here’s a link for discount tickets to local & national events that i thought i’d pass on to you, my readers. it’s something a dancer made me aware of. there is no cost to set up an account just your email address and a new password. save big time on some broadway shows or dance concerts. if you’re like us saving money in these hard times is always worth the effort.
they also have lots of other discounts although i haven’t tried their other services.
jene youtt
Rose Theater
Broadway at 60th Street
Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10023
Tel: (212) 258-9800
Visit Web Site
Wed, March 16, 2011 – Sun, March 20, 2011
Wed: 7:30 pm
Thurs, Fri: 8 pm
Sat: 2 pm, 8 pm
Sun: 3 pm
Program B: New Revival/ New Work;
Wed, March 16, 7:30 pm
Sat, March 19, 8 pm
Explore Graham’s 1943 Deaths and Entrances, inspired by the Brönte sisters. This program pairs the new production with an exciting world premiere by Taiwanese choreographer Bulareyaung Pagarlava that references the Graham ballet and its themes.
Program C: The Noguchi/Graham Connection;
Thurs, March 17, 8 pm
The company celebrates the collaboration between sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham. The program features audience-favorite Appalachian Spring, Cave of the Heart, a 20th century retelling of the Medea story, and Embattled Garden, an erotic Adam-and-Eve tale of contemporary marriage.
Program D: Political Dance Project
Sat, March 19, 2 pm
Those who missed it last year will want to catch the reprise of Dance is a Weapon, a dance and multimedia montage including work by Graham, Isadora Duncan, Jane Dudley and others. Thirty New York City high school students take the stage in the 1935 Panorama, Graham’s great call to social action.
Program E: Wilson/Graham/Noguchi;
Sun, March 20, 3 pm
An official event of Carnegie Hall’s Japan/NYC Festival. Combining the Robert Wilson and JapanNYC programs, this matinee offers Snow on the Mesa and Embattled Garden during the popular Sunday afternoon time slot.
Martha Graham Dance Company
The Martha Graham Dance Center is the repository of 181 dances choreographed by Martha Graham, many of them astonishing works of great beauty. Since its inception in 1926, the company has performed in over 50 countries throughout the world.
Just walking through pier 92 & 94 is a day in itself but then writing about can be overwhelming. i am not really an art critic nor do i know any of them. i am just a guy with a camera, i took my 20d, 1.8 50 mm, which is really an 85mm lens figuring the 1.6 sensor factor just to add a degree of difficulty. the 5d m II with the 2.8 28-70mm is too heavy to drag around all day. but Jay Maisel drags around a huge Nikon all day and he’s 80. Jays work really inspires me and i’ve told him so. it’s seeing as he does, through his pics that has opened my eyes to another world around me.
hey this isn’t brain surgery here or is it, just some meaningless pictures and comments.
vip club where i wasn't invited
this is a real new york art event, what with all these art shows around town, PBS a BBC station affiliate shilling for money showing doo wop and other silly programs and Scarface playing on AMC channel new yorkers are in for a real treat. we must be working our way up the Riverdance, woo hoo.
I’ve been struggling with my ISP Photoshelter and learning or forgetting, not sure which, SEO. if you don’t know what that is then you’re lucky. seems everything is a business these days, art being one of the biggest, maybe not as big as a new fighter jet for the air force, but pretty big.
silver haired male & woman in red dress
these must be power people all though he doesn’t have a red tie, maybe at the cleaners. i think i might be out of sequence here but who cares? the first thing that caught my attention was Springer & Wincklere Galerie car wreck pictures.
