Events

The Silverstein Photography Annual (SPA) is part of the gallery's ongoing effort to provide exposure to emerging artists whose work incorporates the medium of photography. Bruce Silverstein Gallery with the guidance of curatorial advisor Nathan Lyons, annually invites ten prominent curators to nominate one artist whom they feel deserves the opportunity for further exposure within New York's cultural milieu.

2010 Yale MFA Thesis Show 

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Our awkward program name – photography, video, and related media – is becoming ever more apt. This year, the thesis show includes photographic prints, videos, multi-media installations, sculpture and oil paintings. With the swift advance of digital technology, students are using still or moving images merely as points of departure to invent a wide array of forms. Željka Blaskic, for example, produces a five-channel video installation inspired by her childhood in war-torn Croatia. Jan Ebeling (aka Janosch Parker) commissions oil paintings based on photographs of his witty performances. Irene Bermudez combines projected images, freestanding sculpture and a neon sign to create an immersive environment meant to evoke bodily sensations. Allyson Ross creates sculptural reliefs devoid of color based on iconic nineteenth-century photographs of Yosemite National Park. And John Messinger installs a small historical exhibit based on the life of a homeless man. These results and others are exciting to behold and, I confess, daunting for a curator trying to make visual or conceptual order from it all.

If there is an overall trend, it is the trust that students place in personal experience. Robert Gill, for example, embraces the obsession with fitness in our culture. Selena Salfen explores the crushing effects of post-traumatic stress disorder through the history of her own family. Tamar Latzman investigates themes from Jewish-European history by inventing memories of dreams and performing them for the camera. And Laura Oberg explores race in America by interviewing members of her mixed-race family. It may be that the confessional turn of our culture – much enhanced by social networking media – explains the willingness of students to reveal themselves in their work. But the students are not self-centered; they look inward in order to look outward. Growing up with the caveats of identity politics and challenges to the objectivity of representation, our students no longer feel at home with the relatively simple norms of documentary or straight photography. Instead, each student invents a new strategy for using images to make art.

Bonnie Yochelson Curator

Featuring the work of:

RENE BERMUDEZ
ŽELJKA BLAKŠIĆ
LORNE BLYTHE
JOHN CYR
BEATRIZ DIAZ
JOHN DUNWOODY
NATAN DVIR
JANOSCH PARKER
MARTHA FLEMING-IVES
J.A. FOLKS
ROBERT GILL
EUGENE GOLOGURSKY
KATE GREENBERG
DEBBIE GROSSMAN
STONE KIM
TAMAR LATZMAN
VIVIAN LEE
ELIZABETH LIBERT
DINA LITOVSKY
JOHN A. MESSINGER
LAURA OBERG
ALLYSON ROSS
SELENA SALFEN
ANDREA SANTOLAYA
LEIGH WELLS

Capricious Space is pleased to announce Saturday Sun, a group exhibition of new photography and works on paper by thirteen emerging artists, curated by Karen Codd.

Aisling Hamrogue
Chris Domenick
Dana Gentile
Emily Klass
Erin Jane Nelson
Jessica Williams
Lauren Maresca
Mara Baldwin
Zack Genin
Alana Celii
Grant Willing
Jessica Olm

Released in 1969, when British musician Nick Drake was about twenty-one years old, the song “Saturday Sun” (Five Leaves Left LP) speaks of a brief reprieve from melancholy – sunshine that appears without warning, disappears just as quickly as it came, and leaves behind memories indelible and recurring, however positively or negatively distorted from reality they may be. The artworks shown provide analogous visual instances of a warm reprieve from an ordinary trajectory of thinking or living – some real and some manufactured – all transporting nonetheless.

This open studios features the work of the three concurrent classes of the MFA Photography and Related Media program at Parsons. Come see the studio spaces and current work of 45 artists, including:

Adam Abel, Alison Cheng, Anna Ogier-Bloomer, Aubrey Hays, Bobby Davidson, Chang Kim, Charlie Rubin, Chelsey Morell, Chrissy Lush, Christina Labey, Colleen Fitzgerald, Dominica Paige, Dylan Entelis, Egemen Pekoz, Elisa Schwalm, Elizabeth Brick, Ho Chang, Jaehee Hwang, Jose Soto, Jun Ahn, Khaula Jamil, Lief Huron, Lisa Bleich, Mana Sakaguchi, Mana Sprowls, Marie Vic, Meg Lyding, Nathan Bett, Niv Rozenberg, Patrick Taylor, Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, Rachel Bee Porter, Rachael Stollar, Sam Rivers, Sally Dennison, Sam Mirlesse, Sandra Elkind, Sara Maria Salamone, Seung Jae Ju, Sharon Ma, Stephanie Stanley, Sylvia Hardy, Veronica Ibanez, Yan Deng, Yichen Zhou

Free and open to the public.