Bryan Graf's Album

I recently got down to The Wild Project to see Bryan Graf's exhibition Wildlife Analysis - which, if you're curious, is absolutely worth checking out. After going to the show, I visited Graf's website only to find it updated with a number of new projects. Album, images of which are posted below, particularly caught my eye. Also, make sure to spend some time with Wildlife Analysis, Color Movements and Time Traveling though.

Unfortunately, Graf's show is only up until tomorrow. However, if you find yourself on the lower east side tomorrow and are looking for something to do, swing by the gallery for a quick peek.


From "Album"
© Bryan Graf


From "Album"
© Bryan Graf


From "Album"
© Bryan Graf


From "Album"
© Bryan Graf


From "Album"
© Bryan Graf

Maury Gortemiller's Speed Queens & No Anthem

I found my way to Maury Gortemiller's website today and discovered a lot of intriguing new work. The images below, from Speed Queens and No Anthem, explore:

"the residues of human experience. The overlooked phenomena, the flotsam left behind can impart a wealth of information about individuals and cultural attitudes. My photographs maintain the physicality of ordinary, everyday objects while opening up their potential imaginative and conceptual meanings."


"Cave, 2009" (From Speed Queens)
© Maury Gortemiller


"Grasshopper, 2008" (From No Anthem)
© Maury Gortemiller


"Breathing Machine, 2009" (From Speed Queens)
© Maury Gortemiller


"Support The Troops, 2009" (From Speed Queens)
© Maury Gortemiller


"Sunlight, 2009" (From Speed Queens)
© Maury Gortemiller

Richard Kolker's The Game

I found Richard Kolker's work recently while looking through the top 175 entrants for this year's Critical Mass review. His images, comprised of both traditional photography and 3D modelling techniques, addresses the pervasiveness of online social hierarchies such as "Second Life." In the statement for the work, Kolker goes on to say:

"The images portray the moment when the real and the virtual worlds meet and represent imagined potential emotional triggers as the player recognises the blurring of the real / unreal boundary and is aware of the conflict that exists in his time being divided between the two."


"Logging On"
© Richard Kolker


"Playground"
© Richard Kolker


"One Evening, Any Evening"
© Richard Kolker


"Work"
© Richard Kolker


"Window"
© Richard Kolker

Graphic Intersections Now Online

After nearly a year, our most recent endeavor, Graphic Intersections, is now online. Based on the old Surrealist/Dadaist game the Exquisite Corpse, this project seeks to unite disparate artists, while emphasizing a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction. Graphic Intersections brings together images by:

Ben Alper, Anastasia Cazabon, Thomas Damgaard, Scott Eiden, Grant Ernhart, Jon Feinstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Alan George, Hee Jin Kang, Drew Kelly, Michael Marcelle, Chris Mottalini, Ed Panar, Bradley Peters, Cara Phillips, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Irina Rozovsky, Brea Souders, Jane Tam and Grant Willing

Stay tuned in the coming months for exciting Graphic Intersections exhibition news!

Photographic Typologies: Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan recently updated his website with a new series entitled Midway: Message From The Gyre. In the statement for the work, he explains:

"These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent."


From "Midway: Message From The Gyre"
© Chris Jordan


From "Midway: Message From The Gyre"
© Chris Jordan


From "Midway: Message From The Gyre"
© Chris Jordan


From "Midway: Message From The Gyre"
© Chris Jordan


From "Midway: Message From The Gyre"
© Chris Jordan

Alexander Binder's Traum

Alexander Binder has got to be one of the most prolific photographer's working today. Just last month, I posted his first completed video work pluton/calabi-yau. Earlier today, Binder got back in touch to let me know of a brand new series entitled Traum - an extensive, beautiful and evocative project photographed this past summer "in the dreamlike landscape of Iceland."

I would highly recommend taking some time to peruse and digest the images from Traum.


From "Traum"
© Alexander Binder


From "Traum"
© Alexander Binder


From "Traum"
© Alexander Binder


From "Traum"
© Alexander Binder


From "Traum"
© Alexander Binder

ARTribe Benefit Exhibition: Photography For The Next Generation

ARTribe recently announced the photographers for the ARTribe Benefit Exhibition: Photography For The Next Generation and I'm very pleased to announce that Exposure Project members Anastasia Cazabon and Ben Alper will both have work in the show. Also included in the exhibition are photographs by:

Molly Berman, Richard Burnam Fink, Erik Boker, Alana Celii, Natalie Chan, Samantha Cohn, Buck Ellison, Gregg Evans, Elleser Galleta, Chibi Lai, Matteo Lonardi, Reuben Mills, Stephanie Neel, Marisa Prefer, Ana Ratner, Marissa Schwartz, Kate Stone, Sara Urbaez, Olivia Wachsberger and Greg Wasserstrom

From the ARTribe website:

"All proceeds will go toward building a girl’s school in Jaisalmer, India founded by CITTA, a registered charity dedicated to providing assistance to marginalized or indigenous communities.

Tickets for the opening reception are $10 for students and $20 for adults. All of the artwork at the exhibition will be available for sale to benefit CITTA. A preview will be available for advance purchase on-line prior to the opening. Purchases and donations can be made at CITTA.org (Events)."

ARTribe EXHIBITION: Photgraphy For The Next Generation
November 21st, 2009
Swiss Institute
485 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012
6:00 - 10:00