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“for artists who want to know about new spaces and opportunities”

December 18, 2009

here is an organization looking for various artist performers they have the space you have the talent.

Applications accepted on an ongoing basis – but don’t delay, spaces fill up quickly!

Subject to availability, chashama is now offering a $50/week rental of a Sprint wireless broadband router (with $50 deposit).

The Windows Program is a hallmark public art initiative of chashama, enlivening vacant storefronts with multi-disciplinary performances and visual installations. The program offers art in unexpected public places, and aims to build a broader audience for contemporary art and performance.

This program has two points of entry: by curated rental or via Windows Awards, and a competitive award process. Rentals are by the week or month and are offered at affordable, subsidized rates. (currently between $250 – $1000 a week). Windows Awards offers free space, and marketing, technical and administrative support, and may include a small stipend. All Windows Program projects are chosen based upon feasibility, venue limitations, and artistic/experimental vision.

Though not a necessity, we have a preference for work that actively engages the passerby.

Note: It is recommended that you make site visits to these window spaces to see which space would be the best for your project before submitting an application.

266 W 37th: This window space is located on a Garment District block with heavy daytime foot traffic, and it is fully equipped with theatrical sound and lighting. If you are proposing a visual art installation, please consider this. For a complete floor plan and technical specs, please go to http://www.chashama.org/266w37/index.php.

112 W 44th: This installation/window space is within the tourist zone of Time Square, close to Bryant Park, and often has packs of theater goers passing by. It is a large space with a wide window, and a back room for costume changes or additional set pieces. Track lighting normally used for exhibits can be refocused into the space and controlled from the back room. A sound system is not currently installed, but may be in the future. For a complete floor plan, please go to http://www.chashama.org/112w44/index.php.

679 3rd Avenue: This building is at the corner of 43rd Street and 3rd Avenue with three 7×12 and two 4×12 windows on the 3rd Avenue side, and fifteen windows facing 43rd Street ranging from approximately 4×12 to 4×10. For pictures of the space and full window specs, please go to http://www.chashama.org/679third/index.php.

141 East 33rd Street @ Lexington Avenue: This venue, at the corner of Lexington Ave and 33rd Street, has 4 windows on the Lexington Ave side, and 4 windows facing 33rd Street. Three windows on each side will be available to the artist, with metal supports behind each window for hanging artwork. This venue is currently for VISUAL ART ONLY.

Timeline & Conditions:
* Artists will be rented space for 1-4 weeks, and granted space for 1-3 week residencies; please stipulate if a specific term length is necessary for your project.
* chashama will provide technical assistance in an advisory capacity only; artists must be capable of installing, teching and de-installing their own projects.
* chashama will assist artists with creating and distributing a press release.
* Participating Artists of both the Windows Award and rental programs are required to pay a fully-refundable security deposit ($75-$200 depending upon venue).
* Please visit www.chashama.org/windows.php for complete application information including the Windows Program Application Form.
* For more information, please email your questions to Programming Director, Janusz Jaworski at janusz@chashama.org.

Deadline: There is no deadline, but the sooner you submit your application, the sooner we’ll see it!

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robert frank film:leaving home, coming home

December 10, 2009

well instead of working today i made a loaf of banana walnut bread which has filled the house with its fragrance. i can’t wait until it cools so i can taste it. but more to the point robert frank.

it’s good to revisit things as i did the other day with friends  to re-see the robert frank’s exhibit at the met museum. this time the exhibit wasn’t crowded and there was time to see everything once more.i had a chance to look at the original books and displays things that didn’t seem important the first time. im love seeing the original writings done on typewriters with all the misspellings etc. my bad spelling really intimidated me from writing.

what i realized seeing the show and then movie that when along with the show which i really recommend. “Leaving Home, Coming Home: a portrait of robert frank (1986) december 17, 2:00 pm.

but seeing the show again without the crowd was much better for me. the show prints are exceptional gelatin silver prints which is something i’ve always been confused about with silver gelatin prints also see another explanation at. but any show that spends that much money on prints in this day and age is going to look good.

i must say the banana bread is pretty good also, warm covered it butter not good for my arteries but so smooth going down.

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aperture org. free event ‘the projected image’

December 3, 2009

New York, New York

The Projected Image
Panel Discussion

Thursday, December 10, 2009
7:00 pm

FREE

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Aperture Foundation at The New School presents this panel discussion as part of the tenth season of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context. The Projected Image will explore the multiple ways in which contemporary artists have utilized projection and installation strategies to display still photographic images, creating immersive and cinema-like experiences in museum and gallery environments. Departing from the large-scale, tableau treatments of the photographic image printed and framed as wall-based objects, exemplified in works by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, and Gregory Crewdson, in recent years contemporary artists have increasingly employed projection devices—ranging from analogue to digital high-definition—to display photographic images as immaterial light projections, often incorporating temporal and audiovisual elements that recall cinematic contexts yet retain distinctly photographic qualities.

