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Thanks to everyone that came to the opening of our new exhibition "Today's Life & War" with works by Gohar Dashti, Shadi Ghadirian, and Tahmineh Monzavi, on view through April.
Be sure to join us next Saturday Feb 18th at 3pm for a conversation between Museum of Fine Arts photography curator Kristen Gresh and artist Gohar Dashti.
To RSVP Email [email protected] or DM us on instagram.
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Today's Life & War / Exhibition of works by Gohar Dashti, Shadi Ghadirian, and Tahmineh Monzavi - opening next Saturday, February 11th with an Artist's Reception from 3:00-5:00pm at 38 Newbury Street, Boston.
We are pleased to present "Today’s Life & War”, an exhibition of works by contemporary Iranian photographers Gohar Dashti, Shadi Ghadirian, and Tahmineh Monzavi. Presenting a selection of important photographs over the last twenty years of their careers, these images illustrate the legacy and remnants of war as it continues to impact society and culture. As women artists, their work transcends the lens and context of the Middle East and defies categorization by religion, politics, or geography. Addressing issues of gender equality and identity, their works are not only rooted in Iran or islamic culture, but offer a global reflection on empowerment as well as the physical and mental turmoil and destruction of war. As a testament to their artistic importance and impact, these works still speak to audiences today beyond borders. As the title of Tahmineh Monzavi’s series “Past Continues” implies, the devastation of war repeats itself, and so does the human tragedy and destruction. Several of the works on view were first shown in the US in the groundbreaking exhibition “She Who Tells A Story” at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Email [email protected] for more information.
Wishing everyone a Gourd-geous Holiday Season!
Looking back at the exhibitions the gallery hosted this year, there are no better works to ruminate upon this holiday season than Han Feng’s collection of still-life photographs entitled "The Gift".
The Gift marked Han Feng’s first exhibition of fine art photographs. The title of the exhibition comes from her love of ceramics, cuisine, and photography. “The earth gives us these beautiful even ordinary things,” she says, referring to the food objects in her pictures. “I love to share them with friends in cooking and the sculptures and objects I collect are all around my living space, I really feel like they are a gift.” Intimate dinner parties she hosts at her studios in New York and Shanghai build on classic Chinese dishes often with an international fusion, much like her still life assemblages.
“The Gift,” which was on view this spring at Robert Klein Gallery is re-presented online: https://www.artsy.net/viewing-room/robert-klein-gallery-the-gift
Happy Holidays from Robert Klein Gallery!
Thank you Cate McQuaid for this wonderful review of our Sandi Haber Fifield show!
Photographs register as reality; simple lines on paper are more calligraphic, less illusionistic. Sandi Haber Fifield, in her show "Lineations" at Robert Klein Gallery @ Ars Libri Ltd. joins her photos to line drawings on vellum, tugging lines in the photos out like threads from a tapestry and flinging them onto abutting drawings, placing us on a thrilling suspension bridge between.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2017/08/09/sandi-haber-fifield-photographs-come-with-strings-attached/MyujJB1IFOWNxCgHF0JSpJ/story.html
Thanks Cate McQuaid for having our Sandi Haber Fifield exhibition in her list of places to see art this weekend. Stop by our South End gallery at Ars Libri Ltd. and check it out!
Where to see art this weekend, courtesy of The Ticket. In galleries: "Sandi Haber Fifield: Lineations" at Ars Libri Ltd. @ Robert Klein Gallery (pictured: her untitled untitled mixed-media piece), "Mabel Poblet: Buoyancy" at CYNTHIA-REEVES in North Adams, and "ReCiPrOcity" at Gallery Kayafas. In museums: "Dana Schutz" at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, "The Philosophy Chamber…" at Harvard Art Museums, and "List Projects: Civil Disobedience" at MIT List Visual Arts Center.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2017/07/27/the-ticket-what-happening-arts-world/1QTHkX8rbpvWIyrBYcHCsO/story.html
Many thanks to Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe for her thoughtful review of "Vanishing in Plain Sight," our exhibition of new work by Olivia Parker.
We will be extending this show through July 29, so there will be plenty of time to come to our Newbury Street gallery to see it!
Photographer Olivia Parker's husband, John, died of Alzheimer's late last year. In her show at Robert Klein Gallery, "Vanishing in Plain Sight," she imagines his experience. Parker has long taken still life photos that contend with the tension between stillness and motion, there and not there, and these lovely, affecting photos lean in the direction of "not there," steeping in glimmering intangibles: bolts of light, shadows, familiar things fading to blurs.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2017/06/14/robert-klein-gallery-exhibit-links-art-and-alzheimer/FrL2R1mtaJr7nWPSjYG2VL/story.html?event=event25
Prices on Alex Webb's iconic photographs will increase tomorrow - if you ever wanted to own one, now is the time to buy. Email [email protected] to inquire about current pricing and availability.