European car wrecks
there is a curious film by David Cronenberg called Crash which i liked, not sure why. some people just have to look at car crashes, so why not have them at home, saves gas and aggravation on the parkway.
the problem with me doing these types of blog reporting is i am not a photojournalist. i try my best but looking back through the pics i wouldn’t stand a chance working for Life. but then again no one is paying me for this either.
as i walked down the aisle looking this way then that way, being distracted by everything, this caught my eye. just a painting leaning against the wall with a shadow of a pacing guard or was he running away? hard to say.
chainsaw massacre at the armory
so you see going anywhere with me can be challenging as i see things differently than most, it can be interesting just different. i contuined wandering around and found an interesting artist who worked in the 1950’s called Howard Town at Christopher Cutts gallery
artist howard town
but that’s not him sitting. here is a piece by Pascal Kern at the HackelBury Fine art. here i caught this woman biting her thumb no she’s not with the gallery.
personal hygiene
wonderful how people have a way of interacting with the art, i’ve no idea what this woman was doing but she was very busy at it.
woman
but there were lots of people going here and there
people
with some really paying attention and looking
art patron
then there was others watching other or were they?
porcelain statue
and both at Gerald Peters gallery
another porcelain statue
there were times when i tried to involve the patrons and the art as i did here at Vallarino/McCormick gallery
man through sculpture
yes more shadows everywhere
sepia shadows
i told Mary this place is full of beautiful people which seems like a great place to meet men or women, her reaction was if they weren’t so self involved with art. but difficult on the weekends with all the baby carriages and couples bumping around. all in all a pretty good place to hang out, wear comfortable shoes.
concentration
And this one
what are they thinking? but here what catches my eye,
shadows on painting
notice the face? here we go moving on, i found a fluorescent lighting installation at Galerie Thomas against which i found these pictures, yea it’s my mind and i am too old to change now
oh well, so much to see, moving forward i passed by Bruce Silverstein gallery who’s celebrating 10 years showing one of Rosalind Solomon prints Blind Child, eerie huh?
Blind Child
but Silverstein had another photographer, Trine Sondergaard, working in the style of dutch painter Vermeer . that’s something i’ve always though of trying, a friend of mine Bill Megalos who taught film lighting at rockport workshops used the painter masters as examples having the students recreate a artist style. oh well………… but i am not finished with my shadows.
trees
fernando botero with shadows
at the Tasende gallery which was full of wonderful shadows, this is of the people passing through the sun light.
then we go to the contemporary show of living artists but first this prime example of
discovered art
this little guy was scrawled on a support beam of the pier and i was lucky enough to see it, i wonder how many others passed it by? let us move on.
Henry Thoreau
and more art with this neon installation from the Paul Kasmin gallery
neon fence
and this skull at Other Criteria
happy face
but as the day wore on, being on my feet i was beginning to feel a bit overloaded as maybe this statue represented
statue of man
at the Galeria Ron Mandos in the south american section of the pier. the show had mixed sections or was it me that was mixed up?
signs
Japanese signs at the Galeria Daniel Templon. all i was looking for now was a place to sit, but the seating lounge bar area was smaller this year than last, only 25 seats come on guys give us a break, what was the cost of a glass of champagne? but i continued on until i found something fun, silver mylar
reflections in mylar
silly me
more reflections in mylar
more more reflections in mylar
as the saying goes ‘we were burning daylight here’ which i’ve heard civilians say which is silly even on the set. me getting nowhere but hungry and heading to the exit i found one more distraction at the Lisson gallery of these lit panels
people passing in front
coming and going
he's going
while all this art can be wonderful and effect on us let’s not forget the real beauty of this world……… life in all it’s aspects.
orchid
jene
The United States civil war, which officially ended in April of 1865, was said to be fought to end
chattel slavery; although historical evidence shows that it was a war of economics.
Nearly a century later, in April of 1960 The Student non – violent coordinating Committee
(SNCC) was formed, which played a huge role in the March on Washington, student sit ins and
protests in the 1960’s and freedom rides. Several years later in the mid – 1960’s the term “Black
Power” was coined. Currently there is a lot of rhetoric about the society we live in being post
racial and color blind. The Stoop Gallery is asking artists to consider how power movements
have evolved, what do movements to eradicate injustice look and feel like now. And how is art
an integral part of these movements?
