INTERVIEW: THE RIGHT ART FOR YOUR HOME

Photographs by Ken Rosenthal (left) and Antony Crossfield (right) installed in NYC homes. 

Owner of the Klompching Gallery, Debra Klomp Ching, was recently interviewed for the 'Long Island For Sale' Real Estate website. In the article, she talks about the process for buying original fine art photographs for the private home.

"The right artwork will be one that 'lives'. What I mean by that, is that you discover something new in the work over time, and that your relationship with it - or appreciation of it - alters and grows ... We have many clients who bought their first original artwork from us, and keep returning to build their collection".—Debra Klomp Ching

The link to the full interview is here. 

AIPAD 2015: LISA M. ROBINSON

Wish, 2005

Series Title: Snowbound

Number of artworks at AIPAD: 2

Edition: 15 + 2APs

Size: 28" x 36"

Medium: C-Type

Year: 2003-2007

Photographed over the course of five winters, the landscapes in Snowbound are pristine in their sparse whiteness. The minimalist compositions have a meditative quality that causes the spectator to be drawn into the perfected white-on-white. They exude a neutrality of tone in which the ground recedes into the sky, mirroring the envelopment of human presence by the binding snowfall. Accents of color are signs that betray the empty loneliness; they prick through the whiteness, at times with a surreal incongruity. As quiet observations of our human condition, these metaphorical studies perceptively capture notions of transience, loss and enlightenment. 

The critically acclaimed series was published as a monograph by Kehrer Verlag in 2007, and the photographs went on to be exhibited across numerous venues in the US and internationally. 

Lisa M. Robinson graduated cum laude from Columbia University and received her MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has won several awards including a Fullbright Grant, was an Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and an artist-in-residence at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland. Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego), Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Fidelity Investments amongst others.

At the AIPAD Photography show, two Artist Proofs of Wish and Solo are presented for sale. With the edition of these two artworks now sold out, these photographs are the last available to acquire. 

AIPAD 2015: JIM NAUGHTEN

Herero Cadet in Kilt, 2012

Series Title: Herero

Number of artworks at AIPAD: 8

Edition: 10 + 2APs & 3 + 2APs

Size: 24" x 20” & 50” x 41”

Medium: C-Type

Year: 2012

The photographer, Jim Naughten, has an abiding interest in collective perceptions of history and relationships with the past.  With this series of portraits, he is not so much interested in the individuals themselves as subjects, but the costumes being worn and their significance in forming a cultural identity.

In the case of the Hereros, it is the adoption of 19th Century European clothing, originally introduced to the Herero people by German missionaries, traders and immigrants during the time of Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Taken out of the context of the subjects’ everyday lives, the portraits are photographed against the stark backdrop of the Namib Desert. Each figure is isolated, bringing forth the vivid colors of voluminous petticoated gowns, cattle-horn-shaped headdresses and colorful military uniforms, to center stage in a spectacular fashion. The unusual vantage point presents the subjects—although anonymous—as empowered, stoic and regal.

Gibbon, 2014

Series Title: Animal Kingdom

Number of artworks at AIPAD: 2

Edition: 10 + 2APs

Size: 18" x 23"

Medium: Archival Pigment Print

Year: 2014

"Jim Naughten is an artist who understands the transformative effects that photography can have on a subject. In each of his previous projects he has been concerned with reanimating  history. His latest images of Victorian and Edwardian zoo-logical specimens continue this overarching visual enquiry  but incorporate in addition a fascinating venture into three-dimensional imaging. They are captivating enough even when  seen in two dimensions. But once you plunge into the marvel  of their stereoscopic depth you are transfixed. Through the  act of viewing, an intangible transformation takes place. While  the photographs exist in physical form on paper, they also live as an experience, a beautiful illusion held in the mind. 

Naughten embodies the fertile marriage between nature  and art in his Animal Kingdom. He dedicated a year refining  the project, solving technical challenges and gathering images during visits to numerous museums. The photo- graphs are individually coherent, but form part of a typology, a comparative study of types. Embracing the aesthetic and working reality of the archive, he shows the patina of time and handling in the fading labels, old typefaces and peeling black backing paint of the specimens in fluid. He also echoes museums’ classification systems, arranging his final edited  fifty images into five groups — Marine, Reptile, Mammal,  Avian and Primate – reflecting the sequential and chronological evolution of man."—Martin Barnes Senior Curator of Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Jim Naughten (b. 1969) is an internationally-exhibited artist, including a solo show at the Imperial War Museum in London and inclusion in the UK’s Royal Academy Summer Show (2012). He is the recipient of several awards, including a commendation from The National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. His first series of photographs, Re-enactors, was published as a monograph (Hotshoe Books, 2009), with several photographs acquired by The Imperial War Museum (UK). The Hereros series was published as Conflict and Costume (Merrell, 2013).

To learn more about Jim Naughten's newly released Animal Kingdom series, view a video HERE, in which the artist talks about the work.