GALLERY NEWS

Olivo Barbieri's "site specific_LAS VEGAS 05," a single-channel color video installation with audio, is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the exhibition "Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas," opening Thursday, September 18, 2008 through Sunday, January 04, 2009.

Barbieri's new book, "The Waterfall Project, published by Damiani Press, will be released in the fall. Lynn Saville is working on an upcoming book project scheduled for publication in May 2009.

"Implant," an exhibition at the UBS Art Gallery curated by Jodue Vicenta Jacobson for the Horticultural Society of New York, featuring gallery artists Helen Van Meene and Sharon Core, opens August 7th and will be on view through October 31, 2008.

Lisa Kereszi was recently featured in a documentary video on the making of her work on the website COOL HUNTING. To see this documentary please follow the following link

"Birth of the Cool," featuring gallery artist Julius Shulman, is on view through July 13th at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, North Carolina. The travelling exhibition stops at the Studio Museum, Harlem November 12 - March 15, 2009.

Esko Mannikko will be included in the group show, "Creatures from the Collection and Other Themes," at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam on view May 31 - August 31, 2008.

The work of Terry Evans is currently featured in "Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection," an ongoing exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Julius Shulman is included in the exhibition, "The Birth of the Cool," currently at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, travelling to the Studio Museum, Harlem in November.

Yancey Richardson Gallery will be exhibiting Hellen van Meene and Esko Mannikko in The Solo Project, Basel, Switzerland, June 2 - 8, 2008. The show will coincide with Art Basel and will feature 25 international galleries who will present solo exhibitions and collaborative projects. For more information, please visit: http://www.the-solo-project.com

The exhibition accompanying the 2008 Deutsche Börse Prize, featuring the work of Esko Mannikko, opened May 16th at C/O Berlin. The traveling exhibit debuted at the Photographer's Gallery, London in February and will travel to the Deutsche Börse Group headquarters in Frankfurt in the fall. The Annual Prize honors a living photographer, of any nationality, who made the most significant contribution in Europe between October 1, 2006 - September 30, 2007.

Christian Patterson was nominated for the 2008 New York Photo Award in category "Fine Art Series" for his forthcoming project "Out There." Patterson's first monograph, "Sound Affects," debuted at Art Cologne 2008. This coincides with Patterson's first European solo exhibition: "Sound Affects" at Kaune-Sudendorf Contemporary in Cologne, Germany, April 19-May 25.

Olivo Barbieri will be featured in the upcoming show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas," on view September 18, 2008- January 4, 2009. Barbieri's piece "Hoover Dam," will also be included in the museum's "Recent Acquisitions," show in July.

Lisa Kereszi was named "Critics Pick" in the January 2008 issue of Artnews. Her monograph "Fantasies," was released March 1, 2008 from DAP and Damiani Press. A book-signing will be held at Yancey Richardson Gallery on March 20th. Kereszi will also be featured in the upcoming Photo District News "PDN's 30 Reunion" issue.

October 24, 2007, Jessica Backhaus spoke at the International Center of Photography as part of their "Photographers Lecture Series."

Masao Yamamoto will have a solo exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia opening September 2008. The Print Center's exhibition will run simultaneously with an exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery.

We are happy to announce that Mitch Epstein is the 2007-2008 recipient of the American Academy in Berlin's Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in Visual Arts.

Christian Patterson has been included in the exhibition "Noise: Young American Photography." The exhibition is organized by TH Inside and includes work by Patterson, Brandon Lattu, Ofer Wolberger, Robin Graubard, Slater Bradley and Tim Barber. The exhibition will travel to Dubai City and Copenhagen in 2008.

On November 6, 2007 the Aperture Foundation's Benefit and Auction at Skylight Studios honored Yancey Richardson, the artist Vik Muniz, and the patrons and collectors Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsey for their ongoing contributions to the field of photography.

Olivo Barbieri "site specific_" opened at Bloomberg SPACE in London April 7, 2006. Bloomberg SPACE showed three films from Barbieri's ongoing "site specific_" project. The films, brought together and exhibited for the first time, were shown alonside 6 large scale photographs. The exhibition was on view through May 20, 2006.

Mark Steinmetz and David Hilliard were featured in the "Blind Spot" tribute issue and have donated works to the benefit auction held Monday, April 24, 2006 at Phillips, de Pury & Company.

Olivo Barbieri gave a Gallery Talk in support of his first New York exhibition: "site specific_" Friday March 31, 2006.

Lynn Saville has been commissioned by the MTA Arts in Transit to create 7 black &
white verticals of the Times Square area and will be called "Times Square
Nocturnes." The images will be installed as light boxes in Times Square and at the F train stop at Bryant Park.

Lisa Kereszi's "Water Fountain" was on the cover of the March 2006 issue of ARTnews and was also reproduced in full inside the magazine to accompany the article "Altered States."

"Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories" was the first solo photography exhibition at the National Gallery in London on view through March 12, 2006.

Olivo Barbieri screened his 11 minute film "Site Specific Las Vegas" at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Channel acquired this film as well as two others on Rome and Shanghi.