Events
Aperture / Parsons Talk | Erica Baum | Aperture Foundation | Tuesday, February 24, 6:30PM
Artist Talk: Erica Baum
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
6:30 p.m.
Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York
$5 DONATION
This event is free for students with ID and Aperture Members at the $50 level and above.
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design, is pleased to present an artist talk with Erica Baum. Drawing inspiration from contemporary artists who utilize text, such as Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner, along with documentary-style photographers such as Walker Evans and Eugène Atget, Baum creates what have been called “subliminal narratives” using found words and images from paperback books, card catalogues, and paper rolls from player pianos, among other literary artifacts. With experience in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, and poetry, Baum views text and language as physical objects—malleable mediums that can shape new associations and stir moods, with the re-authoring of commonly consumed words and images. Nat Trotman, an associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum, wrote of Baum’s work in Aperture magazine’s “Lit.” issue: “Through these open-ended investigations Baum honors the tradition of print—that textured, tangible objectification of language that inexorably fades with each passing year.”
Erica Baum (born in New York, 1961) received her MFA from Yale University and lives and works in New York. Her recent solo exhibitions include shows at Bureau New York; Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich; and Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany. Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as the forthcoming Photo Poetics, at Kunsthalle Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2015; AGORA, the 4th Athens Biennale, 2013; Speaking and Thinking, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, 2013; and Postscript, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2012. Her work was also included in the 30th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. Her work is held in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, all New York; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; and FRAC Île-de-France.
Image: Erica Baum, Investigation, 2014
Aperture / Parsons Talk | Leigh Ledare | Aperture Foundation | Tuesday, February 3, 6:30PM
Artist Talk: Leigh Ledare
Tuesday, February 3
6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th StreetNew York, NY
$5 DONATION
This event is free for students with ID and Aperture Members at the $50 level and above.
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design, is pleased to present an artist talk with Leigh Ledare. Through the use of photography, film, archival materials, and textual documents, Ledare charts the complex and reciprocal nature of relationships between himself and his subjects, who he intimately photographs. His work exposes cultural blind spots by addressing fantasies and desires which are performed by Ledare and his collaborators. In 2009, his series Pretend You’re Actually Alive was installed at Les Recontres d’Arles. To accompany the exhibition, Ledare wrote, “This work is an investigation of how we are formed as subjects not merely on the level of our identities but at the level of our projected desires, aspirations, and needs, drives which often can carry conflicting material, psychological, and ethical demands.”
Leigh Ledare (born in Seattle, 1976) received his MFA from Columbia University in 2008. His work has been exhibited internationally, as the subject of solo surveys at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2013), and WIELS, Brussels (2012), and in solo exhibitions at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York (2014); Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (2014); the Box, Los Angeles (2012); Pilar Corrias, London (2012); the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2010); Les Rencontres de Arles, France (2009, 2010); Rivington Arms, New York (2008); and Andrew Roth, New York (2008), among others. His work has appeared in group shows at Metro Pictures, New York (2014); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2012), MoMA PS1, New York (2010); Swiss Institute New York (2009); and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2008). Publications include Ana and Carl and some other couples, in collaboration with Nicolás Guagnini (New York: Andrew Roth, 2014);Leigh Ledare, et al., (Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2012); Double Bind (Paris: MFC-Michel Didier, 2012); and Pretend You’re Actually Alive (New York: PPP Editions in collaboration with Andrew Roth, 2008).
Image: Leigh Ledare, Alma (Child’s Drawing), 2012
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the board and Members of Aperture Foundation.
Aperture/Parsons Talk | Reinier Gerritsen | Aperture Foundation | Tuesday, December 9, 6:30PM |
Reinier Gerritsen in Conversation with René Put
Tuesday, December 9
6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
New York, NY
$5 DONATION
This event is free for students with ID and Aperture Members at the $50 level and above.
Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the Department of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design, is pleased to present Amsterdam-based photographer Reinier Gerritsen and designer René Put in conversation, followed by a book signing. In the spirit of documentary and street photography Gerritsen creates portraits of society that act as a survey of contemporary urban culture. Like the nineteenth-century flâneur, he positions himself in public spaces and documents his observations of the masses with his camera. Gerritsen’s intriguing unposed “group portraits” call attention to both the notion of individuality and society as a whole. In his most recent publication designed by Put, The Last Book (Aperture, 2014), his focus is narrowed to commuters who read on New York City’s subways with specific attention to the decline of the printed book. According to Gerritsen’s observations, he predicts he will photograph the last book on the subway by the spring of 2016.
Reinier Gerritsen (born in Amsterdam, 1950) has been photographing figures in the public sphere for over twenty years. In 1992, he was awarded the prestigious Rijksmuseum assignment with Luuk Kramer, which resulted in a book and exhibition at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Beginning in 2005, he traveled to twenty-five countries to create the ambitious documentary project The Europeans. His previous monographs include Blinde verrassing(1993), the award-winning Matti (2002), and Wall Street Stop (2010). He is represented by Julie Saul Gallery, New York.
René Put is an Amsterdam-based designer and cofounder of the design bureau PutGootink. He works on a wide variety of projects, designing books, catalogues, stamps, and campaigns, as well as the design and installation of exhibitions. He is also a professor of graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Put has won numerous design prizes and honors, from organizations and awards including the Art Directors Club Nederland, Best Dutch Book Design, the Theaterafficheprijs (Theater Poster Prize), and Red Dot Awards. In 2009, he was awarded a Dutch Design Award for his design of Braille stamps to mark the two hundredth birthday of Louis Braille. In 2011 he was awarded the silver medal in the Best Book Design from All Over the World competition. The Last Bookmarks Put’s third book collaboration with Reinier Gerritsen; he previously designed Matti (2002) and Wall Street Stop(2010).