Moderated by George Baker, associate professor of art history, UCLA; panelists include photographers Andrea Geyer, Paul Pfeiffer, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

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center 4 photography water contest

December 3, 2009

a few weeks ago i entered the center 4 fine art photography water contest. it’s one of the contest i first started entering when i got enough courage to submit work. enough people had told me my work was good and i should submit.

brown leaf trapped in ice

well i never heard back from them from any of my entries, well maybe a rejection email or two, i am not sure anymore. rejections are something i’ve grown use to, although some contest don’t even bother doing that. how many entries do they get, i’ve heard some places raise as much as $50,000.oo each contest, not a bad months worth of work.

lots of people want recognition as an emerging photographer or old salt. but it’s something that i don’t do as much as when i started out, yes i’ve won my share of contest which is pretty wonderful or at least gotten honorable mentions which i think is pretty cool also.

rain chain

now i am more interested in who’s judging the contest than i am the gallery running it. how does one make contact with people? the big question. i asked bruce silverstein one night how he finds his talent to which he replied spend all night searching the internet much to his wifes objections. how do we or anybody make contact in this age of computer overload? do we use the same device  that causes the problem.

condensation on window

modern postcard would have us believe that the old school of contacting art directors and agents is through good old mailings. maybe that’s still true.this reminds me of a story i heard a long time ago about the sun rising and native american legends.

it seems there was this anthropology fellow living in one of the native americans villages studying the native peoples. in his observations  he would see that early in the morning some men would disappear into a certain area before the sun came up. he asked questions about what was going on  which mostly were met with evasive answered. but there was one person who shared a story that they were performing a sacred ceremony of greeting the sun.

[now my memory isn’t the greatest in remembering names isn’t one of my strong points.]

but to continue the story: when the anthropology student pressed for details he was told that the group performed the ceremony in order for the sun to be raised from the underworld . ‘you’d don’t really believe that the student asked? you’re educated people who knows that the planets revolve around the sun which makes the sun comes above the horizon.’

‘yes that is true.’ was the answer.

but the student kept seeing the group meet every morning. once again he approached the person whom had answered his question about the ceremony and asked  ‘why are you still meeting and performing that ceremony ?’

to which was answered ‘ if we didn’t perform this ceremony it might prove your science  sun rising theory wrong and leave the world in darkness.’

so you never know what outcome your actions will produce which is one of the reason i still enter contest.

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the american’s, robert frank

November 24, 2009

a friend was in town the other week whom i don’t usually get to spend time with but he had a day to kill so we decided to try and see la danse the weisman dance film of the paris opera’s dance company. both his daughters are ballerinas in a european company so we thought that might be fun.

we showed up to the theater to be met with a very long line half way down the block , oh well i don’t like crowded theaters nor crowds in general. so kenny suggested we go up to the metropolitan museum of art and see the robert frank exhibit ‘the americans.’

on the way up on the subway kenny told me why he had an interest in robert franks work. kenny used to work at baldwin pottery on la guardia place a long long time ago. i knew it from my chip monck days because he had a loft  in the building down the alley behind baldwin pottery. kenny worked as a potter before we met working at the filmore east. i met chip as a daily hire for his rolling stones tour of europe in 1970 to take care of the follow spots. long story…….

the owner suggested kenny to mary frank’s who was looking for someone to mix and kneed her clay as she spent many years as a sculpture artist. kenny said she had given him a schetch which now hung in his mothers house. really odd how these connections happen.

what i learned abotut the show is totally different than what kenny walked away with. see the link for pics etc. no they are not mine as pictures are forbidden in traveling shows besides i didn’t have my camera with me, we were going to the movies.

seeing the actual first prints, working prints etc in a way is pretty neat, but what struck me is how far we, photographers, have come with printing. this is also true of a show earlier this year with fred steins work. the new archival prints are so much better than the originals.

now i’ve never seen any ansel adams prints that were created under his supervision, but think they too would show their age now. everything paper, well actually everything is decaying right before our decaying eyes.

but i guess what’s interesting to most people is seeing the originals. the show was certainly crowded enough but lots of tourist wander through new york on any given day. there was a quotation from jack kerouac on the wall which caused me to smile because i knew jack when he was living in northport, ny. i don’t remember the quote but i do remember drinking and closing many a bar with jack and friends.

i remember driving into the sun with jack in the seat besides me, more on that later.

