RSG Goes to Brooklyn

I know, I am horrible about posting here. But, I have been a bit busy.
In February I decided to move the gallery from Washington DC, to the DUMBO district of Brooklyn, NY. I know, crazy...but why not!

DUMBO is a wonderful place. It is establishing itself as a solid destintion for the photographic community with galleries, publishers, agencies and photo creatives all coming to work and play here. It is a great community, vibrant with a happening night life.. Accessible from NYC by train, car or walk within minutes.

In May, the NY PhotoFestival takes place in DUMBO and attracts some 30,000 people during the week long event. All the local galleries present amazing exhibitions and the festival invites 4 curators to put together a selection of talented photographic artists. There are also lectures and panel discussions that are not to be missed.

All this was a big draw to DUMBO. Mainly, I felt the gallery and the artists would thrive better in the NY environment and at this moment...a positive outlook and forward direction is essential to navigate our changing times.

I do hope you will come by and see the new space. We are located in the 111 Front Street Building on the corner of Front and Washington. Look for the orange door.

Best train to take is the F to York st. (first Brooklyn Stop) or the A, C to High Street. (first stop). When here, walk around the neighborhood, there are amazing shops and places to eat and several great watering holes (I like reBar).

Here is a pic of the space....See you soon!!!

I Love a Good Photo in the Morning

Was sent a link to this guy who copies classic photographs with scenes make from legos.
I just love creative people.

RSG announces VIDEO SMACK

Video Smack
Beginning in July, RSG will present our Summer Project, Video Smack.

Video Smack is a semi-covert artist video/film project where we
take our projector/projectors to various locations
on any given summer night, and turn them on.

Video Smack is inviting film/video artists
from around the world to participate.

Here is how it works:

Sign up for the mailing list at the Video Smack Blog
(even if you are getting this email you still need to sign up)

Six hours before the screening we will send out an e-mail, post on the blog
and announce on Facebook
the location, directions, time and artist/artists.

Come on out and enjoy.

if you miss it, do not worry, most likely we will screen
the films on two separate nights, or you can see all the videos in the gallery.

8 Summer Group Show

Our Summer Group show is scheduled to open July 11th 7-9pm.
It features the work of Eight amazing photographers:

Kyoko Hamada and Tema Stauffer
Jessica Dimmock and Peter Van Agtmael
Alexandra Catiere and Shen Wei
Alison Brady and Ryoko Suzuki

The show has a rotational design.
Eight photographers in Four
2-person, 2-week exhibitions

Opening night all eight will have work on the wall.
That night, we hang the first 2-person show.
So, every other Friday, a show will close and the next
opens the following morning.

Who said nothing happens in the Summer.

Cell Phone Coverage

Are these images of Saturn, taken from the cassini spacecraft not amazing!!



It is a wonder that such clear photos can come from across the solar system, but my ATT cell phone network drops out when I am under a tree in the middle of the city.
Check out the photos..they are amazing.

Matt Mahurin

When I was a young art dealer in Los Angeles, some 20 years ago I traveled to New York to meet Matt Mahurin. Matt was a photographic hero of mine. His work was full of emotion and subtext. It was dark and gritty and his prints were toned apparitions of dreams and nightmares and amazing worlds that crossed the grain of traditional editorial photography.

We had first met in a darkroom I was working at in Santa Monica in '89. He came in to make a print for Matthew Modine (the actor). I knew who Matt was, and I introduced myself. The print he made was amazing. He told me everything was done in his camera. I wanted to press him for details, but sometimes magic is best left to imagination so I shut up.




Matt Mahurin started out at Otis Institute in LA. He soon landed illustration jobs for the LA Times Op/Ed Section. Every week a new illustration would appear and people took notice. The illustrations were hand drawn, burnished, painted, scratched and were friggin powerfully amazing. Then he set out to translate his illustration to photography. This was 1989ish, Photoshop was a billion years away. His portrait work was soon sought after and he began a career shooting rockstars.


Countless album covers and magazine shoots later, he thought that what he was doing could work on film, so he started to make videos.

The first videos he did (music videos) didn't even have rockstars in them. They were art films snippets of film he shot on 8mm or 16mm stock just driving down the street or things he set up. Soon it got more complicated, but his work was groundbreaking for music video (which had been boring "Live" action concert footage or silly Huey Lewis dribble). Artist vision was introduced to music video as a solid component of the song. A component that didn't really mimic the song story line, but created an interpretation of.




So I went to see Matt in NY. I showed him my work and he showed me the prints from his first book. I felt a little bit in awe. I asked him if he would like to show in my gallery in LA, he said that he had just been offered a show at a gallery (a big one) right down the street from me. It was a wonderful private star studded opening. I walked in with Jodie Foster. My friends inside were floored when Jodie whispered something in my ear (I forget what it was...something like "you're standing on my foot").

Time moved on for all of us. Matt's work switched to digital and he now creates amazing digital illustrations based on his photographs. His work is on the Cover of Time all the time.

I talked to him last year. I wanted to bring him into the gallery. He told me no one would want to see his work. I told him he was quite mistaken.

He is now directing films. His documentary "I like killing Flies" is amazing (check it out on netflix). And I think he just finished another film. And he did a number of PSA's like H2...

Reason for my post is I was talking to a curator friend of mine about film work and he popped into my mind. So, while he was still fresh in my head, I wanted to put him here for you to see.

Here is his film version of Unforgiven by Metallica.
its 12 minutes long and I still love looking at it.

Wish me luck as I try and get him to send me a video collection for the gallery!

Cara Ober Closes On Saturday...get on over here

Cara Ober's "ia am who i pretend to be" is slated to close this saturday. I strongly suggest you all get on over here and pick up a drawing off the "Wall.


The Wall is a collection of single drawings following Ober's visual vocabulary.
At $75 a piece the original drawings and mixed media pieces are a steal.
Heck, you can pick up several and make you own Ober!
not that we condone such a practice.