructed reality of photography and the necessity of the photograph to be read."

www.judynatal.com/

http://lightwork.fatcow.com/store/altprints03.html

http://www.mocp.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=48

Artmostfierce AFFORDABLE PRINT Pick of the week

Lori Nix
$275.00

Wasps, 2002
from the series Insecta Magnifica
Chromogenic print, 14 x 11"

ARTmostfierce AFFORDABLE PRINT Pick of the Week goes to one of my favorite photographers, Lori Nix and you can purchase it from one of my favorite organizations, Lightwork. Lori Nix is represented by Clampart Gallery in New York City, where currently some of her work is on display as part of the group show called ARCADIA. See review about the show below.

http://www.lightwork.org/store/