Finkelstein for Flavorwire

Photos of the Cinema-Going Experience Capture the Magic of Movies in Miniature
Flavorewire | Photography
Alison Nastasi
January 22, 2016

The Edward Hopper-esque images are a treat for eagle-eyed cinéastes, as Finkelstein references classic films in every detail, down to the posters on the wall. The act of seeing and watching is emphasized between audience and screen, as well as between figures. “Through his work, Finkelstein not only comments on how movies impact our emotions, but how like a dream, a film allows a viewer to give up the appearance of reality to that which is unreal,” writes the gallery.
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The Stamp Gallery presents: CAPP AT 10: The Shape of Remembering

January 28-March 11, 2016

We are happy to share that photographs from gallery artists Jeff Brouws and Susan Rankaitis will be shown in the Stamp Gallery's presentation of the CAPP anniversary event at the University of Maryland.

Celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Contemporary Art Purchasing Program with a special exhibition in and around the Stamp Gallery. Assembled through the talent and dedication of students at the University of Maryland, the CAPP collection includes work by Derrick Adams, Alice Attie, Shimon Attie, Selin Balci, Wafaa Bilal, Jeff Brouws, Edward Burtynsky, Jeremy Dean, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Patrick Jacobs, Luke Jerram, Simen Johan, Sarah Anne Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Doug Keyes, Jae Ko, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, Nikki S. Lee, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Linn Meyers, Maggie Michael, Jiha Moon, Jenny Morgan, John Paradiso, Elle Pérez, Jefferson Pinder, Dulce Pinzón, Barbara Probst, Susan Rankaitis, Hunter Reynolds, Ellington Robinson, and Lorna Simpson.

Richard Finkelstein featured in Booooooom!

Artist Spotlight: Richard Finkelstein
Booooooom!
December 31, 2015

Cinematic series by New York City-based artist (and former lawyer), Richard Finkelstein, features miniature figurines and carefully constructed sets to capture the experience of going to the movies. “Sitting in the Dark with Strangers” is on display at Robert Mann Gallery until January 30th, 2016. To view the feature on Richard Finkelstein, click here.

Holly Andres: The Fallen Fawn reviewed by Collector Daily

Holly Andres: The Fallen Fawn at Robert Mann
Collector Daily | In Galleries
By Loring Knoblauch
November 27, 2015

Holly Andres’ new body of imagery The Fallen Fawn is unabashedly organized like a short story or fable, each individual picture serving as a supporting piece of the larger story arc. It uses a mystery woman and her suitcase as the backdrop for the story of two middle school-aged sisters who find the suitcase down by the river, unpack its contents, and revel in its associations. In the privacy of their shared bedroom, the girls try on the woman’s robes and lingerie, wear her red lipstick, and playact out their visions of her life. It’s a tale full of resonances – adolescence, female roles, and sisterly connection, mixed with secrets, risks, and rebellions against the boredom of small town life. After shared looks across the dinner table, the girls eventually pack up the suitcase, sneak out after dark, and toss it in the river, a lone lipstick left on the dresser as a keepsake of the tingling excitement found within.  To read the full review, click here.

Holly Andres in American Photo Magazine

Holly Andres Blurs the Line Between Fantasy and Reality With Photography
By Krystal Grow
November 30, 2015

Photography has the power to capture moments and freeze memories, and photographs can be nostalgic reminders and reference points to the past. But imagery can be deceiving, and memories aren’t always reliable, leaving photographers with the power to control, manipulate, and reimagine as they please, straddling the line between fantasy and reality, and creating new narratives of foggy recollections.

Photographer Holly Andres explores this cerebral gray area in her work, turning memories into movie sets, transforming fleeting moments into elaborately staged recreations. To continue reading, click here.

Maroesjka Lavigne wins Harry Pennings Award

We are please to share with you that gallery artist, Maroesjka Lavigne has won the 2015 Harry Pennings Award. "Galerie Pennings started the Harry Pennings Award in 2007. Firstly, in memory of its founder and as a tribute to the founder of the oldest photo gallery of the Netherlands. On the other hand to create a platform for starting photographers in the gallery of the late Harry Pennings. He had a keen eye for young talent and that made him a unique gallery owner. Especially since he never ran his gallery for profit. Passion for photography - and its makers - was his motivation. And this is the motivation to launch this award." To read the press release announcing Maroesjka's selection as the award recipient, please click here.

Elisabeth Hase in Sotheby's Magazine

In the Frame: Through Her Lens
Christine Schwartz Hartley
December 2015 - January 2016

Art lovers can today name three women from the history of photography with ease, but that ease was slow in coming, as many photography scholars neglected female practitioners. Yet because the art form has always be learned by doing - requiring no validation from schools that restricted female access to painting and sculpture - photography has been more open to women, who have been more involved in the medium than any other visual art.  Major exhibitions are now making this plain. Who's Afraid of Women Photographers? at the Musée d'Orangerie and the Musée d'Orsay covers 1939 to 1945in two section s and presents 65 women photographers both renowned (Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Diane Arbus) and more obscure talents. For curator Marie Robert, a standout among the latter is Elisabeth Hase, who was discovered to be a Cindy Sherman precursor when her 1930s self-portrait as various characters surfaced posthumously. Read the full article in the December 2015 - January 2016 issue of Sotheby's Magazine, and by clicking here.

Mike Mandel Lecture and book signing at the PRC

Artist Mike Mandel will be giving a lecture at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University on December 2. Mandel will be speaking about his latest publication, a limited edition boxed collection entitled Good 70s. The collection features facsimiles of Mandel's original publications, previously unpublished works from his various projects and a pack of ten baseball cards from the 1975 series The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards. Copies of the collection will be available for purchase and can be signed by the artist. For more information about the lecture, click here.

Robert Mann discusses O. Winston Link at Foto/Industria

Recently Robert Mann had the honor of speaking about the work of photographer O. Winston Link during the Foto/Industria Biennial of Industrial Photography in Bologna, Italy.

Link is known for his body of work that focuses on the the end of an era in modern transportation: the steam locomotive. His photographs from 1955-1959 capture the trains of the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last of the Class I railroads to use steam engine trains. In Link’s effort to chronicle the last of these railway giants, he explored new techniques with night photography. To read more about Link at Foto/Industira 2015, click here.

Holly Andres: The Fallen Fawn in The New Yorker

Holly Andres's Adolescent Fairy Tales
October 25, 2015
Photo Booth by The New Yorker

Holly Andres’s photo series seem to unfold in the darkened corners of a fairy-tale dream space—a place where the private lives of girls intersect with the mysteries, and occasional dangers, of the adult world. The stories she tells—in lush, cinematic scope, like movies made up of only still images—are often drawn from stories in her own childhood: the adventures of a group of adolescent girls hungry for new experience; the trauma of two young sisters who venture too close to a hornet’s nest. Her latest series, “The Fallen Fawn,” which will go on display at the Robert Mann Gallery on October 29th, tells the story of two sisters who discover a woman’s abandoned suitcase by a river behind their house. Treating it as a valuable treasure, they bring it home, hide it underneath the bed, and secretly dress up in the “mystery woman’s” belongings at night. In this story, as in her other work, the young protagonists project both the plucky curiosity of Nancy Drew and the fragile innocence of a sleeping Snow White.
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