PEGGY LEVISON NOLAN: JUGGLING IS EASY
PUBLISHED BY TBW BOOKS
BOOK SIGNING AT PARIS PHOTO, GRAND PALAIS, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2022, 1PM
I am thrilled to announce the publication of Peggy Nolan’s second monograph of her black and white work from the 70s to the 90s.
ADOPTED LANDSCAPES at Collective 62, Miami
September 15 – November 15, 2022
Collective 62, 901 NW 62nd Street, Miami, FL 33150
Adler Guerrier, Adriene Hughes, Aline Smithson, Amy Gelb, Christa Blackwood, Charlotta Hauksdottir, Colleen Plumb, Deryn Cowdy, Gabriela Gamboa, Ingrid Weyland, Luciana Abait, Lujan Candria, Marina Font, Marina Gonella, Manuel Nores, Phil Toledano, Roberto Huarcaya, Silvia Lizama, Tatiana Parcero, Thomas Jackson, Vanessa Marsh, Veronica Pasman
Collective 62 is pleased to present Adopted Landscapes, curated by Dina Mitrani and Marina Font. The 22 photo-based artists in this exhibition push the boundaries of the photographic landscape, each with their own unique approach.
In the history of art, the landscape has been one of the most explored subjects of representation. Adopted Landscapes brings together contemporary works of photography-based art that depict the landscape as a departure point for unique conceptual and narrative works. Disinterested in the photographic landscape as a conclusion, these works offer answers to the question: How does the traditional photographic landscape serve multidisciplinary artists today?
Combining mediums as well as interlacing techniques, the artists build upon the formal qualities of the genre. In some cases, the landscape is transformed before the camera captures the image. In others, the image undergoes digital manipulation; while in many of the works, the printed image is the base layer where multimedia elements are manually applied to the surface. Each artist offers a different vantage point, but their intentions are similar: to transmute the pure retinal experience of capturing nature and re-interpreting it in a way that is connected with the human experience.
These works inspire us to contemplate the ever-changing, ancient relationship between person and place. They suggest a range of themes including climate change, erasure, nostalgia, and in some cases, a sense of displacement. Through innovative experimentation, each artist inspires different ways of seeing, making us more aware of our roles and responsibilities in this dynamic world we all share.
TATIANA PARCERO at MoMA, NY
Cartografia Interior #35 is being exhibited in the exhibition Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum. It was the image chosen for the entry to the museum! The exhibition is on view through October 2.
“Cartography is a science that deals with maps. I am interested in working with the body as a territory, where I can explore different paths at a physical and also in a symbolic level.
I am the one that appears in all the photographs. When I did this specific shot, I wanted to show a moment of introspection and calm. And when you see my hands near my cheeks, I wanted to represent a way to be in touch with myself, not just in a physical way, but in a more spiritual way.
The image superimposed on the face is from the Codex Tudela of the 16th century. The codices are documents that were created by ancient civilizations, like Mayans, Aztecs, that represent the pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico, their amazing universe, and the way that they lived.
When I moved to New York from Mexico, I was feeling a little bit out of place and I wanted to recreate a sense of belonging. The work is a way to connect myself with my country and the ancient cultures that are before me.
I decided to study psychology because I wanted to help people. I wanted to be able to understand emotions and be able to translate personal experiences into images and make them more accessible. It's important for me to give the viewer several layers so that you can really explore the image and make your own interpretations and reflections. I think art can transform you and take you to a parallel universe. That is where I feel that you can be able to heal and to cure.”
ROBERTO HUARCAYA at Penumbra Foundation, NY
OCEANOS Curated by Leandro Villaro
May 17th to August 24th, 2022
Large scale photograms of the Pacific Ocean
“In what could be described as a "photogramatic performance,” Huarcaya, together with a group of colleagues and friends, entered the waters of the sea to record its virulent nature and traces of contamination. Working with color and black and white silver halide papers, the resulting images grapple with the possibilities of documentation, representation and abstraction in photography, while inviting the viewer to look and reflect on the suspended space between the depicted subject and the created object.”
https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/exhibition-space-oceanos
ALEXANDRA ROWLEY at Otras Formas, NY
Pictured here with her Checkbook Ledgers (Jan 21 - Aug 24, 1959) from the series Portrait (exhibited at the gallery in 2009, Alexandra Rowley (American, b. 1972) is part of a group exhibition of art and design at this new gallery directed by Alex Lithgow.