Deadlines for submissions: March 7, 2011
Notifications of acceptance: March 17, 2011
Deadline for receiving accepted works/ Drop off: April 7, 2011
Exhibition date: April 17, 2011 2pm – 6:30 pm
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Image Submission: • digital files in jpeg format at 72 dpi and 800 pixels • Up to 5 images per
submission • Video work should be under 10 minutes , Quicktime movie, vimeo and youtube are
accepted for video submission • Include an image list title, dimensions, media, and year.
ALSO INCLUDE: • Bio: 100-words or less • Artist statement: 250-words or less Artist
Statement explaining how your work relates to The Stoop Gallery theme.
Please send submissions to: TheStoopGallery@gmail.com
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
The Stoop Gallery is a space where artists display works in public spaces throughout the
borough of Brooklyn. Some neighborhoods include, Fort Greene, East New York, Crown
Heights, Flatbush, Bedford Stuyvesant, and Brighton Beach. The Gallery will push the
boundaries of fine art in a public art space and encourage community engagement with fine art
in a neighborhood setting. The art shows will take place on stoops in Brooklyn where
homeowners will volunteer their stoops and host the shows. The Stoop Gallery shows, will take
place on Saturdays and/ or Sundays, once per month during the Summer and Fall and each show
will feature three visual artists. There will also be opportunities to feature one installation artist,
who will be able to transform an entire stoop with their installation piece.
here is a listing and address of this weeks shows for more detailed information visit http://www.artcards.cc
2011 New York Art Fairs
The Armory Show – Modern
Pier 92, at W 54th street
The Armory Show – The International Fair of New Art
Pier 94, at W 46th street
Pulse New York
125 W 18 Street
March 3-6
The Art Show (ADAA)
Park avenue at E 67 street
March 2-6; Wed-Sat, noon-8pm; Sun noon-6pm Gala Benefit Preview, March 1, 5:30-9:30pm
Independent
548 W 22 street, March 3-6
The Dependent Art Fair
160 W 25 Street, March 4th, 4-9pm
VOLTA NY
7 W 34th Street
Thursday, March 5, 1-9pm Friday, March 6, 1-9pm Saturday, March 7, 1-9pm Sunday, March 8, 1-9pm $15
SCOPE New York
320 West Street
March 2-6
Fountain NY
Pier 66, 12th Ave at W 26 Street
March 3-6
PooL Art Fair New York
7 E 27th Street
March 4-6
Moving Image
269 11th Avenue, March 3-6
Red Dot
82 Mercer Street
March 3-6
Verge Art Brooklyn
81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY;
Thursday-Saturday, 3 – 5 March, Noon to 10 pm; Sunday, 6 March, Noon to 6 pm
wow what a triumvirate of photography i thought when i heard of this exhibit being put on by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. this is going to be something special to see i told mary on our way up to the museum on a cold February afternoon.
when we were in paris we had an opportunity to see Steichen’s the ‘Conde Nash years‘ exhibit at the Musee de l’Elysee and i recently bought the accompaning book as the one at the show was in french and i don’t read french. the photos in that show were marvelous along with a movie taken during one of his photo shoots. talk about lights, wires, cameras everything was huge. a portrait of Gloria Swanson under a hat net was fabulous in person, really popped out at you, but given the restrains of book printing it looks ordinary in the book.
Gloria Swanson
see video of exhibit from florida
well this show considering who is represented is ordinary i was quite disappointed. the last major exhibit we saw in the photographic exhibit space was Robert Franks ‘The Americas’ which took up the four rooms and the hallway. the Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand exhibit only took up three rooms and the hallway. oh well
with Stieglitz being the oldest and father figure of the group encouraging their exterminating with new mediums and styles and giving them a place to publish their work in Camera Work, a copy which is under glass at the exhibit but can be purchased as a complete book on-line or in stores. Stieglitz is in the first of the rooms. in a way i thought each of these photographers could have filled the entire space with their own work. Stieglitz had early New York City and Georgia O’Keeffe to photograph, not bad subjects at all especially O’Keeffe’s hands, very powerful.
