Jock Sturges on Alain Laboile

"The secret would appear to be fourfold. 

1) He has an amazing level of physical and mental energy. Simply put, he's very strong. 

2) He has a huge advantage in never having studied photography at all and thus labors with no limits to his creativity. It's a bit ironic for me to set this down as a strength because when I am teaching I am forever abjuring young photographers to invest themselves as deeply as ever they can in the history of both photography and all the other arts as well. But in Alain's case his inherent aesthetic genius (the word is well applied) is usefully liberated by the absence of preconception and exterior influence. 

3) Alain has worked as a successful sculptor working in iron for much of his life. He executes works, often large and very elaborate, on commission all over France. Thence come his physical strength and aesthetic muscle to which I can add my perception of his exceptional creative discipline. 

4) Alain's family -- the subject of the vast majority of his photography. Simply put, Alain and his wife, Anne, are wonderful parents who allow their children to be remarkably free in a beautiful landscape. I have visited them several times and was so very impressed by how much the children loved both their parents and each other(!) as well, and by how profoundly uninhibited and creative they were in how they interacted with and played in their home environment. In fact, I was so very impressed by the beauty of this family that I find myself impatient with the artifice of written language to adequately express the wonder of people and place. Only Alain's pictures do that at all well. They tell the truth." 

- Jock Sturges on Alain Laboile

Alain Laboile, Le cirque, 2011, digital pigment print, 19 x 13 inches 

Alain Laboile, Autour du bassin, 2011, digital pigment print, 19 x 13 inches

Alain Laboile, Les bocaux, 2012, digital pigment print, 19 x 13 inches

See Alain's work at dnj Gallery. Alain's exhibition, La Famille will be up through Saturday, January 4. 

For more information, please contact the gallery.

Give the gift of art with a dnj Gallery Holiday Miniature

2013 Holiday Miniatures

Holiday Miniatures Installation at dnj Gallery, 5" x 7", editions of 6

Still looking for that perfect holiday gift?

Give the gift of art with a dnj Gallery Holiday Miniature.  Our dnj Gallery artists have created unique prints that are indicative of their original artwork. These pieces are 5 x 7 inches and are only $100 + tax.  All are printed in a limited editions of six. For the photographer, art lover or design enthusiast in your life, these prints are a distinctive and affordable way to begin an art collection.

To see all of the available 2013 dnj Gallery miniatures, click here.

Please contact the gallery for information about all works available.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

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Lipsky's experience at the Lishui Int'l Photographic Culture Festival feat. on Lenscratch

dnj artist Clay Lipsky's experience at the 2013 Lishui International Photographic Culture Festival has been featured on Lenscratch. To read more about Clay's experiences and to see insider pictures from his trip, check out the Lenscratch article here.

"Several months ago curators Yan Li and Blue Mitchell invited a select group of photographers to exhibit at the 2013 Lishui International Photographic Culture Festival in China. This festival occurs every other year and is an event I was aware of as an array of American photographers have shown there in the past thanks to Yan Li.  For 2013 a much smaller group would be attending representing alternative process based works in a show called Unconventional Photography. It was an exciting opportunity for me as I had never been to China and quickly jumped at the chance. Consequently flights were booked, travel visas acquired and prints made, but it all still seemed like a dream based solely in emails and fantasy. It wasn’t until I was making a connecting flight in the Beijing airport, with portfolio in hand, where I encountered fellow photographer, Bill Vaccaro, when things finally began to feel real. Upon arrival in Wenzhou we were greeted at the airport by some smiling faces with warm greetings and the real adventure began..."  - Clay Lipsky in Lenscratch

Andrew Uchin featured on Lenscratch

dnj artist, Andrew Uchin was recently featured on Lenscratch for his The Reader Series.

"Andrew Uchin's project, The Reader Series, does just that as he explores the book-as-object and an individual's engagement with said object through added text and the wear and tear of a cherished possession. Like an archeologist, Andrew has uncovered how we interact with the printed page."
- Andrew Uchin: The Reader Series, Lenscratch

Andrew Uchin: The Reader Series on Lenscratch

Andrew Uchin, We Talk You Listen, 2011, archival inkjet print, 11 x 14/16 x 20/20 x 24 inches

Andrew Uchin, Seeing Through Feeling, 2011, archival inkjet print, 11 x 14/16 x 20/20 x 24 inches

To see the entire Lenscratch article about Uchin's work, click here. For more of Andrew Uchin's work, see his dnj artist page here. For more information on prices and availability, please contact dnj Gallery.