Image: Reinier Gerritsen, Haruki Murakami, 1Q84, from The Last Book (Aperture, 2014)
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the board and Members of Aperture Foundation.
Parsons Photo Faculty Arthur Ou is showing work in Paris
Parsons Photo Faculty member Arthur Ou is showing work in Paris this month at a show called Me and Benjamin.
Xippas and M+B are pleased to announce Me and Benjamin, opening November 14 at Xippas in Paris. Renos, the owner of Xippas, invited Benjamin to curate a show at his Parisian gallery. In turn, Benjamin invited M+B artists to invite other artists—or curated group of artists—or artist run space. The artist run space would then perform an act of sub-curation where they organize a show within the larger show. The exhibition self-curates, bringing the distinctive energy and appeal of the Los Angeles art scene as it networks out across the North American continent and into Europe.
Located at the edge of the continent, in one of the last time zones and perched precariously on the Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles exists in a sense isolated from the major cosmopolitan centers of the world. And yet, artists continue to head west, settling into the vast, sprawling terrain, into the eclectic neighborhoods that networked together create this city. Los Angeles has a unique appeal and ability to foster strong knit artist communities and the burgeoning gallery scene, artist run spaces, alternative venues and shared studio spaces are what make the city relevant today. While cartographic dispersal defines this city, the importance and necessity of the networks that connect it stand out as defining. It is these strong artistic networks that Me and Benjamin—M+B—has sought to promote and expand upon.
Participating artists include Matthew Brandt, Jim Welling, Ken Tam, Phil Chang, Peter Holzhauer, Jessica Eaton, Whitney Hubbs, Cathy Opie, Larry Sultan, Dwyer Kilcollin, Nancy Lupo, Patrick Jackson, Pae White, Anthony Lepore, Michael Henry Hayden, Matthew Porter, Arthur Ou, Owen Kydd, John Houck, Moyra Davey, Alex Prager, Vanessa Prager, Mariah Roberston, David Benjamin Sherry, Hannah Whitaker, Ruby Sky Stiler, Jesse Stecklow, Favorite Goods: Orion Martin, Erin Jane Nelson, Kelly Akashi, Carlos Reyes and Aaron Angell.
Opening Wednesday, Oct 29 Exhibition: TOWaNda: An American Town Pictured
October 29 – November 13, 2014
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
OPENING RECEPTION WEDNESDAY, OCT 29 6:30–8:30 pm
During the fall of 2013, fifteen students from Parsons The New School for Design collaborated with Documentary Strategies Part-Time Assistant Professor, Vincent Cianni, in an effort to document the town of Towanda, PA through photography, interviews, and video. The resulting body of work, including a series of photographs by Towanda High School students, formed a portrait of a community that expands received notions of documentation, subject, and observation.
Simultaneously, a team of graphic designers led by Parsons Graphic Design Part-Time Assistant Professor, Jeanne Verdoux, collaborated in response to the photographers’ works to create a graphic picture of the town and project. The sixteen designers produced a printed poster-catalog of the project, a live website, and an overall graphic identity that broadened and synthesized the various works produced by the photography students.
This exhibition continues the project, highlighting works produced by both photographers and designers while renewing an engagement with the town of Towanda, PA, that forges a new link between rural Pennsylvania and the New York galleries at Parsons The New School for Design.
Artists: Vincent Cianni, Luke Clerkin, Jordan Jablon, Abigail Nicolas, Carsen Russell, Daniel Evan Rodriguez, Lior Tamim, Sarah Uriarte, and Olivia Zimmerman
Designers: Kathryn Carissimi, Ariel Chan, Jessica Chen, Thando Hademe, Kelin Handville, Genevieve Howe, Anri Kang, Na Youn “Jenny” Kim, Nicholas Lee, Carmen McLeod, Anna Meninger, Audrey Melick, Christopher Rodriguez, Jenna Saraco, Youshin Song, and Annette Wong
Curator: Carmen McLeod
Supervising Faculty: Vincent Cianni and Jeanne Verdoux
Aperture Magazine Live: Photography & Fashion’s Magazines Panel
In conjunction with the release this fall of Aperture Magazine’s fashion issue, guest edited by the esteemed fashion photography duo Inez & Vinoodh, this panel will explore the role of the magazine as a platform for innovation in fashion photography and for fostering the careers of many of the industry’s most important imagemakers. The conversation will touch upon independent magazines of the 1990s, such as i-D and The Face, and explore how publications today expand a tradition forged by these groundbreakers.
Speakers include Inez & Vinoodh, who came up working for The Face in the 1990s and have since photographed for most major fashion publications; Penny Martin, editor of The Gentlewoman; Phil Bicker, creative director, designer and photo editor and former art director at The Face magazine; moderated by Charlotte Cotton, Visiting Faculty, Parsons Photography and author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art.
cost: FreeWednesday, October 8, 2014 at 7:00 pm
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 Sponsored by Aperture Foundation, Parsons Photography, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.#IRL: In Real Life, Panel Discussion
#IRL: In Real Life, Panel Discussion
Please join us for a special panel discussion on contemporary photography hosted by the 2014 Parsons MFA Photography class.
Panel Discussion: September 10, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th St, Room 1202
Panelists: Letha Wilson, Penelope Umbrico, Carol Squiers, and Lyle Rexer.
Moderated by: Arthur Ou
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