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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Photo: Irina Rozovsky, Untitled (from In Plain Air), Brooklyn, NY
A group photography exhibition I co-curated with Carl Gunhouse will be opening next Friday, March 2nd 2012 at Current Space in Baltimore, Maryland. Below is some information about the exhibition and the exhibiting artists.
March 2nd – March 18th, 2012 Weekends only: 12 – 4 pm or by appointment Opening reception: Friday, March 2nd, 7 - 10 p.m. Location: 421 N. Howard St. Baltimore, MD 21201
Everything That Rises Must Converge is a group exhibition that explores the connection between six emerging photographers and their neighborhoods. A dialogue is formed between these photographers and their immediate surroundings that helps shape their art and is expressed through a personal narrative in their work. The photographers have become ambassadors for their neighborhoods, communicating the stories, feelings and idiosyncrasies that surround them.
Exhibiting Artists: Heyward Hart Andrew Laumann Joseph M. Lopez Trevor Powers RaMell Ross Irina Rozovsky
Heyward Hart, from Spartanburg, SC, studied photography and received his MFA from Yale University. His work has been exhibited nationally including shows at Nicole Klagsburn Project space in New York, NY, Aviary Gallery in Boston MA, and the Hanes Art Center in Chapel Hill, NC. He has also been awarded the Richard Benson Prize and Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Heyward currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Irina Rozovsky (b. 1981, Moscow) studied French and Spanish literature as an undergraduate at Tufts University, and received an MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art in 2007. Her work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions and publications, including 25 under 25: Up and Coming American Photographers (powerHouse Books and Duke University); 31 Women in Art Photography, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein; Exposure at the PRC, curated by Mia Hamm; the Magnum Expression Award juried by Martin Parr; Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography(Humble Arts, NYC) ; Rencontres, Arles; PhotoEspaña, Madrid. Most recently, her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the New England School of Photography, Boston. This spring she published her first monograph, One to Nothing (Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg), which was named a Selected Title at the German Photo Book Award and featured on the Top 20 Photo Books of 2011 list by Alec Soth. Irina lives in Brooklyn, NY, and teaches at the International Center of Photography.
Born to a Cuban mother and Puerto Rican father in New York City, and raised in Florida, photographer Joseph Michael Lopez began working as a documentary cinematographer, notably on the critically acclaimed Bruce Weber film, Chop Suey. Lopez’s recent solo work gravitates toward filmic still images, book forms, haptic installations that have been exhibited in New York and Berlin. He studied with photographer Danny Lyon and at Columbia University, where he holds an M.F.A. Lopez’s work has appeared on the cover of the Sunday Review of The New York Times and he is a contributor to Agence VU’. He has just completed working on the first chapter of his ongoing long-term book project, Birth Write: Patriarchy and Lust, which was nominated by the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund. The project’s second chapter has been proposed for production in 2012.
RaMell Ross is a photographer based in Greensboro, AL. A 2005 Georgetown graduate, RaMell double majored in Sociology and English and received a minor in art. Merging his passions for art and service, RaMell is currently the Youthbuild Job Placement Manager at the Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization, Inc. This led him to document the Black Belt region of Hale County, Alabama, an endeavor, which he is still actively photographing. An unstoppable emerging artist, RaMell has already been published with The New York Times, ESPN, Penguin Group, The Washington Post, Simon and Schuster, Business Week, Food and Wine Magazine, Garden and Guns Magazine, CNN, Ready Made Magazine, and several online publications.
Trevor Powers was born in 1985 in Burlington, Vermont. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA where he studied Photography and bookmaking. He received his Diploma in 2008 and Fifth Year Certificate in 2009. His work has been published and exhibited throughout the United States. He now lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
Andrew Laumann was born in the spring of 1987 in Baltimore, MD, where he currently resides. He did not attend College, after high school he spent 4 years traveling and living around the country. His work is concerned with the act of destruction and reconstruction and its affect on the natural and supernatural world. He has multiple publications by the likes of Gottlund Verlag, JSBJ, & Hamburger Eye, and has been shown nationally and internationally.
Current Space is an artist-run gallery, studio, and a headquarters for cultural production, nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Operating since November 2004, we are committed to showcasing developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.
Current Space 421 N. Howard Baltimore, MD 21201 currentspace@gmail.com www.currentspace.com |
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Too Many Places and Times to Remember
Too Many Places and Times to Remember is a collaborative project between photographer Trevor Powers and I. We've traveled together extensively creating work over a span of 5 years. When home in our respective cities we share a journal that we mail back and forth. A book of photographs taken while traveling and selections from the journals are currently being organized into a book which will be available very soon!
Above is a scan of one of the journal's mailing envelopes.
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ALL VISUAL LA
5 of my photographs are going to be projected and talked about at the ALL VISUAL LA slide show this coming Friday, January 20th, 2012. 3 of the works are from a new project of hand sewn photographs to paper and 2 are recent polaroids.
