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Showing posts with label Solo Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solo Show. Show all posts
Thursday, August 21, 2008Shows Closing Saturday
Saturday is your last chance to catch the Beyond the Backyard exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and my New American Fables show at the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. Both shows have been very well received and represent seminal moments in my career so far. While I'm sad to see them come down, I am excited about the opening of the Road Trip exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, plus more solo and group show opportunities that I hope to report on soon.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008New American Fables Opening Thursday at Robert Koch Gallery Unititled (Spiderman) 2005 © Amy Stein I am traveling to San Francisco today for the Thursday opening of my New American Fables show at the Robert Koch Gallery. The show features work from my Domesticated and Halloween in Harlem series and runs through August 23. If you are San Francisco tomorrow stop by the opening and say hello. Here are the details: New American Fables | Amy Stein Wednesday, June 4, 2008Syracuse, Berlin and a Solo Show at Koch Gallery Groceries, 2007 © Amy Stein I was in New York City just long enough to catch my breath and now I am in Syracuse starting my month long artist-in-residence with Light Work. Berlin was a blast and I owe many thanks to Sascha, Silke, Tim and Elisa at Pool Gallery for their endless generosity during my stay. I had a great time hanging with Dylan Chatain, Robert Lyons and meeting Mark McPherson at the Hijacked book launch and exhibition at Neunplus. The Berlin scene is like everything you've heard only better. I can't wait to go back. Also, I am very pleased to announce my third solo show of the year (wtf?) begins June 12 at the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. This one, like the others before was sudden and unexpected. That sounds wonderful, but it is tough business trying to prepare for a show with only a couple of weeks notice. Here are the details on the show: Amy Stein | New American Fables Monday, May 19, 2008On the Road From Hijacked, Rhonda + Chantelle © Graham Miller I am leaving this morning for a week in Berlin to see my show at Pool Gallery and attend the book launch and exhibition of Hijacked at Neunplus. After that I will be meeting my husband in Italy for a needed week away from all things photo. When I return to the states I go immediately to Syracuse for my month long Light Work residency and then to San Francisco for the opening of my solo show at the Robert Koch Gallery. Between Syracuse and San Francisco I will be in Chicago for the opening of Beyond the Backyard at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. It's all very exciting, but the idea of being away from home for so long is freaking me out. Thursday, May 1, 2008New American Fables Installation Shots
The good folks at Pool Gallery were kind enough to send me some installation shots from my New American Fables show that is up right now. In related news, yesterday I booked a ticket to Berlin so I can see the show in person and catch the Hijacked book launch and exhibition at Neunplus. Ich bin ein Berliner!
     
Friday, April 25, 2008An Opening, Two Closings and a Monkey on a Motorbike Pieter Hugo Cover/Juxtapoz Magazine Just a quick update from the California Zephyr as I speed across America. Tonight my first solo show in Germany opens at the Pool Gallery in Berlin. The people at Pool couldn't be nicer and Art Das Kunstmagzin has chosen the show for their Tip of the Week.This weekend marks the closing of both my first solo show at Paul Kopeikin Gallery and the Car Culture group show at SMoCA. Very sad to these shows come down, but all things must pass. Also, some of my work is featured in the latest issue of Juxtapoz Magazine. The issue highlights work by a number of great photographers like Pieter Hugo, Boogie and Corey Arnold. Get your copy now! Wednesday, April 23, 2008New American Fables Solo Show in Berlin this Friday New American Fables opening Friday at Pool Gallery Today I am leaving on a four day cross country train trip. Yes, I'm riding the rails like Boxcar Bertha, but instead of livin' and lovin' like an outlaw I will be shooting an editorial assignment. I suspect a train across America means serious connectivity lapses, so I may be off the grid for a few days. I previously planned on going to Berlin this week for the opening of my first solo show in Germany, but over the past six weeks I have suffered through a series of flus, colds and an assortment of maladies that made it difficult to plan a trip oversees. It's too bad because it should be a pretty happening event. The show is called New American Fables and features a selection of work from my Domesticated and Halloween in Harlem series. I will definitely make it over before the show closes and hopefully time it to catch the openings of Alec Soth's TWO SHOWS in Berlin. Talk about a big-time art superstar. If you are in Berlin this Friday please stop by Pool Gallery for the opening. Here are the details on the show: Amy Stein | New American Fables Friday, April 11, 2008Shai Kremer at Julie Saul Gallery Abandoned Syrian Base, Golan Heights, 2007 © Shai Kremer Fighting back a sickness that has ruined me for the past several weeks I ventured to Chelsea last night for Shai Kremer's Broken Promised Land opening at Julie Saul Gallery. The opening was hopping and Shai's prints looked amazing. For over seven years Shai has been documenting the effects of military action on the landscape of Israel. The work is both sobering and beautiful and raises a lot of questions about the generations of people born into an