“Femme Noire 03 by Robert Carter." Design by Dom Streater, Model Cherrelle Champagne.

The SPACE Art Gallery

The SPACE Art Gallery, 749 s 8th Street, Phila, PA is grateful to now be able to bring you the Photography opening - originally scheduled for April 2020 – of local Visual Artist Robert Carter.

“Femme Noire” – celebrates the intersection of art and design through the lens of world history and Black artists. Featuring couture designs by Philadelphia’s Dom Streater, the series explores graphic textiles inspired by queens throughout history, and arresting silhouettes that are at once timeless and fresh.

Robert hails from southern Maryland, though he has called Philadelphia home for over a decade. Having discovered the impact of aesthetics early on through classic films and musicals of the 40’s onward, his love for theatricality and storytelling became something of an obsession. He channeled this hunger for creative expression into various mediums, including singing, acting, writing, dancing, and playing the trumpet, before finally finding photography. A self-described lifelong student, he followed this passion to the collegiate level and graduated with honors and multiple distinctions from The Art Institute of Philadelphia.

His wildly diverse interests include opera, literature, anime, pop culture, nature, and world mythologies. Visually, he counts the works of Richard Avedon, Melina Matsoukas, Rob Marshall, and Michelangelo Caravaggio among his major inspirations. These eclectic influences culminate in an impactful visual style that is markedly expressive, vibrant, and bold. A lover of art history Robert’s work often combines elements of his commercial training with sensibilities that allude to his love of afrofuturism and the classical arts.

Artist’s Opening Reception Fri Sept 10th 5-8 pm – complimentary Champagne, Soft Drinks and Lite Bites

Meet and Greet Sat Sept 18th 2-6pm - complimentary Champagne, Soft Drinks and Lite Bites

Artist’s Closing Reception Wed Sept 29th 5-8 pm – complimentary Champagne, Soft Drinks and Lite Bites

© Henry Danner. Waist Deep, 2020. Washington D.C

ART JUSTICE COHORT
Protest, Resilience, Identity

Soho Photo Gallery: August 13 to September 5, 2021

Obscured in the aftermath of George Floyd’s horrible murder was the joy and resilience that fueled the protests and forced a renewed agenda for eradicating racial injustice — and all forms of injustice based in identity — from America. This show by the Art Justice Cohort celebrates that underlying resilience and the joyful vision of a world where all identities are safe and celebrated.

Twelve diverse artists express one narrative in this exhibit: When art imagines the creation of a world where we’re all free to thrive, it is a form of protest, an act of resilience.

The Art Justice Cohort was born in summer, 2020, amid a perfect storm of injustice at the convergence of three deadly plagues - systemic racism, the worst global pandemic of the century, and an historic economic depression.

Art Justice Cohort believes in the power of art to change people and the power of people to make political and cultural change.

Events:

Art History from home: Dawoud Bey: An American Project

The Whitney Museum, Online via Zoom

Thursday August 19

12:00pm

Free with registration

This series of online talks highlights works in the Museum’s collection and current exhibitions to illuminate critical topics in American art from 1900 to the present. During each thirty-minute session, participants are invited to comment and ask questions through a moderated chat for a fifteen-minute Q&A following the talk. Sessions are available live only, Tuesdays at 6 pm and Thursdays at 12 pm, but topics and speakers do periodically repeat. Check back here for more sessions added regularly.

This session explores the work of photographer Dawoud Bey, who uses his camera to visualize communities and histories that have been underrepresented. From his tender and perceptive portraits to more recent work that takes a historic turn, Bey’s images pose existential questions that suggest not just a kind of personal expression but the power and possibility of bearing witness through photography.

Josh Lubin-Levy is a Joan Tisch Senior Teaching Fellow at the Whitney and recently completed his Ph.D. in performance studies at NYU. For the past ten years, Lubin-Levy has worked as a dance dramaturg and performance curator, and is the editor-in-chief of the Movement Research Performance Journal. He currently teaches in the department of visual studies at the New School and at Wesleyan University.

Discovering Your Creative Photographic Path

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Virtual Event/Remote learning

August 17 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

These Zoom sessions will fully reflect the same content as with the on-ground workshops offered by the FMoPA institute.

Most beginning photographers tend to randomly capture images of everything they see and experience, resulting in confusing portfolios of single photographs and a lack of strong intellectual and aesthetical bodies of work. This intensive 3-weeks workshop is designed to encourage all students to find their unique creative voices, resulting in solid directions for the future and applicable projects for everyone regardless of experience.

Creative photography is a process, one that utilizes a simple approach to establishing photography projects, otherwise known as concepts. Four keywords, WHY, WHAT, HOW and WHO serve as the foundation in forming intellectually and aesthetically resolved bodies of fine artwork. Finding your own creative voice is the result of applying this simple method to your photography projects, not an elusive born talent, but rather a process that involves writing simple artist statements, researching a particular subject matter or techniques and experimenting with the aesthetics of an idea, your idea. After an initial review of images, each student will be encouraged to pursue a single idea or project, resulting in a fully resolved mini body of work by the end of the workshop. Sequencing of images, simple artist statements and presentation ideas will be explored throughout.

The Lives of Images Symposium Series

International Center of Photography Museum, New York

Join Aperture and the International Center of Photography for a two-part online symposium exploring some key issues addressed in the first two volumes of The Lives of Images: An Aperture Reader Series, edited by artist and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.

The Lives of Images explores the roles, histories, and contemporary uses of reproducible images in relation to specific grounding themes. To speak of the reproducible image in this moment is to address not only photographs, film, and videos, but screen prints and billboards; GIFs, memes, and emojis—a wide array of technically mediated scripto-visual forms that together constitute and remake both our visual landscape and image economies. The Lives of Images aims to gather together recent and contemporary scholarship that helps to animate and inform a rich dialogue on the role of the image in contemporary culture.

Schedule for Vol. 1: Repetition, Reproduction, and Circulation

Session 1: Tuesday, August 31, 1:00–2:30 PM ET
Paul Pfeiffer and Jodi Dean on Image Circulation, Capital, and Racial Difference

Session 2: Wednesday, September 1, 1:00–2:30 PM ET
Erika Balsom and Aria Dean on Reproducibility, Copyright, and Appropriation

Session 3: Thursday, September 2, 1:00–2:30 PM ET
Lucas Blalock and Vivian Sobchack on Medium, Materiality, and Attention

Please note that schedule and speakers are subject to change. Dates and registration for The Lives of Images: Vol. 2: Analogy, Attunement, and Attention to be announced.