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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
CHARLES BRITTIN - WEST & SOUTH - CURATED BY KRISTINE McKENNA - 16 APRIL_16 MAY 2011 - MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY
Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present Charles Brittin: West & South, a retrospective exhibition of work by Los Angeles photographer Charles Brittin. Featuring more than 100 photographs, many of them previously unexhibited, the show is organized by Kristine McKenna, and accompanied by a comprehensive monograph recently published by Hatje Cantz.
Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1928, Brittin briefly attended UCLA, then dropped out of school and taught himself how to take photographs. During the 1950s, Brittin became the unofficial house photographer for the Beat community that coalesced around the artist Wallace Berman, and contributed several photographs to Berman’s ground-breaking artist's magazine, Semina. Brittin settled in Venice Beach, California, in 1951, and his beach shack became a hangout for the Berman circle, which included actors Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper, artist John Altoon, curator Walter Hopps and poet
Brittin was working as a mailman at the time, and spent much of his free time wandering the streets with a camera; he came to know Venice intimately, and his pictures of the sleepy beach town are freighted with a hushed beauty and forlorn sweetness.
In the early 1960s the focus of Brittin’s life shifted dramatically when he became involved with the civil rights movement. “I suddenly realized I was compelled to do something,” Brittin recalled, “because the times demanded it.” As a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality, Brittin documented the dramatic non-violent protests that occurred throughout Southern California, and made a courageous trip to the deep South, in 1965, to assist with the registration of black voters. As the 60s progressed he documented the antiwar movement, and by the end of the decade was devoting most of his time to the Black Panther Party. These two very different social revolutions are at the heart of photographs by Charles Brittin, who passed away after a long illness on January 23, 2011.
MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY
http://www.kohngallery.com/exhibitions.upcoming.html
8071 BEVERLY BOULEVARD
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90048
Tel: 323 658 8088 Fax: 323 658 8068
Tuesday to Friday 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Friday, April 8, 2011
JUERGEN TELLER - MAN WITH BANANA - 8 APRIL_21 AUGUST - DALLAS CONTEMPORARY - 2011
JUERGEN TELLER: Man with Banana
8 April - 21 August 2011
opening reception – Friday 8 April 20.00 – 24.00 (8.00 - Midnight)
Juergen Teller’s work in books, magazines and exhibitions is marked by his refusal to separate the commercial fashion pictures and his most autobiographical un-commissioned work. Teller will present an exhibition of photographs specifically created for Dallas Contemporary. His work has been published in influential international publications such as W Magazine, i-D and Purple and has been the subject of solo exhibitions including The Photographers Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle Wein and the Fondation Cartier Pour l’art Contemporain in Paris, his most recent solo show being "Calves and Thighs" at Alcala 31 in Madrid, as part of Photo España.
http://www.dallascontemporary.org/currentexhibit.html
MOVIE PROMISES WRITTEN IN WATER - VINCENT GALLO - 2011
Promises Written in Water is an extremely stripped down abstract romantic story of a man and a woman, both in crisis.
Kevin (Vincent Gallo) is a long-time, professional assassin, specializing in the termination of life. Mallory (Delfine Bafort) is a wild, poetic, beautiful young woman confronting her terminal illness and eventual suicide. She reaches out to Kevin to take responsibility for her corpse once she passes, requesting his protection of her dead body’s dignity until her cremation. Kevin’s acceptance of this request causes uncomfortable self-reflection and changes the lens through which he views death.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
ILLUMINATION - STEVEN SEBRING - MILK STUDIO - PATTI SMITH - NEW YORK - APRIL 2011
Steven Sebring has captured on Polaroid some of the most legendary rock stars such as Neil Young, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe or Richard Hell, digitally altering these in large-scale portraits. In Illumination, he used digital technology, not to be satisfied by its perfect smoothness but to transform the pictures in an abstract manner. His close friend Patti Smith performed poetry for the opening, accompanied by her daughter, Jesse Smith on piano and Michael Stipe for a stunning duo of the cult REM song Everybody Hurts. Illumination by Steven Sebring is on view until 17th April at Milk Studio, 450 West 15th St #800, New York.
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