This blog, (sometimes) managed by the wonderful assistants at RSG, covers the latest news that surrounds the Randall Scott Gallery. Artist profiles, photos, exhibitions, new works, studio visits...its all gonna be here. Enjoy.
I am very excited about this show and the public opening on May 13th. Please come out and enjoy the exhibition and take in the New York Photo Festival's opening night as well. The week of May 13-17 DUMBO is overtaken by NYPH09, a huge photo festival that has a gazillion exhibitions, lectures, panels and just all things photo. Check out the link below and come on by.
Our opening is sponsored by Vitamin Water and Crop Circle Beer (My new favorite beer..it's yummy).
I'm headed to Portland, Oregon this week to do the portfolio reviews for Camera Lucinda. I love their Critical Mass book competition...you should submit...
If you are in Portland, come find me and buy me a microbrew.
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Our second show, Personal, is slated to open May 7th..I hope you can drop in and take a look. We have a couple events lined up during the show.
First...There is a soft opening on May 7th, which is the DUMBO First Thursday's art event. Feel free to come on by and take a sneak preview before the main opening party May 13th.
The opening party will be May 13th 7-9pm and is scheduled to coincide with the opening night of the NYPhotoFestival. It's going to be a madhouse over here that night (our opening is sponsored by Vitamin Water and Crop Circle Beer), so get here early. RSG suggests you attend the Opening of PhotoFest which will be at Powerhouse Books at 6pm, then come over here at 7pm, meet the artists and catch the show, then head out for one of the many local events surrounding the Festival in the area....then if you are still standing, hit the PhotoFest After party down the block at 9pm.
We will also have Martin Schoeller's book "Female Body Builders" available during the show. Martin will be here on Saturday, May 16th at 1pm for a book signing. Don't miss that.
RSG would like to welcome two new photographers to our team.
Thekla Ehling and Marco Delogu
Please check out the website to see some of their work. They are both wonderful photographers and create beautiful work that is thought provoking and emotionally moving.
Thekla will have her first US Solo show here in June!!!
I met German based, Thekla Ehling at last years NY PhotoFest. She had this wonderful artist book that I adored. She was also part of the FOAM Magazine exhibit. Well, I took her card and put it up near my computer and it was there all year till she found me in Miami during art fair. She had had the book published and presented me with a copy..A week later, she was on my artist list.
Her work, Sommerherz, is a beautiful slice of life, personal and carefree, like the Summers we had as kids, on endless vacation, exploring and lying around, taking in the experience and capturing it as a lifelong memory. Her work makes me smile, endlessly, and god knows we all need an endless smile after the last 6 months.
Come see her show in June and lose yourself in the images.
Marco Delogu is one of those photographers that live and breathe his country. He is Italian and his work is all about Italy and it's people. From Vatican Cardinals to hard core criminal assassins in prison, Delogu is there with his large format camera to capture it. His work is deep and rich in black and white, full of mystery and emotion, life and passion.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
Mr. Nick Walker will have a show opening in London on April 17th. Black Rat Press It promises to be jam packed with London hipsters and people trying for one of 75 limited edition pieces he is making for the event.
Nick sold out his last show in LA in a couple days...Giving the demand I have been seeing for his work, better get in line a day before.
For those of you who can't make the opening... Black Rat Press will release two limited edition prints on the morning of the show. (Be prepared to be one with thousands of people looking to get in before they are all gone)
Please remember, London time is 5 hours ahead of the US. So, I suggest stocking on the Red Bull and throwing an all nighter.
If you can't wait...I still have 5 "Can't Be too Careful" paintings left.
There is nothing like that feeling when I find a new artist whose work I absolutely love. The hairs go up on the back of my neck and I feel the need to speak to them right away. I hate to wait.
Last Summer I came across Sarah Wilmer and put her into my summer group show "Subtext." I am constantly amazed by what she photographs. From a family trip to New Zealand (My Brother Max...above) to her weekend photographic excursions around Jersey, to her commercial portraits and advertising. Her sense of natural light, composition and her approach to mystery/suspense and that cinematic (without being 'Cinematic") suck me in and hold me in this vortex of wonderment.
On May 31st I am excited to give her her first solo show at RSG. The work will be a wonderful collection of pieces that are both lyrical, romantic, mysterious and linger in a narrative both personal and emotive.
In the coming month I will put the work up on her website...or if you want a sneak peek... go here.
The talented photographer/videographer, Hugh Swingle cut together a short documentary-style video for my DUMBO Art Under the Bridge project. You can view this video by clicking on the link. Enjoy!
A year ago I started working with Bristol, UK based street artist Nick Walker. Nick is an original. He helped shape the Bristol street artist (some say graffiti) movement some 20 years ago that gave rise to Banksy. Long overlooked, not really into commercial gallery whatevers, Nick just hung out in his studio cutting stencils and making work. He produced limited edition prints and canvas editions. He occasionally ventured out onto the streets of Bristol and applied his vision to a wall, or a door, or whatever he thought needed a bit of color.
Well, Nick has arrived, finally, and recognition is around him.
Last week, Nick sold out his first solo show in Los Angeles. Then one of his amazing Moona Lisa canvas paintings sold for $90,000 at an auction in London. Demand for his work shot out across the pond. RSG has been getting countless requests for the edition "Can't Be Too Careful" and the paintings in stock sold first thing.
We here at RSG wish Nick the best on his success and the art world finally paying some attention. Nick is priceless and a true original who cares more about the work than most baggy pant, aerosol wielding kids that write their names everywhere.
Well, by now you have all seen, heard, or witnessed the ongoing debate concerning Cara's work being appropriated by another Baltimore based artist. It made the front page of the Baltimore Sun and was commented on in the Washington Post. So, it seems fitting as Cara's represented gallery in DC to make a statement...so here it is.
There is only one Cara Ober and she is an original. Her vocabulary has been in the making for (withheld by threat) years and it will still be refined and expanded in the many years ahead long after this is all forgotten. That vocabulary is hers and her authenticity rests within the narratives she constructs.
We hope you will join us for her first solo exhibition at RSG on March 8th. Please make sure you are on the mailing list to receive upcoming announcements!
Personal: Brad Harris, Timothy Hogan, Henry Leutwyler, Giles Revell, Martin Schoeller and Mark Zibert in collaboration with VAUGHAN/HANNIGAN May 7th-June 6th Opening Reception: May 13th 7-9pm Sponsored by Vitamin Water and Crop Circle
Thekla Ehling Sommerhertz and Etsuko Ichikawa Glass Pyrographs June 12th-July 11th
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