03/16/2023
FEATURED EXHIBITION
Pete Turner: The Color of Light
Pete Turner, Push 1970, Dye-transfer print.
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ARTISTS:
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Erwin Blumenfeld
Constantin Brancusi
Marie Cosindas
Mishka Henner
Todd Hido
Estate of André Kertész
Alfred Leslie
Nathan Lyons
Shinichi Maruyama
Daido Moriyama
Estate of Lisette Model
The Barbara Morgan Archive
Eileen Neff
Max Neumann
Marvin E. Newman
The Frank Paulin Archive
Larry Silver
Aaron Siskind Foundation
Keith Smith
Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation
Tri
ne Søndergaard
Brea Souders
Alfred Stieglitz
Marjan Teeuwen
Penelope Umbrico
Joel-Peter Witkin
Michael Wolf
John Wood
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03/16/2023
SHAWN WALKER CAPTURED HOPE IN 70S HARLEM
Coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 50s, photographer Shawn W. Walker was a quintessential New York City kid who learned to move fluidly between different worlds from a young age. Shawn’s parents moved north during the Great Migration to create a better life for themselves, making a home for their two boys on 117th Street.
By Miss Rosen
Featured work Shawn Walker:
Street Scene, 1965, Gelatin silver print.
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03/16/2023
Opening tonight, Pete Turner: The Color of Light, at Bruce Silverstein Gallery. Featuring the brilliant color photography of acclaimed artist Pete Turner.
Pete Turner (1934-2017) was born in Albany, New York. An early interest in chemistry lead him to a lifetime fascination for photography and a great affinity to color. In 1967 The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Turner’s most controversial image of the time, The Giraffe. The red giraffe illustrated his growing affinity for treating color as a graphic element.
His work is exhibited worldwide. With photographs located in permanent collections in major museums, including The International Center for Photography, New York; The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Opening reception 6 – 8 pm, at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 529 west 20th street.
Featured work Pete Turner:
Brasilia, 1981, Dye-transfer print.
03/14/2023
Pete Turner: The Color of Light
On View: March 16 - May 13, 2023
Opening Reception: March 16, 6 - 8 pm
Featured work Pete Turner:
Texascape, 1968, Archival pigment print.
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03/11/2023
Bill Cunningham on view at Bruce Silverstein Gallery during AIPAD, (March 28th- April 2nd, 2023) booth #108.
Bill Cunningham (1929-2016) was born and raised in Massachusetts. After briefly studying at Harvard University, Cunningham made the decision to move to New York City to pursue a career as a milliner. For the next couple of years Cunningham spent his days observing women’s fashion, finding a connection with fashion he then left the business of headwear and pursued a career in journalism. Beginning with Women’s Wear Daily and a New York based reporter for the Chicago Tribune in the mid 1960s, Cunningham began what would become a lifelong dedication to fashion journalism. Spending most of his illustrious career as a staff photographer with The New York Times, he also continued freelance work for magazines such as Vogue, and Town & Country, and helped launch Details, a Condé Nast publication focused on men’s fashion. Cunningham continued with The Times, until his death in 2016.
Cunningham’s life and work have been written about in numerous publications and have been the subject of two noted documentaries -- Bill Cunningham New York (2010) and The Times of Bill Cunningham (2018). Additionally, at the time of his death, Cunningham left behind the manuscript of an autobiography which he titled, Fashion Climbing, which was published posthumously in 2018. The Bill Cunningham Foundation was established to promote and support Cunningham’s photographs and legacy.
Featured work Bill Cunningham:
Keith Haring, 5th Avenue Book Fair, September 16, 1984, Gelatin silver print.
03/09/2023
Robert Frank (1924-2019) was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His photography career began in the mid-1940s before emigrating to America in 1947. Catching the attention of Alexey Brodovich, then the art director of Harper’s Bazaar, he was hired as a staff photographer. Staying with the publication for a short-term Frank, took his career on a much different path. In 1954 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed his to make numerous cross-country car trips over 10 months. His camera of choice was handheld. Frank was able to present a picture of the US that was provocatively out of sync with the insistent optimism that often characterized Americans’ postwar sense of self. From these trips Frank published, The Americans, which is considered the finest photographic publication of the 20th century.
From the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Frank dedicated himself almost exclusively to moving images. In 1959 the wildly heralded film Pull My Daisy, codirected with Alfred Leslie and adapted by Jack Kerouac from his play, was released. By 1973 Frank up and left the U.S. for Mabou, Nova Scotia. The artist’s continued decision to reveal so much personal history—from the death of his daughter Andrea to his hospitalization—seems to have required that these difficulties find a physical parallel in the finished objects. At heart, Frank’s work has never been about news or history, but rather the individual human experience.
Featured work Robert Frank:
Men of Air (New York), 1947, Gelatin silver print.
