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Optical: Beauty in the
Mundane
Raandesk Gallery
June 17 - September 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 17, 2010
7-9pm
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April 28, 2010 - New York:
Raandesk Gallery of Art announces
Optical: Beauty in the Mundane, on view from June 17-September
10, 2010. The exhibition is comprised of photographs created by the top five
finalists of the 2009 Annual Optical Juried Competition, which is now in its 3rd
year. Curated by Sarah Stout, Assistant Director of Rick Wester Fine Art, the
exhibition features both small and large-scale black & white and color
photographs that respond to the 2009 theme, "Beauty in the Mundane".
About
the 2009 Finalists
Nadia
Kyung Chae
First place winner Nadia Kung Chae uses x-ray photography
fused with the ancient medium of traditional Korean ink-and-wash painting to
reveal, explore and shed light on the hidden and organic elements in everyday
technological objects. A native of South Korea, Chae received an M.F.A.,
Photography at Jungang University. Chae has exhibited throughout Asia at the
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea; Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore; and
The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
Matt Gehring
Second place winner, Matt Gehring's photographs
juxtapose the sky with tangible man-made surfaces in order to draw attention to
how depth and space are visualized on paper. Gehring completed his BFA in 2005
from Ohio University before receiving his MFA in Imaging Arts at Rochester
Institute of Technology in 2008. His work has been exhibited at venues
throughout the U.S. including the Visual Arts Center, Portsmouth, Virginia;
FLASH gallery, Lakewood, Colorado; SPAS Gallery, Rochester, New York; and Big
Car Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Pattiann Koury
Pattiann Koury's series, Watermelon Hatchet
and Bunny Fur attempts to mediate the family experience, which is replete with
both comfort and cruelty. Turning the lens onto worn and injured everyday
objects within the domestic setting, she highlights the vulnerability within
familial territory. Koury lives and teaches photography in the Bay Area. She
studied photography at Rhode Island School of Design and the California
Institute of the Arts, graduating from the latter with a BFA in 1994. She was
born in North Carolina and often returns there to photograph.
Jeremy Sachs-Michaels
Sachs-Michaels'
series, titled So Much Depends on a Red
Wheelbarrow, a line borrowed from a William Carlos Williams poem,
explores personal and collective memory. Sachs-Michaels graduated from the Rhode
Island School of Design where he won the T.C. Colley Award for excellence in
photography. He has apprenticed with George Lange and Massimo Vitali, and has
created work and taken part in projects all over the world.
Magda Biernat
The Inhabited series
captures elements of the built environment in 17 countries. By approaching her
subject matter in terms of pure geometric form, cultural variances begin to fall
away. A native of Poland, Biernat received her BA in Photography in 2002 from
Wielkopolska School of Photography while completing an MA in Marketing and
Management at A. Mickiewicz University (both in Poznan, Poland). She is
currently pursuing an MA in New Media, Transart Institute, Berlin/New York, to
be completed in 2011.
Optical 2010
Raandesk Gallery is pleased to announce the theme for the 2010 Annual
Juried Optical Juried Competition. Photographers will be asked to respond
to the theme, "Staged"; finalists will be selected by a panel of jurors that
includes Evan Mirapaul and JP Pullos. Raandesk Gallery will begin taking
submissions for the 2010 competition on May 1 and continue through August 14.
About the Optical 2010
Jurors:
Evan Mirapaul
is an art collector who specializes in photography. Since 1989, travel has been
a catalyst for this collector. It has become his goal to seek out artists,
particularly photographers, and galleries wherever he goes. Highlights of his
personal collection include the work of world-renowned American documentary
photographer Ray K Metzker (b. 1931, see www.laurencemillergallery.com), young
American photographer Tim Davis (b.1969, see www.agvdgallery.com), and Brazilian
artist and recent BALTIC exhibitor Vik Muniz. He documents his encounters with
photography on his blog, "Fugitive Vision". Mirapaul is the co-chair of the
Friends of the Library Committee for the International Center for Photography.
JP Pullos - After studying
at the George Eastman House and at ICP, JP Pullos joined Patrick McMullan's team
of event and celebrity photographers and has spent the past three years
documenting the urban jungle that is New York City. His editorial work has
appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Women's Wear Daily, GQ, the
Village Voice, and Time Out New York. More recently, he has turned his attention
to teaching photography while simultaneously working on documentary
portraiture.
Listing Information
When:
Exhibition Dates: June 17-September 10, 2010
Opening
Reception: Thursday, June 17, 2010: 7-9pm
Where:
Raandesk Gallery
16 W. 23rd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10010
Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday by appointment
Public Information: info@raandeskgallery.com
Media Inquiries: raandesk.media@gmail.com
Pictured Above: Magda Biernat, Waiting Room, archival pigment print, Edition
2 of 10, framed 30" x 30".
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