The show runs through Monday, 4 September, 2006 at Dia:Beacon Riggion Galleries, 3 Beekman St, Beacon, New York, US

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WHAT
NEW WORK An art opening featuring the photography of BRENT BENNETT

WHERE
mooncruise* gallery
235 Cambie Street (Gastown)
Vancouver, BC, Canada

WHEN
Friday, April 21, 2006
7.30–10pm

Comprised of urban cityscapes and portraits, ‘New Work’ is a rare presentation from photographer BRENT BENNETT which highlights this talented and unique artist’s ability to capture the beauty of the bleak.

For more information contact mooncruise* gallery at 604.685.9575, or visit www.mooncruisegallery.com

Exhibition announcement:

People are using cameras in ways previously reserved for "the professionals". Digital photography is allowing us to capture the images we see, and make images we feel.

So many photographers are making so many different styles of photography – and the best is yet to be discovered – because its hiden away on a hard drive.

Now we go a step further.

EXPOSURE takes these images from hard drives to the gallery walls – celebrating the modern day photographer – each with his or her own vision and completely unique perspective. We avoid competition. Instead we embrace our differences, then feed from the inspiration that they yield.

Flickr has provided a hub – a global online community. Individuals from every corner of the planet are sharing their work with thousands of people. This incredible resource has given today’s photographer a new playing ground.

Some professionals still say that these photographers don’t do it the way they used too. That might be true. But we choose to focus on the way we need to do it now and look towards the future!

EXPOSURE is that FUTURE!

OUR DEBUT GALLERY SHOW will Feature the work from 15 photographers, and will be headlined by DEAN M. BEATTIE (DMB05)!!!

Dean’s career spans more than 13 years of professional image making and a wide spectrum of genres, wedding, photojournalism, corporate, architectural, portrait, and fine art.

For the first time his fine art nude figure studies will be on display.

Other Photographers on display:

Craig E Biertempfel
Hans Rosemond
Stephen A. Hall
David Kent
Robert Strovers
Dan Buczynski
Jim Orsini
Cate Whitehead
Sharon West
Todd Hryckowian
Chris Nicholson
Matt Niemi
Charles Schneider
Julie Schneider
Joey Kennedy

Music will be provided by DJs Kelly Carter & Walter along with live sax/flute by Jason May.

COME! Be apart of this community known as EXPOSURE!
7-11 pm
FRIDAY April 7th 2006
@ GarfieldArtWorks
[4931 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh PA]

—> Gallery show will be followed by an A F T E R P A R T Y @ LOT 17 , LocationL: 4617 Liberty Ave [Bloomfield]

10pm-2am with DJs Joyboy & Kelly Carter

Lot17: 2 blocks up from the Bloomfield Bridge, opposite side of the street <—

Flyer design: Dan Buczynski aka Macwagen

I’ve been following Seattle-based photographer Jon Madison‘s work on Flickr since I opened an account there about a year ago and have been consistently impressed by the quality and diversity of his work—I never know what’s coming next, but I know it’s going to be interesting. He’s also go the rare quality of being a prolific poster, which generally means a few gems buried in a completely unedited swamp of so-so photos (like how most of us shoot), but somehow, almost all of it is good.

While I haven’t seen the show yet, I know it’s bound to please. I’ll be in Seattle while the show is up and am going to make a point of seeing it.

The show runs for the month of April, 2006, at the Starbucks at Met Park North Tower, 1220 Howell St., Seattle, WA, US.

interactivearchitecture.org writes, "Bitfall is an installation where water is being used to project images taken from the internet. A computer observes various news websites and chooses thereafter the images to be displayed. 128 nozzles are controlled by synchronised magnetic valves, and the water drops falling to the ground shape the images. The visual information is only tangible for a second before the drops merge to become water again."

While not strictly photography, I’d say this counts as cool as experimental imaging.

Visit Web site (Deutsch/German)

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This exhibition, "Back to Basics—Early Techniques in Photography", features photograpy by Patrick Barrett, Michel Bayard, and Doug Schwab. The show runs from 28 March–14 May, 2006, at the Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, US.

Opening reception Tuesday, 28 March, 2006, 6pm

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VENUS IN HELL at MARS Gallery, Melbourne, from 6th July, 2006

Melbourne Art Rooms is proud to announce VENUS IN HELL, an exhibition of new works on paper by the well-known young Australian painter, Hazel Dooney, along with photography and video by Hazel Dooney and Creed O’Hanlon. The exhibition will open on 6th July, this year, at MARS, 418 Bay Street, Melbourne.

VENUS IN HELL is Hazel Dooney’s first Australian exhibition for nearly two years. It is the culmination of a long, hermitic process of change for an artist best-known for her large, accessible, high gloss enamel paintings of modern women in contexts that both reflect upon and remorselessly parody the objectivisation of women in contemporary advertising and entertainment media.

The new work in VENUS IN HELL is radically different. Raw and intimate, it embraces the primal impulses of primitive art, and reconciles a commitment to the figurative with a freer, more expressionistic exploration of line and texture. Working with watercolour, pencil and ink on cold-pressed paper, Dooney explores chimerical layers of symbolism drawn from African and Carribean voodoo, merging them with diaristic texts, poems and ritual incantations.

There is also in these new paintings Dooney’s interpretation of the indolent, self-destructiveness of living in Los Angeles. She first found inspiration in the Seventies’ essays and fiction of the American writer, Joan Didion – notably her sparse recreation of Hollywood’s insidious corruption in the novel, Play It As It Lays – but later found in LA’s hedonism themes in common with voodoo spirtualism, not least disturbing sense of individual ‘possession’. “In voodoo culture, a zombie is called a ‘give man’, meaning you exert control over the curse victim and can, if you want, just give them away,” Dooney explains. “That pretty much describes what I saw of most people’s relationship with the entertainment business in LA: so many, especially the young and pretty, are just ‘give men’.”

“One part magical realism, one part punk rock,” is how one writer has described Dooney’s new work. It’s probably a good way to describe Dooney herself.

As in nearly all her paintings over the past decade, Dooney’s portrayals of aspects of herself are central to these new works. However, unlike the polished, glamourised Amazonians of her enamel paintings, her self-depiction is now forensic, contorted, and unsettling.

It is the woman beneath the recurring figure of the paintings that is explored in the photography that is also a part of the VENUS IN HELL show. Shot over a period of two years in collaboration with another Australian, Creed O’Hanlon, there is a conflicting sense of naturalism and artifice in the larger colour and black and white images, particularly in the solitary nudes, which are an attempt to strip bare, literally, the psycho-sexual tension that underpins Dooney’s best work. There are also traditional images, as well as video, that are documentary, offering insights into the artist’s everyday and the processes of her creativity.

Within the context of this exhibition, and the exciting, yet unsettling new works on paper that are its focus, Dooney’s photography is an attempt at a stark, unembarrassed honesty unprecedented by any other Australian artist since Brett Whitely.

The exhibition will be opened on the evening of 6th July by the Rt. Hon. Jeff Kennett, the former Premier of Victoria.

Opening reception on Wednesday, 15 March, 2006, 6–8pm, at jen bekman, 6 Spring St., New York, NY, US.

The show runs Thursday–Sunday, 15–19 March, 2006, Noon–6pm.

The show runs 1 April–28 April, 2006, at NWZ-Galerie im Pressehaus, Peterstr. 28–34, 26121 Oldenburg, DE.

Gallery hours are from Monday–Sunday 9am–6pm.

Opening on Friday, 1 April, 2006 at 6pm.

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