Monday, June 27, 2016

ELAINE DUIGENAN: AWARD WINNER

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS

We are delighted to congratulate gallery artist, Elaine Duigenan, on being awarded 2nd place, in two categories of the 2016 Moscow International Foto Awards, with her newly-released series Blossfeldt's Apprentice.

"The images are of objects made out of twist ties.  They attempt to recreate some of the plant structures that were revealed in iconic photographs by the German artist Karl Blossfeldt (1920’s). The limits of working with such a humble material become the prime focus as the struggle to imitate nature is shown in loose threads and the tension between perfection and imperfection".—Elaine Duigenan.

Grey Thistle (2016) © Elaine Duigenan


The Blossfeldt's Apprentice series consists of 10 photographs, and are available to purchase as individual photographs, or as complete sets. Two editions are available as follows: 

16.5" x 11.5", Edition: 3+2AP
11.75" x 8.25", Edition: 3+2AP

Archival Ultrachrome Pigment Ink

Hahnemuehle Archival Museum Etching 350gsm
Authentication: signed, dated, numbered, titled on verso and signed certificate

Please contact Darren Ching for additional information, including pricing and availability.

View the series on the gallery website.
View the series on the gallery's ARTSY Profile.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

ODETTE ENGLAND: AWARD FINALIST

We are delighted to announce that gallery artist, Odette England, has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2016 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Award. 

Forty-five finalists were selected by Professor Susan Best, Program Convenor of Fine Art and Art Theory, Griffith University's Queensland College of Art. An exhibition of the finalists will take place at The Arts Center Gold Coast, June 25–August 21, 2016. The award offers a first prize of $20,000 and acquisition prizes totaling $10,000. 

Odette England was selected with work from the newly-released series Excavations, which the gallery premiered at the AIPAD Photography Show in April 2016. A solo exhibition of work by Odette England is scheduled for September. 


Image: © Odette England


Sunday, June 12, 2016

FRESH 2016: FOUR EXHIBITORS

We are delighted to announce the FRESH 2016 winners, who will be exhibited at the Klompching Gallery in its Annual Summer Exhibition.

The exhibition is scheduled to open with an artist reception on July 13, 6pm–8pm, and will remain on view through August 6, 2016.



JOHN CHAKERES

La Paz, Prison Wall © John Chakeres
Series Title: Grey Series
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.johnchakeres.com



JENNIFER GREENBURG

When the lifted me on to the piano, I had no choice but to oblige © Jennifer Greenburg
Series Title: Revising History
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.jennifergreenburg.com



ANTONIO JACOB MARTINEZ

Untitled © Antonio Jacob Martinez
Series Title: How to Hug and Other Sublimations of Men
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.antoniom.com



SARAH SUDHOFF


No. 3 © Sarah Sudhoff
Series Title: Precious Metal
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.sarahsudhoff.com


Saturday, June 11, 2016

FRESH 2016: FINALISTS, ONLINE SHOWCASE

We are delighted to announce the TEN FINALISTS for the FRESH Annual Summer Show. The finalists have been selected from an international open call for submissions, by W.M. Hunt and Darren Ching.

As with previous years, the finalists listed here, will be featured on an Online Showcase. 

Tomorrow, we announce the FOUR photographers, selected for the Annual Summer Show, to be presented at the Klompching Gallery July 13–August 6, 2016.


HANNAH SMITH ALLEN
Scheduled Implosion Spectators 1 ©Hannah Smith Allen
Series Title: Scheduled Implosions
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.hannahsmithallen.com

BEN ALTMAN
Act One, Year Two, June © Ben Altman
Series Title: The More That is Taken Away
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.benaltman.net

KURT GEISLER
Mexican Fencepost © Kurt Geisler
Series Title: Desert Flora
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.geislerstudio.com


PHOTOGRAPHER HAL
Rem and Marina © Photographer Hal
Series Title: Fresh Love
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.photographerhal.com

TERI HAVENS
Burlesk, Detroit © Teri Havens
Series Title: Last Light
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.terihavens.com