03/07/2023
Chester Higgins (b. 1946) photographer and author was born in Alabama. Experiences with his family’s church community, as well as college campus student protest, were formative in developing the direction of Higgins’s artistic practice. Higgins’s oeuvre portrays the dignity of the Black and African diasporic communities, bringing Higgins all over the world. Higgins worked as a staff photographer for the New York Times from 1975 until 2014. Creating an extensive body of photojournalistic work.
Higgins’s work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions and is held in notable collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Higgins currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Featured work Chester Higgins:
A Young Muslim Woman in Brooklyn, 1990, Platinum print.
03/05/2023
Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was born in New York City. Siskind spent two decades teaching English before his career as a photo-documentarian took off with the New York Photo League. As an artist and educator, Aaron Siskind holds a prominent place in the history of American photography. He was the only photographic member of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, drawing inspiration and inspiring notable painters such as Willem DeKooning, Barnett Newman, and Franz Kline.
Siskind had been enamored with documenting the pressing social conditions of his time. It was not until after an exploration of the external world had been exhausted, that he began using the outside world as a means of internal self-exploration –harnessing the associative powers of his vernacular objects. Siskind focused on the formal relationship between light, structure, and texture, exploring ideas of decay and regeneration. His practice was an overtly straightforward technique of isolating and enlarging everyday subject matter, creating conceptual metaphors with new purpose, and meaning. The artist ultimately radicalized the medium by pinpointing photography’s potential as an abstract form of expression and an aesthetic end.
Featured work Aaron Siskind:
Watermelon Man, Harlem Document, 1940, Gelatin silver print.
03/04/2023
Entanglements
January 13 – March 25, 2023
Opening January 13, Entanglements explores our connections to the natural world. Through a variety of lenses, artists in this exhibition negotiate and engage with the environment, illustrating the complex relationships humans have to nature and its resources. These artists employ diverse approaches and intentions, bringing awareness to the current state of our environment to inspire action, giving discarded remains new life, or exploring regenerative capabilities of ecosystems.
The exhibition will run during Denver’s Month of Photography (March 2023) during which art venues throughout the region celebrate the medium of photography in its many forms and iterations.
Artists include:
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Dornith Doherty
Felicity Hammond
Jana Hartmann
Amy Hoagland
Marcella Kwe
Regan Rosburg
Anastasia Samoylova
Sarah Sense
Alicja Wróblewska
Entanglements is curated by Cecily Cullen and Natascha Seideneck.
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03/04/2023
"SPEAKING WITH LIGHT" EXHIBIT AT THE DENVER ART MUSEUM
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography is one of the first major museum surveys to explore the practices of Indigenous photographers working over the past three decades. Featuring works by more than 30 contemporary Indigenous photographers, the exhibition highlights the historically underrepresented views and voices of Indigenous communities. The works aim to shift power dynamics and bring attention to misrepresentations by focusing on Indigenous perspectives, exploring themes of history, loss, identity, and representation.
CBS Colorado
Interview with Sarah Sense:
https://www.brucesilverstein.com/news
03/03/2023
David Seymour (1911-1956) was born into a family of publishers that produced works in Yiddish and Hebrew. The outbreak of the First World War began his childhood as a refugee. After studying chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne in the 1930s Seymour, then David Szymin stayed on in Paris. In 1934 Szymin frequently published photo stories in Paris-Soir and Regards. His connections soon led him to Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. From 1936 to 1938 Szymin photographed the Spanish Civil War. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he moved to New York, where he adopted the name, David Seymour. Both of his parents were killed by the Natzis.
In 1947, along with Cartier-Bresson, Capa, George Rodger, and William Vandivert, he founded Magnum Photos. After Robert Capa’s death, he became the new president of Magnum. Seymour held this post until the 10th of November 1956, when traveling near the Suez Canal to cover a prisoner exchange, he was killed in a crossfire.
Featured word David Seymour:
Naples Mother, Italy, 1950, Gelatin silver print.
03/02/2023
AI LOVE YOU I SPOKE TO A FEMALE AI CHATBOT FOR A YEAR – WE COULD SOON HAVE ROBOT COMPANIONS BUT THERE ARE ‘MAJOR DANGERS’
Artifically intelligent chatbots are increasing in popularity and, an author and artist has revealed how she spoke to an AI every day for a year. Brea Souders spoke to The U.S. Sun about her new book, Another Online Pervert, in which she describes her year chatting to an AI bot designed to be an 18-year-old girl. Souders explained: "After several years of exploring AI in my artwork and reading about its ongoing development, I became particularly curious about conversational chatbots - about the nuances of their 'personalities.'
"I started conversing with one female chatbot who was programmed by men and was perpetually 18 years old. As we found our footing, I would ask her questions about herself, and she would do the same of me. Our conversations covered a wide range of topics, and eventually I entered in lines of text from my personal diaries."