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So long Soho Photo

November 13, 2009

i’ve decided to move on from Soho Photo as they were not meeting my expectations or needs in a gallery. as Susan Sontag said “In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.”

i found very few inventive photographic artists involved with the gallery. that’s not to say that there aren’t some very good photographers involved with the gallery. but some of the exhibits show a total lack of creativity, in my opinon.maybe it’s an age thing as the members seem to be much older than i but they aren’t really.

how one gets into the gallery is to submit a portfolio on their portfolio review day to the Booking Committee made up of members of the gallery who then reviews the submitted portfolio. the guidelines aren’t very specific other than saying ‘No books’ but a selection of your best work is suggested. what is not said i believe, is they want to see a portfolio of work that is ready to go on the walls.

i was rejected my first time as have been some friends of mine for having a too wide a range of subjects in my portfolio. by not giving specific instructions it gives the committee wiggle room to reject anything they so choose on any grounds. what may play an important role in acceptance to the gallery is who you know.some get accepted on their fist try while other very strong photogs are turned away.

i have been rejected three times by the gallery so far, once in the beginning and twice for a membership upgrade. once i was told the Committee reviewing my portfolio ‘didn’t feel like dancing’ after see my work to which Mary replied ‘because they are too old!’

in the two years i was involved with the gallery it seemed more a social club than a serious gallery. Soho Photo seems to have evolved into a vanity gallery with no serious press coverage or outside critical review.

i am sure i didn’t endear myself to the members when i asked at a business meeting ‘why would i want to be a member of Soho Photo?’ i think that’s a valid question. it’s a place to show your work only if the booking committee accepts your submission. they can reject your work on any grounds even after you become a member so there is a group censorship.they call it protecting other members.

with exhibit space at a premium in New York City it’s so hard for artist/photographer to be seen much less reviewed in the press that finding a clean lighted place to show your work can be critical in ones career, but so can association.

i have found in my life when one door closes another opens and it’s usually a better place as life is progressive. so it’s time to move one. where i don’t know but that’s not important. i have love in my life and i truly love what i do as well as the people around me.

i can now concentrate on the challenges at hand. working with a woman documenting her breast cancer journey.

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Busy weekend

October 20, 2009

last weekend was pretty busy running around to different galleries and participating in the hoboken open studios at the monroe center. we, mary & i, met some interesting people to talk with and i always like these things because i meet other artist talk about each others work and share the day. i like to see other artist work as it gets me to thinking about things i’ve never thought of before.

here is mary meeting people, i am the guy behind the curtain, oh camera

mary show our work

mary showing our work

add my pixs

add my pixs

another bus load

another bus load

mary’s jewelry which surprised us didn’t sell. heck she sells it off her body at some of our openings.

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sometimes i get locked into an idea or work space and can’t easily see my way out of it. that’s one of the values of the Artist Way book by julia cameron and mark bryan, but mark has disappeared from the amazon book page and the web site. maybe some sort of riff between them. i did meet him years ago as he was doing sessions about the book and how to use the information given. i do recommend the book or should i say the system it teaches., although i can’t say i know anybody who’s ever finished the book and all it’s exercises. but the ideas are top notch and it generates an idea of ‘self care’ and appreciation, that can open many a closed door or window. of course now there is an artist way web site.

one of the things i got from mark and out of the book was journal writing . i’ve got somewhere close to 150 legal pads of writings which they call morning pages. i’ve no way of knowing if they’ve helped me or not.but i haven’t thought of walking half way across the george washington bridge lately.

i do remember this nutty girlfriend who was so insecure about our relationship that she would read them when i wasn’t around. well between my comments on that relationship and her reading my private musings it wasn’t very good. that whole relationship was wacky from the beginning but my comments and her insecurity weren’t a good mix.

well maybe i shouldn’t say that exactly because the woman i am with now doesn’t even bother to read them or if she does she doesn’t bring them up in conversation. as painful as breaking up with someone is, and that one was because i thought i loved her, i’ve found that life does get better as i do. so that girlfriend, as i was for her, was the way to move onward with our lives. she left her husband and i found someone who learned to love me, sometimes i don’t make it easy. what i learned from that relationship was that i could try and love again, we should never forget how to love one another.

so the morning pages are a pretty powerful event.

well i was going to write about art and photography and how the printer gods are frowning on me, but i’ll have to do that some other time. my finger are sore.