BEGINNING JUNE 1ST: 20 iconic Alex Webb images will increase substantially in print price, including this one.
Collectors’ queries to Etherton Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Robert Klein Gallery, Stephen Bulger Gallery, or Robert Koch Gallery (http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/webb/index.html).
©Alex Webb, Boquillas, Mexico, 1979, from Slant Rhymes exhibition (with RNW) at La Fabrica in Madrid through August 31.
OLIVIA PARKER, Note Stack (from the series Vanishing in Plain Sight), 2015
Image © FRANCO FONTANA, Los Angeles, 1990
Newly released photographs by Masao Yamamoto from his long-running series, KAWA = FLOW, are now available online. Head over to the artist's page on our website to view some of these exquisite photos! >>http://robertkleingallery.com/gallery/contemporary/yamamoto__masao/
Image © MASAO YAMAMOTO, KAWA = FLOW #1658, 2016
Image © KENRO IZU, Ladakh #49, India, 1999
© ALEX WEBB, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1987
Tonight is First Friday at , where you can catch our exhibition of Arne Svenson's series The Neighbors at Ars Libri, 500 Harrison Ave. from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Swing on by and check out this amazing work!
We're beyond excited to announce our representation of the estate of pioneering color photographer, Ernst Haas.
Born in Vienna in 1921, Haas took up photography after the second world war. In 1947 his photo essay for the newspaper Heute on returning Austrian prisoners of war garnered the attention of LIFE magazine. At the invitation of Robert Capa, Haas joined Magnum Photos in 1949, developing close ties with Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Werner Bischof.
After moving to the United States in 1951, Haas began experimenting with Kodachrome color film. In 1953 LIFE magazine published his groundbreaking 24-page color photo essay on New York City - the first color photo essay published by the weekly news magazine, while in 1962 a retrospective of his work was the first color photography exhibition held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, cementing his place as one of the most celebrated color photographers of his time.
Throughout his career Haas traveled extensively, photographing for LIFE, Vogue, and Look, among others. He authored four books during his lifetime: The Creation (1971), In America (1975), In Germany (1976), and Himalayan Pilgrimage (1978). In 1986, the year of his death, Haas received the prestigious Hasselblad Award. His work has continued to be the subject of museum exhibitions and publications, including Steidl's Ernst Haas: Color Correction, which in now available in its second printing.
Head over to our website to see some of Ernst Haas's incredible imagery >> http://robertkleingallery.com/gallery/20th_century/haas__ernst/
Image © ERNST HAAS, Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1969
If you've been looking for a copy of gallery artist Rebecca Norris Webb's long-sold-out book, My Dakota, good news... Radius Books will be producing a second printing.
A special edition of the book will also be produced and will include a signed 5 x 7 inch print of Blackbirds, shown here. This edition is limited to 50 and will soon be sold out. Head over to http://radiusbooks.org/books/rebecca-norris-webb-my-dakota-second-edition/ to reserve your copy.
IMAGE © REECCA NORRIS WEBB, Blackbirds, Near Gray Goose, South Dakota, 2006
Robert Klein Gallery's cover photo
Image © ARNE SVENSON, Neighbors #26, 2012
Thanks to the ever-thoughtful Elin Spring for this nicely-written overview of our exhibition of Arne Svenson's "The Neighbors," at our South End gallery, Robert Klein Gallery @ Ars Libri Ltd.
http://elinspringphotography.com/blog/neighbors-by-arne-svenson-at-robert-klein-gallery-ars-libri-in-boston/
See why sparks flew when Arne Svenson turned his lens on "The Neighbors" at Ars Libri in Boston!
Image © PAULETTE TAVORMINA, Fallen Peonies, 2009
Since her first show with us in 2009, gallery artist Paulette Tavormina has come a long way. In addition to two solo museum exhibitions this year, she has recently been awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner grant.
Her second museum exhibition opens this Sunday at the University of Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art, and will be followed by a lecture and book signing on Thursday, September 8.
Numerous works by Tavormina are available to view in our Newbury Street gallery. Contact us at [email protected] to schedule a viewing.
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Image © STEPHEN WILKES, Coney Island Boardwalk, New York City (from the series Day to Night), 2011
Stephen Wilkes was recently listed by Artsy as one of 13 photographers who've captured the beauty of America's National Parks. In this detail of "Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park, 2014," his influence by German-American painter Albert Bierstadt can be seen. Visit our Newbury Street gallery before August 20 to see this and other photographs from his Day to Night series.
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This past week, Cate McQuaid of The Boston Globe spoke with gallery artist Solange Brand about the photographs she had taken 50 years ago in China during the onset of the Cultural Revolution. Read the article, and then check out the exhibition at Robert Klein Gallery @ Ars Libri Ltd., up until August 20.