Also on view are a large white handkerchief, as well as two handerchief photograms from the same series.
Recently Published Books by Gallery Artists:
image from interior of book
ROBERTO HUARCAYA
Text: Joan Fontcuberta
Published by Editorial RM, 2021
ISBN: 978-84-17975-85-2
Hardcover. 160 pages, 30x20 cm, english, spanish.
https://www.editorialrm.com/en/producto/roberto-huarcaya/
This book is composed of twelve monumental photographs, reproduced according to scale and joined together, one after another, to form a great endless image. The photograms are the result of an eight-year process of acquiring a particular technique and grammar. They are spectacular negative images that oscillate between fiction and traces of reality, between presence and absence.
Thirty Times a Minute - Colleen Plumb
published by Radius Books
Texts by Marc Bekoff
Julia Cooke
Catherine Doyle
Hope Ferdowsian, M.D.
Linda Hogan
Les O'Brien
Joyce Poole & Peter Granli
Steven M. Wise
Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. Colleen Plumb traveled to over seventy zoos in the US and Europe to film this behavior, and distilled her footage into a video that weaves together dozens of captive elephants, bearing the weight of an unnatural existence in their small enclosures. She has installed guerrilla public projections of the video in over 100 locations worldwide, constructing photographs of each projection. Thirty Times a Minute (the resting heart rate of an elephant) explores the way animals in captivity function as symbols of persistent colonial thinking, that a striving for human domination over nature has been normalized, and that consumption masks as curiosity. The work sheds light on abnormal behaviors of captive elephants in order to bring attention to implicit values of society as a whole, particularly those that perpetuate power imbalance and tyranny of artifice. The presence of massive, intelligent, far-roaming, emotional animals such as elephants in urban zoos exemplifies contradiction and discordance, and public projections of their image onto urban walls and out-of-context surfaces adds to the layers of incongruity. Aware of the tremendous need to protect native habitat and its residents, this project contributes to the idea that sentient beings are not meant for spectacle or display.
Real Pictures: Tales of a Badass Grandma -
Peggy Levison Nolan
published by Daylight Books
Texts by Bonnie Clearwater and Susanne Opton
Real Pictures is the result of many decades of photographs recording the day- to- day workings of a large family. As Chris Wiley of the New Yorker says “there is a tenderness and a sensitivity in these pictures of family that cannot be faked. Nolan is not embedded with her subjects, she is entwined. As such, the pictures not only show that she has an eye, but also a heart.”
Peggy Nolan got married, raised seven kids, stayed home, started photographing, shoplifted film, went back to college, studied hard, got divorced, got pierced up, worked harder, graduated from college, stole more film, made more pictures, went back to college, graduated from graduate school, kids grew, calmed down, stopped stealing film, started thinking more, shot beer pictures, still thinking, still making pictures.
Bonnie Clearwater is an American writer and art historian. She is the director and chief curator of the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale.
Suzanne Opton is an artist and recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Anatomy is Destiny - Marina Font
published by Michelle Dunn Marsh,
Minor Matters Books
Text by Lisa Volpe
Anatomy is Destiny is the first monograph of artist Marina Font. Her photo-based work explores ideas about identity, gender, territory, language, memory and the forces of the unconscious. The book’s title, stemming from Freud, also speaks to the ever-evolving understanding of gender and self-realization in the 21stcentury.
The unique pieces reproduced in Anatomy is Destiny stem from a single source photograph made by Font of a nude female figure. Reminiscent of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, but with arms down and palms forward, the black and white photograph is both consistent and variant as Font renders each piece through application of embroidery, paint, yarn, and other materials. Through the rituals of these traditionally feminine practices, she, in her own words, “opens a dialogue between biology and psychology, our social and private persona” in the “evolving mutability” of womanhood.
Lisa Volpe, associate curator, photography, at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will be contributing an essay on Font's work and practice.
The publication is being produced in collaboration with Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami.