Wednesday, October 23, 2013

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!

Friday, October 18, 2013

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.



2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1
santa monica, california 90404
310.315.3551

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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Saturday, October 12, 2013

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

Thursday, October 10, 2013

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.



2525 michigan avenue, Suite J1
santa monica, california 90404
310.315.3551

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.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

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.


2525 michigan avenue, suite J1
santa monica, california 90404
310.315.3551

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.





Saturday, October 5, 2013

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