Publication of Nancy Baron's "The Good Life > Palm Springs"

We are happy to announce that Nancy Baron's book, The Good Life > Palm Springs has been published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg and has just been released in Europe. It has received a great first review in Süddeutsche Zeitung, the largest German national subscription daily newspaper. The US and Canada release date for the book is September 22, 2014.

Nancy Baron will be signing books in advance of the US release at Paris Photo L.A. on April 26, 2014 at 4:00 pm in the Kehrer Booth, at Paramount Studios, New York Backlot, Stand B2. 

Come autumn of this year, Nancy Baron will also be exhibiting her work from this series here at dnj Gallery. You can keep up to date with dnj Gallery's upcoming exhibitions here.

The Good Life > Palm Springs Book Cover, Kehrer

The Girls

The Kaufmann Papers

The Red Sweater

For more information, please contact dnj Gallery.

Photos from Dan Shepherd's Artist Talk at dnj Gallery

dnj artist, Dan Shepherd, had his public artist talk at dnj Gallery on Saturday, April 12 to speak on his current exhibition Blinded by Science: Alaska/California Collection. A respected scientist with an expansive knowledge of plants, Shepherd discussed his initial inspiration for his work, his photographic process, and how he was able to successfully blend his two passions, photography and nature, into his art.

Photos from Shepherd's artist talk below:

Dan Shepherd's exhibition, Blinded by Science: Alaska/California Collection with be on view alongside Allan Gill's Xradiography at dnj Gallery through April 26, 2014. You can learn more about our current exhibition here.

For inquiries regarding purchasing a print, please contact us.

Photos from Dan Shepherd's Harvard-Westlake Viewing

Yesterday evening, dnj Gallery held a private viewing for participants from the Harvard-Westlake community. Local photographer, Dan Shepherd, held a lively lecture and discussion for his current exhibition, "Blinded by Science: Alaska/California Collection".

Dan Shepherd discussing his current exhibition "Blinded by Science: Alaska/California Collection"

Our guests taking a close look at Dan Shepherd's photographs printed on his own hand-made paper.

Please join us at dnj Gallery this Saturday, on April 12th at 2pm when Dan Shepherd will have a public artist talk to discuss his current exhibition. Come and listen to Shepherd share his science-inspired artistic adventures that will have you looking at trees and nature in a whole new way and hear from the artist himself about how he melds his scientific background, portraying distinct gestures and characteristics of the trees, in creating his beautiful and unique works of art.

Please contact us for questions about the artist talk, or if you are interested in purchasing work by Dan Shepherd.

Upcoming Event: Artist Talk with Dan Shepherd

Artist Talk with Dan Shepherd

Blinded by Science: Alaska/California Collection

April 12, 2014 at 2pm

Dan Shepherd, Alaska Trees #5,

2013, Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle fine art parchment paper

with a hand torn deckle edge, 12” x 18”, 24” x 36”, or 36” x 54”

dnj Gallery is pleased to host an artist talk by Dan Shepherd for his current exhibition, "Blinded by Science: Alaska/California Collection". This exhibition features photographs that explore the interplay between science and art. Come and listen to Dan Shepherd explain how he used his expert knowledge as a starting point for his work that includes not just scientific analysis but also a very personal perspective on the natural world.

Dan Shepherd develops a layered, formal view of our environment by focusing on colors, shapes, and textures. As he explains, he seeks to "use the power of abstraction to filter out the science details in his head" so that he can focus on the purely visual elegance of nature and create almost portrait-like images of trees, plants and landscapes. In this exhibition, he expands his breadth by photographing the characteristics of our landscape at two of his favorite botanical locations, Alaska and California. With an M.A. in Environmental Science from Columbia University and an International Diploma in Plant Conservation from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, Shepherd uses his expert knowledge of plants to capture their most interesting and graphic features. Shepherd's series is fundamentally about his return to seeing, rather than scientifically analyzing, the natural world.

For his latest collections, Dan has traveled to the great forests of Alaska and open landscapes of California, and the new images reflect this evolution of his photographic vision. He continues to use the power of abstraction to filter out the science details in his head that lets him focus on the pure beauty of nature and create unique portraits of the trees, plants and landscapes.

Dan Shepherd currently works as both a visual artist and as a conservation professional for organizations in Los Angeles. His photographs have been exhibited in various locations throughout the country, and have been featured in several recent publications, including "The Orion Magazine," "The F-Stop Magazine -Abstraction" and "Lenscratch." This is Shepherd's second solo exhibition at dnj Gallery.

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santa monica, california 90404

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Upcoming Exhibition: Pamela Mayers-Schoenberg

Pamela Mayers-Schoenberg

The Vermont Project

Pamela Mayers-Schoenberg, Untitled, 1998, Silver Gelatin Print, 16" x 20"

May 3 - May 31, 2014

Vermont Avenue, 1998

Vermont Avenue runs for thirty miles through Los Angeles, from Griffith Park, through Los Feliz, Hollywood, Koreatown, and South Central, to the harbor. It serves by the Observatory, the Greek Theater, Los Angeles City College, USC, and the Coliseum, but I preferred to focus on the smaller entities of the street: homes, shops, schools, clubs, parks, and markets, and the people.  It is one, single community, made up of independent, yet interconnecting parts. Los Angeles is, and has always been, a great melting-pot. Through my images, I want to build a collective vision and create an interaction among the various neighborhoods.

*Please note this work will be exhibited for viewing purposes only, and will not be for sale.

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 at Arena 1 in Santa Monica

dnj represented artist, Clay Lipsky, has been included in a recent exhibition, "Alternate Realities,"at Arena 1 (a project of Santa Monica Art Studios). Four of Lipsky's photographs from his In Dark Light series are currently being shown in this exhibition.

Alternate Realities will run through March 29, 2014.

Arena 1

3026 Airport Ave,

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Clay Lipsky

Surface Tension, 2012, digital c-print

On Shadowed Plain, 2012, digital c-print

For more information or interest regarding Clay Lipsky's In Dark Light series, please contact us.

Buzz Spector in collaboration with students from the Myers School of Art

This exhibition is a collaboration between the University Libraries, The Center for the History of Psychology, Akron Printmaking Enthusiasts, the Synapse Art and Science series, and students in intermediate drawing at the Myers School of Art.

The subject of the exhibition, at the Bierce Library Lobby, University Libraries, is the relationship between books, memory, and perception.  Books are repositories of knowledge, opinions, culture, and memory.  Students in the exhibition were asked to respond to the content and alter books donated from The Center for the History of Psychology.  In their process students responded to the collection of testing devices for a wide variety of memory and perceptual experiments, some are on display in the exhibition, and are also from The Center for the History of Psychology.

Buzz Spector is an internationally recognized artist and critical writer.  Spector works in a wide range of mediums including sculpture, photography, printmaking, book arts, and installation.  His work makes frequent use of the book, both as a subject and as object, and concerns the relationships among public history, individual memory, and perception.  Spector’s installation is exhibited in conjunction with the student projects.

The recipient of several awards and fellowships, Spector was honored with a College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award (2013), an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2005), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1991), a Visual Artist's Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council (1988) and three fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (1991, 1985 and 1982).

Exhibition

Buzz Spector in collaboration with students from the Myers School of Art

March 12 – April 18, 2014

Bierce Library Lobby

University Libraries

302 Buchtel Common

University of Akron

Akron, Ohio 44325