Upcoming Exhibition - A Sense of Community

Harvard-Westlake Students

AND

Humanitas Academy of Art & Technology Students

A Sense of Community

Exploring Place Through Documentary Photography

May 16 - June 20, 2015

Julian Alvarez, Virgen de Guadalupe

Opening Reception: May 16, 6 - 8 pm

A Sense of Community: Exploring Place Through Documentary Photography

A Collaborative Book and Gallery Exhibit Between Suburban Prep and Urban Public High Schools

Photography students have joined forces to tell an important story about the tale of their two diametrically divergent communities. Students from the private prep school, Harvard-Westlake, are collaborating with students from the Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology (HAAT), a public high school in East LA, to make a 21st century, vibrant documentary portrait of where “we” live - covering a wide range of territory from wealthy suburbs to urban blue-collar and under-privileged neighborhoods.

The project will culminate in a gallery exhibit and the publication of a hardcover book. This collaboration is being directed by Joe Medina, photography teacher at Harvard Westlake and Joan Dooley, photography teacher at the Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology (HAAT).

The exhibit will open at the DNJ Gallery at Bergamot Station (Santa Monica) on Saturday, May 16, 2015 and remain on view for a month.

The project is inspired by a belief in the power of photography as an educational tool, and a desire to help people communicate the way they see their lives and their communities. The project also aims at encouraging students to respond to artistic challenges that will push their creative and technical boundaries.

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santa monica, california 90404

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Current Exhibition: Fullerton College

Fullerton College

Explorations

April 11 - May 9, 2015

Jorge Carrillo, Untitled,

archival inkjet print, 13" x 19"

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.

~Lewis Hine

dnj Gallery is pleased to present its current group exhibition Explorations. Through inquiry, investigation, and reflection the concept of subject is explored through the medium of photography. The exhibition features works of photography by students from Fullerton College.

The Fullerton College Photography Department offers both an Associate Arts Degree in Photography and a Certificate in Professional Photography. The Photography Program’s curriculum entails both theory and practicum teaching that is designed to provide students with a comprehensive photographic foundation.

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 Exhibition - A Sense of Community

Harvard-Westlake Students

&

Humanitas Academy of Art & Technology Students

A Sense of Community:

Exploring place through Documentary Photography

Kate Von Mende

May 16 - June 20, 2015

Opening Reception: May 16, 6 - 8 pm

A Sense of Community: Exploring place through Documentary Photography

A Collaborative Book and Gallery Exhibit Between Suburban Prep and Urban Public High Schools

Photography students have joined forces to tell an important story about the tale of their two diametrically divergent communities. Students from the private prep school, Harvard-Westlake, are collaborating with students from the Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology (HAAT), a public high school in East LA, to make a 21st century, vibrant documentary portrait of where “we” live - covering a wide range of territory from wealthy suburbs to urban blue-collar and under-privileged neighborhoods.

The project will culminate in a gallery exhibit and the publication of a hardcover book. This collaboration is being directed by Joe Medina, photography teacher at Harvard Westlake and Joan Dooley, photography teacher at the Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology (HAAT).

The exhibit will open at the dnj Gallery at Bergamot Station (Santa Monica) on Saturday, May 16, 2015 and remain on view for a month.

The project is inspired by a belief in the power of photography as an educational tool, and a desire to help people communicate the way they see their lives and their communities. The project also aims at encouraging students to respond to artistic challenges that will push their creative and technical boundaries.

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.

Opening Reception: "Explorations" by Fullerton College

Photos from our opening reception for "Explorations" by Fullerton College. This exhibition will be on display through May 9, 2015. 

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."

~Lewis Hine

dnj Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition "Explorations". Through inquiry, investigation, and reflection the concept of subject is explored through the medium of photography. The exhibition features works of photography by students from Fullerton College.

Woman in Gold

Woman in Gold, a new film, explores the Republic of Austria v. Atlmann law case fought by Maria Altmann and lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg, one of the owners of dnj Gallery, to reclaim an iconic painting by Gustav Klimt. In the film E. Randol Schoenberg is played by Ryan Reynolds and dnj Gallery Owner/Director, Pamela Schoenberg is played by Katie Holmes. The film was screened this past February at Berlinale.

Woman in Gold

The fight for justice never ends.

Plot Summary 

The film is based on the true story of the late Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refugee, living in Los Angeles who, together with her young lawyer, E. Randol Schoenberg, fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which was confiscated from her relatives by the Nazis in Vienna just prior to World War II. Altmann took her legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in her favor in Republic of Austria v. Altmann (2004).

Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
oil, silver, and gold on canvas, 54 in. x 54 in.

Upcoming Exhibition: Fullerton College

Fullerton College

Explorations

Opening Reception: April 11, 6 - 8 pm

Shane Morines, Explorer's Claim,

archival inkjet print, 13" x 19"

April 11 - May 9, 2015

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.

~Lewis Hine

dnj Gallery is pleased to announce a new group exhibition Explorations. Through inquiry, investigation, and reflection the concept of subject is explored through the medium of photography. The exhibition will feature works of photography by students from Fullerton College.

The Fullerton College Photography Department offers both an Associate Arts Degree in Photography and a Certificate in Professional Photography. The Photography Program’s curriculum entails both theory and practicum teaching that is designed to provide students with a comprehensive photographic foundation.

Please note: There will be a one-day street closure near Bergamot Station on April 11, 2015.

What:               1-Day Street Closure for Roadway Improvements  

When:             Saturday, April 11, 2015

Work Hours:    8:00 a.m. to 9: 00 p.m.  

Where:             26th Street, south of Olympic Boulevard

Traffic Impacts:

·        Northbound 26th Street will be closed to through traffic between Cloverfield Boulevard and Olympic Boulevard.

·        Pedestrian access to Bergamot Arts Center will be maintained via the 26th Street entrance will be maintained.

·        Vehicular access to Bergamot Arts Center will be maintained via the Michigan Street entrance.

·        Eastbound and westbound Olympic Boulevard will remain open at all times.

·        The crosswalk on the south side of Olympic Boulevard at 26th Street will be temporarily closed during the closure period.

·        Local and pedestrian access on 26th Street, south of Olympic Boulevard will be maintained and managed by flaggers.

Advisories:

·        Electronic message boards, directional signage and flaggers will be used to direct vehicles and pedestrians around the construction zone.

·        No parking will be allowed at any time during this closure. Signage with specific restrictions will be strictly enforced and will be in place in all construction areas.

·        Noise levels will be monitored to ensure compliance and the work area will be watered down to minimize dust.

·        Please obey all posted construction signs and do not enter the construction work zone.

·        For additional information, contact the City of Santa Monica Public Works Department at 310-458-8736.

dnj gallery

2525 michigan avenue, suite J1

santa monica, california 90404

310.315.3551

office@dnjgallery.net.

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Featured Artist: Dylan Vitone

Dylan Vitone, Sprinkler, from the South Boston & Pittsburgh Projects, 2000

archival inkjet print, 14.5 x 83 inches

DYLAN VITONE
For the months of April and May dnj Gallery will offer a 15% discount on photographs by artist Dylan Vitone.

Vitone stitches together several images to create a nearly 360-degree view, which, as he states, "allows [him] to show simultaneously details and relationships at multiple spacial and perceptual levels...." "Working in the tradition of street photographers and social anthropologists such as Milton Rogovin and Bruce Davidson, Vitone makes extended portraits of communities through intimate observations of their everyday rituals." (Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 10-24-08).

Vitone is an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a B.A. in Photo-communications from St. Edwards University and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country and is in the permanent collections of many museums, including the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

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.