WILLIAM GREINER: SHOW & TELL

LSU Glassell Gallery, September 12—October 20, 2013

Left: Show & Tell book cover, Right: Blue Tattoo by William Greiner

All reproduction rights reserved Wm. Greiner, Jenny Milchman and UL Press

Gallery artist, William Greiner, debuts his new photographic project, Show & Tell, at the Louisianna State University Glassell Gallery, in Baton Rouge. The exhibition opens on September 12th and runs through to October 20th, 2013.

With Show & Tell, William Greiner has collaborated with some 28 writers—including Pam Thomas, Joshua Clark and Brett Battles—each responding to one of his photographs with fictional narratives. The photographs and accompanying texts form Greiner's latest book of the same name, and is published by University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2013).

Visit the Glassell Gallery website HERE.

HELEN SEAR: THE WAKELIN AWARD 2013

Gallery artist, Helen Sear, has been awarded the prestigious Wakelin Award 2013. The award is given annually to a Welsh artist, whose work is purchased for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery's permanent collection. 

Helen Sear's high-definition video installation, Chameleon, was selected for the award by Nicholas Thornton – Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum, Wales. Chameleon depicts a sunflower, filmed at night and lit by torchlight.

"I'm delighted that Chameleon will be joining a major public collection in Swansea and I'm pleased to have selected. The Wakelin Award offers recognition for artists such as myself based in Wales and I'd like to thank the organisers for their generosity. I look forward to my video installation joining the work of both past and future award holders".—Helen Sear

Helen Sear is represented in the US exclusively by Klompching Gallery, with three solo exhibitions presented since 2009. Her most recent photographic artworks can be viewed online HERE.

Chameleon, 2013. Video Projection, loop  of 14 minutes © Helen Sear

SIMON ROBERTS: BOOK REVIEW

Weston-Super-Mare-Grand, 2011 © Simon Roberts

PIERDOM
Review by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, August 31, 2013

"Pierdom is another instalment in Simon Roberts' ongoing visual documentation of modern England. He has photographed every British Pier using a 4x5 plate camera, which has also captured the landscape from which they extend, the sea around them and the sky above them". 

"This is a much cooler and detached approach than, say, Martin Parr's seaside photographs, and shares a certain similarity of style with John Davies's documentary photographs of British landscapes. Here and there, though, there are hints of John Hinde's postcard vision of Britain as one big unreal leisure theme park, especially in Roberts' wonderful diptych of Walton-on-the-Naze pier". 

" ... a very beautiful book from a master of stillness, light and landscape".

Read the full review HERE.

Pierdom (Dewi Lewis, 2013)

Hardback

160 pages, 81 color plates

$55USD

ISBN: 978-1-907893-40-7

PIERDOM will be exhibited at Klompching Gallery this Fall:
Simon Roberts — Pierdom: November 7–December 21, 2013.
Artist Reception: Thursday, November 7, 6pm–8pm.