#huxley parlour

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marrow - madeleine bialke, 2023

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Check out Joel Meyerowitz, Ariel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (1984), From Huxley-Parlour

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Check out Dora Maar, Ray of light falling in a bath, (Trait de Lumière Tombant dans une Baignoire) (1935), From Huxley-Parlour

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Eileen Cooper RA (born 1953) is an English contemporary painter and printmaker, who makes stylised paintings of women or couples, often featuring unexpected animals. She was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, and studied at Goldsmiths College, London and the Royal College of Art, London.

Cooper was elected to the Royal Academy on 24 May 2001, and in 2011 she became the first woman to be elected Keeper at the Royal Academy.

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Johanna Stickland is a Canadian born, self-taught photographer and painter.

Sticklands work has been featured in publications such as EXIT, Numero, Juxtapoz, Ignant, Vision China and Heavy Metal Magazine. She has collaborated with Nick Knight for SHOWSTUDIO, creating paintings of the Milan collections. Johanna is one of the photographers profiled in the book "Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze" Curated by Charlotte Jensen, editor of Elephant Magazine. Her work was featured in the exhibition 'The Female Lens: 9 Contemporary Female Photographers' at Huxley Parlour Gallery in Photo London.

Johanna's paintings and photographs are held in private collections across the world.

Above photos are from Johannas Series ' Painted Photographs'

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LISA SANDITZ was born 1973 in St. Louis, MO. In 1994 she studied at the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy. In 1995 she received her BA from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN and in 2001 graduated with an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 2005 she was selected by Creative Time and United Technologies to participate in an outdoor mural project where three commissioned artists, also including Alex Katz and Gary Hume, have painted site-specific paintings to be repainted on billboards in lower Manhattan. She is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient and currently lives and works in New York.

Recenet solo shows include Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, UK, 2020, with a show entitled, “Mud Season,”and at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2019, with, “Deep Woods”. She has had multiple solo shows at CRG Gallery, New York, NY, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

Sanditz’ work is in a number of private and public collections, including The Fogg Museum, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Dallas Museum and The Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY. Her work was included in Landscape Painting Now, Barry Schwabsky, edited by Todd Bradway, DAP, 2019.  She has been reviewed in a number of publications including, The New York Times, Art Forum, Hyperallergic and in an interview with Kanishka Raja in Bomb (2017).

Recent special projects include, a community mural project done at Mill Road Elementary School, Red Hook, NY and The Amazing Pollinator Guide, done in collaboration with artist and fellow pollinator lover, Emily Sartor, published by the Thomas Cole Site and Olana Historic Site.

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Heading to the Jamie Hawkesworth show in Huxley Parlour today and just came across this Gould Collection publication.

There's a video of it here - https://vimeo.com/369835885

The Didion essay can be viewed over here too - http://pdf-objects.com/files/00-On-Keeping-a-Notebook.pdf

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Keisha Scarville

Keisha Scarville is a film photographer who has been creating artwork ever since 1999. She delves into a few themes like memory, family history, Caribbean geography, and identity. As described in an interview, she became particularly interested in exploring the idea of identity from her childhood of going back and forth from New York and Guyana. A lot of her earlier works were attributed to that, such as Many Waters and I Am Here. She has been a part of several exhibits like "If I Had a Hammer – Fotofest Biennial, Houston (2022)" and "I Belong to This, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London (2021)." Just as previously stated, her photos mostly focus on her Guyanese background. My impressions on how the photos look is that they emphasize the human body, appearing to be leaning more into her Guyanese background. There is also quite a number of abstract images.

This is an image I decided to pull from the interview page, titled "Keisha Scarville, Many Waters (silver nails)". From the film noir aesthetic and context that she was using her camera to film her family back then, I can infer that this was based on her daily life from a child. It gives a very homey vibe, I get the impression that this is taken place on a hot midday or morning and this person is probably either going to wash clothes outside and leave them to dry or some other activity with the bucket she has in her hand.

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Artist Research #1: Joel Sternfeld

Introduction/Background: 

Joel Sternfeld was born on June 30, 1944 in New York City and is an American fine art photographer. He began taking photos in 1970 after earning a Bachelor's degree in Art at Dartmouth College. Before becoming a photographer he also studied the color theory of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. As a photographer,  Sternfeld is concerned with capturing the moments of American utopian/dystopian life. To do this, he focuses on people of all backgrounds, all experiencing a wide range of emotions. This makes most of his photos up for interpretation by the audience as to what identity the people in his photographs possess? Through Joel Sternfeld’s work, “he contributed to the establishment of color photography as a respected artistic medium” (Moma, wikipedia).  

