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Sara Macel
CCNY’s Zine & Self-Published Photo Book Fair
This weekend at CCNY is The Americas: CCNY's 4th Annual Zine & Self-Published Photo Book Fair. Stop by this Sat. and Sun. 8/3-4/13 from 12-6pm to browse tons of titles and support DIY art books. As stated on the CCNY site: "The curators – Jade Berreau, Lindsey Castillo, Victoria Gondra and Erik van der Weijde
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Sara Macel
Artist Spotlight: Andrew Miksys
Recently, I was checking in with the great online blog Ignant, and I ran across a series called "Bingo" by photographer and artist Andrew Miksys. The bingo halls and eccentric cast of characters in Miksys's images struck a familiar chord with me having spent time every summer as a kid in the bingo halls of
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Sara Macel
Don’t Look Back: The CCNY Staff Show
[caption id="attachment_3114" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo courtesy of CCNY[/caption] Last week, I attended the opening reception of the CCNY staff group show titled Don't Look Back that was co-curated by I-Hsuen Chen and Alexander Perrelli. The show is up through this Saturday, July 27th. It is always interesting to me with group shows where each artist is
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Sara Macel
Photo Book: “Road Ends in Water” by Eliot Dudik
[caption id="attachment_3126" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Photo by Sara Macel[/caption] I first came across Eliot Dudik’s incredible self-published photo book Road Ends in Water at Carte Blanche Gallery in San Francisco where both our books were featured in a show curated by Larissa Leclair of the Indie Photobook Library and Darius Himes of Radius Books. And thanks
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Sara Macel
In Tribute: Sarah Charlesworth (1947-2013)
[caption id="attachment_3081" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Photo by Matthew C. Lange and Nick Shepard[/caption] Sarah Charlesworth left us a week ago today. I didn’t plan on beginning my run as CCNY’s guest blogger on such an unexpectedly sad note, but here we are. I guess I should start by saying that I had the great honor of
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Jorge Alberto Perez
HISTORY IS NOT THE PAST
By Jorge Alberto Perez For Nona Faustine the restitution of her sense of wholeness as an African American woman and artist manifests in the guise of a restoration of the past, emphasis on guise. Although we see her marching up the steps of City Hall in Manhattan with nothing on but her white Sunday shoes
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Jorge Alberto Perez
THE POSITION OF THE SUBJECT
By Jorge Alberto Perez In Roberto Vietri's ongoing project, Trabalho, there is a distinctive visual vocabulary in action that is easy to recognize but vague in its message - and I like that. It is not just that individual images are "open-ended" - the project itself is porous. He photographs marks and traces just as fastidiously as
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Jorge Alberto Perez
THE ORIGINAL CHAOS
It is rare to meet an artist with so much talent in so many mediums as Gloria Duque, whose extreme modesty and humility is equally impressive. She is just as comfortable working with you-name-it, a camera, paint, scratchboard, bronze sculpture, or even what any of us might consider trash - all to satisfy
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Exhibitions
TABLEAU VIVANT, PETIT MORT
By Jorge Alberto Perez Ali Van enters first, slides her shoes off and glides onto the carpet. She sits like a geisha, legs to the side crossed at the ankles, back perfectly erect. There is something utterly feminine in her body language, beguiling in both senses of the word and though she may appear demure,
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Exhibitions
BEING AND TIME
By Jorge Alberto Perez Without the help of a plot but with the rhythmic coaxing of a 12-string guitar, the one hour and one minute film "Street" by James Nares is absolutely hypnotic. Like Christian Marclay's art-world sensation last year, ("The Clock") "Street" has an addictive quality about it that makes you question the notion
