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Sharon Core and Laura Letinsky exhibit and lecture at New York Photo Festival Gallery artists Sharon Core and Laura Letinsky will exhibit their work and give public lectures as part of Object Lesson, a still-life show curated by New Yorker critic Vince Aletti, one of several shows that make up this year's New York Photo Festival (May 12 - 16). Letinsky will be speaking on Thursday, May 13 at 2pm at St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street, between Main Street and Dock Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Core will be speaking on Saturday, May 15 at 2pm, also at St. Ann's Warehouse. |
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Detroit Disassembled: Andrew Moore's exhibition at the Akron Art Museum, opens June 5 Andrew Moore's photographs of the Motor City are sublime—beautiful, operatic in scale and drama, tragic yet offering a glimmer of hope. They are the subject of Detroit Disassembled, an exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum making its debut there before touring nationally. Detroit, once the epitome of our nation's industrial wealth and might, has been in decline for almost a half-century. The city is now one-third empty land—more abandoned property than any American city except post-Katrina New Orleans. Read More |
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Alex Prager in New Photography 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art Alex Prager has been selected as one of four artists to be included in the prestigious New Photography 2010 at MOMA, opening September 29, 2010. Read More |
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Alex Prager photographs acquired by MOMA and The Whitney Museum The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art have both recently acquired photographs by Alex Prager for inclusion in their permanent collections. Additionally, the North Carolina Museum of Art has also recently acquired Prager's work. |
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Detroit Disassembled monograph released by Damiani and the Akron Art Museum Fine Art publisher Damiani and the Akron Art Museum have released Andrew Moore's monograph Detroit Disassembled, featuring an essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Detroit native, Philip Levine. Read More |
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Alex Prager exhibits at Minneapolis Institute of Arts Alex Prager's work has been selected for the group exhibition Embarrassment of Riches, opening September 17, 2010 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Read More |
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Sharon Core exhibits in Art Remix series at Minneapolis Institute of Arts A selection of Sharon Core photographs are currently on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, as a part of Art Remix, a new series at the museum that juxtaposes contemporary and historical works of art. Read More |
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Hellen van Meene solo show at Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria Foto Kunst Stadforum in Innsbruck, Austria is exhibiting tout va disparaître, a traveling solo show of works by Hellen van Meene, open through June 2, 2010. Originally exhibited at Yancey Richardson Gallery, tout va disparaître comprises a selection of work made in New York City, the American South, Russia, and the Netherlands between 2007 and 2009. Read More |
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New York Times Magazine publishes Hellen van Meene's Secret Lives of Girls In conjunction with the 2010 Hollywood awards season, the New York Times Magazine commissioned Hellen van Meene for a portrait portfolio of five starlets from award nominated films. The Secret Lives of Girls includes portraits of Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), Abby Cornish (Bright Star), and Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria). The limited edition portfolio is available through Yancey Richardson Gallery. |
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David Hilliard named Dartmouth College Artist-in-Residence for Winter/Spring 2010 David Hilliard was selected as the Dartmouth College Artist-in-Residence for Winter/Spring 2010. Begun in 1932, the Artist-in-Residence Program hosts three artists of distinction per year, chosen by a Studio Art faculty committee. An exhibition of Hilliard's work is on display in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery through May 2, 2010. |
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Steinmetz's Greater Atlanta selected by Photo-Eye as one of the best books of 2009 Completing his trilogy, South, which includes previous books South Central and South East, Mark Steinmetz releases Greater Atlanta by Nazraeli Press. Widely praised, Greater Atlanta was nominated as one of the best books of 2009 by Photo-Eye book critics, right after Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition. Read More |
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Terry Evans retrospective in 2012 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Terry Evans invited for a major retrospective show in 2012 by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. |
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Mitch Epstein's American Power monograph released by Steidl Epstein's latest project tackles one of the most loaded issues on the nation's agenda: what and who powers America? American Power is Epstein's portrait of early twenty-first-century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible and sustainable future. Read More |
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Visual Acoustics, a documentary film on Julius Shulman opens nationwide Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Opening October 9th at Cinema Village - 22 E 12th St, NYC. Read More |
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Mitch Epstein on view at the Brooklyn Museum Mitch Epstein's works Dad, Hampton Ponds III, 2003 and Apartment 304, 398 Main Street, 2001 were recently acquired by the Brooklyn Museum are on now on exhibit at the museum in Extended Family: Contemporary Connections. Steidl has also recently released Epstein's 9th monograph, American Power. |
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YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY NOMINATED INTO THE ART DEALER'S ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA The gallery is pleased to announce our membership in the Art Dealer's Association of America. The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is a non-profit membership organization of the nation's leading galleries in the fine arts. Read More |
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PHOTOGRAPHER MARIO CRAVO NETO DIES Gallery artist Mario Cravo Neto, critically considered among the most influential Brazilian artists of his time, died August 10, 2009 in Salvador, Bahia, after an extended illness. Cravo Neto exhibited internationally in leading museums and galleries, and festivals, among them the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice in 1988, Daros-Latin America Collection in 2003 and Rencontres d'Arles in 2005. He was the subject of exhibitions at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo in 1995; Photo España, Madrid,1998 and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas in 2003. Read More |