5th Ave
Georgia-OKeeffe-Hands
O'keeffe figure study
but to see the actual prints of these photographers and maybe a glimpse of their creative minds is pretty cool. what were they thinking comes to mind. in this digital world we are living in, i think some of what is important THE PRINT is being lost. seeing Steichen’s three prints of ‘The Flatiron” building side by side was very informative. Steichen used a mixed process of Gum bichromate underneath a Platinum print as his background as a painter made him willing to mix processes to achieve a desired effect.
The Flatiron
The Flatiron
mary and i both looked at each other after reading this repeating our in joke ‘he’d never get to be a member of Soho Photo with antics like this.’ which comes from my experience with their membership committee when i was denied membership due to one white mat not matching the others in the portfolio. never mind the attitude that the photo asks for, no really demands a certain paper or process. oh well i can’t open a closed mind nor would i care to look inside of one.
my first exposure to photography books was ‘The Family of Man’ which Steichen produced while at The Museum of Modern Art to coincide with the photographic exhibit hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled in 1955. way before my developing mind could grasp the concept. i was just beginning to see girls never mind a family of men.
Paul Strand had a whole other artistic direction, although he to was a painter, where he began to develop his belief in the humanistic value of portraiture. not that he didn’t take pictures of his surroundings traveling around mexico and new england but i think we engage what we see or is it the other way around.
Blind
Mexican children
Wall street
the whole exhibit as small as it is, is about coming of age see the nytimes review and if you’re at least bit interested in photography i suggest dropping by and seeing for yourself these outstanding prints. remember the Metropolitan Museum od Art is a pay what you can museum.
have a good day
jene
sometimes being me is very difficult, it seems i cause more trouble for myself than i avoid. but hey from here i guess i should be more thankful than i give myself credit for. so pat myself on the back even through i don’t always feel i deserve it, i can poke some holes in the clouds and begin to see the ever-present sunshine.
last night could have been a personal disaster but it wasn’t. my car died at the garage entrance, it could have given out on the dark cold west side highway with a snow storm intimate but it got me home once more. in the twenty some odd years she’s been pretty good to me. i need to remind myself that as a crawl over and under her fixing this and that.
so i woke up this morning picked out the couple metal splinters from my fingertips just to make typing interesting, and began working on some images i shot last week. not before i let my mind wander on to another creative video project i’d like to begin about transformations. but leave that for another time.
i put on a Beach Boy album Smile and distracted myself to look away from all the bad images i shot and see some of the good ones. i am trying to do a lingerie portfolio thinking that might generate some income on my web site www.jeneyoutt.com. i am tired of laying out money for something that isn’t returning anything. so trying to make a cross over from pure artist to a commercial artist. yes i still enjoy creating even if it’s only working on one of our cars , we have three.
so i’ll post some of aubrey today. she’s an art model very comfortable nude in front of the camera or in her edwardian corsets.
female wearing edwardian corset
i tried to do two different lighting setups, one a tungsten set up which i wasn’t happy with and this one which is a strobe setup.
female wearing red bra & panties
this is the tungsten setup which i didn’t get much out of, i guess it’s all a learning experience but as Joe McNally said the other day he gets a lot of throw aways also.
black bow on red bra
i wanted to do more of these closeups but i had shaky hands or slow iso and something didn’t quite work out
red bra, panties & black stockings
but i think for my purposes i did ok, i am not going to win many awards with these images but hopefully get some paying work
black garter belt and black panties
i guess i don’t need hundreds of images to get my point across. if someone is thinking about having their picture taken for their boyfriend or business these might get their imagination going.
black bra & panties with pink details
black bra & panties with pink details & black stockings
so we wind up where we began in a corset on the couch. when i do a lighting setup i really do better if i listen to my body and just do it. that happened with the bluish-green light on the background, of course i had to have the makings handy so being prepared is a big part of it.
classic art model pose
so now i can end this posting and begin the real work ahead think about dinner and the lovely wife i left in a nice warm bed last night to come back to this cold studio. i wonder about my sanity sometimes.
show me some leg
but this is one of my chosen occupations, i am not sure if i chose lighting or it chose me having an elevated uranus and neptune. oh well some things can never be answered.