Saturday, December 14: Bergamot Holiday Open House

This Saturday, Bergamot Station will be holding our Holiday Open House from 12-5pm.

Bergamot's Holiday Open House was featured as laartparty.com's Pick of the Week! See the full article on Bergamot's event here.

You can see dnj Gallery's current exhibition, featuring Alain Laboile's La Famille and Dale Johnson's Paris Portfolio this Saturday. dnj Gallery will also have our 2013 Holiday Miniatures on display and will be offering a 15% discount on works by our featured artist of the month, Melanie Walker.

Please join us this Saturday, December 14 from 12-5pm, for free treats, festive entertainment, and holiday shopping at Bergamot Station. 

New interview with Alain Laboile

Alain Laboile, Pool!,
2011, digital pigment print, 19" x 13"

Alain Laboile, Dune,

2012, digital pigment print, 40" x 26"

New interview featuring Alain Laboile. Read more about Laboile's interview here.

You can see dnj Gallery's current exhibition, featuring Alain Laboile's La Famille and Dale Johnson's Paris Portfolio through January 4. 

For more information, please contact the gallery.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out.

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R. Dean Larson featured in exhibition at LA Art Association

Los Angeles Art Association's 2013 Open Show will feature work by dnj artist R. Dean Larson. The show was juried by Jenny Gheith, assistant curator at SFMOMA. This exhibition opens with a reception that will be held this Saturday, December 14th from 6-9p at Gallery 825. The show will run through January 10, 2014. For more information, please read below or contact LAAA/Gallery 825.

R. Dean Larson, HydroGraphic 162 and Sketch 162, digital inkjet print, 2013, sizes vary

dnj's upcoming exhibition will feature R. Dean Larson's HydroGraphics series. This upcoming exhibition, which will also show black and white photographs by Robert von Sternberg, will be open from January 11 - February 22, 2014. This opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 11 from 6-8pm at dnj Gallery. For more information regarding this exhibition, please contact dnj Gallery.

Los Angeles Art Association is proud to present the 2013 Open Show- LAAA's signature survey exhibition featuring the very best in emerging art. The 2013 Open Show debuts at Gallery 825 on Saturday December 14, 2013 and runs through January 10, 2014. Juried by: Jenny Gheith, Assistant Curator,                 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Featured artists: Ted Andersen, Leslie Awender, James Bently, Candace, Biggerstaff, Liza Hennessey Botkin, Chuka Susan Chesney, Lynne Deutch, Christina Downs, Yi-Mei Fan, Linda Folk, Walter Frederick, Lesley Goren, Barrie Goshko, Harry Gundersen, W. Mark Hafeman, Chong Hahn, Brooke Harker, Shelby Jay Harris, Carolyn Holden, Scott Davis Jones, Christian Karl, Yoichi Kawamura, Colleen M. Kelly, Michael Kelly, Linda Kosoff, Elana Kundell, Teresa Lakier, Leslie Lanxinger, R. Dean Larson, Sandra E. Lauterbach, Nancy Goodman Lawrence, Ahree Lee, David Leeds, Echo Lew, Dorothy Magallon, Joanne Chase-Mattillo, Lisa McCord, Cameron McIntyre, Jim McKinniss, Chloe Meynier, Pamela Mooney, Peggy Pownall, Isabella Kelly-Ramirez, Jonathan Roskos, Lyle Rushing, Pat Salmons, Aimee Santos, Heather Scholl, Tara Selver, Cory Sewelson, Kathy B Shapiro, Diane Silver, Maxine Smith, Kendra Spear, Greg Stongner, Ashleigh Sumner, Susan Swihart, Stephanie Sydney, Annie Terrazzo, Daena Title, Elizabeth Tobias, Vincent Tomczyk, Philip Vaughan and Thom Wright. Date:Saturday, December 14, 6 to 9p  (runs through January 10, 2014)  Admission: Free Where: Gallery 825, 825 N. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069 For more information call 310.652.8272 or e-mail gallery825@laaa.org.

Cynthia Greig's photo makes magazine cover

dnj artist Cynthia Greig's photograph, Spot (Gagosian 21st St. on Gagosian 24th St.) is this November's cover image for "The Politics of Aesthetics" issue of Kapsula magazine in Toronto. This issue of Kapsula can be viewed here.

Kapsula is an online art magazine. For more about Kapsula, please visit their website.

For more images and information about Cynthia Greig, please visit her dnj artist page.