RICHARD KOLKER
High Royds © Richard Kolker
Series Title: Asylums
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.richardkolker.com

NiGEL MAISTER
Untitled (Elvis) © Nigel Maister
Series Title: tight. word. lit.
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.nigelmaister.com

CHRISTOS PALIOS
Catharsis © Christos Palios
Series Title: Conversations
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.christospalios.com

DONNA PINCKLEY
That's Not Your Mamma © Donna Pinckley
Series Title: Sticks and Stones
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.donnapinckley.com 

MARTINA SHENAL
21t Century, Kanazawa Prefecture © Martina Shenal
Series Title: Borrowed Views
PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE: www.martinashenal.com 


Friday, June 10, 2016

CURRENT EXHIBITION: JUNE 1 – JULY 9

Cornelia Hediger: Puppenhaus
Frederic Weber: Memento Mori & Primary Light

On show, is the highly anticipated Puppenhaus series, by Cornelia Hediger. This forms the artist's third exhibition with the gallery and showcases the artist's handmade photo-collages. Made between 2014–2016, the series is inspired by the likes of Hannah Höch, John Heartfield and Grete Stern among others. The photographs are constructed out of a combination of pigment and gelatin silver prints, with imagery originating from various sources including the artist's studio practice, and scans of wallpaper, paint and cardboard. These are combined with recent photographs of travels in Europe, the patriarchal home in Switzerland and other family artifacts.

The Crucifixion (2016) © Cornelia Hediger

The hand of the artist is up front and center across the Puppenhaus series—pencil marks, irregular cuts left exposed, paint, hanging string, and individual elements attached in low relief, which together draw attention to the unusual focal planes, angles of view and shifts in scale. All of this combines perfectly with the seemingly whimsical narratives, that take the viewer on a journey through the artist's fictionalized world. The use of self-portraiture prevails, linking this series back to the previous Doppelgänger work. We 'Cornelias' having rea, balancing cups, acting out in odd domestic spaces and going on journeys. In one piece, reminiscent of the 19th Century, Chilean Ladies by Spencer y Cia, we see 100 heads—all of the artist—receding back into the distance. Hedger has created theatrical scenes, as if on a stage, images which are extraordinary and which pull you right into their three-dimensional space. 

Frederic Weber brings to his photographic practice, a visual sensibility that challenges the viewer to determine quite what they're looking at. On show are selections from two bodies of work, Memento Mori and Primary Light, both of which draw attention to Weber's penchant for making photographs the don't always look like photographs. 

Memento Mori is constructed from a combination of images, that the artist has excavated from comic books, magazines, newspapers, television, paintings and other printed matter. He presents images of tightly cropped heads of black and African subjects, presenting them almost as relics of time past. The photographs are challenging, almost visually overwhelming, and difficult to fix within a specific framework. At once iconic, they echo historical post-mortem imagery, its a timestamp that is not fixed or even knowable. Made of several layers of different images, the photographs are rich in color and painterly.

Untitled No. 122 (1998) © Frederic Weber

The Primary Light series share this painterly quality. Here though, it is the reference to photograph's Pictorialism past, that is most evident. Weber presents torsos and heads that are rendered in soft-focus, with each emerging from the a depth of blue so saturated, the color transforms into an abyss, out of which the human forms glow like fire-flies. The ghostly figures seem nostalgic, classical even and partly unknowable. 

Both bodies of work by Frederic Weber are produced as Ilfochromes, a photographic process introduced in the 1960s, that is well known for its rich highly-saturated colors. The prints on display are vintage, making this a rare opportunity to view this work as originally envisioned and printed. 

Hediger and Weber are virtuosos of their materials, presenting extraordinary work that is meticulously made and visually stunning. The vision behind each artist's work, is evidence of their respective dedication to studio practices, that have spanned several years, and in which they share a concern for exploring—and exploiting—the photograph as both a tool of record, and a means of expressing a unique creative vision. This is the first time that they are exhibited together, bringing about an interesting curatorial conversation.