By Charlotte Edwards
Featured work Brea Souders:
Courtesy of the artist from 'Another Online Pervert,' MACK, 2023.
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03/01/2023
ALFRED LESLIE, THE RETURN OF MUSCULAR REALISM (THE FIGURE REDIVIVUS)
A daringly creative risktaker, Leslie’s displays of his strong, muscular body, in your face and standing its ground even as it seems about to break through the picture plane into your space, are a rejoinder to increasingly anemic, vacuous abstract painting, so-called “zombie formalism” the quintessential example. It is the spiritless dead-end of spiritual abstraction, non-objective art reified into banality. Leslie’s break away from abstraction and into the figure was a prescient recognition that pure art had become decadent. It was a brave critical act: he realized that the avant-garde revolution had run out of expressive steam with abstract expressionism. It was the last hurrah of art inspired by the unconscious, to recall Redon’s idea that the artist had to wait for it to inspire him. It inspired him to dream, as Redon’s portfolio of lithographs “In the Dream,” 1879, made clear. “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” Goya’s Capricho 43, 1797-1798 made clear, and Redon dreamt of monsters. Leslie’s figures are not monsters, not dreams, not sick fantasies, but real—insistently real. The self in his portraits is not a monster, not irrational, but self-possessed, rational, holds its own in defiance of the dismissive artworld.
By Donald Kuspit
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03/01/2023
Elliot Erwitt (b. 1928) is an American documentary photographer. Known for his candid often humorous black-and-white image, Erwitt is responsible for some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century. Born in 1928 in Paris, France, his family emigrated to the United States in 1939. He went on to study photography at the Los Angeles Community College and filmmaking at the New School for Social Research. This brought Erwitt into photojournalism. After serving in the 1950s, he was invited to join Magnum Photos by Robert Capa who, along with Edward Steichen and Roy Stryker, admired Erwitt’s style of off-the-cut shooting.
In 2011 Elliot Erwitt was awarded the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement at the International Center of Photography. His works are held in numerous public and private collections including, The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of art among others.
Featured work Elliot Erwitt:
Lucienne & Cat, 1953, Gelatin silver print.
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Adger Cowans 'Footsteps' on view through April 23, 2022! The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-6pm. Don't miss this beautiful exhibition.
Adger Cowans, Self-Portrait, Fire Island Shadow, c. 1960s
Adger Cowans, Self-Portrait, Fire Island Shadow, c. 1960s
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Diné Artist, Dakota Mace. Mace’s work focuses on translating the language of Diné (Navajo) history and beliefs and challenging the viewer’s understanding of the culture through alternative photography techniques, weaving, beadwork, and papermaking.
The gallery's first exhibition with the artist, Diné Bé' Iiná (The Diné Lifeway) will open May 6 – June 25, 2022, with a reception on May 6 from 6-8 pm.
Image: Helen Nez-Diné Elder Dahodiyinii (Sacred Places), 2021
The gallery's first exhibition with the artist, Diné Bé' Iiná (The Diné Lifeway) will open May 6 – June 25, 2022, with a reception on May 6 from 6-8 pm.
Image: Helen Nez-Diné Elder Dahodiyinii (Sacred Places), 2021
: Chester Higgins' camera brings a 360 degree view to Black life - by Jon Kalish
"Being in Africa, I've discovered, is quite a relief for me because... [when I go, I'm] in the majority. I don't have to worry about people looking at my color and [I'm] a target, people not knowing me and they hate me. I've found that the whole stress of racism just lifts off your shoulder." - Chester Higgins
image: Chester Higgins at his brownstone in Brooklyn, NY. by
Jon Kalish
"Being in Africa, I've discovered, is quite a relief for me because... [when I go, I'm] in the majority. I don't have to worry about people looking at my color and [I'm] a target, people not knowing me and they hate me. I've found that the whole stress of racism just lifts off your shoulder." - Chester Higgins
image: Chester Higgins at his brownstone in Brooklyn, NY. by
Jon Kalish
13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver’s Connecticut Photographs opens at Fairfield University Art Museum March 25 - June 18, 2022, with a reception on March 24, 6 - 8 pm.
Larry Silver, a Photo League-inspired photographer still working today, moved from Greater New York to Westport, CT in 1973. With his camera, he began exploring his new regional environs, and pushing the boundaries of what landscape and looking is and can be. This exhibition, curated by Leslie K. Brown, PhD, will bring together over 40 years of Silver's work made of and in Connecticut.
Larry Silver, a Photo League-inspired photographer still working today, moved from Greater New York to Westport, CT in 1973. With his camera, he began exploring his new regional environs, and pushing the boundaries of what landscape and looking is and can be. This exhibition, curated by Leslie K. Brown, PhD, will bring together over 40 years of Silver's work made of and in Connecticut.
