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| Alain Laboile, Au Placard, digital pigment print, 16 x 16 or 30 x 30 inches |
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| Alain Laboile, Dune, digital pigment print, 16 x 20 or 30 x 40 inches |
For questions regarding the purchase of a Laboile photograph, please contact us.
Showing posts with label La Famille. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Famille. Show all posts
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Party of Eight! - Alain Laboile featured on The Daily Mail
dnj artist, Alain Laboile, has been featured on the UK news site, The Daily Mail. This feature briefly discusses Alain's work, his process, and shares more of his magical images. See the full feature here.
For questions regarding the purchase of a Laboile photograph, please contact us.
For questions regarding the purchase of a Laboile photograph, please contact us.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Alain Laboile featured on Huffington Post
dnj artist Alain Laboile has recently been featured on Huffington Post! See the full article here.
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| Alain Laboile, Le Cirque, 2011, archival pigment print |
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| Alain Laboile, Kika, 2011, archival pigment print |
For more information or for inquiries to purchase a print, please contact us.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Laboile is today's spotlight feature on LensCulture
Today on LensCulture, dnj artist Alain Laboile has been given the spotlight feature.
The article features a brief statement by Laboile, accompanied by 79 of his photographs. The LensCulture feature can be seen here.
More of Alain Laboile's work can be seen on his dnj artist page.
If interested in purchasing a photography by Laboile, please contact us.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Only a few days left for dnj's current exhibition
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 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!
Friday, December 27, 2013
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
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| Alain Laboile, Le cirque, 2011, digital pigment print, 19 x 13 inches |
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| Alain Laboile, Autour du bassin, 2011, digital pigment print, 19 x 13 inches |
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| 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.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
New interview with Alain Laboile
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| Alain Laboile, Pool!, 2011, digital pigment print, 19" x 13" |
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| Alain Laboile, Dune, |
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.
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.
Friday, December 6, 2013
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.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
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.
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| Alain and one of his daughters greeting gallery visitors. |
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| Dale Johnson and friend admiring the exhibition. |
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| Alain Laboile and Dale Johnson meeting at the reception. |
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| Jock Sturges, mentor and friend to Alain, came to the opening as well. |
Friday, November 1, 2013
Upcoming Exhibition: Alain Laboile & Dale Johnson - Artist Reception Sat. Nov 2nd
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.
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!
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
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| Alain Laboile, Untitled, 2012, digital pigment print, sizes vary |
Dale Johnson
Paris Portfolio
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| 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!
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