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Come see The Rutgers MFA Graduating Class of 2010 at Whitebox next month!! See more at ArtCat!
What: Off The Map (Website Designed by Matt Posey)
Where: Whitebox (Press Release)
When: April 1 – May 2
Opening: April 10, 5-9pm
Off The Wall Announcement Card
I want to thank everyone who came to the opening, it was a great turnout! A big thank you to all those who could and couldn’t make it to the show for all the wonderful feedback and support. I’d also like to congratulate my fellow colleagues in both thesis exhibitions! I’m proud to have shown and worked with you!
See below for installation photographs of my work in Smoke + Flowers: MFA Thesis Exhibition I
View of Snowfall, Cloud and futuregrove
View of Snowfall and Cloud
View of Dust from Right
View of Rainfall
Panorama of The Show
Smoke and Flowers: the first half of the MFA Thesis Exhibitions opens this tuesday (with the reception taking place on Wed. from 5-7).
Here’s a list of who is in the MFA Thesis Exhibition I:
Poster for Smoke + Flowers designed by Avi LaZare
My thesis show White Empty Earth is coming up.
Below is the announcement card which will be sent out soon.
Specs: January 26 – February 13, 2010
Reception: February 3rd, 2010 5-7pm
Mason Gross School of the Arts
33 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Thesis Show Announcement - Front
Thesis Show Announcement - Back
Yao Lu’s work is an interesting take on the Contemporary Chinese Landscape. His photographs are digitally composed images comprising of dirt covered in tarps and garbage assembled to mimic Song and Yuan Dynasty style painting. See other works Here and Here.
Mountain and Straw Houses in the Summer - 2008
Below are two images of my piece “Caribou” from “hit it big“. The book next to my piece was a collaboration between the poet/art critic John Yau (more info here and here) and artist Richard Tuttle (more info here & here) called “The Missing Portrait” (Follow the links for more info or views). I’ll be posting more images of the show as I get them, so make sure to check back. Enjoy!
Todd Hido #6415 copyright 2007
Todd Hido has a group of new photographs at Bruce Silverstein. The work, beautiful, mysterious and eerie, is an interesting look at the American landscape and the way in which most of us are engaged with it…. from the seat of our car. In addition to the press release I find the work to be interesting in the way it deals with perception and the idea of seeing through something (in this case a windshield) that might alter, expand or limit one’s reaction to or understanding of the environment they are in. It references the camera and an experience that may be mediated by the lens, where one’s perception (and understanding) can be blurred in one aspect and clear in another. When looking at Hido’s landscapes and thinking of the relationship between photography and painting I recalled THIS painting, among others, by Gerhard Richter as well as the current Carla Klein show at Tanya Bonakdar. The Todd Hido and Carla Klein shows are definitely worth the visit!
From the Press Release:
Presented mostly in large scale, these photographs hit a new mark. Looking from the vantage point of his car seat, and shooting outward through ever changing layered mixtures of condensation, grit, and reflecting glare upon the car’s windshield, Hido masterfully transforms the mundane terrain peripherally sandwiching the myriad of roads typically dotting the outskirts of American cities, into inexplicable poignant images, filled with cinematic gravitas and dream-like sublimity, often “crossing the double lines’ between painting and photography.
While Hido embraces the aesthetic, it is not without a critical eye. He is drawn to austere scenes that characterize America as an empty place, evidenced by crossroads, dead-end streets, broken trees, and seemingly endless highways. Moody and psychological, like the times we live in, these landscapes are metaphors for personal emotions, evocative of the dark things that keep us up at night.
Hit it Big: A group show featuring many of the Rutgers Faculty and staff as well as 2nd year Graduate work, will be up Sept. 10 – 28th at Mason Gross Art Gallery. The opening is Thursday, September 17th. Links: Rutgers MFA blog!
I have a couple photographs currently on view in the Rutgers Slide Library – They are part of a show titled “Small Scale, Big Ambition”.
Be sure to check them out – they are the two black squares below. There are more images and details HERE.
Small Scale, Big Ambition
If you did not get the chance to see my work in Santa Fe – here is a glimpse. Thank You to all who came out to the opening and also to those interested in or curious about PROOF!
