John Banasiak is named Distinguished Professor at the University of South Dakota. A professor of photography at The University since 1980, Banasiak has received more than 20 Research Catalyst Grants from USD's Office of Research, eight South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship Awards, and over 40 national and international Jurors Awards. He has also been a part of more than 250 juried exhibitions. In 2004, Banasiak was the recipient of the Belbas-Larson Award at USD, the highest teaching award at the University. In 1992, he received the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award for work in creative research.
Gallery artist Stephen Salmieri is featured in the current exhibition "Goodbye Coney Island" at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition presents more than 50 photographs of life, landmarks and attractions of Coney Island from the 1870s to the present.
To read more about the exhibition please visit http://www.brooklynmuseum.org.
Gallery artist Jack D. Teemer, Jr. was recently featured in the exhibition "Where we Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection" at The Getty.
To read more about the artist and the exhibition please visit http://www.getty.edu
Photographs from Diane Cook's series "On Ice" can be seen in the current exhibition "Photographs from the Ends of the Earth" at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition presents 65 photographs, dating from 1860 to the present day, of the Earth's polar regions. The exhibition will be on view through December 24, 2007. http://www.mam.org
The December issue of ARTnews includes a review of Chip Hooper's recent show, "New Zealand's South Pacific and Tasman Sea. To read the full review, please click on the following link. http://www.josephbellows.com/
Picturing Eden opens at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego on September 15. Curated by Deborah Klochko, the exhibition features work by gallery artists HAN NGUYEN, J. JOHN PRIOLA, CAMILLE SOLYAGUA, JAYNE HINDS BIDAUT, JO WHALEY and JOHN PFAHL. For more information please visit www.mopa.org.
Mark your calendars! The Photography Show Miami will be held December 5 - 9, 2007.
More than 45 of the world's leading photography art galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work by 19th century, modern and contemporary masters. The new art fair will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, as well as numerous other art fairs. The Photography Show Miami will open with an invitational preview on Tuesday, December 4, 2007.
For more information please visit www.aipad.com.
LACMA names a new photography curator. Charlotte Cotton, a British photography curator and writer who plunged into edgy contemporary projects after 12 years of curatorial work at the venerable Victoria & Albert Museum in London, has been appointed department head and curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She will join the museum's staff June 1, succeeding the late Robert A. Sobieszek and interim department head Tim B. Wride.
Alex Webb: Istanbul: City of A Hundred Names will be exhibited at Sepia International in New York from June 14 - July 27, 2007. Opening Reception: June 13, 6 - 8 pm. Gallery Talk with the Artist, June 26, 6:30 - 8:30. For more information visit www.sepia.org.
Stephanie Hanor has been promoted to senior curator and head of the curatorial department at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Hanor, who has been a curator at the museum since 2001, has been responsible for several major exhibitions including the current "TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latin Art" and Alex Webb's 2003 exhibition, "Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border."
We are pleased to announce that Alex Webb has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Alex Webb Talk and Book Signings: Alex Webb will give two talks about his new Aperture monograph, Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names. Webb will discuss his interest in this city and its complex cultural history, as well as the richly layered visual vocabulary and unique palette that has come to identify his images as groundbreaking in both style and content.
Aperture Gallery
New York, NY
Tue. April 24th, 6:30 pm
Fotovision
Westfield San Francisco Centre, CA
Fri. April 27th, 4:30- 9 pm
Mark your calendars! The AIPAD Photography Show 2007 will be held April 12 - April 15, 2007 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. For more information please visit www.aipad.com.
Joseph Bellows Gallery is proud to announce it's representation of the Robert Heinecken Trust.The gallery will represent the earliest of Heinecken's vintage work dating from the early 1960's.Throughout his career, Robert Heinecken has continually redefined the role of photographer and perceptions of photography as an art medium.
Robert Heinecken 1932-2006: Sex and Food, a Memorial Exhibition will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. January 19 - March 24, 2007 http://www.mocp.org/
We are pleased to announce that four works from Jem Southam's Upton Pyne series will be included in the upcoming exhibition "Tell Me A Story: Narrative Photography Now" at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. The show will run January 20 - May 13, 2007. Jem Southam's Upton Pyne series is also currently featured at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. The show will run through January 14, 2007.
PHOTO LA 2007 will be held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium January 19th - 21st. Please visit us at Booth 28. For fair hours and ticket information go to www.artfairsinc.com. In addition to our vintage offerings, the gallery will feature the work of contemporary photographers Virginia Beahan, Linda Connor, John Priola, and Jem Southam as well as rare early work by Robert Heinecken.
The gallery is pleased to announce the representation of J. John Priola.
Gallery artist Debbie Caffery has been awarded a Katrina Media Fellowship. The Open Society Institute awarded 31 media grants to filmmakers, radio and print journalists, and photographers in order to deepen understanding of Hurricane Katrina and the social issues associated with the storm. Caffery is to document the journey of displaced residents and the destruction of the Ninth Ward. For more information please visit www.soros.org.
Deborah Klochko has been named the new director of The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. The past four years, Klochko has been director of Visual Literacy, a consulting firm designed to further the interpretation and understanding of photography. She also works with Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Photography Initiative, and was previously director of the Friends of Photography in San Francisco (1992-2001) and director of education for the California Museum of Photography of the University of California Riverside (1985-1992). Most recently, Klochko curated "Picturing Eden," currently at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. She is co-author of "Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts," which will be published in the fall.
ROBERT HEINECKEN 1931-2006
"We constantly tend to misuse or misunderstand the term reality in reference to photographs. The photograph itself is the only thing that is real, that exists…. (There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.)" -Robert Heinecken, 1960's
Gallery artists HAN NGUYEN, JO WHALEY, and JOHN PFAHL are among the 37 contemporary photographers included in the exhibition, Picturing Eden, now at the George Eastman House. Picturing Eden is on view from Januay 28 - September 4, 2006. www.eastmanhouse.org