just grin and bear it.
jene
this has been a busy week for us getting out of the house of memories, i guess soon we’ll stop looking down for shadow whom we called ‘fur trap’, as she would be waiting outside any closed-door for us to reappear. she would stick her nose in the opening and sniff to check if we were in there. it will take some time for us to adjust to being a single couple.
of course what we are doing could be done with shadow here, going to movies, gallery openings, plays and dinners. to say nothing of making travel plans which we haven’t really begun, panama is weighing heavily on me getting back to my book project and mary is going off to europe in april. but we haven’t made any travel plans yet other than getting the xr 7 on the road and driving cross-country.
1970 xr 7 restore
it’s so nice to have someone in my life who just by being there adds another dimension, making my life so much fuller. a positive force to negate my negative vibes.
so catching up with our social life we saw ‘Black Swan‘ the only current movie up for an academy award. friends have said it was so cool but i like my dance films closer to reality. maybe its a reflection of the times that things need to be blown up larger than life, needing more twist and turns,complications in order to hold this gen x generation’s attention.
i wasn’t thrilled with the movie, while i did connect with parts of the characters it never connected with the whole. reading Alstair Macauly ‘many faces of Black Swan deconstructed‘ in the NYTimes article on the movie didn’t help me any.
but hey i’ve aways thought Robert Altman’s movie Company the best dance company movie i’ve even seen, yes i know the hooky dance performance in thunder & lighting was a bit over the top but lovely anyways. A scene of a Lar Lubovitch pas de deux “My Funny Valentine” in a thunderstorm is no doubt meant to evoke deep, elegiac emotion with sturm-und-drang. The dancers forge on as rain and storm-detritus blow onto the stage. says dance magazine review. but whats a movie without some drama?
then we move on to an actual live dance performance at city center february 16 thru 20 called Flamingo Hoy which i urge you to see. now if i actually understood the moves and language of this dance form i might have gotten more than an evening’s entertainment but it’s director Carlos Saura, one of Spain’s most prominent filmmakers who made one of my favorite dance movies Carmen see the utube excerpt or NYTimes review. maybe i really need to learn spanish. but having toured in the 70’s with maria alba dance company, i did learn something about the passion involved in the art form of flamingo.
Maria’s name is remembered with reverence here in new york. i remember talking to one of the flamingo dancers at ‘N’ a small tapas bar down in soho where on wednesday night you can catch a wonderful show in their small space, a real intimate experience. come on down and enjoy the show sit at the bar or one of the tables and watch the performance.
flamenco dancers at N
talk about intimate
flamenco dancer
flamenco dancers at N
last night we when down to a Adorama’s presentation by flash guru Joe McNally before heading out to dinner at Wallse located on the past site of Mother Courage, the first feminist restaurant in new york. i had a friend who managed the place who loved my son, when ever she saw him coming home from school she would give him a big hug. old neighborhood full of memories. after all it was my birthday and i decided to go to Joe’s presentation maybe even learn something while trying something new to eat.
yes we did learn something, buy more equipment, get three assistants, and buy more equipment. well we do have each other, a big help on our shoots, if we could only get the right numbers to appear on our lottery tickets we could get more equipment. there’s an idea for another Adorama workshop ” how to pick a winning lottery number for fun and profit.” are you listening helen?
tonight we are in for a sensual experience going to Knickerbocker bar & grill for dinner and jazz, my all time favorite steak house. one never knows how long we ‘ll walk on this earth, nor be buried underneath it, and to give up a lovely experience shared with someone who loves you seems to be a shame. there may never come tomorrow so why wait? biting down on their steak is almost as good as biting on mary’s ………………………opps.
but i’ve got to get back to work, what is writing this? yes it to is a lot of work for me to communicate with people by writing actual words on almost paper is something that’s taken me awhile to feel comfortable with. that’s where journaling has helped. so here are some non edited images from the other day.