More books by Alain Laboile arriving at dnj

After selling out of our copies of En attendant le facteur, or Waiting for the Postman, by Alain Laboile, (currently being shown at dnj), we would like to announce that more of Laboile's books will be available at dnj gallery this coming week.

Please contact the gallery to reserve your copy.

dnj's 2013 Holiday Hours

dnj Gallery will be open Tuesday - Saturday, from 10a - 6p with the exception of the following days:

Holiday Hours:

Wednesday, November 27: 10a-4p

Thursday, November 28: Closed

Friday, November 29: 2p-6p

Saturday, November 30: 2p-6p

Tuesday, December 24: 10a-3p

Wednesday, December 25: Closed

Thursday, December 26: 2p-6p

Friday, December 27: 2p-6p

Saturday, December 28: 2p-6p

Tuesday, December 31: 10a-3p

Wednesday, January 1: Closed

 

Still looking for that perfect gift? Consider giving a dnj holiday miniature! See our website for more details.

For more information, please contact the gallery.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out.

dnj Gallery is also on Facebook and Twitter.

Clay Lipsky featured in PHOTO+, premier Korean magazine

dnj artist Clay Lipsky has been featured in PHOTO+, Seoul's premier photography magazine. The six page spread includes an interview with Lipsky and showcases his series In Dark Light.

Clay Lipsky's six page spread in PHOTO+ magazine.

Photographs from Clay Lipsky's In Dark Light series were recently shown at dnj Gallery in our Claude Cahun and After exhibition. More photographs from In Dark Light can be viewed at Lipsky's artist page on dnj's website. If you are interested in viewing or purchasing photographs from Lipsky's series, please contact us.

Sharon Harper's upcoming exhibition in Madrid

dnj artist, Sharon Harper, will be showing her photographs taken in Halsnøy, Norway, at Galería Arnés y Röpke in Madrid from November 26 to January 17, 2014. This is Harper's fourth solo show with Galería Arnés y Röpke.

For more work by Sharon Harper, please see her dnj artist page.

Halsnøy Norway, Summer Solstice  Sharon Harper Galería Arnés y Ropke is pleased to present Halsnøy Norway, Summer Solstice, Sharon Harper's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, on view November 26 - January 17, 2014.  Dusk, Halsnøy, Norway, June 2012 In this series of photographs the horizon between the sky and sea—a formal devise that locks us into thinking about a "landscape" or a "seascape"—is eliminated to re-introduce a relationship between the sky and sea. A photograph of the sky and one of the sea directly below it are exposed at sunset. The pair of photographs from the same evening are displayed next to each other as diptychs. The light at this moment of dusk is fugitive, as is the motion of the sea, pushing the limits of photography to chart fleeting, recurring phenomena of the day, time and weather. The pairs of photographs were made on consecutive nights at dusk in Halsnøy, Norway from June 10-26, 2012 during a time known as White Nights.  Sunset-Sunrise (Halsnøy, Norway), June 2012 Summer Solstice These photographs were made on consecutive nights during the week of the summer solstice, a time known as White Nights in Norway. These photographs measure the night in terms of light rather than darkness. Made with 4x5 transparency film exposed through a pinhole camera, they are each the cumulative light from when the sun sets (approximately 11:15PM) until it rises (approximately 4:15AM).

Recent Claude Cahun photograph sale

A vintage Claude Cahun photograph recently sold at Christie's. Claude Cahun was a female photographer active in France and Jersey (Channel Islands) during the 1920's-1940's. Her work focuses on identity and gender, which was revolutionary for the time.

Claude Cahun, Autoportrait, 1929, tirage argentique, 23.8 x 17.8 cm. (9 3/8 x 7 in.)

Claude Cahun was the initial inspiration of dnj's recent exhibition, Claude Cahun and After. Our show featured four vintage self-portraits by Cahun, alongside work by five different contemporary photographers whose series explore similar themes of identity.

Five contemporary photographers: Clay Lipsky, Tam Tran, Corey Grayhorse, Sia Aryai, and Ni Rong, were featured alongside four vintage Cahun photographs at dnj Gallery's recent exhibition.

Three of the four featured Cahun photographs are currently available for purchase at dnj Gallery. dnj's vintage Cahuns can be viewed here. If interested, please inquire at the gallery about all works available.

dnj Featured Artist: Melanie Walker

Melanie Walker, Nautilus,

2012, digital transfer onto metal, 18" x 24"

Featured Artist - Melanie Walker

For the months of November and December dnj Gallery is offering a 15% discount on photographs by dnj artist Melanie Walker.