In November, 1965, 19-year-old Solange Brand left her home in France to go halfway across the world to work at the new French Embassy in Beijing. On the way, she stopped in Hong Kong to pick up a Pentax, thinking she might take pictures. Six months into her stint, the Cultural Revolution began, and the images she took went from being snapshots to historical documents. Her photos are on view at Robert Klein Gallery at Ars Libri.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/07/10/how-solange-brand-and-her-camera-saw-cultural-revolution/VTBCBwpHpoqBwFljlIDcEN/story.html
Our Stephen Wilkes Day to Night exhibition is up until August 20th. Hear this widely exhibited artist speak about his acclaimed series in this TED Talk.
Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-time continuum within a two-dimensional still photograph. Journey with him to iconic locations like the Tournelle Bridge in Paris, El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and...
“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get
used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;
my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” -Muhammad Ali
"...these pictures capture an important moment in Chinese history, offering a view that is subjective but remarkable; remarkable because there are few photographs from this period that were not by professionals and not a product of the state propaganda machine - and even fewer in color. Here is a further demonstration of how the most modest photography can intersect with history; that Brand's images seem so ordinary and yet so ominous reinforces their allure. And yes, they may be amateur photographs, but Brand was nevertheless an excellent photographer" (Parr/WassinkLundgren from the Chinese Photobook, pubilished 2015 by Aperture)
Our opening of "China's Cultural Revolution, 1966: Photographs by Solange Brand," opens this Friday! Join us at 5:30pm at during SoWa First Fridays, and catch this special exhibition of historically significant color photographs.
Image © SOLANGE BRAND, Labour Day festivities in the Workers Park, Beijing, May 1, 1966
We're excited to see that our piece by Gohar Dashti from her latest series, "Stateless," has been listed as one of LensCulture's best works at Photo London. The fair ends today - swing by our booth at C13 before It closes!
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/gohar-dashti-the-stateless-placeless-desert
Shot in placeless, deserted landscapes, these haunting images examine the eternal relationship between body and home in contemporary Iranian society as well as for the swelling number of refugees around the world
We're in the swing of things here at Photo London '16, with a VIP preview of the fair which officially opens to the public tomorrow.
We'll be posting more photos from our stand at Somerset House, but if you're in ol' Blighty come visit us in C13!
https://instagram.com/p/BFjpXDigO-j/
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Jesse Alexander: Photographs from the Golden Age of Motorsports
On display at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum, May 5, 2016 - April 30, 2017
We're soon off to England for Photo London 2016! Head over to our Artsy page to have a look at work we'll be showing. This year's booth will feature recently acquired 20th century pieces by Edward Weston, Rudolf Koppitz, Man Ray, Dora Maar, and others, as well as contemporary works by Cig Harvey, Paulette Tavormina, Bill Jacobson, Gohar Dashti, James Mollison, and Alex Webb. Visit us in stand C13!
Upcoming fair booth featuring works by Bill Jacobson, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Yousuf Karsh, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Francesca Woodman, William Henry Fox Talbot, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Dora Maar, Horst P. Horst, A...
"Each image takes several months to produce: several weeks to conceive, research and gather the props from flower and farmer’s markets, followed by sketching the image out in pencil, staging it and then setting it all up. The process of getting the lighting and composition just right takes days - sometimes so long that the flowers wilt, the fruit changes color and she has to start over."
A big congrats to gallery artist Paulette Tavormina, whose work was recently featured in The New York Times! We will be featuring some of Tavormina's newest work at the upcoming Photo London fair, which takes place May 19th to the 22nd at Somerset House in London. Find us and her work in stand C13.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/t-magazine/art/photographs-old-master-still-lifes-book.html
The photographer Paulette Tavormina’s carefully composed still lifes recall paintings from the Dutch Golden Age.
Cate McQuaid
Here it is again, bigger: Bill Jacobson's "Lines in My Eyes #317," on view at Robert Klein Gallery. He places rectangular panels in landscapes, and in rooms, stirring up space with flatness. The eye ping-pongs back and forth, trying to reconcile realism with abstraction.
Our Bill Jacobson retrospective, "This Is, this is (1989 - Now)" is in its last week at both our main gallery on Newbury Street, and our South End gallery at Ars Libri Ltd.. Read about Jacobson's work in Cate McQuaid's newly-published Boston Globe review, and then swing by our galleries to take in this expansive exhibition.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/04/25/new-shows-play-with-perception-illustrate-progression/X4shkmyDpccP6w1SG5g4QL/story.html
At Robert Klein Gallery, Bill Jacobson’s hazy memories; at Steve Zevitas Gallery, Jaqueline Cedar’s sharp-edged mysteries; at ACME.
AIPAD 2016
Robert Klein Gallery, Booth #110
Robert Klein Gallery, Booth #110
AIPAD 2016
Robert Klein Gallery, Booth #110
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