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Lisa Kereszi Monograph released by Nazraeli Press Lisa Kereszi's monograph Fun and Games will be released in September 2009 by Nazraeli Press. Titled after the name of a Jersey Shore arcade and the Ancient Roman wrestling phrase, "It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye," the book documents the artist's self-described obsession with what is hidden behind the facades of strip clubs, haunted houses and nightclubs and other places of fantasy and entertainment. Read More |
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Photographer Julius Shulman dies Legendary modernist photographer Julius Shulman passed away at his home on July 15, 2009. The preeminent architectural photographer of the 20th century, Shulman chronicled the Modernist landmark buildings of Southern California and elsewhere over five decades. The gallery has represented Shulman since 1995. Read More |
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Victoria Sambunaris exhibition opens at the Hermes Foundation Gallery, NYC Opening September 8, 2009, the Hermes Foundation Gallery at 63rd and Madison, NYC will present Terra Firma, an exhibition of Vicky Sambunaris's recent work exploring geologic hot spots in the American West. This summer Sambunaris was also the subject of solo exhibition an the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, NM. Read More |
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AMY ELKINS AND HELLEN VAN MEENE CURRENTLY ON VIEW AT THE KUNSTHALLE WEIN THOUGH OCTOBER 18, 2009 Amy Elkins and Hellen van Meene are included in The Portrait: Photography as a Stage, from Mapplethorpe to Nan Goldin currently on view at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. The exhibition also includes Roger Ballen, Tina Barney, Valérie Belin, Clegg & Guttmann, Anton Corbijn, Rineke Dijkstra, JH Engström, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Jitka Hanzlová, Peter Hujar, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe,Thomas Ruff, and Wolfgang Tillmans among others. Curated by Peter Weiermair, the exhibition runs through October 18th, 2009. |
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Hellen van Meene on view at the museum of the city of new york Hellen van Meene is one of twelve contemporary Dutch photographers featured in the exhibition Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered on view through September 13, 2009 at the Museum of the City of New York. To watch a video on the exhibition narrated by the curator please click here. Her new monograph tout va paraitre has just been published by Schirmer Mosel. |
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Barbara Kasten exhibits at Aperture Gallery In addition to a solo show at Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2010, Barbara Kasten will exhibit her new large-scale abstractions at Galerie Almine Rech, Paris in Spring 2010. Work from this series was recently included in The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography May - July 2009 at Aperture Gallery, NYC. Constructivismes, (A Visual Essay) at Andrea Rosen Gallery, curated by Olivier Renaud Clement, featured Kasten's early drawings on photograms alongside Kasmir Malevich and Burgoyne Diller. |
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Mario Cravo Neto included in negritude exhibition at exit art Mario Cravo Neto is a part of the group exhibition Négritude at Exit Art in New York City. The show explores the visionary 20th century political and artistic movement of the same name. The exhibition runs through July 25, 2009. |
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Sharon Core early american exhibition at Savannah College of Art and Design Sharon Core will have a solo exhibition of her Early American series at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. The exhibition will be shown in two venues, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah July 8 - August 16, 2009 and the Trois Gallery, Atlanta October 8 - November 25, 2009. Both the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art and The Amon Carter Museum have recently acquired examples from Core's Early American series. |
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Olivo Barbieri included in various exhibitions Olivo Barbieri's spectacular ten panel 22 foot photograph "Shanghai, China" will be featured in the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago's upcoming exhibition Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture on view September 25 - December 23, 2009. Read More |
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Rachel Perry Welty awarded two grants We are happy to announce that gallery artist Rachel Perry Welty has been awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2009-2010, as well as a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant (Sculpture), 2009. |
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Julius Shulman included in MOMA exhibition Julius Shulman's iconic photograph Case Study House #22, 1960 was included in the Museum of Modern Art Spring 2009 exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West. |
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Lynn Saville releases book Lynn Saville's first monograph Night|Shift: Photographs by Lynn Saville, published by The Monacelli Press, was released in May 2009. |
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Artists nominated for Deutsche Borse Prize Both Laura Letinsky and Hiroh Kikai were nominated for the 2009 Deutsche Borse Prize, awarded to UK-born photographer Paul Graham. The Prize aims to reward a living photographer who has made the most significant contribution to the medium of photography in Europe over the past year. Gallery artist Esko Mannikko was the 2008 Deutsche Borse recipient. |
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Gallery artists nominated for Baum award Victoria Sambunaris and Christian Patterson have been nominated for the 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographer. Lisa Kereszi was the 2005 recipient. |
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Mark Steinmetz releases new book Mark Steinmetz's new book Greater Atlanta, his third with Nazraeli Press, will be released in Fall 2009. The Yale Art Gallery recently acquired a group of Steinmetz's works from the edition for their collection. |
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Terry Evans included in SF MOMA exhibition 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. |
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Hellen van Meene exhibitions Hellen Van Meene is included in a group exhibition Darkside: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich up through November 16th 2008. |