Please contact the gallery for information about all works available. Mention this deal to receive your discount.

Melanie Walker's photography facilitates a visual dialogue with her father.  In “Wanderlust,” Melanie combines images from a decade of travels to investigate experiences of time, place and memory.  In creating this series, she was influenced by her father’s writing:  “I remember a time, I remember a place, I try to return, It is not here. / The time was here, the place was then.  I am now, not then. / Place, time and I happened together, but not again.”

Melanie Walker is an Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices, Photography at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  She holds a B.A. from San Francisco State University and an M.F.A. from Florida State University.   Her work is in the permanent collections of museums across the country, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.  Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out.

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Gilles's work in SF Camerawork's annual benefit auction

dnj Gallery artist, Richard Gilles, will have his work featured and up for bid at SF Camerawork's annual benefit auction this December.

Richard Gilles, Lamar 001, 2008, archival inkjet print, 21" x 48" and 13" x 28"

SF Camerawork's annual benefit auction is one of their largest fundraisers. If you find yourself in the Bay Area before December 6, try to stop by SFC and see Richard Gilles's featured work during their art preview. If you can attend the auction on November 7, please consider helping to support this non-profit photography organization.


Can't make it to the auction? dnj has some of Gilles's work at the gallery. If interested please contact us.

Announcing dnj's Holiday Miniatures

Holiday Miniatures Installation at dnj Gallery

5" x 7", editions of 6, media varies

dnj's 2013 Holiday Miniatures

dnj Gallery is pleased to announce the arrival of our annual Holiday Miniatures. These original photographs, 5 x 7 inches, made by dnj Gallery artists, are in editions of six. Priced at only $100 + tax per photo, dnj Gallery's affordable minis make great gifts!

Please contact the gallery for information about all works available.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out.

dnj Gallery is also on Facebook and Twitter.

Photos from our opening artist reception for Alain Laboile and Dale Johnson

Photos from our reception, which was held last weekend for our two new exhibitions: La Famille and Paris Portfolio. Both exhibitions hold strong ties to France. In the Main Gallery, French photographer Alain Laboile's exhibition features charming and compositionally engaging family photos taken at his home in the Bordeaux region of France. In Gallery II, Dale Johnson's contemporary photographs of Paris are created to relay an old feeling to the city while capturing the natural light.

Both exhibitions will be on view until January 4, 2014. Make sure to stop by dnj to see these exhibitions before the closing date! We hope to see you at the gallery soon.

Alain and one of his daughters greeting gallery visitors.

Dale Johnson and friend admiring the exhibition.

Alain Laboile and Dale Johnson meeting at the reception.

Jock Sturges, mentor and friend to Alain, came to the opening as well.

Upcoming Exhibition: Alain Laboile & Dale Johnson - Artist Reception Sat. Nov 2nd

Alain Laboile

La Famille

Alain Laboile, Dune, 2012, digital pigment print, sizes vary

Dale Johnson

Paris Portfolio

Dale Johnson, Les Vitrines Parisiennes, 2008, digital pigment print, 15" x 11"

November 2 - January 4, 2014

dnj Gallery presents two exhibitions with strong ties to France.  “La Famille” by Alain Laboile, a French photographer, will be in the main gallery.  Dale Johnson’s “Paris Portfolio” will be in Gallery II.  Both exhibitions will be on display from November 2, 2013 through January 4, 2014.

Childhood is the central theme in Alain Laboile's series.  Using his own children as models, he seeks to evoke the universal yet fleeting qualities of childhood, including freedom, curiosity, and a lack of inhibition.  Similar to the American photographer, Sally Mann, Laboile records a combination of spontaneous moments of childhood repose, revealing striking pictures of imaginative play.  He explains: “Though my work is deeply personal, it’s also accessible, addressing human nature and allowing the viewer[s] to enter my world and reflect on their own childhoods.”

Laboile is the father of six and lives with his children and his wife, Anne, in Arbis, France.  Laboile was a sculptor for many years before turning to photography in 2004, first as a means of preparing for and documenting his sculptural work and then as an artistic pursuit.  His photographs have been exhibited in France, Cambodia and Japan.  “La Famille” is his first exhibition in the United States.  He is scheduled to publish a collection of his images with Steidl Verlag next year.

