ODETTE ENGLAND: MULTI-AWARD FINALIST

Congratulations to gallery artist, Odette England, on being named a Finalist for the following prestigious awards.

2014 Sunshine Coast Art Prize for the Thrice Upon A Time series. It awards a $15,000 prize, with an accompanying exhibition for finalists at the Caloundra Regional Gallery (Australia), August 7–October 26, 2014.

2014 IRIS Award for Self Diagnosis series. The award is managed by the Perth Center for Photography (Australia), provides a $4,000 prize, and an exhibition of finalists ran May 9–June 8, 2014.

2014 DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize. Nominated for the Self Diagnosis series. The award provides a $10,000 prize, and an exhibition of finalists is currently showing at the Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville (Australia), through July 13, 2014.

Selected for the10th Anniversary publication of Flash Forward by the Magenta Foundation (Canada). Featuring the Top 100 list of photographers from Canada, the UK and the US. Self Diagnosis, VII (2011) © Odette England 6.5" x 9.3" image on 8.5" x 11" sheet,  Edition: 3 + 1AP

MANUEL COSENTINO: UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Gallery artist, Manuel Cosentino, will have his Behind A Little House series shown at two upcoming exhibitions. 

The first exhibition will open on June 18th, at the Griffin Atelier Gallery, continuing through to June 30th. The second will see his work shown as part of 'The Fence', a public art installation in Brooklyn (NY) and Atlanta (Georgia), throughout Summer 2014, and produced by United Photo Industries.

Cosentino's work has been placed into several private collections, and is held in the permanent collection of the Bibiothèque Nationale de France. 

To see the complete series and additional information, go here. 

Behind A Little House, installed at Klompching Gallery in July/August 2013.

ODETTE ENGLAND: MUSEUM ACQUISITION

It's with much pleasure that we can announce the acquisition of work from the Thrice Upon A Time series (below), by the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago. This follows on from the photographic series, being included in the museum's recent and critically admired Of Walking exhibition.

Mum #3 (Right Foot), 2012 © Odette England

MAX DE ESTEBAN: Darmstäder Tage der Fotografie

Proposition One: Only The Ephemeral
Design House, Darmstädt,  25–27 April, 2014

We are pleased to announce, that Max de Esteban will be exhibiting at the 2014 Darmstädt Days of Photography Festival.

The series, Proposition One: Only the Ephermeral, will be shown at the Design House, as part of the main exhibition, which has a curatorial theme of Reflection – Aesthetic References.

This series has been hugely popular with our gallery visitors and clients alike. It was first shown at the gallery, as a solo show in Fall 2011 and has continued to resonate, through being regularly exhibited throughout Europe since that time. 

To learn more about the Darmstäder Festival, visit their website here. 

To revisit this series of photographs, visit our website here. 

PO5, 2011 © Max de Esteban

SIMON ROBERTS: Multimedia Museum, Moscow

Landscape Studies of a Small Island
April 25 – May 25, 2014

We are pleased to announce that Simon Roberts will be exhibiting at the Multimedia Museum in Moscow, as part of the UK Russia Year of Culture 2014. The exhibition has been curated by Karen McQuaid, Curator at The Photographer's Gallery, London. 

The exhibition draws on a selection of photographs from Roberts' We English and Pierdom series, exhibited at Klompching Gallery as solo shows in 2009 and 2013.

"With renewed interest in the relationship of individuals and groups to the landscape, Roberts focused on social practices, customs, cultural landmarks, economic and political scenarios that define his 'small island' as uniquely British. With echoes of 'history painting', these photographs point to contemporary issues specific to Britain, but equally engage with universal ideas of the human relationship to landscape, of identity and belonging".—Curatorial statement.

For more information about the exhibition, visit the museum website.

To view more of the photographs, visit the We English and Pierdom website pages. 

Brighton West, 2011 © Simon Roberts

JIM NAUGHTEN: Contact Photography Festival

Hereros at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

May 1 – August 18, 2014

We are delighted to announce, that Jim Naughten's Hereros series will be exhibited at the 2014 Contact Photography Festival. A selection of his work, curated by Bonnie Rubenstein, will be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, as part of the festival's public installations program.

