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Seattle photo gallery wallspace, which represents me, will be showing the first print I've exhibited from my CBGB series in its summer group show, "New Works from Wallspace Artists."
In fall 2006 I spent five days shooting the interior of the legendary CBGB rock club on the Bowery in Manhattan, going in every morning while the club was deserted and shooting in the near dark until the dirt and smell exhausted me. Six weeks later the club closed forever. I've exhibited the CBGB cash register image as part of my Workspace series, but none of the rest have ever before been shown. For this show, I prepared a 24 x 36" print of one of my favorite images, taken from the center of floor in front of the stage (above). It's a pigment ink print on Museo Portfolio Rag all-cotton paper in an edition of 3, as well as 17 x 22" in an edition of 12 and 20 x 30" in an edition of 6. I'll be showing many more prints from CBGB this fall at wallspace -- details on that to follow. |
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Three 20 x 30" prints from my Workspace series were selected by Rod Slemmons, Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, to hang in the Photographic Center Northwest's 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition, "Please Ring Bell." The show runs from July 11 - August 28, 2008. (Above, "Tony, Ganmar Electronics" 2008, 20 x 30" edition of 6.) |
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Two large-format prints from my Workspace series will hang in the Houston Center for Photography's 26th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition. Juror Dr. Alison Nordstrom, Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House, selected "Ganmar Elecronics (bench #2)" (above) and "Third Avenue Scrap Shop" (below) for the show.
The opening is August 8, from 6 - 8 pm (I won't be able to attend the opening) and the show runs through September 7. |
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Last Tuesday, March 25, Jonathan, Elizabeth and I shot a total of 450 Polaroids in 90 minutes. Then we each built a mosaic and presented them to the assembled throngs. Now it's time to VOTE! |
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3 PHOTOGRAPHERS
Tuesday, March 25, PHTHRD II Using nothing but stock Polaroid cameras, wits, bare hands, and lots of expensive accessories, Joe dukes it out with ever-fabulous Elizabeth Weinberg and how-did-I-miss-this-guy-but-nonetheless-obviously-fabulous Jonathan Harris in a three-photographer smackdown. PHTHRD in NYC invites three artists to tell a story using hundreds of Polaroid pictures to craft a mosaic narrative. This will happen LIVE in Brooklyn. That means you watch them do it and you get to be in the pictures. Buy TICKETS |
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My daughter Sophia and I just spent two long, long days as extras on the set of a Gogol Bordello video shoot in Brooklyn. I wasn't there to take pictures, but I did manage to grab a few, and the highlights are available in a Flickr slideshow. Enjoy! (If you were present at the shoot, email me for more photos.) |
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Until the jenatjoe.com site is up and running (stay tuned) here's a quick announcement for Joe's NYC - the Exhibition
Feb 1 through Apr 25, 2008 that's this Sunday at Joe, the Art of Coffee |
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Jen Bekman's 20x200 project now offers gift certificates. So if you just know that your Secret Santa pals would love amnh #30, but you fear they might like a print from some other artist even more (there's no accounting for taste), now you can let them do the picking. And gift certificates can be bought and printed out immediately -- no shipping delays. If you're hot on a certain print, though, maybe something along the lines of amnh #30, order in the next few days if you want your art by Xmas. |
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The complete run of 200 8.5 x 11" prints of amnh #30 sold out in less than a day -- thanks to all of you who bought one! And the medium size is a quarter of the way there. Jen sends out an announcement and write-up for each of 20x200's offerings. (Sign up here.) She included the nicest write-up of my amnh series in her latest mailing:
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I'm back! In a special holiday promotion, Jen Bekman's 20x200 project is offering editioned prints of "amnh #30," from my amnh series. Order (here) in any of 20x200's three editions: 8.5 x 11" in an edition of 200 for just $20; The $20 print is a no-brainer. Hey, at that price it's a stocking stuffer; thumb-tack one to your wall or stick it on the fridge. (But then you'll want to order a second copy for your climate-controlled archives.) The big $2000 print is, well, big! Bright, bold, big. At that size, I feel like I'm back in the Museum of Natural History peering through the viewfinder. And there's only two of those. But, as I've written before, the 17 x 22" is the sweet spot. The size really shows off the colors and the depth of field, and at this price, it's a steal. We're having all the editions printed on the wonderful Museo Silver Rag paper (in archival pigment ink, as always). And a reminder: The small and medium editions of my last 20x200 print sold out within days. I'm just saying. ----- Dear Joe,
----- And what's 20x200 you ask? Read what Jen has to say. (large editions + low prices x the internet = art for everyone) ----- Enough sales pitch. Have a fabulous holiday. |
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The Coalition for the Homeless / ArtWalk NY will be auctioning a 20 x 30" print of Sophia, San Miguel next Tuesday evening, November 27, at the Metropolitan Pavillion. Tickets start at $125. Other artists whose work will be auctioned include Ed Ruscha, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, and Yoko Ono. The print is archival pigmented ink on Crane Museo Portfolio paper, and is courtesy of the Jen Bekman Gallery, Ken Allen Studios, and, of course, me. This is your chance to fill that empty spot above the sofa and benefit the homeless at the same time. Don't miss it. |