In her “Paris Portfolio,” Dale Johnson was inspired by her own family roots in the city and her family members’ connection to the arts there in the nineteenth century.  She “wanted to ‘draw’ the ‘Old Paris’ – the City in its various facets; narrow lanes, old buildings, busy cafes and shops with their window displays.”  She employs the method she has developed of shooting with a plastic camera lens on a sophisticated digital camera to give her images a soft and grainy effect, which she further enhances with an additional layer of texture.

Johnson was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil and currently splits her time between Carmel, CA and Santa Fe, NM.  Johnson earned her B.F.A. in graphic design from the Art Center in Pasadena.  In 2008, she began experimenting with photographic lenses that would allow her to combine the aesthetics of her painting style with the immediacy of a photograph.  She has exhibited her photography across the country.  In 2010, Johnson’s photographs were published in “Color Magazine,” Special Issue #10, and “Urban Country Landscape,” The Worldwide Gala Awards.  As a winner in the Emerging Focus Photography Competition, her work was exhibited at photo l.a., 2012.  This is her second solo exhibition at dnj Gallery.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out!

dnj Gallery is also on Facebook and Twitter.

Last Week for "Claude Cahun and After" Exhibit at dnj

Only a few days left to see our current exhibit "Claude Cahun and After." The show closes this Saturday, October 26. 

This group exhibit features five different contemporary artists (Clay Lipsky, Tam Tran, Corey Grayhorse, Sia Aryai and Ni Rong) alongside several vintage Claude Cahun photographs. Be sure to stop by if you have yet to see the show! 

Our hours this week are 10a-6p, Wed-Sat.

For visiting information, click here.

Group show featuring: (top) Clay Lipsky, Tam Tran
(bottom) Corey Grayhorse, Sia Aryai and Ni Rong.

Can't make it to this show before it closes? Make sure to see our next exhibit, opening November 2nd!

dnj Featured Artist for October: Anne Veraldi

A reminder that dnj's featured artist this month is Anne Veraldi

For the rest of the month of October dnj Gallery is offering a 15% discount on photographs by Anne Veraldi.

Anne Veraldi, Blimp, 2007

c-print, 20" x 24"

Anne Veraldi, Bike, 2006

c-print, 20" x 24"

Please contact the gallery for information about all works available.

In these playful photographs, Veraldi presents visions of daydreams. She builds atmospheres of ice, air and water, capturing various toys shot beneath or wrapped in plastic bags. Veraldi plays with our perception, tricking us into believing at first glance the objects are actually life-sized and not toys. "This is important because I want people to have an initial uncertainty as to what they are seeing and pause for a moment to look at this imaginary world," says Veraldi. The resulting images have a fresh, bright quality that manipulates the color of the plastic in a very painterly way.

Anne Veraldi received her MFA in Painting/Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown extensively throughout the United States, often publishing her photographs simultaneously. In November 2009, she won the "Portfolio Contest" in Color Magazine. Her works are in the collection of the Di Rosa Collection and the Crocker Art Museum.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out.

dnj Gallery is also on Facebook and Twitter.

Greig's work published in "Nature Morte" by Petry

Two photographs by dnj artist Cynthia Greig from her Nature Morte series have been reproduced in Michael Petry's new Book, Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition. 

Greig notes that the images are "accompanied by a thoughtful text" and that "it looks like a stunning publication."

Be sure to stay on the look-out for Petry's book featuring Cynthia Greig.

Suda House selected for show at new library

dnj artist Suda House was recently selected by the MCASD's curator, Kathryn Kanjo for the opening of the Art Gallery in the new Central Library Downtown San Diego.  All eight pieces from House's Sanctuary series were selected for display.

"My recent photographic works on silk from the Sanctuary series were selected by guest curator Kathryn Kanjo, the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego for the exhibition - Renewed: A Short Story About the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program. This survey celebrates the opening of the new Central Library with a selection of artists who previously exhibited in the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program and whose practices continue to resonate: Faiya Fredman, Suda House, Jeff Irwin, Gail Roberts, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Lynn Schuette, Ernest Silva and Vicki Walsh." - House

If you find yourself in San Diego, we hope you can visit the new downtown library and enjoy House's work in the art gallery inside.

The exhibit runs from September 30, 2013 to March 29, 2014

Central Library | 330 Park Boulevard | San Diego, California 92101 | 619-236-5800

The Art Gallery is located on the ninth floor

Library Hours: Mon & Wed 12-8 pm, Tues, Thurs & Fri 9:30-5:30 pm, Sat 9:30 am-2:30 pm, Sun 1-5 pm

dnj Featured Artist: Anne Veraldi

dnj's featured artist this month is Anne Veraldi

Anne Veraldi, Boat, inkjet print, 5" x 7"

For the month of October dnj Gallery is offering a 15% discount on photographs by dnj artist Anne Veraldi.

