Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English photojournalist who is based in the Middle East. These photos are from a series called No Friend But the Mountains, photographs of women guerilla fighters with the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, on the border of Iraq and Turkey.
The Poetry Club Art Space is a new underground gallery in the basement of a Bed-Stuy apartment, open to all mediums of art, performance, music, and catering specifically to young and emerging artists. Curated by Melissa Godoy Nieto, in collaboration with María J. Baez and Liliana Zúñiga from Mexico City, their current exhibition, No Sombrero, focuses on the interplay between embracing Mexican culture and the pursuit of contemporary life. All the works all use a Jacob’s ladder toy, commonplace in Mexican households, as their canvas and are all functional. A selection of the 70 works on view are shown here.
New York based painter Jay Gaskill creates wildly hypnotic paintings that bring together abstraction, pop culture, and design. By combining colors that are harmonious or perfectly ill-fitting, his pristine paint handling allow the images to keep you moving through them at multitude of speeds, triggering emotional associations or sonic echoes. He will be exhibiting at Hunter College’s Times Square Gallery as part of the Fall 2011 Thesis Exhibition.
This selection of images from London-based photographer Daniel Stier feels like a document of the space between ritual and theatre.
Gueorgui Pinkhassov is a photographer who was born in Moscow in 1952. He moved to Paris permanently in 1985 and has been a member of Magnum since 1994, the collective’s only Russian member. On Wednesday, December 7 at 7 pm he will be giving a free talk at Aperture, 547 West 27 St, 4th floor, NYC, co-presented by Snob Project.
Batli Joselevitz is a 20-year-old photographer from Houston, Texas who likes to shoot everything that gets her attention.
Kylie Lockwood, a Detroit and New York based artist, incites a re-imagining of the body, forms from the domestic interior world both past and present, and nature through her powerful and quite often poetic combination of material choices and objects. Whether it’s her sculptures, drawings, or photographs she brings us back to a world of the senses, lovingly brought to life through her hands.
Angela Pham is a New York-based photographer who made her name on the fashion and nightlife circuit. She received her BFA in “something nebulous” from NYU’s Gallatin School in 2010. Her photos have appeared in Paper Magazine, Vice, Refinery29, Style.com and Billy Farell Agency. Her anglophilia and penchant for film most inspire her documentary work.
Jordan Sullivan is a photographer based in New York. This series of photos is being offered as a portfolio through Peter Hay Halpert as the first in their series Discoveries, intended to promote younger and emerging artists. The work can be viewed at the gallery by appointment.
As our fifth guest blogger, artist Mathew Cerletty presents the highly absorbed and abstracted paintings of Italian realist painter Domenico Gnoli. Gnoli, who passed away at age 37, was mostly overlooked before his death in 1970. Though he still remains a somewhat obscure Post-War Italian painter, a few of his paintings have trickled into the auction houses, widening the audience for his work. Both artists share a hyper-focus on seemingly banal subject matter, Mathew’s own paintings can be seen at his first solo show, Susan, on view at Algus Greenspon, 71 Morton Street, NYC, through December 17.
