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exhibits
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09.03.08Art shows: Drag City, Erdman, Hernandez De Luna
Drag City presents “Chances Are the Comets in Our Future: A Visual Introduction to Drag City” at Gallery 400 through October 4th. I haven’t been over there yet, but I’m pretty sure I’m representin’, along with some greats:On display will be covers, artworks and more from groups such as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Red Krayola, Royal Trux, Gastr del Sol, Neil Hamburger, Pavement, Weird War and USA; with designs by Art and Language, David Berman, Barbara Bloom, Gene Booth, Bill Callahan, Brian Calvin, Neil Michael Haggerty, Stephen Prina, Albert Oehlen, Savage Pencil, Roman Signer, Mick Turner, Christopher Williams and more.
Carl Hammer Gallery will be exhibiting work by legendary stamp artist Michael Hernandez De Luna; artist’s reception and book release this Friday, September 5th, from 5:30-8:00 PM. Here’s a portrait of Michael with another illustrious Chicago artist who makes lickable art:
Michael Hernandez De Luna and Cynthia Plastercaster. Photo: Jim Newberry
For you Seattleites, be sure not to miss “My Mother’s Troubles With Drugs: Paintings by Derek Erdman” at The Anne Bonny. The artist (and my future stepson) Derek Erdman will be at the opening closing reception, which is this Friday, September 5th Thursday, October 2nd, from 4-8 PM. (and/or he’ll be at closing reception–I’ll get back to you on that…)
Painting by Derek Erdman
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06.30.08Holiday snaps: Memphis, TN
Pictures from my recent trip to Memphis, TN:
Clouds shot from the car on the way to Memphis.
My friends Bob Mehr and Derek Erdman like hanging out with me because I’m funny and entertaining.
A painter at Odessa.
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06.16.0812 photographers + single woman = “love me love me love me”
Ana Gagliardi is single and had a brilliant idea for an art show. She asked 12 photographers to “interpret” her and uploaded the portraits to her Match.com profile, as well as exhibit the prints at Gallery 101 in Chicago. The show will be up until mid-July; the gallery is by appointment only. You can reach Gallery 101 at 312-624-8291. My portrait is below; it’s called “Expectations.”
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06.09.08Flesh: Portraits by Gary Schneider
The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego has an exhibit of exquisite images by South African photographer Gary Schneider. Here are a few:
Photos © Gary Schneider, courtesy of Museum of Photographic Arts.
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06.02.08Stash of Weegee prints and letters found
From tomorrow’s New York Times:
…this week the Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, the crepuscular, stogie-smoking New York photographer whose visceral pictures became a template not only for artists like Diane Arbus but also for much of the uncomfortably close tabloid imagery that exists today. The museum described the acquisition as a partial gift and partial purchase from the dealer.
The trunk is assumed to have once been the possession of Wilma Wilcox, a social worker who was Weegee’s companion and lived with him from 1957 until his death in 1968. Upon her death in 1993, she bequeathed the bulk of his work — thousands of prints and negatives — to the International Center of Photography in Manhattan. How the trunk full of prints and 62 letters to Ms. Wilcox from Weegee (born Usher Fellig in what is now Ukraine, and later known as Arthur Fellig) ended up in Kentucky is a mystery that neither the Indianapolis Museum nor the dealer, Steve H. Nowlin, has solved.“People who work in the daytime are suckers,” he once said. Before the publication of his first book, “Naked City,” made him famous in 1945, he lived in a cheap room near police headquarters and was said to be so accustomed to working on the run that he once developed a picture of a prizefight in a subway motorman’s cab while rushing back to a newspaper office.
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05.08.08Today’s Flak Photo by Newberry
Today’s Flak Photo is one of mine–a shot of the lovely and talented Chamber Strings‘ front man, Kevin Junior.
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04.10.08Snapshots of Venice, California
I have some touristy photographs from a trip I took last month to Los Angeles. For my fellow Chicagoans, enjoy the weather porn!
360 degree view of the Venice Beach boardwalk. Hey, in the light gray sweatshirt–is that Chicago-expat-current-Venice-resident Hayley Murphy? Hard to tell from this far away…
By rope, this badass drags his baby grand piano to the boardwalk every day.
I hadn’t been to the Venice Canals before; a very lovely site for a nocturnal stroll. For you “hate America first” folks, just try finding something like this in a foreign country. Why don’t you try the “Old Europe?” I didn’t think so. (Photos by Jim Newberry)