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I constantly hear from visitors that they're confused about which of my prints are for sale -- only a few of the roughly 1000 images on joe's nyc are available, and they appear sporadically, typically after a gallery show. But now all the images that are editioned for sale are linked from one page, with info at the bottom about contacting my two galleries. Go forth and purchase without confusion. |
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Thanks to all of you who snapped up the editioned prints of "Prospect Park" at Jen Bekman's 20x200 Project. The 8.5 x 11 edition of 200 sold out quickly last week, and the 17 x 22" edition of 20 soon followed. There are only two prints left, the huge 27 x 40" $2000 edition. Thank you all. |
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Seattle's wall space gallery (which represents me) is now accepting submissions for its annual New Directions exhibition, which will run from January 2 through February 1, 2008. The competition is juried by Clint Willour of the Galveston Arts Center. Deadline is November 25. For more info and an application, visit wall spaceand click "call for entries." |
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"Prospect Park," one of my all-time favorite images, is the latest offering at Jen Bekman's 20x200 Project! The prints are officially available for purchase as of today, November 8 at 2 pm. All prints are signed and numbered, and available in three sizes/editions: 8 x 10" in an edition of 200 for just $20 The $20 print is such a bargain. Buy one for yourself and one for a gift. (Think: upcoming holidays.) The $2000 print is stunning. Let's call it sofa-sized. At this size you'll feel the chilly breeze coming out of that grove. But the sweet spot is the 17 x 22" — if I do say so myself. $200 is a bargain for an editioned print like this, and the size really shows off the gorgeous details of the trees, the bridge, and the lamps lining the path. All the prints are made with pigmented, archival ink on archival matte paper. To my eye, it's halfway between a traditional matte photo feel and watercolor paper. And what's 20x200 you ask? In Jen's words:
So don't wait — some of Jen's 20x200 releases have completely sold out. If you miss out, don't come crying to me. |
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joe's nyc was named #68 in the Top 100 Architecture Blogs ranked by "worldwide luxury real estate" website International Listings. Architecture? Sure, in the photography category, because I "reveal intimate details in urban architecture and landscapes." |
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A print from a new edition of "Prospect Park," one of my favorite images, and one of my most popular, is up for auction at the Prospect Park Alliance's 20th Anniversary Gala. Number 1 in an edition of 10, this 13 x 20-inch archival pigment image was printed for the auction on 17 x 22" Crane Museo Portfolio Rag paper by Ken Allen Studios, Williamsburg. It's signed and numbered by me, and it's unframed, unmatted, unmounted. Value: $900; starting bid $400. And thanks to Jen Bekman for donating her cut. You can bid online until October 19 and then in person at the Prospect Park Gala in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 20, 2007 • 6:30 p.m. to midnight. |
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File Magazine, "a Collection of Unexpected Photography," features twelve images from my Workspace series this week. File has published a couple of my images over the years: this underground shot from 2005 and this brooklyn image from earlier this year. But this is the first time they've run one of my series, and I'm really pleased to see how great it looks on the site. |
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Inscribed by my pal Dwight: For Joe, on Christmas In the summer of 1979 I was offered a temporary third-shift job supervising a janitorial crew at the Knox County Fair in Ohio. The fair was a great old-fashioned farm-country fair with livestock judging, tractor pulls, demolition derbies, etc. The job lasted for only a week and it paid well and since I needed the cash, I took it, while at the same time I was teaching at a school in the same town. I'd finish teaching every day at 3:00, sleep until 11:00, and then head to the fairgrounds at midnight, just as everything was shutting down and they were ready for the cleaning crew. I was mostly there to keep an eye on things, and the crew was fast, so after the first night, we had the whole job down to about two hours, and then everyone would head off to cars to sleep the rest of the night until the shift ended at 8:00 am. I didn't sleep, though, because I got my sleep during the day. So I brought some books with me. I got into the habit of buying a pork sandwich at the beginning of the night, before the Knox County Porkettes (the wives of the local pork farmers) closed up their stand. Then I'd keep the sandwich in my car until the middle of the night. Some nights I explored the grounds. One rainy night I hung out with a bored, dope-smoking carny and we talked for hours but he wasn't nearly as interesting as the situation would suggest. Another night I brought a laboratory laser with me, a gray metal thing the size of gun, which a friend had asked me to keep for a while in case the school he'd stolen it from came looking for it. I spent part of the night shining the beam on clouds and distant mountains. For some reason, the same black cat walked through the fairgrounds every night at the same time, around three in the morning, marching with a purpose and disappearing out of sight. I tried calling it, I tried tempting it with my pork sandwich, but it was clearly not to be distracted. One night I decided to follow it, but I lost it somewhere around the livestock barns and never did find out what its mission was. For the last couple nights I got out my copy of "On the Road," which my pal Dwight had given me for Christmas. After everything had settled down and the crew was asleep, I'd grab my pork sandwich, find a comfortable seat on the Merry Go Round (which ruled out the horses) with a street light over my shoulder, and I'd read Jack Kerouac. And I soon decided that no place on earth was better for reading Jack Kerouac than on a carousel in the country in the middle of a summer night. |
