Bill Sosin News

Congratulations to Bill Sosin for your recent placement of two photographs in the permanent collection at LACMA. Two additional pieces were selected from Mr. Sosin’s City Rain series that were previously acquired at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

If you would like to see more of Bill's images, please stop by dnj Gallery.

LACMA Selections:

Bill Sosin, Street Light, archival
inkjet print, 2006-2009


Bill Sosin, Metaphor, archival
inkjet print, 2006-2009



Santa Barbara Museum Selections:

Bill Sosin, In the Loop, archival
inkjet print, 2006-2009


Bill Sosin, Local Knowledge, archival
inkjet print, 2006-2009

Bill Sosin News

Benjamin Lowy News

dnj Gallery artist, Benjamin Lowy, recently spoke at the SoHo Apple Store and sent out information on his most current activity. Here is a link to view a slideshow of some of his favorite images in 2010. Enjoy!


An iphone photo from the ViDi project: iPhone Afghanistan essay

I hope this promo finds you well and that you are off to a great start in 2011. This year started with my Oil on Water essay featured on the New York Time’s Lens blog. Also, on the one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, Newsweek.com hosted a video I produced chronicling the earthquake aftermath. On Monday January 24 at 7pm, I will be speaking at the SoHo Apple Store covering a retrospective of my work and my current iPhone project ViDi. I hope to see you there.

Since my last promo, I have completed assignments for the Wall St. Journal, ESPN, Fortune, Business Week, Inc., Fast Company, Vogue.com and Daily Beast. My Disaster in the Gulf series was featured in Fraction J magazine and my Storylines and Iraq Perspectives projects were projected on the exterior wall of the Corcoran Museum during Foto Week DC. I have also been selected as a finalist in the Duke First Book Prize this year.

On a personal note, I am happy to announce that my wife, Marvi Lacar and I are expecting our second child this summer! Mateo is now a mobile and very active 1 year old.

I will be en route to Afghanistan on January 25 and will be available for assignments after the 1st of February.

Mobile: +1.917.412.4985
Email: ben@benlowy.com
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LENSCRATCH Reviews Photo la 2011

Thanks for the shout out Aline!! We love all that you do for photography! :-)





Melissa Parkerson from dnj Gallery
featuring the work of Maria Luisa Morando

Photo L.A. 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011

This past weekend, photo l.a. celebrated its 20th Anniversary as the longest running art fair west of New York and the largest photo-based art fair in the country, drawing over 10,000 attendees. It brings together photography dealers from around the globe, displaying the finest contemporary photography, video and multi-media installations along with masterworks from the 19th century. photo l.a. is honored to have played a significant role in the cultural life of Los Angeles. It has been essential in transforming the art/ photography landscape of Los Angeles by increasing public awareness and acceptance and the inclusion of photo-based art in almost all contemporary galleries and museum exhibitions.

In 2004, Photo LA was created as a public event, and each year for 4 1/2 days, the public immerses itself in all things photography. In addition to the exhibition fair, numerous lectures, events, and seminars were being offered. Photographers such at Uta Barth, Arthur Tress, and Amy Arbus provided lectures, presentations on independent printing and publishing, panel discussions on a variety of topics were offered, and daily collecting seminars were available. Across the street, Center hosted Review LA (to be featured next week), and there were photography openings at venues across the city.

Close to 60 galleries and publishers set up booths, filled with photography and books for sale. The galleries came from as far away as China, Australia, and the Netherlands, but the show also included local galleries. It was an opportunity to not only be exposed to a terrific range of imagery, but see trends in print sizes, matting and framing, pricing, and color vs black and white. Five years ago, the fair was filled with large scale color prints, the last two years were dominated by small black and white classic prints--this year was a more balanced offering of scale and approach.

most images by Noelle Swan Gilbert

Annie Seaton News

Congratulations Annie for your recent Photo la review on Truffle Hunting: Fine Art Experiences of Quality and Resonance! To see more of Annie's work in person, please stop by dnj's new home at Bergamot Station.


Annie Seaton, Wyatt, c-print with acrylic inks, 12" x 12"


Annie Seaton, Wyatt, c-print, 12" x 12"


Photo LA- A Few Truffles in the Miasma
by Herr Müller on January 14, 2011

Art Fairs can be grind. I’ve worked them from the vantage point of the dealer, showing and selling prints for 8 hours straight. I’ve worked them from the vantage point of an exhibiting artist. And then I’ve “worked” them as a passionate and undauntable visual consumer. To winnow the wheat from the chaff is made only a tad easier by the concentration of a single venue. But then, the walk in Chelsea or the drive in LA actually provides a moment of visual peace between art encounters. Six of one, half dozen of another.