Herero Woman Marching, 2012 © Jim Naughten

Further information can be found here.

To see more from the series, with print sale information, visit the gallery website.

FREDERIC WEBER: The University of the Arts

Domestic Views
March 21 – April 25, 2014

We are pleased to share the news that our print room artist, Frederic Weber, will be exhibiting a solo exhibition of his work at Gallery 1401 at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Information about the exhibition can be found here.

To view the entire series of Domestic Views, please visit our website here. You can also read a previous blog post about his work. For acquisition inquiries, please contact us at the gallery.

PUALA McCARTNEY: Winter Magic

More Press for "A Field Guide To Snow and Ice"
Exhibition continues to March 29th, 2014

"Ms McCartney creates pictures of snow and ice, or what looks like snow and ice, and presents them as modest-format prints".—William Meyers, March 2014.

Read the full review on the Wall Street Journal website.

"While not the factual discourse implied by its title, Paula McCartney’s “Field Guide to Snow and Ice” explores the photographic illusions of snow and ice".—Ed Barnas, March 2014.

Read the full review on The New York Photo Review website.

"This guide includes images of frozen waterfalls and stalagmites, snowfalls and wildflowers, as well as other icy forms in order to explore and reinterpret natural structures and the way they can reference multiple ideas on both micro and macro levels".—Paula McCartney.

Read the full feature on the Landscape Stories website.

Ice Floe #5, 2008 © Paula McCartney

View the series on the gallery website here.

ODETTE ENGLAND: George Eastman House

Of Time and Buildings

March 8 – June 8, 2014

We're pleased to share the news, that a selection of photographs from Odette England's Thrice Upon a Time series, acquired by the George Eastman House in 2013, have been curated into the exhibition Of Time and Buildings.

The exhibition was curated by Alison Nordström – Senior Curator of the George Eastman House, 2004-2013. Read our previous blog post about the museum's acquisition of England's artwork here. 

Dad #12 (Right Foot), 2012 © Odette England

"As photographs became increasingly ubiquitous in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they came to play a major role in our understanding and experience of place. Of Time and Buildings presents the work of several artists who explore the relationship between photographic images of the built environment and our experience of place".–George Eastman House.

Read more about the exhibition on the museum website here.

PAULA McCARTNEY: Photograph Magazine

McCartney's exhibition, A Field Guide to Snow and Ice, has been extended to March 29th. If you've not had a chance to view the work in person, we highly recommend making a visit to the gallery. Here's an excerpt from the most recent review.

Black Ice #1 and #2 (Diptych), 2011 © Paula McCartney

"All photographers invariably walk the line between truth and fiction, but few as imaginatively as Paula McCartney. the Minneapolis-based photographer's seasonably appropriate exhibition at Klompching Gallery, A Field Guide to Snow and Ice, is evidence of that".—Jordan G. Teicher.

Read the full review at photograph.

JIM NAUGHTEN: PHOTOFESTIVAL KNOKKE-HEIST

Photofestival Knokke-Heist 2014
March 30–June 9, 2014

We are very pleased to announce the inclusion  of Jim Naughten's Hereros series in the 2014 installment of the Knokke-Heist photography festival in Belgium.

A selection of photographs from the Hereros series have been curated into the outdoor exhibition, entitled Haute Afrika, with one of the Naughten's photographs featured on the cover of the exhibition catalogue.

The festival website can be found here. 

"The title of this year’s outdoor exhibition, ‘Haute Afrika’, does not refer to a geographic region on the African continent, but to ‘Haute Couture’, or the art of creating custom-fitted clothing. We Westerners commonly associate this with big cities such as London, Paris, Milan or New York and consider haute couture to be the epitome of fashion. By incorporating Africa in this traditionally French concept, we arrive at a word combo which defies the imagination. “Haute Afrika”, a place where creativity contributes to prosperity.  

Here you won’t see photos of violent revolutions, dried out deserts or poverty. Instead this outdoor exhibition features photos of the creative inhabitants of this great continent, who showcase their sense of entrepreneurship and their “passion for fashion”.  

