Art Out:LET'S FALL IN LOVE..., Julie Blackmon | Homegrown, PHOTO | BRUT: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie
Sheila Metzner, The Kiss. Fendi. 1986, Courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery, New York
LET'S FALL IN LOVE…
With this group of photographs, Staley-Wise is continuing a series of online themed exhibitions chosen from the gallery archive.
Work by Sid Avery, Harry Benson, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Robert Doisneau, Arthur Elgort, Ron Galella, Rose Hartman, George Hoyningen-Huene, Daniel Kramer, David LaChapelle, Sheila Metzner, Helmut Newton, Bob Richardson, Norman Seeff, Malick Sidibé, Bert Stern, Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Ellen von Unwerth, Chris von Wangenheim and Txema Yeste is included.⠀
The exhibition is on view from February 11 to March 27, 2021.
Please enjoy this virtual exhibition on Staley-Wise website.
Julie Blackmon, Midwest Materials, 2018, Signed verso, courtesy Jackson Fine Art
Julie Blackmon | Homegrown
Jackson Fine Art is proud to continue our online viewing room series with works by newly represented photographer, Julie Blackmon.
Contemporary American photographer Julie Blackmon draws inspiration from the raucous tavern scenes of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters, creating photographs based around the people and places in her small community.
Blackmon has compared her surroundings to a giant Hollywood prop closet, where a Starbucks employee out on a smoke break may appear in her next photograph, or the beauty shop she passes every day becomes the setting for a new piece. “It’s a fun perspective to have … to see the world around you as a potential story or idea. It changes how you see things. Nora Ephron said, ‘everything is copy,’ and that has really stayed with me. I live and work in a generic town, with a generic name, in the middle of America, in the middle of nowhere… but the stories unfolding around me are endless.”
Julie Blackmon, River, 2020, Signed verso, courtesy Jackson Fine Art
Both comical and serene, Blackmon’s photographs focus on scenes often involving children, family, and friends, saturated with pathos and a fascination with the everyday. Her work serves as a mash-up of pop phenomena, consumer culture, and social satire. Leah Ollman of the LA Times recently wrote about her work – “Each frame is an absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slice of ethnographic theater… that abounds with tender humor but also shrewdly subtle satire.”
Julie Blackmon | Homegrown is on view from February 19 - March 11, 2021 at Jackson Fine Art Online viewing room
Lee Godie (1908, Chicago, Illinois, UnitedStates—1994, Plato Center, Illinois, UnitedStates); Untitled; n.d. Color silver print (from photo booth), retouched with ink Attached topiece of paper with inscription “Did I or Could I sketch you Now, Lee,” 4 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.Collection Bruno Decharme
PHOTO | BRUT: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie
(New York, NY) PHOTO | BRUT: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum (2 Lincoln Sq., Columbus Ave. at W. 65th St.) from January 24, 2021 through June 6, 2021. Gathering works from the early years of photography through present day, the exhibition reveals the critical potential of a relatively unexplored area of art by the self-taught.
“I can think of no better way to kick-off the American Folk Art Museum’s 60th anniversary than with PHOTO | BRUT,” said Jason T. Busch, Director and CEO of the Museum. “Valérie Rousseau’s visionary research has led to a breath-taking, multi-media presentation that will break new ground and provide an irresistible experience for the Museum’s guests.”
Steve Ashby (1904,Delaplane, Virginia, United States—1980, Delaplane, Virginia, UnitedStates); Untitled; n.d.; Wood, magazine clippings, lace, and metal 10 3/8 x 5 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.;Collection of Robert A. Roth Photo by John Faier
The exhibition features nearly four hundred works of art by forty artists, all of which are divided into four thematic groups that address sexuality and intimacy, appropriation and social commentary, gender fluidity and the notion of identity, and connections with invisible and uncontrollable forces. Aside from traditional photographs, PHOTO | BRUT also gathers collages made from printed materials, artworks that rely on the photographic process, digital images, and slides that were never developed into printed photographs. Dr. Valérie Rousseau, Senior Curator at the Museum, organized the exhibition with filmmaker and collector Bruno Decharme, in collaboration with Paula Aisemberg, Barbara Safarova, and Sam Stourdzé.
“These creators stand out for the inventiveness of their art-making and their provocative images, which defy the traditional boundaries of art history,” said Rousseau. “With fresh insight and innovative perspectives into the medium, they offer a forceful counterpoint and a parallel narrative to the field of photography.”
Included in the exhibition are photographs by Morton Bartlett, Marcel Bascoulard, Lee Godie, Norma Oliver, and Miroslav Tichý, as well as projections of never-before-printed images by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and the Instagram transformations of Ichiwo Sugino. Also featured are assemblages and collages made of photographs by Steve Ashby, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, and Kazuo Handa, and works by Henry Darger and Leopold Strobl that rely heavily on the photographic process. The objects in the exhibition have been selected from the growing art brut photography collection of filmmaker Bruno Decharme, as well as from the AFAM, public institutions, and private collections.
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