8-9pm slide show with talk 9-10pm slide show with tunes
2636 Hurron St. Los Angeles, CA 90065
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Photo Archivin'
My internship as a Photo Archivist at the Jewish Museum of Maryland couldn't be more wonderful! I'm learning a lot of skills and digitizing a heap of photographs. My main project is getting archival scans and updating the accession information of the Kraus Family photographs. The collection is comprised of tin types, carte-de-vistes, cabinet portraits and silver gelatin prints from the 1860's to 1940's. You can browse some of the photographs I've worked on here. Be sure to explore more of JMM's amazing collection while you're there!
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IPhotography
I have two photographs in the IPhotography exhibition at Aviary Gallery this month.
The opening is this coming Thursday, January 5th, 2012 from 6 to 9pm.
www.aviarygallery.com
48 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 |
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a DIRTY JOB!
My series The Chirping Bush was featured yesterday December 18th, 2011 on a DIRTY JOB! an international magazine of new photography based in Italy.
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The Chirping Bush
I've been using a 1/2 frame camera for a while now but just recently decided to compile the images into a series. The Chirping Bush is about drawing connections and exploring relationships within a landscape - commuters on a ferry in Maine and the water that surrounds them, the pyramids of Teotihuacan and the droves of tourists who visit them, and cacti in a nature reserve. The project is on going so check back regularly for more images.
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The Days Are Just Packed
A few new photos added to The Days Are Just Packed. Please have a look and check back soon for more updates, series and new projects.
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Job #1395
I'm currently working on a series titled Job #1395 selections from the work of Fred G. Hill. The images were found one evening when I was poking around in a dumpster in Burlington, Vermont. I came across a curious box of around 400 contact sheets from commercial photo shoots. I have been sorting through them and curating them into a body of work to be turned into a book. More on this soon.
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Back in Baltimore
I'm very excited to be back from the road trip and working in the studio. If you're interested in scheduling a studio visit for November please get in touch.
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Cruisin' USA
I'm currently in the middle of a month long road trip across the United States. I'm traveling in my 1990 VW Diesel Jetta that's converted to run on Waste Vegetable Oil. I will return to Baltimore on Monday, October 17th with new work and will begin working on several photo books which will become available early 2012.
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TRANSCEND THE ORDINARY
TRANSCEND THE ORDINARY is an exhibition that brings together seven photographers whose images explore rituals and routines of everyday life, relationships with loved ones, and personal histories. Gaining inspiration from within, these artists create deeply personal work that says as much about them as it does their subject. Curated by Trevor Powers.
Featuring photographs from:
Paige Mazurek
Robin Myers
Trevor Powers
Camilo Ramirez
Irina Rozovsky
Ginevra Shay
Katharine Shields
The opening reception on Thursday October 6th, from 6pm-9pm.
The opening coincides with JP's First Thursday, so there will be lots to see around the neighborhood.
The show will be running through October 30th.
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C A R T
I've created a series of soft sculptures for C A R T.
Opening: July 9th, 7pm-10pm
July 9th to October 21stClosting: October 21st, 7pm-10pm
Current Gallery 421 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
The City Paper's Article on CART"The average American makes two trips to buy groceries each week, making
supermarkets, mini-marts, and corner stores essential and incredibly
influential parts of our everyday lives. All items are bought and sold
at these stores using money. Money is earned through labor, and labor
comes in countless different packages, much like our food. Through our
labor we are inspired and we are exploited. We progress and we are
repressed. We survive.
Art is created through labor, but unlike some of the more negative forms
labor takes, art stimulates our minds, challenges our imaginations, and
expands our vision for the world. Art is at the center of humanity’s
continuous evolution, but it remains extraordinarily undervalued by
mainstream American society, which is almost solely focused on the
seemingly endless cycle of labor and consumption. This limited view of
life is slowly eliminating our ability to imagine, dream, and think
freely.
Through C A R T, Current Space is positing that art is not optional, but
essential. It affects all of us internally, whether we are aware of it
or not, and it should therefore be considered as fundamental to our
daily lives as the products we purchase at grocery stores every week.
Therefore, Current Space will be transformed into a fully functional
mini-supermarket, complete with aisles, window displays, shopping
baskets, and cash registers in an attempt to explore the exchange of
artists’ labor for profit in a familiar, everyday setting." Current Gallery |
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MEMORY FULL
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One of my images is featured in MEMORY FULL. A 20 page, edition of 50 book of photographs curated and published by Photographer Trevor Powers. Click above to purchase.
featuring cell phone images from:
Alexandra Annello · Ellen Arnstein · Lisa Bauer · Jena Carter · Caleb Churchill · Cody DeFranco · Yasi Ghanbari · Nate Grossman · Carl Gunhouse · Tyler Huntington · Kim Keiter · Jared Kuzia · Calvin Lee · Ben Mosca · Enzo Moscarella · Annie Newlin · Teresa Partridge · Joseph Peila · Trevor Powers · Camilo Ramirez · Antonia Robbins · Ginevra Shay · Molly Soda · Justin Visnesky
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Beautiful Things by Ben Mosca
Here is a still of me in Ben Mosca's Beautiful Things, 2010. The film is a compilation of short glimpses and tiny blips into Mosca's life and psyche. The 16mm sound film was orginally screened at The Museum of Fine Art in Boston last spring.
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