environment where this kind of destruction is the norm.After making the rounds at Shai's opening we walked a few blocks to the Blind Spot auction at David Zwirner. We went to the auction with a strong desire to make serious bids on a couple of pieces, but the place was so incredibly crowded it proved impossible to see the work let alone write your bid down. I quickly tucked the credit card back in the pocket and made a beeline out the door and into the beautiful New York night. Wednesday, April 9, 2008Busy Like Our Friend the... This is one of those weeks where the social calendar and the career calendar collide in spectacular fashion. By Sunday I will probably be reduced to a tired pile of my former self. Last night was an SVA event at the Whitney Biennial, tonight is Spoon at Terminal 5, Thursday is the Blind Spot Auction and then it's all AIPAD through the weekend. (By the way, big thanks to Robert Ayers of ArtInfo for including me in the Editor's Picks for AIPAD). All that nighttime fun caps full days spent scurrying about the streets of New York trying to get stuff done. I am teaching two classes this week, putting the finishing touches on my portfolio so my rep can start shopping it around and preparing a ton of prints for a solo show in Berlin that opens in two weeks! (More on the Berlin solo show later.) I'm exhausted! Don't get me wrong. I am not complaining. This is all good stuff and exactly what I set out to do. It's just becoming painfully obvious to me that I do not have the capacity to juggle the expanding details and obligations of my career and still be able to produce new work. I have a wonderful intern, Chanjai, who helps me a ton, but I think I am at a critical juncture where I need to expand operations and hire an assistant. Once I get back from Berlin I will explore this idea a little more and maybe post a want ad on my blog. Wednesday, April 2, 2008Big Openings This Thursday and Friday © Alison Malone Yesterday I began carb loading in anticipation of a big Thursday gallery crawl. It's not often I make it to the Midtown galleries, but with Fred Herzog and Matthew Pillsbury in the mix I am willing to tear myself away from the usual Thursday night in Chelsea. I have been crowing for a while now about Fred Herzog's brilliantly alive Kodachrome photos of Vancouver from the 50s and 60s. Shockingly this is his first solo show in the states. Matthew Pillsbury's work is instantly iconic and you just know we are biding time until his MoMA retrospective. I love Matthew and his work, but secretly I'm really more interested in seeing Nathan. Also worth checking out this Thursday is fellow SVA alum and all around radical chick, Alison Malone. Work from her series Job's Daughter will be featured in the Dream-Self group show at Broadway Gallery. Here are the details: Fred Herzog | Vancouver ColorSee you there! Tuesday, March 11, 2008Installation Shots and Chorizo Pig
Finally some installation shots from my shows currently up at Paul Kopeikin Gallery and SMoCA.
Domesticated at Paul Kopeikin    Stranded at SMoCA    (If you could turn around you would see a wall of Robert Franks.) Chorizo Pig!  I spotted Chorizo Pig in a supermarket in Phoenix. I had a wonderful time in Arizona. Big thanks to Claire Carter, Michael Lundgren, Pat Evans and all the folks at SMoCA. Thursday, March 6, 2008SVA in the Mother F'n House Untitled, 2004 (#3) © Thomas Holton At least once a week I get an email from a photographer asking me if they should apply to the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography program. My answer is always yes and I give a host of reasons why they should consider the school including the facilities, the faculty and the location. The best reason I can give, however, is the amazing work and success of the people who have been through program.Today I opened the latest edition Photograph Magazine and it seemed like an SVA yearbook. Besides my own show currently at Paul Kopeikin, thank you very much, there were full and two-page ads for upcoming solo shows by fabulous SVA grads Thomas Holton, JeongMee Yoon and Matthew Pillsbury. Throw in Shen Wei, Katie Kingma, Daniel Traub and Domingo Milella being named to PDN's 30 list and you are talking about a red letter week for the School of Visual Arts MFA program. Here are the details on these upcoming must-see shows: Thomas Holton, The Lams of Ludlow StreetI will be at Sasha Wolf tonight for Thomas' opening and at Jenkins Johnson on Saturday for JeongMee's opening. See you there. UPDATE: The always fabulous Rachel Dunville reminded me of another upcoming show by an SVA MFA grad. Shai Kremer's solo show at Julie Saul Gallery opens April 10. Monday, February 18, 2008The Big Opening
I am relaxing in Scottsdale, AZ after a long drive from Los Angeles on Sunday. I am visiting Scottsdale to see the Car Culture show at SMoCA and spend a few days chilling out. The run up to the opening at Paul Kopeikin Gallery has been a thrill ride and I need to cool the jets for a few days.
The opening was exhilarating and nerve racking and wonderful all at the same time. The place was packed and the work was well received. It was great to see familiar faces like Liz, Patrick and Amy and meet a ton of new folks from Los Angeles. I will post installation photos soon, but right now I am going for a hike. Wednesday, February 13, 2008Thank You Fecal Face
Never thought I would utter that combination of words, but then again I never thought I would live to see someone named Barack Hussein Obama as the front runner to be the next president of the United States. Such is the wonderful world we live in. Fecal Face is a fabulous Bay area based Web site that covers and supports emerging arts and artists. In advance of my solo show that opens this weekend they were kind enough to interview me and post some of my work.
