FREDERIC WEBER : DOMESTIC VIEWS

GO + SEE in Philadelphia

The University of the Arts Presents

Photographer Frederic Weber:
Domestic Views

March 21 – April 25, 2014
Gallery 1401 of Photography
Terra Hall, 14th floor
211 South Broad Street, Philadelphia Pa.
800 616 ARTS

Angel

Memory

Paper Family 2

Paper Family 3

Paper Family

Red Shoe

Face

I went to Philadelphia to attended the opening of Frederic Weber's Domestic Views. A surprise because I hate traveling for just about anything. I can say the trip  was worth it because of the surprise element Mr. Weber had a collaborator 

his youngest daughter, Lily. 

Lily constructed paper dolls of her family and friends and preceded to do little stories (I had a paper doll moment).For me the best part of the exhibition is the deconstruction and Lily's presence and participation in her father exploration of childhood.

There are photographs of toys and childhood play things taken in layered focus attempts to create child like views.But the drama comes in the imagination of a child, adults will always be on the outside that is what it should be and that is where dreams begins.

There is a secondary observation of toys and things like stickers but I think nothing speaks like these reconfigured drawing that becomes a diorama of family dynamics out of it all comes the most amazing connection between a father who creates visually and a child feeling the surge of the intuitive creation. The most magical  photograph to me is entitled Face, this image goes back to when I met Frederic nearly 18 years ago, when one of his favorite artists was Christopher Bucklow from Bristol England.

Lily's created  Face "1000 points of light " for her dad and it caused me to wonder,how did she know because this one images ties them together and connects many of his earlier bodies of work with an ease that is only allowed to the innocent and the free

• http://www.fredericweber.net

Frederic Weber is represented by Klompching Gallery in New York

ANNE BURLOCK LAWVER : INDELIBLE

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SOAPBOX GALLERY
636 Dean Street

Anne Burlock Lawver: INDELIBLE

On view March 22 – April 20. Opening reception Sat, Mar 22, 6-8pm. Anne Burlock Lawver focuses on the personal, the intimate, and the fleeting emotions that could be captured only in close-up. At Soapbox, she will present a series of striking photographs taken at the Gun Metal Ink tattoo parlor in Washington Heights, NYC, [...]

OPENING RECEPTION: MARCH 22, 2014, 6PM-8PM
ON VIEW: MARCH 22, 2014 - APRIL 20, 2014  

I met aNNe Burlock Lawver while speed reviewing at portfolio reviews for ASMp A fun event. Everything over in 2 hours,Admired the work,the images were taken in Upper manhattan near where I live.I wonder how many will keep these in the future,I would have called the series the Agony and the ECSTASY.really love what the hands are doing 

WYATT GALLERY the person : Jewish Treasures of The Caribbean .

Meeting Wyatt Gallery (the person not a place)
FOTOFEST 1998 and now
Jewish Treasures of The Caribbean 

Fotofest has changed a lot of lives and created strange and powerful bonds over the years. I first reviewed there in 1998 with no real idea about how it would effect me, because I was reviewer.The truth is I met a lot of photographers and I still share ideas with them and we support each other in various ways. I always felt that Fotofest was a place for discussion and discovery and one of my questions for all the artists /photographers is why are you here ? One of my last  things to offer them was a mantra"I am an artist who is taking control of my own art/career/destiny".You would have had to been there

The previous post was about Hiroshi Watanabe.I will return to his photographs soon but I would like to speak about another photographer I met that year at Fotofest Wyatt Gallery (a person not a place) has metamorphize  over the years while still being a good guy with heart and purpose.When I met him,I thought he would end up trapped in a studio with seamless paper and big white lights. I was seeing only one side, since then he has created meaningful bodies of work about the people of New Orleans, Haiti,Sri Lanka and New Yorkers who faced the aftermath of hurricane Sandy.Wyatt not only photographs in these places but volunteered as an active worker in the communities that were devastated,He came away each time inspired with a mission to raise funds for the people he met and he has.

I just got word about a project that he has been working on, one that reveal more depth about beauty inside that glowing spiritual essence that we can not define but many feel. I feel it in traditional gospel music as I walk by a church or feel it in seeing the simplicity of a Walker Evans contact print taken of a small white wooden church in Alabama countryside sometimes I feel it at mass  or even walking down the street the experience come to me as others reach out in joy or sadness.

At Fotofest my question was why are you here.Wyatt's new book and exhibition project Jewish Treasures of The Caribbean will answer that question for some people as he tries to preserve part of his history and ours.The last half of the 1490's had a amazing effect on t he story of the development of the Western hemisphere.

Here I will stop to let Wyatt speak about his project.I only want to say I met him at Fotofest and I believe this project is worthy of your support.

Wyatt Gallery

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jewish-treasures-of-the-caribbean-exhibition-and-book-by-wyatt-gallery?c=gallery

Wyatt's photographs are in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and other major 

collections .Here are some of the images he is using to raise fund to complete this project via Indiegogo.com

Light on Sand Floor, Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, Curaçao. Built in 1732, the oldest Synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.

Light on Sand Floor, Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, Curaçao. Built in 1732, the oldest Synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.

St. Thomas Synagogue, USVI. The oldest in continuous use under the American flag, built in 1833. The Congregation was founded in 1796.

Jodensavanne Cemetery, Suriname. 1665

For more information concerning Wyatt Gallery please go to WyattGallery.com 

HIROSHI WATANABE : Comedy of Double Meanings

What Fades, What Stays ?

