ANDREW SMITH GALLERY 2008 EXHIBIT SCHEDULE ANDREW SMITH GALLERY During rock music's heyday in the 1960s Baron Wolman was the chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine. In an era when photographers and musicians were part of the same explosive scene Wolman had virtually unlimited access to his subjects. He made the most of it, photographing the royalty of the 60s pop and rock world. The exhibit, THE ROLLING STONE COVERS, features 21 original issues of Rolling Stone from the sixties that carried Wolman's photos on the cover. Each of these is paired with a silver gelatin print of that photograph. Musicians include Tina Turner, Frank Zappa, Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Jerry Garcia and others. Opening Friday, May 23, 2008 The David H. Arrington Ansel Adams Collection is the most comprehensive, stunning group of original Ansel Adams photographs ever assembled by a private collector. The contents of the collection range from Adams's first photograph made at the age of 12 of the 1914 Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, to a substantial group of photographs made in Yosemite Valley, California in the 1920s and 30s, to the first examples of his most famous photograph, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 printed between 1941 and 1963. The collection contains the most superlative examples of Adams's vintage masterworks, and also showcases hundreds of unknown images that convey the full scope of Adams's extraordinary vision during his most creative years. Over the next few years Andrew Smith Gallery will be featuring parts of this collection beginning May 23, 2008 with an exhibition of 20 very special examples of Adams work. Foremost in this group are examples of Moonrise, Hernandez, 1941. This unique group demonstrates how Adams turned day into night in this American icon. In his Vintage Print made in 1941 Adams described a bright, cloud filled late afternoon landscape. The details in the land and sky are crisp and the ground is printed a darker value than the sky. The second print on display was made by Adams made in 1943. The values between ground and sky now have more in common while the overall tone of the image has dropped a few degrees, heightening the drama. We see more of a "night" sky with fewer high level clouds. This particular print was one of Adams's favorites and it hung in his Yosemite home for four decades. A glorious mural size exhibition print made in 1963 has similar values to the 1960 print. The large scale of the photograph adds to the stunning beauty and somber tranquility of the image. The last print made in the 1970s shows a solid black night sky above brilliant white clouds with the luminous cemetery below. David Arrington is a Texas oil man whose passion for Ansel Adams began when he was a young photographer. He studied Adams's methodology and avidly read all his books. Along with his friend, Richard Knarr, he formed a photo club called Group f.32 in homage to Adams's Group f.64. The name of photo club was Arrington's and Knarr's tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment that they were never going to be as "sharp" as Adams. JOAN MYERS Joan Myers is one of New Mexico's most intelligent and prolific artists. Over the last twenty-five years she has produced photographic projects and books about the Santa Fe Trail, Japanese relocation camps, images of older women, the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, the environment of the Salton Sea near Palm Springs, California, and a comprehensive document and book of Antarctica. In recent years Myers has been photographing globally. The exhibit "Brimstone "highlights her color photographs made in Yellowstone, Iceland and Italy, where she has been concentrating on geothermal sites that include boiling lakes, mud pots, hot springs and geysers, as well as the ancient city of Pompeii that was destroyed by the fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Also on display at 211 Grant Ave. are works by Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Alan Ross, Jody Forster, Christopher Burkett, and William Henry Jackson. 2008 EXHIBITS AT Opening Friday, May 30, 2008 Opening Friday, July 11, 2008 Shelly Niro was born in Niagara Falls, New York and is a member of the Mohawk Nation, Iroquois Confederacy, Turtle Clan, and Six Nations Reserve. A teacher, filmmaker, painter, photographer and writer, Niro has exhibited her work in Canada and the U.S. In 1997 she was a fellow at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute. Through her diverse work she explores the basic myths, legends and history of the Iroquois people and the diaspora of the Mohawk Nation. Her innovative, often humorous works critically re-present stereotypical images of First Nations people, and women in particular, that counter the long and misleading history of white representation of Native peoples. Niro's work underscores the fact that the consequences of colonialism are ongoing, especially in an era of globalization when the experience of the "other" is forgotten or disregarded. Her current exhibition weaves together thoughtful associations between ancestral spirits, Indian and non-Indian politics, mythic flying women, and the Iraq War. Opening Friday, October 31, 2008 Lee Friedlander was born in Aberdeen, Washington in 1934. Beginning in 1963 with an acclaimed one-man show at George Eastman House, he has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a MacArthur Grant (1990) and the MacDowell Colony Award (1986). Friedlander's photographs have been widely exhibited and published. They have also been the subject of over two dozen books including Self-Portrait, Like A One-Eyed Cat, American Musicians and Sticks and Stones: Architectural America. A major retrospective survey of 600 of Lee Friedlander's photographs was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2005. Friedlander has been visiting New Mexico frequently since the late 1960s. This show will feature his square format views taken from 1995 through 2005. Friedlander is a virtuoso whose vision of vernacular architecture in America turned the art of photography upside down. His New Mexico photographs of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Gallup, Chimayo, Diablo Canyon, as well as regional scenes of yards, streets, highways, wooded paths in the high desert, trucks and truck beds are exquisite examples of the highly stylistic photography Friedlander is best known for. Hours at the 122 Grant Ave. gallery are 10 - 5 Tues.- Sat. Gallery hours at 203 W. San Francisco St. location are 10 - 5 Mon. - Sat. For more information please call Andrew Smith Gallery at (505) 984-1234, Fax (505) 983-2428. Visit us online at http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/ to view photographs from ongoing exhibits. Our e-mail address is info@AndrewSmithGallery.com. Liz Kay |
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