Notable works: 

Joel Sternfeld has many works that have solidified himself as an impactful artist in the world of photography. These works include American Prospects (1987), On This Site (1996), Stranger Passing (2001), and Sweet Earth (2006). The two works that will be discussed are American Prospects and Stranger Passing. In his project, American Prospects, he focused on photographing American Identity in a “thought provoking yet humorous manner” (Huxley-Parlour, Biography). This was done by capturing people in places that require an implied narrative. His use of color for this project intensifies the reality of everyday life in America making this project all the more thought provoking. Similarly in Stranger Passing, Sternfeld photographs people in the middle of a circumstance that is up for interpretation. One picture from this project that stood out to me was of a woman pumping gas. However she was wearing very colorful and extravagant clothing which causes viewers such as myself to make presumptions on who she is and why she’s wearing such bizarre clothing at a gas station? Having presumptions about the subjects in this project is exactly the type of response that Sternfeld expects and wants. He expects this response in order to beg the questions of, “What happens when we encounter the other in the midst of a circumstance? What presumptions, if any, are valid? And what, if anything, can be known of the other from a photographic portrait” (Augustine, 2012)?

Awards/nominations: 

Joel Sternfeld has earned a total of 10 awards so far in his life. This awards consist of the following: 

2013, Montgomery Fellowship 

2004, Citigroup Photography Prize, in association with Photographers’ Gallery, London, England

1990–1991, Prix de Rome

1987–1988, Shifting Foundation Fellowship

1985, Grand Prize, Higashikawa International Photo Festival

1983, American Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Award

1982, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award

1980, National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship

1980, New York State Council for the Arts Creative Artist Public Service Fellowship

1978, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

Personal thoughts: 

Although I am no photographer, I am an interior designer and I can see myself using much of Sternfeld's objectives and goals to enhance the quality of my own work. For example, I have a greater understanding of the way an image can communicate to an audience; sometimes more than words can. Just through looking at one image, presumptions and information can be discovered which communicates a strong message. I can use this with Interior Design by taking note of the structure an interior space has, the position of furniture, and where the overall design draws people’s eyes to give people a message of its purpose without the use of words. I respect and admire Sternfeld’s ability to do that and I hope to be able to do that as well in my own work. 

Sources: 

https://www.moma.org/artists/5656

https://huxleyparlour.com/artists/joel-sternfeld/

https://www.joelsternfeld.net/bio

https://store.luhringaugustine.com/products/stranger-passing

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through perseus' shield - delphine kennelly, 2022

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Check out Joel Meyerowitz, New York City (1964), From Huxley-Parlour

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I did a duo show with the brilliant Olivia Sterling we opened yesterday and it’s on all summer! See it at Huxley Parlour gallery, 45 Maddox street in London!

It’s called Rage Comics and it’s a reaction to racist memes going mainstream

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Arnold Newman’s ‘environmental portraits’ were revolutionary. Pushing the boundaries of traditional portrait photography during the middle of the 20th century, Newman believed that to create a truly insightful portrait, every aspect of the image had to be considered. Uninspired by plain studio backdrops, the artist sought to articulate the sitter’s life and work through the environment in which he photographed them.

Newman’s career began in 1938, when he started experimenting with his own documentary photography, while working in various portrait studios across Philadelphia, Baltimore and West Palm Beach. By the end of 1941, Newman’s name had infiltrated the New York art scene. Quickly gaining recognition for his portraits of famous sitters, particularly artists, he soon began working for publications such as Fortune, LIFE and Harper’s Bazaar.

Noted for his ‘environmental portraits’, Newman photographed his subjects in settings which reflected their profession and captured them in situ – from Jackson Pollock in his studio, to Arthur Miller pictured backstage at the theatre. One of the artist’s most known photographs pictures the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky sitting at a grand piano. In this portrait, the object of the sitter’s profession takes centre stage, nearly filling the image, while Stravinsky himself takes a seat in the corner.

Newman’s choice of a white background, along with his use of black and white film and angle, all work together to subtly nod towards the sitter’s character and profession. He stages the image in a way which causes the lid of the piano loses its depth, taking the form of an abstract shape which closely resembles a music note. The music note dramatically looms over the composer, embodying Stravinsky’s life’s work.

Newman said of his sitters, “it is what they are, not who they are, that fascinates me”. In this portrait, the sitter and his profession merge. Through his ‘environmental portrait’, Newman creates an image which visualises the scale of Stravinsky’s talent and fame.