Photography

Tonight, Artist's Talk with James Welling at Aperture Foundation

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Also, tonight James Welling will be giving a talk at Aperture Gallery. I saw a brief talk he did as part of the Whitney Biennial in 2008 that was nice so if you haven't see him speak I would go for sure.

Artist's Talk with James Welling

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
7:00 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Aperture and the Parsons Department of Photography at The New School present an artist's talk with James Welling as part of the ongoing Parsons lecture series. Welling's career constitutes a comprehensive conceptual examination of the many forms of photography: from documentary and staged to nonrepresentational. He was recently featured in the Aperture publication The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography.

JAMES WELLING (b. 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) studied drawing at Carnegie-Mellon University before transferring to the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied video. His work has appeared in over sixty solo and group exhibitions, and is included in many public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York, among others. Welling was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bard College. Since 1995, Welling has lived in Los Angeles, where he is head of the photography department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work was featured in issue number 190 of Aperture magazine.

Opening Tonight, EDWARD BURTYNSKY - OIL at HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER's new space

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Edward Burtynsky, at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
SOCAR Oil Fields #6, Baku, Azerbaijan, Digital Chromogenic Color Print, 48 x 72 inches, Limited Edition of 6

I looking forward to tonight's opening of Edward Burtynsky's new body of work, Oil. Tonight is also the first showing in for HASTED HUNT under their new name HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER in their new space on ground level on 24th Street. Their new space is the former location of Charles Cowles Gallery which also used to represent Burtynsky in New York.

Charles Cowles was always super supportive of my work. In 2006 he purchased a piece from my series ten convenient stores and soon after included it in a large donation to the Miami Art Museum. I'm sad to see his Gallery go but I am sure he will remain active in the art world and I'm looking forward to seeing what HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER has in store for us.

From the press release:

HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER is pleased to announce the exclusive representation of Edward Burtynsky in the United States.

HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER opens with "Edward Burtynsky: Oil". The exhibition runs from October 1 until November 28, 2009 with an artist's reception on Tuesday, October 6th from 6 to 8 p.m. "Oil" consists of a series of large format color images made over the last 12 years. Burtynsky's obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century - politically, economically and socially - on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. His obsession with oil has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East.

The New York exhibition at HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER is presented in conjunction with the publication and release of the artist's new monograph "Edward Burtynsky: Oil" (Steidl 2009) and a major museum show at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, which will run contemporaneously.

The artist continues to capture, within his work, the brutal interaction between man and the environment in the production of oil with massive fields and huge refineries. Our enormous consumption is witnessed in huge matrix-like expressways and dumping grounds for tires. The impact and scale of Burtynsky's work is sizable. He works with a sensibility and appreciation of nature that is contemporary, yet in the tradition of Carleton Watkins and Timothy O'Sullivan.

In his essay for the new monograph, Paul Roth, Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art offers,

"This is a new form of epic history painting. Turning his camera lens to a fever dream, Burtynsky forges a new mythology for the 21st century from the lexicon of realism. With stunning detail, from improbable perches, in strange and beautiful colors, these pictures show their subjects with clinical accuracy, and with definitive force. But they also tell a parallel and more inchoate tale: a critique of civilization, and a foretelling of human ends."

"Edward Burtynsky: Oil" is the artist's fourth book following "Edward Burtynsky: Quarries" (Steidl 2007), "Edward Burtynsky: China".(Steidl 2005) and "Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky" (National Gallery of Canada, in association with Yale University Press 2003). The photographer was the subject of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning documentary film, "Manufactured Landscapes" that was shown at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

That same year, Mr. Burtynsky was named Officer of the Order of Canada. He is the recipient of three honorary doctorates, and the esteemed TED prize, the Rencontres d'Arles Outreach award, as well as the Roloff Beny Book award. He is a finalist for The Financial Times Prix Pictet, to be announced in November 2009. He chairs the board of directors of the high profile online sustainability magazine Worldchanging, and sits on the board of CONTACT, the international festival of photography in Toronto, where he is based.

Mr. Burtynsky has exhibited internationally and has work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Victoria & Albert, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Reina Sofia, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among other esteemed institutions.

For visuals or more information, please contact the gallery at info@hastedhuntkraeutler.com