Cig Harvey's newest book, Gardening at Night, is one of Vogue's picks for the top photo books released this spring. Following the sold-out success of Harvey's first book, You Look at Me Like An Emergency, Gardening at Night features works from the artist's new series of the same name in an exploration of home, family, nature, and time. The book is published by Schilt Publishing and will be available through the gallery in April.
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Photos: Exhibit allows glimpse at Cuba,
forbidden to Americans for so long
By Victoria Fleischer
March 27, 2015
When Cuban photographer Nelson Ramirez was eight years old, he borrowed his mother’s camera, a twin-lens reflex that requires you to reload film before each shot. Ramirez kept forgetting to reload. When he finally developed the roll of film eight years later, he noticed the negatives had multiple exposures.
“I think those are the first manipulated photography that I did,” Ramirez told Art Beat. This week, the Robert Mann gallery in New York City opened “The Light in Cuban Eyes,” a two-month long exhibit that showcases Ramirez work along with 23 others. The exhibit is an offshoot of a book by the same name, which showcases 50 artists and was published earlier this month.
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Shining a Light on Cuban Photography
Aired Thursday, March 26th at 1pm
Coinciding with the opening of Robert Mann Gallery's exhibition The Light in Cuban Eyes, Madeleine P. Plonsker—who inspired our exhibition and organized the book of the same name—spoke with Leonard Lopate along with artists Nelson Ramirez and Alejandro Pérez. Listen to the interview below or read more online here.
The Cuban art has been marginalized and out of the loop for decades, due to US-Cuban relations. All those years, Cuban artist had opportunities to exhibit and to promote their art mainly in Europe, but the lack of cooperation between the island and its closest neighbor – the US has been causing a serious damage to the Cuban cultural and artistic scene. The situation with Cubans living in the US has been completely different, yet they have always hoped that the isolating wall between these two countries would be demolished. In December, the Obama administration announced tremendous changes regarding US – Cuba relations, with the goal to improve the cooperation between two nations. In this context, Robert Mann Gallery in New York is organizing a group exhibition of contemporary Cuban photography.
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Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Mike Mandel. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Mandel is heavily influenced by the period of expansion and franchising in the Los Angeles region during the 1960s and ‘70s. His photographic series utilize elements of popular media to communicate themes of alienation, commercialization, and personal identity in an increasingly public world.
In the series People in Cars, the artist captures reactions to the sudden intrusion of his camera into the private space of the car, a defining element of Southern California culture after an era of massive freeway expansion. In the tongue-in-cheek Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, great photographers of the 20th century appear as exchangeable baseball cards complete with satirical stats and quotations. Evidence, a collaboration with Larry Sultan, marked a pivotal change in the idea of photographic authorship and narrative: using found photos carefully culled from the files of government agencies and corporations, the photographers imparted new meaning solely through context. And wonderfully apropros to our contemporary moment, Mandel’s Myself: Timed Exposures can be seen as the original selfies—endearingly awkward, unpretentiously charismatic, and supremely honest about human interactions in the modern age.
Mike Mandel was born in 1950 in Los Angeles. He received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and currently teaches at the School of the Museum Fine Arts, Boston Studio Program at Tufts University. His work is in permanent collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art; The Center for Creative Photography; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His published art books include Myself: Timed Exposures, Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, Evidence (co-authored with Larry Sultan), Making Good Time, and State of Ata, (co-authored with Chantal Zakari), among others. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed
January 15 - February 28, 2015
Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
Jennifer Williams' small unique collages and archival pigment prints are featured in Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, which presents works by 23 contemporary artists. While hardly unified in style and content, the artists’ works in Altarations blend photographic images and processes to produce works that celebrate, contradict and undermine photographic traditions through altered images and references. The title of the exhibition is derived from Mark C. Taylor’s “Altarity,” a 1987 book of philosopher Taylor’s writing that brings together his interpretation and synthesis of several modern philosophers’ interpretations of difference and otherness.
For more information about the exhibition, click here.
Maroesjka Lavigne: Ísland is featured as one of Slate Magazine's top ten photography shows of the year. Jordan G. Teicher writes,
Belgian photographer Maroesjka Lavigne was just 21 when she drove for months across Iceland to create the images in her series, “Island,” which I saw in April at Manhattan’s Robert Mann Gallery. Full of cinematic portraits and snowy landscapes featuring small, isolated subjects, the photos suggest a loose narrative of mystery and melancholy. Though they do justice to the country’s ample natural beauty, they’re way more odd and interesting than anything you’d find in a travel magazine.
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The upcoming book The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College's Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography, which will be accompanied by an exhibition at the gallery in the spring, is listed in Cuban Art News' 'Bookshelf'. This bilingual volume highlights the work of 50 photographers, both emerging and established, who have been active in Cuba from the Special Period to the present, 1992–2012. The photos in the book are accompanied by artists’ statements, collector’s comments, and essays by scholars. Collector Madeleine P. Plonsker observes that “Cuban photography has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past twenty years. Cuba's contemporary photographers are poised to reach a broader international audience, and the intent of my book is to bring you their story.”
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Robert Mann is featured as a contributing expert in Artnet's "Market Snapshot: Ansel Adams," in passages such as the below:
...Adams's estate might not see the hysterical fluctuations of other photographers' markets, but that's not to say his work isn't steadily appreciating. “The values have been steadily increasing over the years as the supply in the secondary market diminishes and the demand for his work increases," said Robert Mann, a key player in Adams's secondary market since the 1970s. “Virtually every institutional art collection and many private collections that include photography begin with Adams," he told Artnet via email, “so it is inevitable that the prints will become more scare and ultimately more valuable."
Click here to read more about the current market for Ansel Adams' work, currently on display at Robert Mann Gallery.
Securing Homeland: Rebounding/Rebuilding Sustainable Future
Moderated by exhibition curator Margaret Mathews-Berenson
Panelists: Brian Baer, Cynthia Barton, Deborah Gans, and Mary Mattingly
Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Sunday, October 26, 3-4pm
The panel, moderated by the curator, Margaret Mathews Berenson, will focus on innovative solutions to the problems of homelessness and displacement caused by catastrophic natural and manmade disasters that are dramatically presented visually in the works of art in the exhibition. Panelists will discuss innovative projects and proposals by artists, architects, non-profit organizations and government agencies around the world designed to provide housing for those in need. Among these are: post-Katrina housing in New Orleans and rebuilding efforts for victims of Hurricane Sandy in the New York area. Other topics of discussion will be: designing with sustainable materials; urban reclamation projects in Chicago, Houston and Detroit; collaborations between artists, urban design professionals and local communities; and social entrepreneurship in contemporary art and architecture. In conclusion, panelists together with audience participants will contribute ideas and recommendations for addressing these problems in the future. Hand-outs will include a list of organizations worldwide that provide meaningful solutions in the hopes that audience members might be inspired to assist them in meeting their goals.
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