The Exposure Project

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Soo Kim

After a long and much needed hiatus, I'm going to try to return to a more normal posting schedule. To kick things off again, I thought I'd share some of Soo Kim's work.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Graphic Intersections & The Portrait As Allegory at the Umbrage Gallery

THE EXPOSURE PROJECT & UMBRAGE EDITIONS PRESENT:
Graphic Intersections and The Portrait As Allegory
Curated by Ben Alper & Anastasia Cazabon

© Grant Willing

Graphic Intersections & The Portrait As Allegory
May 4th - June 26th, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 6th, 6 - 8pm

Umbrage Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 208
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Graphic Intersections is a collaborative project loosely based on the old Surrealist and Dadaist game The Exquisite Corpse. Designed to unite disparate artists in an interconnected photographic relay of images inspired by one another, or as the Surrealists put it, to exploit “the mystique of accident”, this project strives to emphasize a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction.

This exhibition includes photographs 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.

© Susan Worsham

The Portrait As Allegory is an exhibition that examines the work of three artists who utilize the figure metaphorically in service of a broader discourse on the human experience. In addition to exploring the personal identities of their subjects, these portraits simultaneously become vehicles which speak to a variety of social, historical, and familial histories.

This exhibition includes photographs by Timothy Briner, Birthe Piontek and Susan Worsham.

To see more from Graphic Intersections, please visit our website. We hope to see you at the opening in May!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Lauren Edwards

Our good friend Lauren Edwards recently launched her website. Show some support and check it out!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Daniel Schumann's Elisabeth und Wilhelm

Daniel Schumann's project Elisabeth und Wilhelm unites contemporary portraiture of his grandfather and images taken from family photo albums. The transition from the appropriated imagery to the more mediated photographs doesn't always feel fluid and intuitive, however, regardless this series is a compelling examination of familial heritage seen through two distinctly different photographic tacks.

From Elisabeth und Wilhelm
© Daniel Schumann

Monday, March 29, 2010

Mariah Robertson

Work from Mariah Robertson. See more here.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Seth Price

A few issues ago, Blindspot featured Seth Price's series of laser-cut silhouettes. Gleaned from generic google image searches, these pieces recall Sherrie Levine's series of silhouette collages of American presidents (example here). The text below was taken from a press release for Price's recent exhibition at Friedrich Petzel:

1. A computer search for the most basic terms: 'eating', 'drinking', 'writing', 'touching', 'mother,' etc. The result might be a digital image, a "jpeg", for example. The image depicts human interaction: people kissing, someone being fed, a person laying a hand on another's shoulder. The situation is familiar, but not necessarily clear. At one point this was a photograph, now shrunken, squeezed through the eye of the needle, its information digitally compressed for easy circulation and distribution. It appears as a tiny, lapidary screen image, though we know that if enlarged it will slip away, its edges decaying as the effects of compression become evident.

2. This image is not used, in favor of the area around the image, the negative space, excess, that which lies between the figures.

3. Then, an industrial process: massive enlargement, computer-controlled cutting, woods, plastics, metal. A design process, the fabrication of a "look and feel" that had not previously existed.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Asger Carlsen

Asger Carlsen, a Danish photographer based in New York, constructs truly bizarre, often off-putting images that strike an odd balance between candid snapshot photography and digital intervention. You can read an interview with him, conducted for Too Much Chocolate, here.