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Say the phrase “female contemporary artist” and you’re likely to conjure, via Google or collective memory, images of Cecily Brown’s writhing bodies; Tracey Emin’s messy, suggestive bed; Lisa Yuskavage’s kitschy soft porn; or Vanessa Beecroft’s nude installations. The financial success of such in-your-face sexuality — whether viewed with icy remove (Beecroft), humor (Yuskavage), or brassiness (Emin) — dovetailed nicely with the Third Wave feminism popularized in the early nineties. So what’s next for the double-X chromosome creative set in our current period? Photo evidence and a few words from art critic Jerry Saltz after the jump. Read More »
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Last Thursday, hundreds of photographers and the people who love them converged on Canoe Studios, a 24,000 square foot loft space in the Starrett-Lehigh Building (hi, Martha!), for a community-style potluck dinner and slideshow. Not just any slideshow, mind you – the organizers of non-profit group Slideluck Potshow gather 25 emerging and established photogs to display their latest, this year ranging from celebrity portraits by Platon to architectural landscapes by Aperture‘s Michael Wolf. Read More »
James and Karla Murray’s monograph Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York made quite a splash on the blogs earlier this year, and their current exhibition with Gawker Artists, MOM & POPism, puts a new spin on the couple’s documentary streetscapes with a little help from curator/artist Billi Kid and 27 of his graffiti and street artist cohorts.
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Click here to see a slideshow of images from Lynn Saville’s Night/Shift.
Known for her moody, black-and-white city portraits of Paris and New York, photographer Lynn Saville has a new body of color photography work on display at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. Shooting in the dark, Saville exposes the exoskeleton of the city by highlighting the minute details of street panoramas with ambient light. Night/Shift coincides with a monograph of the same name published by art house The Monacelli Press. Read on for images from the exhibition and a chat with the artist. Read More »