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Join me this Wednesday, September 26, at 6:30p at the Soho Apple Store in Manhattan for the latest, the best, the final New York City Photobloggers, featuring presentations and photos by Eliot Shepard, Jay Parkinson, Matt Weber, Red De Leon, and me. Plus a special presentation by Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman. |
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I mentioned not long ago that, though I can't make it to most shows that hang my prints, it's nice to see a photo of the installation. Ann Pallesen, Gallery Director at Photographic Center Northwest, was kind enough to send me some photos of the three Workspace prints that hung in the gallery's Up & Now show (which just came down). Oh, and by the way: I was awarded an Honorable Mention. Yay me! |
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I'm so pleased to see that Jen Bekman's 20x200 is now open (in preview mode). Jen's new project offers two new editions of great but affordable art each week, one editioned photo and one work on paper. As we see it, there are a lot of people out there who want to sell their art and a lot of people who'd like to buy it. They just have a hard time finding each other. The internet is the perfect place to bring those people together, and we're the exactly the right people to make it happen. We're passionate about art and the internet at 20x200. We're really excited about creating a place where almost any art lover can be an art collector. Each image is available in three sizes, at three different editions and three prices. Why is the project called 20x200? Because one offering is an edition of 200 prints at just $20 per print. You'll see some of my favorite photographers and artists, including Youngna Park, Tema Stauffer, Kate Bingaman-Burt, and a few surprises. Best new of all: an editioned Joe Holmes, coming soon to 20x200. |
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Slower.net was one of the first, if not the very first, photoblogs I discovered. I began visiting daily back in 2004 and never stopped. Eliot demonstrated his fresh eye and uncanny way with a flash over and over and over with shots like this, this, this, this, and on and on. Luckily, the archives remain. Slower.net was my portal into photobloggers and Jen Bekman and the whole scene, but, more important, Eliot's fearless eye constantly inspired me. So long, slower.net, and thanks for all the pictures. |
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Jen Bekman is showing paintings by Amy Ross and lots of photos (including mine) at the SCOPE Hamptons art fair, Thursday July 26 through Sunday the 29th. FirstView & Opening Night Benefit on Thursday July 26, 2007 |
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Above is a shot of "Photography: the 2nd Annual Exhibition" at the Foundry Art Center in St. Charles, MO, from April, 2007. There's my "amnh #1" hanging third from the left. |
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Julian's mom Sara, pictured above, is not in the band, she just models the Fiasco T shirt, which will be on sale this Sunday, June 24, at the Fiasco Record Release show, 7pm - midnight at Fat Baby, 112 Rivington. $6 cover. All ages. Featuring Fiasco, No One and the Somebodies, Anything Orange, Machetes, Paparazzi, and the Opaque. |
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Jen Bekman is pleased to present A New American Portrait, a group exhibition of photographs featuring artists at the vanguard of contemporary portraiture in America. Co-curated by Ms. Bekman and Jörg Colberg, editor of the influential fine art photography blog Conscientious, the exhibition will be on view from June 22 - August 3, 2007 at jen bekman, located at 6 Spring Street between Elizabeth and Bowery, New York. Jen Bekman will host an opening reception for the artists on Friday, June 22, from 6:00 - 8:00pm at the gallery. A New American Portrait features photographs by Christine Collins, Jen Davis, Benjamin Donaldson, Amy Elkins, Peter Haakon Thompson, Todd Hido, Alec Soth, Brian Ulrich, and Shen Wei. Their portraits, environmental, posed, and self-portraits among them, express the wide range of practice in modern American portraiture. Mr. Colberg observes: "A portrait lives in the interaction between the photographer and the sitter, a relationship which banishes any notion of objectivity. The work included in this exhibition explores, and at times exposes, this fragile intriguing dynamic." Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, noon - 6pm or by private appointment. |
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A couple of recent experiences leads me to post these two unsolicited, uncompensated endorsements: Photo-Tech is one of the few authorized Nikon repair centers in NYC, and the folks there are friendly, smart, and fast. They've handled almost all of my Nikon repairs (all but the few that have to go off to the Nikon Factory) and I trust their advice and their skill.
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Jen Bekman just installed a new edition of jen@joe, the ongoing exhibition of photos at Joe, the Art of Coffee locations in NYC. The 13th St location is now chock full of Hey, Hot Shot! photography, including a tasty selection of prints by Yours Truly. Just inside the door you'll see Apolo Restaurant, Third Avenue, and CBGB (above), and opposite you can spot Crosby Street. Joe is located at 9 East 13th Street between Fifth Avenue and University Place. |
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Spring 2007 Hey Hot Shot on view: Thursday - Sunday, June 14-17, 2007, Noon - 6pm Please join us on Wednesday June 13, 2007, 6-8 pm, at an opening reception in jen bekman Clint Baclawski |
