Tuesday, November 24, 2015

FIRST RELEASE OF NEW IMAGES


ODETTE ENGLAND: EXCAVATIONS
FIRST RELEASE OF NEW IMAGES

KLOMPCHING GALLERY is delighted to release the first three images from Odette England's new series, Excavations.

"Preserving family history via photography is like an archeological excavation: it involves the exposure, processing and recording of remains. But to uncover the truth – or at least an interpretation of the ‘apparent truth’ of an image – a ‘hunt’ or ‘dig’ is required.


My project 'Excavations' explores the invisible social space of family storytelling. I make chromogenic color prints (in the darkroom) of family photographs using vintage Kodak film, as well as using snapshots from the album, and then carefully hand-sand them with various types and grades of sandpaper. Using sandpaper means I can blur detail, smooth areas, roughen up patches, and remove people or landscapes altogether…in other words, grind and polish my past, present, future. I make the importance of the snapshot as a memory-based object more beguiling. New stories emerge through interaction, transforming presence into symbolic absence.

The new images challenge how past events are re-presented to us through imagery and how these can influence what we think and believe."–Odette England

Excavation No. 6, 2015

Excavation No. 33, 2015

Excavation No. 59, 2015


The Excavation series is available as follows:

Size: 18.5"x18.5" image on 22.5"x22.5" sheet
Unique archival pigment prints, 
hand-sanded with sandpaper
Signed, titled and dated via label


Pricing and further information available from:
Debra Klomp Ching on +1 212 796 2070

Friday, November 6, 2015

UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY

Richard Tuschman Commission



We are delighted to bring to our readers' attention, a unique opportunity to have a bespoke photograph made by gallery artist, Richard Tuschman. 

As part of his Kickstarter Campaign, currently underway and heading toward being successfully funded, Richard Tuschman is offering up the opportunity to "put yourself in a Tuschman". 

For $3,500, Richard Tuschman says: "I will create a custom portrait of you +1 in a Kazimierz or Hopper Diorama. Includes wardrobe, hairstyling, and makeup and one 18x24 archival print".

This wonderful oppportunity is only available to purchase, through this one-off fundraising campaign, which comes to a close on November 13, 2015. There is only one on offer, so we highly recommend snapping this up. 

Details of the campaign can be found HERE.

An announcement regarding the exhibition of his new work will be made soon. 


Wednesday, November 4, 2015

CURRENT EXHIBITION

ROBERT MORAN & ROBERT CALAFIORE

RELICS AND GLASS

Artist Reception: Thursday, November 5, 6pm–9pm

Klompching Gallery brings together the photographic artworks of two artists, Robert Moran and Robert Calafiore. Each artist presents compelling photographs of artifacts, bringing to attention in fine detail, the objects' individual attributes. More than this, they each utilize the photographic medium in different ways to preserve histories that are at once universal and highly personal. By juxtaposing the different methodologies utilized by two perceptive and highly skilled photographers, we highlight the breadth of possibilities in visualizing ideas through the photographic medium.


L-R: Blue Flash, Underwood, Beat It © Robert Moran
Archival Pigment Prints, Edition: 8+1AP, 16"x16" (image) on 20"x20.5" sheet


In the case of Robert Moran, we present the Relics series. Made between 2011–2014, the photographs that make up Relics, present artifacts from our recent past that are discarded, and for the most part, no longer used. The objects range from manual typewriters, earth globes, dial phones and lava lamps through to electric fans and pigskin footballs. Each machine or object is centrally positioned upon a shelf, photographed front-on and lit brightly. The method of depicting the objects is reminiscent of an anthropological survey, presenting the viewer with the details to scrutinize. However, the simplicity of approach also enables us to view the subject matter with a touch of nostalgia, warmth and to ignite memories of an object's past use.


Ogetti de Vetro, Smeraldo © Robert Calafiore
Unique C-Type Pinhole Prints (18 panels) 72"x120" 


Robert Calafiore's Glass series consists of images of seemingly ordinary glass objects. However, most of them are mid-century family heirlooms, from the artist's immediate and extended Italian migrant family. They are imbued with narratives of migration, generational family history and for the artist, direct experiences of their utilitarian function in the family home. Individual and unique experiences have been transferred into unique objects, with each photograph being made as a one-of-a-kind print, using a pinhole camera obscura to record light directly onto the traditional photographic paper.

Whereas Robert Moran's photographs are almost monochromatic, quiet and contemplative, with each photograph rendered at an intimate scale, Robert Calafiore's photographs are lush in color, vibrant and energetic; boldly stated as a large-scale grid of 18 separate photographs. What they share is a wonderful celebration of the importance of objects in peoples' lives, our projection of personal stories onto them, and in their own ways, a nod to photography's performative role within that context. Both bodies of work are about beauty, about collective reminiscence and personal narratives.