Also, check out a recent Web feature on Luminous Lint and another interview at The Land Salmon. New Domesticated and Stranded Images Susie, Andrew and Pam, Route 17, New York © Amy Stein I just added some new Domesticated and Stranded images to my Web site. Take a look and let me know what you think. If you are in SoCal and want to see the Domesticated images in person, please come to my big solo show opening this Saturday at Paul Kopeikin Gallery. Monday, January 28, 2008My First Solo Show! In Between © Amy Stein At the end of 2007 I listed some of my career goals for 2008. I didn't think I was being overly ambitious, but I recognized that each aspiration would require a whole lot of hustle and flow to make it a reality. Well, here we are just a month in to the new year and I am already able to scratch one of those goals off the list. On February 16 my first solo show will be opening for a two month run at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles! I am not one to exhibit gross displays of pride or steep in my accomplishments, but I am really over the moon about this show. Over the past two years, I have spent countless hours working on my Domesticated series. Each image represents a very long and considered process and I'm so happy it will finally be shown. Naturally, I will heading west for the big opening reception and I would love see as many folks as possible. If you are in Southern California, please stop. Oh, and please tell everyone you know about the show. Wednesday, November 28, 2007Big Photography Openings Nura Garuba and friend with their monkey, Nigeria 2005 © Pieter Hugo Two huge photography shows are opening tonight in Chelsea and I couldn't be more excited. First up, Pieter Hugo is showing his Hyena Men and Honey Collectors work at Yossi Milo. I have been a huge fan of Pieter's work for a few years now and have seen his gorgeous prints before at various art fairs. (I even own one.) The show at Yossi is Pieter's first solo show in New York and will feature very large scale prints of his instantly iconic portraits. Kromanns Remise 2 2005 © Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard Next is Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard's amazing How to Hunt series at Silverstein Photography. Last night I had the pleasure of going to dinner with Nicolai, Trine and photographer Beth Block. They couldn't be nicer folks. We talked about Denmark, the photo world, our recent American Photo mention, but mostly I just gushed about their photographs. It's rare that I see work that takes my breath away, but the photos in How to Hunt are so stunning they did just that. Do not miss these shows. See you there! Friday, October 26, 2007Lori Nix at Randall Scott Gallery Great Hall 2006 © Lori Nix This Saturday Randall Scott Gallery will be holding an opening reception for a solo exhibition of work by the very talented and delightful Lori Nix. I recently paid a visit to Lori's studio and it reminded me of Gepetto's workshop if Gepetto kept sheets of extruded foam and tiny boxes filled with improvised tools and miniature model odds and ends. You can get a sense of Lori and her work environment by watching this video of her on Coolhunting. Also on display-and just in time for the holiday-will be a few photos from my Halloween in Harlem series. Think of it as a seasonal show-let. If you are in DC this Saturday you definitely need to be at this opening and see Lori's photographs. Here are the details: Lori Nix: The City Friday, September 21, 2007About Last Night © Simon Norfolk Last night was Rachael Dunville's big opening at Peer Gallery and the joint was packed with her friends and family from Missouri, supportive SVA alums, admirers, and the endless throngs of art school hipsters, matrons and patrons, and Blackberry cowboys that come out on a typical Chelsea Thursday. Rachael's work looked great and she was deservedly beaming in the moment.After an hour or two we sneaked away from the crowd and went to grab a quick bite. As is the restaurant custom in New York we were seated within inches of diners on our left and right at a table that was too small to hold the breadbasket, the saltshaker, and the ubiquitous Ikea votive. On many nights this type of seating situation can make for an awkward dining experience, but some nights you get lucky and your fellow diners are generous enough to provide a little reality programming to go with your entree. Last night a lovely lesbian couple decided to “lay it on the line” for us in an earnest succession of overwrought monologues that ultimately amounted to nothing more than admission of mild interest in each other. As the wine flowed so did the eye-gazing and grand statements of ‘like’ each time punctuated by a “you’re so hot” or a “I find you so sexy” and an across the table make out session. Bravo, ladies, bravo. After dinner we caught a cab to Rachael’s after-party at Mathew and Nate’s too fabulous pad in Greenwich Village. Upon arrival I was immediately blown away by the amazing photography collection on their walls and the quality of cheeses on their serving dishes. I had too many wonderful conversations and met too many wonderful people to list them all, but highlights included meeting John Bennette and Simon Norfolk. Never have I been to a party in this city where the crowd was universally interesting and douchebag free. All in all, it was a great evening and perfect celebration of Rachael's success. Wednesday, September 19, 2007Rachael Dunville at Peer Gallery © Rachael Dunville This Thursday is the opening reception for Rachael Dunville's first solo exhibition at Peer Gallery. Rachael is a good friend and fellow SVA MFA alum who has been working on her great Springtown series for a few years now. I can't wait to see the finished series hanging on a gallery wall. Peer Gallery is also publishing a 32 page color catalog for the show that you can purchase at the gallery or online at photo-eye. See you at the opening!Here are the details: Rachael Dunville: Springtown
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