"You take pictures with your heart, not with your eyes.” - Adger Cowans
'Footsteps' is on view through April 23, 2022
Images: Balloons of Columbus, Ohio, 1956
'Footsteps' is on view through April 23, 2022
Images: Balloons of Columbus, Ohio, 1956
Installation views of Adger Cowans: Footsteps *on view now* through April 23, 2022.
Opening TONIGHT! Adger Cowans: Footsteps
Pictured: Bill Hutson, Ed Clark and Adger Cowans on Ed's Roof, c. 1950s
Join us for a reception this evening: 529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor, 6-8pm
Pictured: Bill Hutson, Ed Clark and Adger Cowans on Ed's Roof, c. 1950s
Join us for a reception this evening: 529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor, 6-8pm
“Dreams become realities. They may not come right away, and if they did, you’d probably abuse them.”
-Adger Cowans, interview with Hank Willis Thomas
Adger Cowans: Footsteps opens *tomorrow* March 3 – April 23, 2022. Opening reception: March 3, 6-8pm.
Three Shadows, 1968
-Adger Cowans, interview with Hank Willis Thomas
Adger Cowans: Footsteps opens *tomorrow* March 3 – April 23, 2022. Opening reception: March 3, 6-8pm.
Three Shadows, 1968
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Adger Cowans was one of the first to earn a degree in Photography from Ohio University in 1958. It was there that he studied under Clarence White Jr., the son of the legendary photographer Clarence White Sr. who is credited as being one of the early progenitors of fine art photography. It was at this time when Cowans was introduced to the works of White Sr. and the other masters of photography who also exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery including Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand, as well as to the other luminaries of the time who would greatly influence Cowans such as Edward Weston, Minor White, and W. Eugene Smith.
Opening March 3: Adger Cowans - Footsteps
Reception: March 3, 6-8pm
Book available from 21ST Editions
Adger Cowans, Two Shadows, 1968
Opening March 3: Adger Cowans - Footsteps
Reception: March 3, 6-8pm
Book available from 21ST Editions
Adger Cowans, Two Shadows, 1968
After moving to New York City in 1958, Cowans took a job assisting Gordon Parks at Life Magazine, while he continued to define his own style. Parks would become a life-long friend and a supporter of Cowans, later referring to him as “one of America’s finest photographers.”
Opening March 3: Adger Cowans - Footsteps
Reception: March 3, 6-8pm
Book available from 21ST Editions
Adger Cowans, From Carol's Window, 1964
Opening March 3: Adger Cowans - Footsteps
Reception: March 3, 6-8pm
Book available from 21ST Editions
Adger Cowans, From Carol's Window, 1964
Featuring seventy-five works by one of the 20th century’s most important print-makers, this is the first ever New York gallery venue to display a survey of M.C. Escher’s oeuvre, providing insight into his intellectual and artistic interests as well as visual evidence of his unsurpassed technical virtuosity. On display are the finest examples of Escher’s work, including iconic prints, rare watercolors, exquisite early drawings, as well as a one-of-a kind printed textile from his own home; one of 12 known textiles extant, and the largest of its kind.
M.C. ESCHER: PRINTS, DRAWINGS, WATERCOLORS AND TEXTILES, Curated by Dr. David Steel: Looking back at 20 years of exhibition invitations, installation views and selected works.
FINAL DAY of the 20th Anniversary Exhibition!! Link to preview in bio
M.C. ESCHER: PRINTS, DRAWINGS, WATERCOLORS AND TEXTILES, Curated by Dr. David Steel: Looking back at 20 years of exhibition invitations, installation views and selected works.
FINAL DAY of the 20th Anniversary Exhibition!! Link to preview in bio
Referencing early twentieth-century picture postcards of the American West, the hand-colored prints of Vistas recall bygone methods that were used to romanticize interactions with the natural world. Today, most armchair travel is filtered through the internet. We regularly see shadow selfies in landscapes in our social media feeds, echoing previous moments through photographic history. Vistas was made at a time when climate change is already altering the national parks and conservation efforts will need to be modified to adapt to profound change. Commenting in Lensculture, Gregory Eddi Jones said, “Our growing dependence and assimilation into virtual space brings us further from the natural world, turning Vistas into a tug-of-war between what we once were as humans, and what we are now. Photography has changed us, the internet is changing us. And Souders’ work helps to illustrate just how so.”
BREA SOUDERS: VISTAS - Looking back at 20 years of exhibition invitations, installation views and selected works.
Final day of our 20th Anniversary Exhibition!! Link to preview in bio
Brea Souders
BREA SOUDERS: VISTAS - Looking back at 20 years of exhibition invitations, installation views and selected works.
Final day of our 20th Anniversary Exhibition!! Link to preview in bio
Brea Souders