I got to know Laura Antonelli‘s work through a mutual friend. I really love how she tells stories. Her palette is rich and sumptuous and there is a darkness in her photographs that makes us wonder what the real story behind each image is. Both series I’m featuring are about being a woman and aging. Laura […]
Conceptual
Remembering Judy Gelles
I was dismayed to hear that the remarkable Judy Gelles passed away recently. She had a profound sense of humanity, combined with wonderful humor, and unique way of looking at the world, especially her own life and family. In fact, she was a truth teller. Judy came onto my radar around 2008 when I was […]
Jamil Hellu: Hues
Artist Jamil Hellu has a current survey exhibition Jamil Hellu: Together at SF Camera Works in San Francisco that closes on March 14th, 2020. The exhibition is a compilation of several projects, but today we focus on Hues, a performative portraiture series about cultural lineages and queerness. As a an immigrant from Brazil with a Syrian […]
Kate Petley: The Very Thing
Artist Kate Petley is opening the exhibition, The Very Thing, at the Von Lintel Gallery on March 14th. Kate’s approach to her art making collapses “the boundaries between sculpture, photography, and painting.” Starting with ordinary materials, she photographs small constructions and then prints the enlarged image on canvas, providing the potential for interventions with a […]
Fran Forman: The Rest Between Two Notes
“I communicate with the world by creating visual narratives of composited photographs, often illuminating that in-between moment in time. It is how I explore dreams deferred, connections to prior generations, the natural world and our place within it. Making art is my psychological release, my obsession and my salvation. – Fran Forman” Fran Forman has […]
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph
“In order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes.” – Roland Barthes Forty years ago, French literary theorist Roland Barthes wrote the Camera Lucida (La Chambre claire), a book and way of thinking that has influenced generations of photographers. Published in 1980, shortly before his death, the […]