Helen Sear Exhibits at Fototropia

Helen Sear has been selected for an exhibition at Fototropia in Guatamala. The curatorial statement for Fototropia's inaugural exhibition states:

"We invite the Guatemalan public to be a part of an exhibit without precedent in our country, which looks to break traditional art schemes and create a new physical and mental state for the art scene in our region ... We believe in organizing an exhibit that allows the interpretation of the art from a personal point of view creating a new critical way of thinking about image".

In addition to more recent artworks, the curators have selected photographs from Sear's extensive archive, including the Spot series. This series was commissioned by Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire (UK).

 

Spot 1 (2003) ©Helen Sear

The intention of this series of portraits was to emulate their human counterparts, the hall’s ancestors, and to challenge the dominant position of human over animal. The photographs have been reconstructed digitally, masking over the eyes of the ornithological specimens. By intervening in the process of looking – an ongoing theme of Sear's overall artistic practice – the viewer is forced to question their relationship between themselves and the viewed

The exhibition opened on March7th, and continues through April 22nd, 2013.
If you have an interest in acquiring artworks from the Spot series, please contact the gallery.

Tessa Bunney exhibits at Galeria Ratamo

Vuorilammen sauna and ice swimming hole, Jyväskylä, Finland (2010) ©Tessa Bunney

Gallery artist, Tessa Bunney, continues to be interested in the relationship of people to their environment and is currently working on new photographs in Laos. In the meantime, her Lakeice series continues to be well received, and is now being exhibited at the Galeria Ratamo in Jyväskylä, Finland. It's part of a group exhibition entitled Inostaa/Inspire and has toured to Finland from the United Kingdom.

"My aim with the project Järvenjää/Lakeice was to explore interrelations between people and their immediate environment; allowing the viewer to reflect on diverse uses of natural landscapes within the city.  To achieve this work I spent every day walking and travelling by local bus around Jyväskylä to the many lakes in and around the city. Initially, I’m working like a street photographer – nothing is predetermined; the series is built up by spending time out there experiencing changes in the weather and responding to what I see and the people I meet.  Later I spent time with the groups of ice swimmers who meet several times a week to relax, take a sauna and swim in a hole in the ice.

Sometimes in blizzard conditions and always in temperatures of between -5 and -20, this often meant wading knee deep in snow across frozen lakes to reach my chosen destination. I was fascinated with how the frozen lakes had transformed the city and they had become a temporary urban park with its specially constructed ice skating track with other more random paths carved out by ski-ers, dog walkers and pedestrians making short cuts from the houses on the otherside of the city.  The division between the land and water had disappeared". –Tessa Bunney

Announcing Klompching Editions

We're delighted to announce a new initiative, through which the gallery will occasionally make available, a special edition of a photograph.

The special editions will vary from an artist's regular edition – through a variation of the edition size, print type and scale of the artwork. Our special editions are specifically developed with the young and/or new collector in mind, presenting an entry-level option to invest in a high caliber artwork.

We're launching Klompching Editions with Herero Woman In Yellow Dress, by Jim Naughten.
 

Herero Woman in Yellow Dress (2012) ©Jim Naughten

SPECIAL EDITION DETAILS:

Title: Herero Woman in Yellow Dress (2012)
Size: 10" x 12.3" image on 11" x 14" sheet
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl
Ink: Epson Ultrachrome HDR
Printer: Gotham Imaging, New York
Provenance: Direct from the artist
Edition: 50
Price: $300 USD
Certificate of Authenticity signed by Artist + Gallery Stamp

Click here to acquire this stunning photograph!

We're including a signed complimentary copy of Conflict and Costume (Merrell, 2013) with the first TEN prints purchased, as long as the order is received before March 16th (EST).

Hardback

108 pages

75 illustrations, 70 in color, 1 map

29 x 25 cm (11.5 x 9.75 in)

ISBN: 978-1-8589-4600-9

Published March 2013

Retail value: $50 USD