we did see an interesting young artist photographer at daniel cooney gallery named tim roda who does these ‘creations’ is all i can describe them as. he gave a talk sat attended by a few people and a couple of his friends. mary an di went down to hear him because his work is so different. we dropped in on cooney’s gallery, gallery mega opening day this fall when the streets were alive with wine drinking harpies wandering from gallery to gallery. fine arts halloween evening for sure. some tricks some treats. boo

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curator looking for artist

October 16, 2009

here is a link to a small gallery on the edges of williamsburg brooklyn called cccp run by a friend of mine, john, who is always looking for emerging artists. do contact him if you’re looking to show in a small funky gallery setting. let him know you saw this posting here.

jene

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a day in the life

October 16, 2009

wandering around new york galleries on wed after an all day sitting at soho photo looking at the lighting system they have and are thinking of replacing as they have received a proposal from the contractor who painted the gallery this past summer. what an improvement over the dingy, paint peeling walls and ceiling. for an art photography gallery to look that run down i thinks reflects on the artist who show there.

i guess i should say the photographers who show there. this distinction i make with my work being art as opposed to just photographs. i create my pictures while i think most photographers capture theirs. i’ve always thought that the proof in my work was the print, that’s where i spend most of my time in creating, not that taking the picture isn’t just important because it is.

i did stop by Madame X, 95 houston St, nyc, ny to see Catlin Mitchells semi nude fashion exhibit. Madame X seems an appropriate place for the show except for the lighting but the decor of red wall paper and golden couches, can we say whore house look, seemed to the welcome the exhibit. i did look to introduce myself to Catlin who was not hard to find in her silver sequined dress, but didn’t have time to talk, who ever does at ones opening, greeting guest, friends and what not. love her carbon prints on cold press paper.

speaking of artists and galleries in the evening i continued around the corner to ward-nasse gallery where i have four prints hanging to re-lable two of them with the awards they have received, Blue the 2009 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) and Ascending the 2009 International Photography Award. because there is an opening reception at ward-nasse this saturday 10/17/09 at 7pm for this lovely young artist who paints hearts. She usually sells out and has a large following. i sold two prints at her last show. woohoo.

the next sunday 10/18/09 mary and i are showing our work in Hoboken at the Monroe Center for the Arts for their open studio tour, 12 noon to 5 pm affair.if you’re in the neighborhood stop by or better yet make the trek to the center and say hello. we are showing some of our bump, wedding and children laboroflovepixs hoping to drum up some more business.mary makes sure there’s lots of wine and popcorn, don’t ask. she will also be bring some of her wearable art, which women seem to like, as that’s what the conversation always seems to move to at our gallery openings etc.

where does our life go? mary the energizer bunny and me, i get tired just watching her, are getting ready next month for a friends art/gallery shop opening on 231 Bedford Ave in williamsburg Brooklyn called Barking Lizard. some of the art works there are fabulous. do stop by and take a look.

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Talk and Presentation “Fred Stein: Art of the Street/Art of Intimacy”

October 9, 2009

Save The Date!    October 27, 7 PM

Talk and Presentation
“Fred Stein: Art of the Street/Art of Intimacy ”
Paris 1930’s, New York 1940’s, Portraits

Peter Stein, the son of noted photographer Fred Stein will be giving a talk and video/slide presentation about his father on October 27, 2009, at the Soho Photo Gallery located at 15 White Street, between West Broadway and Avenue of the Americas. There will be a reception starting at 6 pm. The program will begin  at 7 pm.

Street scenes of Paris in the years just before the German occupation, and New York during and just after World War II, capture the vitality and pathos of these two vibrant cities His portraits of intellectuals, artists, and statesmen reveal the unique character of the men and women who shaped the political and cultural events of the 20th century.

Educated as an attorney at German universities and deeply involved in anti-Nazi politics from his youth, Stein was forced to leave his country in 1933.  Unable to practice law in his adopted country, France, he made a vocation out of his photographic skill.  In 1941, before the occupation of Paris, Stein and his family again escaped the Nazis by emigrating to New York City where he worked as a freelance photographer until his death in 1967 at the age of 58.

Stein, whose works were recently on exhibition at the International Center of Photography (NYC), is represented in collections of The National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian), The National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian), the ICP, The Jewish Museum (NYC), The Center for Creative Photography (Tucson), and museums, galleries, and private collections around the world.
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Peter Stein is a Professor of Cinematography in the Graduate Film Program at New York University. He has photographed over 50 feature films and television movies for the last 35 years.

Visit Soho Photo

Soho Photo Gallery has been showcasing a broad spectrum of imagery by emerging and veteran photographers since 1971. The Gallery is in New York’s historic TriBeCa district, three blocks south of Canal Street between West Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Subways: #1 to Franklin Street or the A, C, E, W, N, R or #6 to Canal Street.

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