Please contact the gallery for information about all works available.

In these playful photographs, Veraldi presents visions of daydreams. She builds atmospheres of ice, air and water, capturing various toys shot beneath or wrapped in plastic bags. Veraldi plays with our perception, tricking us into believing at first glance the objects are actually life-sized and not toys. "This is important because I want people to have an initial uncertainty as to what they are seeing and pause for a moment to look at this imaginary world," says Veraldi. The resulting images have a fresh, bright quality that manipulates the color of the plastic in a very painterly way.

Anne Veraldi received her MFA in Painting/Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has shown extensively throughout the United States, often publishing her photographs simultaneously. In November 2009, she won the "Portfolio Contest" in Color Magazine. Her works are in the collection of the Di Rosa Collection and the Crocker Art Museum.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out.

dnj Gallery is also on Facebook and Twitter.

UPCOMING EXHIBIT: Alain Laboile & Dale Johnson

Alain Laboile & Dale Johnson

November 2 - January 4, 2014

Artist Reception: Saturday, November 2, 2013 from 6-8pm

Alain Laboile

La Famille

Alain Laboile, Untitled, 2012, digital pigment print, sizes vary

Dale Johnson

Paris Portfolio

Dale Johnson, Café Boul'Mich, 2008, digital pigment print, 15" x 12"

This November dnj Gallery will present two exhibitions with strong ties to France.  “La Famille” by Alain Laboile, a French photographer, will be in the main gallery.  Dale Johnson’s “Paris Portfolio” will be in Gallery II.  Both exhibitions will be on display from November 2, 2013 through January 4, 2014.

Childhood is the central theme in Alain Laboile's series.  Using his own children as models, he seeks to evoke the universal yet fleeting qualities of childhood, including freedom, curiosity, and a lack of inhibition.  Similar to the American photographer, Sally Mann, Laboile records a combination of spontaneous moments of childhood repose, revealing striking pictures of imaginative play.  He explains: “Though my work is deeply personal, it’s also accessible, addressing human nature and allowing the viewer[s] to enter my world and reflect on their own childhoods.”

Laboile is the father of six and lives with his children and his wife, Anne, in Arbis, France.  Laboile was a sculptor for many years before turning to photography in 2004, first as a means of preparing for and documenting his sculptural work and then as an artistic pursuit.  His photographs have been exhibited in France, Cambodia and Japan.  “La Famille” is his first exhibition in the United States.  He is scheduled to publish a collection of his images with Steidl Verlag next year.

In her “Paris Portfolio,” Dale Johnson was inspired by her own family roots in the city and her family members’ connection to the arts there in the nineteenth century.  She “wanted to ‘draw’ the ‘Old Paris’ – the City in its various facets; narrow lanes, old buildings, busy cafes and shops with their window displays.”  She employs the method she has developed of shooting with a plastic camera lens on a sophisticated digital camera to give her images a soft and grainy effect, which she further enhances with an additional layer of texture.

Johnson was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil and currently splits her time between Carmel, CA and Santa Fe, NM.  Johnson earned her B.F.A. in graphic design from the Art Center in Pasadena.  In 2008, she began experimenting with photographic lenses that would allow her to combine the aesthetics of her painting style with the immediacy of a photograph.  She has exhibited her photography across the country.  In 2010, Johnson’s photographs were published in “Color Magazine,” Special Issue #10, and “Urban Country Landscape,” The Worldwide Gala Awards.  As a winner in the Emerging Focus Photography Competition, her work was exhibited at photo l.a., 2012.  This is her second solo exhibition at dnj Gallery.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net

For directions to our gallery, please click here

dnj Gallery is now on Artnet, so be sure to check us out!

dnj Gallery is also on Facebook and Twitter.

dnj featured on L'oeil de la Photographie

dnj Gallery's current exhibition, Claude Cahun and After has been featured on the French focused, but globally concerned blog, L'oeil de la Photographie.

This exhibition features contemporary artists Clay Lipsky, Ni Rong, Tam Tran, Sia Aryai, Corey Grayhorse, and vintage prints by Claude Cahun. The show will be up through October 26, 2013 at dnj gallery located in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station. 

There are still a couple more weeks left to see the show if you can stop by!

Clay Lipsky, On Shadowed Plain, 2012, digital c-print