I remember meeting Hiroshi Watanabe at Fotofest in 2000.He was in one of my first portfolio review sessions ever. I was already a fan because of a single photograph. The juxtaposition of these images are about me a spiritual collage that I could not do if he had not created these photographs.

Santa Monica Pier 2000

Marco Andreatta as Pulcinella 2011

Marta Marchi as Strega (Silhouette) 2011

Viviana Ceppa with Bauta Mask (Silhouette) 2011

Sara Galiza as Morte 2011

The other day was looking at photographs of bubbles on the www and remembered an image by Hiroshi Wantanabe taken in 2000 so when I visited his site I found myself enthrall with the amount of images there and the range.I would consider Hiroshi to be a classic photographer and a master printer.small,quiet images that do not date themselves as you are lured into them while viewing.I was planning on writing a few word about the Lenten season and cravings of the invisible clock that must mark  time by ritual.

Carnival, Mardi Gras is just such a marking, winter's last celebration as shadows slip back into the dark. the sleep,the dream as we wait for spring and light

All of this is transitory a poetic moment  we try to define yet like bubbles,feelings and shadows it floats away.

View more Hiroshi Watanabe photographs at http://www.hiroshiwatanabe.com 


all images Copyright (c) 2011 Hiroshi Watanabe All Rights Reserved

MARIE CONSINDAS : ARRANGEMENTS

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ARRANGEMENTS : Marie Considas
BRUCE SILVERSTEIN
535 W 24th Street
New York, NY10011

Galleries publish catalogs in support of the exhibition they create. Bruce Silverstein open his first show of the year with a jewel display of Marie Considas.

Mask Boston 1966

Ranunculus Los Angeles ca.1960

Princess with Doves 1966

Andy Warhol  NYC 1966

Sailors Key West 1966

The image of an arrangement of masks by Marie Consindas has always been one of my favorite color photographs it reminds me of Ensor. Imagine my delight at being able to see it once again at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York

Arrangements is Cosindas' term for her richly layered assemblages created primarily in her Boston studio, and in later years, around the world, from found or borrowed objects—fabrics, flowers, figurines, jewelry, perfume bottles, tarot cards and other such treasures which came to define her signature style. Often pyramidal in structure, the artist's baroque compositions are filled with an old world style of excess delightfully bordering on kitsch. Cosindas prefers the term Arrangement to “still life” for this body of work, as she wishes to highlight the very active role she played in the construction of these images as well as the intense engagement required from the viewer in order to absorb their varied textures, patterns, colors and minute details. For Cosindas, the resulting image and viewing experience is anything but still.

Encouraged by Ansel Adams to pursue color photography, Marie Cosindas developed an unique style and perspective that could only have emerged through the use of color film. Her masterful still lifes and studio portraits draw attention to the artist's interest and background in painting and textile design, and reveal her marked attention to visual detail.

Cosindas was one of the first photographers to experiment with Polacolor film, and her work served to futher develop and advance this technology. Working with 4 x 5, 8 x 10, 20 x 24 and even 40 x 80 inch Polacolor film, Cosindas varied exposure and development conditions to achieve the desired tonality and saturation for her images.

The gallery published a catalog ARRANGEMENTS BY Marie Consindas with an essay by Lisa Hostetler which was originally published in the Winter 2013 issue of Aperture magazine.
The exhibition close March 8th.

ELIOT DUDIK : ROAD ENDS IN WATER

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This summer as I was leaving Georgia I was give a package by Eliot Dudik inside was a copy of the book Road Ends In Water an essay about the changing south.An essay that I was familiar with because a few of Eliot's images have been used over time in different exhibitions that were created for Slowexposure. 

I like images of the land and feel that it takes bold vision to produce meaningful landscapes that move beyond romanticism.There is a great tradition of landscape art, some  would put landscape photography at the lower level,but landscape photography also speak of great metaphysical ideas and have been used to explain this vast land.

The south is still struggling with change and the modern world, these images show that encroachment and a wistfulness for other times, the bigger vision is that nature constantly takes back everything.

Bud, Russell Creek Road

Sacred Space, Muckenfus Road

Snuffy in Salkehatchie Swamp, Broxton Bridge Road

Confederate Breastworks, Broxton Bridge Road

Carew Rice Painting, Back of Old Drive-in Screen, Highway 63

418, Ivenia Brown Road

The Word, Ivenia Brown Road                                                         

Camels and Coke, Sea Island Yacht Club Road

I have admired Eliot's work for over three years now and I am really excited by two others themes he is working on Broken Land and Still Lives and I hope they will be published also.Photographic art books are the real statement about what a photographer is trying to show us a single image can be like a strong sentence in search of a paragraph.

© copyright 2014 Eliot Dudik

http://eliotdudik.com

  



  

SANDI FELLMAN : THE JAPANESE TATTOO

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All of this cold snow has me contemplating warm skin. I like neo classical nudes heighten flesh rendered near flawless by light and printing techniques, an unstated theme in my collection is flesh that look like stone/stone that appears as flesh.Yet my wild side loves tattoos prison tattoos that cover the body, the 21st century hip that turn their body into art ( will there be regrets in the future? ).

I find this fascinating so today while scanning my bookshelf I picked up my over used copy of the Japanese Tattoo by Sandi Felli publish  by Abbeville Press Inc.This may be out of print but well worth the search.

I became aware of this book when I was doing an all things Japanese books film food
art clothing theater histories so these images and D.M.Thomas essay were helpful when 
I was reading some Japanese literature that spoke of the yakuza.

http://sandifellman.com/gallery/