Photo LA, in its 20th Anniversary rendition, is currently at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and runs through Monday. The fair looks good, well laid out, well lighted and user-friendly. The art on display runs the gambit from sublime to ridiculous, but this can be said of any fair, of any caliber. But we’re in the business of TruffleHunting, so here then a few notable standouts:

Annie Seaton

A new discovery for me was Annie Seaton, shown at DNJ Gallery which recently moved to Bergamont station. Cutout surfers from one photograph reappear on a facsimile painted ground of another. The paradigm is elegant and well executed. Modestly scaled and intelligent, Ms. Seaton has managed to deface in order to recreate.

Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan is and has been one of my favorite artists for many moons. Tom Gitterman is showing a handsome image of Elenor, the artist’s wife, muse and subject throughout his career. Aside for my personal love for the silhouette, the composition is divine and bold. It veers into abstraction and then gently manages to reassert itself into a portrait. The image is both intimate and veiled and thus divinely mysterious.

Bill Eppridge

Photography as journalistic tool and witness has always been important. There’s no greater picture in this genre at the fair than this marvelous campaign shot of Bobby Kennedy riding in a convertible in Indianapolis in 1968. Bobby is riding with the Fearsome Foursome and Prizefighter Tony Zale. The image is by Bill Eppridge and can be seen at Monroe Gallery of Photography

Robert Heineken

Another personal favorite in the history of Photography is Robert Heineken. A conceptual artist wielding the medium of photography in the 70′s and 80′s, Heineken was deeply ahead of his time. The dime a dozen MFA grads that are pumped out of Academic institutions at a dizzying rate only wish they could have his wit and charm and intelligence. At Barry Singer there are two excellent examples of his work. Polaroid photograms of art school lunches. Items from a salad bar and a neatly dissected submarine sandwich act as subject matter. Original, funny with a soupcon of fuck you make the result a perfect blend of commentary and art. Further examples of Heineken’s Recto/Verso series can be seen at Stephen Daiter‘s booth from Chicago.

David Graham

At Light Work, one of the most successful and enduring Non-for-profit organizations in the nation it must be said, there’s a great print by David Graham that ominously and wittily sums up the state of our financial landscape. Billboards are a deeply American phenomenon but it may not get any more perfectly American than this. The booth is filled with remarkable examples of great artists, all at reasonable prices, each one donated in support of the ambitious programming.

Wegee

Lastly I will leave you a triptych by the irascible Wegee at Louis Klaitman & Robert Tat Gallery . Yes, I say, a three-ring circus should be a triptych. Of course! The middle image may just be the world’s most perfect double exposure with the observed and the observers fusing into a single image.

James Robie Retrospective at CSUN

dnj Gallery would like to send out a big congratulations to our dear friend, James Robie, for his upcoming retrospective titled "My Life as Art: James Robie" taking place at CSUN Art Galleries next month!

My Life as Art: James Robie

February 12 - March 26, 2011
Reception: Saturday, February 12 | 4-7 pm
Gallery Talk: Monday, February 14 | 10 am


James Robie, Shrine


James Robie’s exhibition “My Life as Art” features paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and graphic design spanning more than 40 years of his creative output.

According to the Gallery’s director James Sweeters “What’s interesting about this show is to not only to see the artistic development of Robie’s fine art but his development as a graphic designer, a profession he skillfully learned working first as a production artist with several prominent Los Angeles designers and later after he formed his own design firm in 1978.” Robert Bucker, Dean of the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication added “It would be hard to determine by looking at this show if Robie considers himself a designer who paints or a painter who’s a designer. He’s approached each discipline with a focus and dedication that would make each one a success and perhaps it’s a moot point to ponder the question.”
Robie said, “My journey through life is reflected in my work. As I have grown as a person so my work has evolved and grown whether as a sculptor, painter or graphic designer.” The exhibition charts this journey. There are experimental prints and paintings made early in his career. Large soft lyrical figurative paintings of the 70s and early 80s cumulating in several fine beach scenes composed from photographs taken at Venice beach. Sculptures shown include several wood wall reliefs, and an assortment of wood and stone pieces that combine complex carving, many of the intricate carved pieces are carved from one solid piece of wood, with painted and metal oxidized surfaces.

Robie’s current graphic design projects and abstract paintings have mutually evolved from his earlier visual expression into a serious exploration of abstract thought and composition. With his recent work in both areas as powerful as he has ever produced.

Whether designing for large national clients or fueling his personal passion, Robie’s art has marked a journey of explorations, discoveries, achievements and fulfillment. CSUN Art Galleries is pleased to welcome the public to a decade-by-decade look at the evolution of his art.

Laura Parker News

Congratulations to dnj Gallery aritst, Laura Parker, for her recent inclusion in "Influential Element: Exploring the Impact of Water" being held at the Long Beach Museum of Art January 13 - April 3, 2011.


Laura Parker, Collecting Pool, 2010, 82" x 48"