The photo festival zooms in on the work of photographers who communicate a multi-tiered message about African society through its fashion culture. “Haute Afrika” presents a specific type of image, with social, political and economic implications. By showing work by foreign artists who visited the continent, as well as photos by African photographers, “Haute Afrika” chooses to highlight different perspectives".—Festival Statement.

The Hereros series was first shown at the Klompching Gallery in March–April 2013, featured by the gallery at the 2013 AIPAD Photo Show and published as a monograph by Merrell Publishers (2013). Read about a museum acquisition from the series here, and a current museum exhibition in which one of the photographs is included here. 

Jim Naughten's Hereros series can be viewed online, and if you have an interest in acquiring photographs, please contact the gallery for the PDF catalogue. 

2014 LUNAR NEW YEAR

In Chinese astrology, 2014 is the year of the Horse. In celebration of this, we thought it timely to showcase some photographs by our artists, that feature horses in one way or another. These photographs are available for purchase, let us know if you have an interest in hanging these on your walls!

Gong Xi Fa Cai! (Happy New Year!)

Herero Cavalry Marching © Jim Naughten

The Hunt © Antony Crossfield

Pavel and Listok © Simon Roberts

PAULA McCARTNEY: THE NEW YORKER

"For the past several years, the Minneapolis-based photographer Paula McCartney has exploited extreme weather to dazzling effect, capturing detailed portraits of natural winter elements, from frozen waterfalls to ice stalagmites to snow flurries, which have been skewed or exaggerated by rising and falling temperatures. About winter, McCartney says, “I categorize by pattern, shape, and line rather than merely by substance.” Her new series, “A Field Guide to Snow and Ice,” is on view at Klompching Gallery through February 15, 2014".—The New Yorker.

View the slide show on The New Yorker. 

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Paula McCartney
A Field Guide to Snow and Ice

We are delighted that our first exhibition for 2014, is A Field Guide to Snow and Ice. This is Paula McCartney's second solo show at the gallery. Made between 2008–2011, it's a highly anticipated follow-up to the artist's Bird Watching exhibition in 2010.

Backyard Snow #2, 2010 © Paula McCartney

Based upon the premise of the 'field guide'—a book used to accurately identify natural objects—McCartney's new photogrpahs are a visual representation of her idea of winter.

A Field Guide to Snow and Ice is a sophisticated set of photographs, contiuing her visual exploration of truth and fabrication in the photographic image and natural world. The 28 artworks that make up the exhibit, are a sequential installation of modestly-sized photographs, interweaving natural elements and constructed environments—we see snowfalls, frozen waterfalls, stalagmites and snowdrifts.

McCartney's representation of abstracted elements, reveals a nuanced ambiguity of scale and substance, causing what has been photographed, to transcend its origin. This is not an exhibition to take for granted, but one to explore carefully, particularly its use of a collapse between creative and scientific languages.

"I see winter everywhere, in every environment, in every season and categorize it by pattern, shape, and line rather than merely by substance", says Paula McCartney.

Developed over the course of several years, and demonstrating a remarkable maturity and development in her artistic practice, this is a must-see exhibition. 

The photographs are available as follows: 

Varying Sizes: 16" x 13" | 16" x 16" | 16" x 19"

Edition: 7

Medium: Archival Pigment Prints on Canson Baryta. 

Prices: $900, increasing as the editions sell.

Accompanying the exhibition is On Thin Ice, In A Blizzard—a limited edition artist book featuring a selection of photographs from A Field Guide to Snow and Ice.

See the complete series of photographs here.

The exhibition continues through to February 15, 2014. 

THE BIG FREEZE

Here in New York City, we are experiencing especially cold temperatures—reminding the gallery team of some wonderful landscapes made by our artists. Why venture outside when you can have these hanging on your walls?

Several of these photographs are close to selling out, so if you see something you truly love, we recommend an acquisition without delay! 

Current pricing and availability is available by contacting us at the gallery. 

Snowbound, 2003–2007 © Lisa M. Robinson

C-Types | Ed: 15 + 2APs | 28" x 36"

See more from the Snowbound series here

Polyarnye Nochi, 2004–2005 © Simon Roberts

C-Types | Ed: 6 + 2APs & 10 + 2APs | 30" x 40" & 20" x 24"

See more from the Polyarnye Nochi series here