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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS LANDSCAPE
June 12, 2010
The artist reception for Rolfe Horn's "Landscape" is Saturday, July 24, 7-9 pm. Horn's photographs exemplify the peace and simplicity of the natural world, images that capture a transcendental sense of euphoria at the joy of being alive.
Horn's exhibition is the fourth in the series of revolving solo shows from four San Francisco-based artists. These are the first solo exhibitions for each of these artists in Los Angeles.
Amy Auerbach's series of photographs entitled "Vanishing Waterfront" encompasses both surrealism and abstraction, merging the elements of light and water to create beautifully rendered disjunctive realities that simultaneously reveal and conceal the living world.
Monica Denevan's "Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma" are at once stark and revelatory and capture both the complexity and inherent splendor of the Burmese landscape. These images suggest Denevan's own deeply personal investment in Burmese culture and the complex relationships she has forged over time with its people.
Ben Nixon's "Surface Tension" photographs describe a connection to history that is both geological and photographic. Utilizing the 19th century "collodion technique" Nixon's photographs reference the nostalgia of the American West. The chance nature inherent in the wet-plate process suggests a distinctive mood and atmosphere steeped in the history of American lore. The collodion process is delicate and precise and Nixon's imagery captures this quiet fragility combined with the fierce elegance and grandness of the American landscape. |
PAST EXHIBITIONS
ELECTRIC FLOWERS
April 8, 2010
Artists Robert Buelteman and Ed Martin present an exhibition of photographs -- flowers and plants -- taken without cameras.
With their own special techniques, each artist coaxes the plant to reveal a different type of photograph -- colorful, other-worldly and unique. |
| 30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
January 15, 2010
Criss-crossing the U.S., Dunas created a series called American Pictures, spending time in the Mississippi delta he photographed blues players. He shot nudes in France. Baroque and Renaissance gardens, and street pictures from around the world. |
| NEW WORKS
December 15, 2009
Photographer Chris McCaw has released a new series of original work, based on paper negatives, long exposures, and the sun burning its way across the image.
This series is titled P.O.P., and is made using an arcane photographic paper that was popular in the early 1900's. The paper's common name is "Printing Out Paper." This paper produces beautiful, ethereal prints with a range of colors from deep magenta, violet or brownish tint. The subtle color hues in each piece are quite different in each piece as a result of the paper, the hand processing and the gold toning of each image during processing.
Due to the scarcity of this paper, this series is currently limited to 16 pieces. As each piece is the actual negative that was placed in the camera, they are one-of-a-kind and cannot be reproduced.
McCaw's work has been recently acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Works are currently on display in both museums. |
| COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
October 22, 2009
We are pleased to produce the first exhibition of color photographs from artist Frank Paulin. These color images date back to the early 1950s and represent a substantial body of newly discovered work.
"Vibrant work... shot a half-century ago but never printed until this year. Many of the pictures read like montages, layered assemblages of motion, reflection, and signage, the choreography of the city (usually Manhattan) stilled for a brief, dynamic moment." -- from Los Angeles Times review, November 13, 2009
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| THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY
August 15, 2009
"Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary" a photographic exhibition. Featuring the works of Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Henry Diltz and Lisa Law, this show recreates the experience of the crowd, the ambiance and the music of the world's most famous music festival. See our Press section for video and reviews of this exhibition.
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| GULP
April 9, 2009
Wheeler's GULP series features large-format color landscapes of Southern California -- but photographed through the waters of a series of swimming pools. |
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February 5, 2009
Opening reception: Thursday, Feb 5th, 6-9 pm
Group f.64 was an association organized in 1932 by a group of eleven photographers: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Preston Holder and Brett Weston. One of the finest collections of f.64 work has been assembled for an exhibition at Duncan Miller Gallery. |
| PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS
February 5, 2009
Kim is a third-generation member of one of the most important and creative families in photography. He learned his craft assisting his father Cole in the darkroom making gallery prints from his grandfather Edward's original negatives. Kim also worked for many years as an assistant to his uncle Brett. This exhibition consists of one-of-a-kind pieces -- Kim's silver prints that he paints with oil. |
| OBJECTS
November 6, 2008
In his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Chema Madoz exhibits a series of surreal and refined black-and-white photographs from the past decade. Madoz engages ordinary objects in different ways -- by manipulating, juxtaposing, and constructing -- and then photographing the new entities without digital manipulation, creating visual images that are placed out of their original context and joined together to create a new reality. |
| SHARP CONTRASTS
September 18, 2008
Paris-based Florence Gruere, originally a filmmaker, turned to fine art photography in the early 1970s. She began making portraits, an ongoing preoccupation and an emotional process for her as she sought to reveal the subtleties of personality. In Sharp Contrasts Gruere exhibits a series of portraits made in the 1970s of well-known photographers, among them Man Ray, André Kertész, and Jacques Henri Lartigue; each photograph is heavily imbued with shadow and mood.
Gruere also focuses her lens on the broader aspects of life in Paris -- for example, autumn along the Seine -- capturing the character of the city without romanticizing her subject. These paysages are delicate contrasts of light and dark which invite the viewer in for closer inspection and revelation. The same is true for her photographs of female nudes, a series that she began in 2000 in which she uses the same lens utilized in her other work.
Fascinated by technique, Gruere set out in the mid-1990s to learn how to print using the gum bichromate process. She recently commented, “My pictures have sharp contrast; they focus on the essential, the main features rather than the details, a fact that is reinforced when using the gum process.”
Henri Dauman, based in New York, is a well-known photojournalist who has documented historical events, personalities, and cultural changes of the twentieth century. He garnered worldwide attention as a feature photographer for Life magazine, for which he captured personalities from the political world as well as celebrities from the art and pop culture scenes.
In Sharp Contrasts Dauman exhibits a series of photographs that portray life in New York City in the early 1960s. These black-and-white images not only depict social issues of the day, but they also mark a specific time and place in America. The images reflect a sense of lyrical beauty even as they reveal everyday occurrences on the streets of the city.
Focusing on a much more intimate subject, Dauman will also show his quixotic portraits of well-known film directors -- François Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, and others -- taken during the same time period. The portraits are pensive and yet alluring, as they capture these towering figures of film in unguarded moments. |
| SUNBURNS
April 10, 2008
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| GIL GARCETTI
October 4, 2007
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| OLEG DOU
August 2, 2007
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| FOUR RUSSIANS
May 3, 2007
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| LOAN NGUYEN
March 1, 2007
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| EDWARD WESTON
January 10, 2007
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| FRENCH MASTERS
August 15, 2006
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| ICONS OF ROCK
June 8, 2006
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| MARC RIBOUD: THE WORLD. HIS LENS
March 1, 2006
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| FRANK PAULIN: MOMENTS
December 1, 2005
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