woman on couch in black lingerie
and for the shoe fetish people
black Patten leather pumps
this is some job i’ve got, now if i could only parlay this into a money-making effort it might be more fun, oh well
mauve bra and panties with black stockings
oh it’s not too late to visit the George Segal Gallery at Montclair University as this is the last weekend to see mary’s and my prints during Art Connections 7 finally week. why don’t you stop by, hey maybe even buy something.
more of my adventures latter
jene
this going to be a rambling post because that’s what i am feeling now. i don’t have my best listener here, it’s been 9 days since shadow passed away. i am slowly putting her stuff away bit by bit. why am i saving it? don’t really know, maybe i’ll want another dog but not soon.
life is moving along, i shouldn’t have any complaints now, no one to listen to them anyways. what ever problems i have i’ve created them myself because of the way i deal with or not deal with life. at least now i can turn up the music loud; Blondie ‘no exit’ and drown out the world without worrying about hurting doggies ears.
odd how these days come and go. yesterday was a lovely treat. i got a nice present in the form of a phone conversation that i didn’t expect. a young model came over to the studio wanting to work with me. she saw my work on a model mayhem page and asked to do a shoot. hey why not?
young woman portrait
i do portraits but i also wanted to explore women’s lingerie. open my horizons as it were. when i was a young man the only thing i thought about it was how fast i could get it removed but as i’ve aged i appreciate them more. i like to get pretty things for my honey, i think mary gets embarrassed when we go shopping for undergarments but i like the way she looks in them. it’s still a process of getting them off her but i like to know how pretty she looks under her clothes.
people contact me about all kinds of shoots and at some point i have to ask ‘ have you seen my portfolio? ‘ so it’s nice to find someone who has and likes to improv as i do. we began with her dressed in a white corset outfit and like every other thing in life new beginnings are delicate dance.
young woman
cute huh. but we were both pretty bored with this setting so we moved the chair out of the way and i decided to explore something i’ve been think to do.
white corset
then CB we move in for our close up
white corset back
closer
close-up
corset laces
and i became fascinated with how close i could get with my lens, it not being a micro, and still get an erotic feeling to this session. so i moved the model around looking for interesting compositions. as i said we were both exploring, it’s not brain surgery.
white thong
but i would suggest if you’re photographing nudes it might be wise to do it in a warm studio. yes the lights do help somewhat and i wasn’t cold wearing a t-shirt but it might effect the pictures if it’s a bit chilly.
woman's boob with shadow
notice a lovely picture of goose bumps. we both like this picture but it’s not going to get this model any work without an explanation. oh well. then she asked if we could do something with a lantern she had seen on a shelf. ‘sure why not?’
Diogenes daughter
she didn’t know who Diogenes was but i am sure people won’t even ask seeing this picture. she loved this when she saw it. i am not sure if i like this one or the one below better. she loved this picture as one she could send home to mom. that’s nice, i like helping young girls sending wholesome pictures back home from new york, ‘look mom what i’ve been up to?’
i did think she could show this picture to her grand children as to how she looked as a young woman, maybe not something you share with your children but grand children seem safely removed. they might never imagine what you looked like as a youngster.
Diogenes daughter listens
but what the heck we both had fun and no animals were hurt in the process.
the George Segal Gallery at The Montclair State University once again along with, Mary Durante Wehrhahn and i Jene Youtt cordially invites you and your guest to our special art exhibition and sale. Opening reception Sunday January 23, 2011, 2:00pm -5:00pm, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ 07043
* Access from the 4th floor of the Red Hawk Deck parking area adjacent to the Alexander Kasser Theater
Exhibition dates: January 18 – February 19, 2011. Gallery hours: tue,wed,fri & sat 10a to 5pm, thru 12:30p to 7:30p.
973 655 3382 / montclair.edu/segalgallery
we, mary & i, both have work showing this year. we would be more than happy to chat about our artistic styles and philosophy over a glass or two of wine. in the past we’ve met some interesting artist and photographers from all over here and they have met us.
i know this is during the green bay packer / chicago bears playoff game, and i’ve no idea what these college people are thinking when they plan these events, but hey maybe you don’t follow football and want to meet us. cool
Golden
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