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ADC Young Guns 6
Davin — May 8th, 2008

ADC - Young Guns 6

The Art Directors Club continues with its mandate of recognizing and fostering new work and emerging talents in multiple creative fields. Since 1996, Young Guns has chosen to honour people doing outstanding multidisciplinary work. This year’s competition is now open until June 2nd.

ADC Young Guns exists to identify the vanguard of creative professionals who let loose their imaginations, shattering conventions and breaking boundaries with a dash of brilliance and personal flair. Those of you who’ve set your minds to making a name for yourself, raising new standards from within cubicles, conference rooms, cramped apartments, and studios across the world—this is your chance to put those battle cries in action. If you’re age thirty or under and have two years of the working life under your belt, we’d like you to show us what it’s all about. — ADC

adcyoungguns.org

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William Greiner - Fallen Paradise
Davin — May 7th, 2008

Fallen ParadiseKlompching Gallery has released a limited edition book of images from William Greiner’s exhibition Fallen Paradise currently running at the gallery until June 27th.

$125.00 — 100 signed and numbered examples, hardbound , 28 pages , 26 color plates, 11 ½ x 15 1/8” , each book includes an original signed c-print 4 x 6”.

klompching.com
111 Front Street, suite 206 Brooklyn NY 11201

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Zoe Strauss I-95.08
Davin — May 2nd, 2008

Zoe Strauss I-95.08On Sunday, May 4 2008 at Front and Mifflin Sts. in Philadelphia, PA Zoe Strauss presents the 2008 incarnation of her serial I-95 show. 231 photographs will be attached under I-95 from 1pm to 4pm and those same photos can be removed by those attending after 4pm.

Strauss wrote recently about how feelings surrounding the show’s transient nature has come under some challenge as the market value of here work increased.

“After the I-95 show two years ago, right after I was in the Whitney biennial, I felt that some people didn’t understand that the show wasn’t a ‘give away,’ but rather it’s just that when the show is done the photos are left to the elements and people can take them if they want. I had some consternation regarding how I saw the taking of the photos after the show was done. I did want people to take them if they wanted them… but I wanted someone to take them on the basis of their engagement with the show, not on the promise of a piece of the show having monetary value.” — Zoe Strauss

The perspective she’s gained leading up to this year’s show is an interesting balance to the photographic print as the authorized tradable product of the art market.

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Click! at Brooklyn Museum
Davin — April 15th, 2008

“Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process.”

“Click! … begins with an open call—artists are asked to electronically submit a work of photography that responds to the exhibition’s theme, Changing Faces of Brooklyn, along with an artist statement.”

Brooklyn Museum has entered the public evaluation phase of Click!. The work of each artist (chosen in the project’s first phase) is presented with a short statement and a sliding rank tool. I’m not sure about the granularity of the evaluation slider — I think that an out-of-five Likert scale may have worked better but that’s not overly important.

“Click! culminates in an exhibition at the Museum, where the artworks are installed according to their relative ranking from the juried process. Visitors will also be able to see how different groups within the crowd evaluated the same works of art. The results will be analyzed and discussed by experts in the fields of art, online communities, and crowd theory.”

brooklynmuseum.org

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Opening: “31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography”
Davin — February 22nd, 2008

Humble Arts Foundation, in collaboration with Ladies Lotto, presents

31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography

Curated by Lumi Tan and Jon Feinstein

Opening reception:
Saturday, March 1, 2008
The Gallery at 3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, at the corner of Stagg St., in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The exhibition includes photographs by Amy Elkins, Ashley Lefrak, Dru Donovan, Elaine Stocki, Helen Maurene Cooper, Ka-Man Tse, Mary Mattingly, Ahndraya Parlato, Alejandra Laviada, Alana Celli, Alex Van Clief, Allison Grant, Catherine Maloney, Dina Kantor, Hannah Whittaker, Jessica Bruah, Jessica Roberts, Jaimie Warren, Kate and Camilla, Kelly Kleinschrodt, Marta Labad, Manya Fox, Molly Landreth, Nadine Rovner, Rachael Dunville, Reka Reisinger, Sara Padgett, Sarah Small, Sarah Sudhoff, Talia Chetrit and Tealia Ellis Ritter.

humbleartsfoundation.org | ladieslotto.com

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Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?
Davin — February 1st, 2008

A Photograph of New JerseyIf you’ve ever visited Laurel Ptak’s i heart photograph then you’ll know that she truly does love photography and shares that love by featuring a vast and diverse array of visual work from around the world. Not to be limited to this curatorial outlet, Laurel has recently announced an open call for a multidisciplinary exhibition at New Jersey’s Pierro Gallery called, Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

You were born in New Jersey. You’ve been there. You’ve never been there. You know it from movies. TV. Songs. Newspapers. You’ve Googled it. YouTubed it. Wikipediaed it. Flickred it. You’ve never even heard of it.

So ask yourself: is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world? The Pierro Gallery and iheartphotograph.com invite photographers, designers, and artists of all kinds to participate in this global open call for work.

February 22, 2008 is the deadline for submissions. No fees are required to enter.

aphotographofnewjersey.com

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31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography
Davin — January 5th, 2008

Open Call for Emerging Women Photographers Under 31

On March 1, 2008, in honor of Women’s History Month, Humble Arts Foundation, in collaboration with Ladies Lotto, will present “31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography,” a month-long exhibition celebrating 31 of the most innovative young women in emerging art photography under the age of 31. The Exhibition is co-curated by Lumi Tan, Director of Zach Feuer Gallery in NYC, and Jon Feinstein, Curatorial Director of Humble Arts Foundation.

We are now accepting submissions from women photographers under the age of 31.

  • Submission deadline: Friday, January 25th, 2008
  • Submission guidelines: 5 – 10 jpegs, 550 pixels wide @ 72dpi, RGB, brief bio and artist statement
  • Eligibility: Photographers must be female and born after March 1, 1977
  • Send submissions to: 31@hafny.org We will not consider images sent in a zipped file.

There is no submission fee.

I’ll simultaneously applaud another of Humble’s efforts to foster and promote contemporary photography but also say again that I think age and “emerging” need not be tied together. I agree with Amy Stein’s post about this where she says:

“…by narrowing the definition of emerging artists to age you are reinforcing the idea that the young have a patent on artistic efflorescence and economic need.“– Amy Stein

humbleartsfoundation.org/31.html

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