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In honor of July 4th, our love of hot dogs, parades, and all that jazz - we are taking a long weekend. Our gallery staff is a mix of Texans, Floridians, and Hoosiers who are spreading out celebrate with our families and so our gallery hours for the weekend are listed below. We return to regular hours next Wednesday!
Friday July 1st: 12-3 p.m.
Saturday July 2nd: CLOSED
Sunday July 3rd: CLOSED
Monday July 4th: CLOSED
Tuesday July 5th: CLOSED
Our Summer Group Exhibition, Dawn Till Dusk, opened last week and was a great time. In case you missed it, here are some photos of the exhibition and from the reception. You can view the full set on the gallery Flickr!
Special thanks to the Artlog LES Art Crawl for keeping the room packed all night!
Dawn Till Dusk will be on view June 17– July 30th, 2011 at Jen Bekman Gallery.
The exhibition includes work by:
Darren Almond, John Arsenault, Rachel Barrett, Robert Bechtle, John Button, Christian Chaize, Jorge Colombo, Amy Eckert, Candace Gaudiani, Derek Henderson, Todd Hido, Peter Allen Hoffmann, Jeremy Kohm, Michael Light, Michael Lundgren, Sally Mann, Klea McKenna, Sarah McKenzie, Stas Orlovski, Youngna Park, Ed Ruscha, Bryan Schutmaat, Mike Sinclair, Alec Soth, Esther Pearl Watson, and Letha Wilson
For more information about the show click here.
Nungesser Elephant by Colleen Plumb
JBG artist Colleen Plumb was featured in TIME's LightBox for her monograph Animals are Outside Today.
Author Neil Harris writes:
Humans have always had complicated relationships with animals, and we have been prone to reflect upon those relationships since early humans first painted creatures on cave walls. Photographers are no different, and several have created large bodies of work on the subject, from Garry Winogrand’s The Animals, to more contemporary image makers like Amy Stein (Domesticated), Rebecca Norris Webb (The Glass Between Us), Robin Schwartz (Amelia’s World and others), and Annie Marie Musselman (Finding Trust). Chicago-based photographer Colleen Plumb has just joined their ranks with the release of her new monograph Animals Are Outside Today.
Shot over more than a decade in a wide range of both obvious and unexpected locations, Plumb draws a thread between seemingly disparate settings and subjects, illustrating just how intertwined our lives are. Plumb explores our use of animals for entertainment, companionship, food and work, and how their images populate our consciousness, our rituals, our myths and symbols and even our corporate branding. As Plumb shows, many of these relationships are defined by contradiction: we are drawn to the wild nature of animals, we admire their beauty and nobility, we anthropomorphize and even worship them, and yet we strive to control them, to restrict them to the roles we prescribe, to keep them in their place—they are always subject to the whims of our attention and neglect.
Untitled #6, Antietam by Sally Mann
Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present Dawn Till Dusk, a group exhibition featuring photographs, paintings and works on paper by twenty-six artists.
Please join us TOMORROW, Thursday, June 16th, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at an opening reception for the artists at the Jen Bekman Gallery.
The exhibition is on view through July 30th.
Also, be aware that Thursday night is L.E.S. Third Thursday, meaning that galleries in the area will be open until 9 p.m.! Live and surround yourself with art in the Lower East Side starting with our reception here! For an interactive map of participating galleries, click here.
Progressing throughout the course of a day, the exhibition explores our impressions of time, and features work by: Darren Almond, John Arsenault, Rachel Barrett, Robert Bechtle, John Button, Christian Chaize, Jorge Colombo, Amy Eckert, Candace Gaudiani, Derek Henderson, Todd Hido, Peter Allen Hoffmann, Jeremy Kohm, Michael Light, Michael Lundgren, Sally Mann, Klea McKenna, Sarah McKenzie, Stas Orlovski, Youngna Park, Ed Ruscha, Bryan Schutmaat, Mike Sinclair, Alec Soth, Esther Pearl Watson and Letha Wilson.
Read more about the exhibition here.
Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to announce that Chikara Umihara is the 2010 winner of our annual Hey, Hot Shot! photography competition. A native of Japan, Umihara catalogues his travels in the subcultures of the United States in his series Aggressive Girls and Playland which can be seen at our website here.
Icon by Michelle Muldrow
Cathedrals of Desire | Paintings by Michelle Muldrow
artist bio | artist statement | images | press release
Cathedrals of Desire will now be on view through Saturday, June 11th. This gives you an extra week to come in to the gallery amidst all the fun summertime activities, so don't miss out on seeing this show. Michelle spoke with Nicole Pasulka of The Morning News about her work and practice, saying:
What I like to look at is the experience of what's familiar. A Costco really has a charm to it. But when I paint places like a Target—everything is in their colors, everything has to pop—I become more aware of the manipulations. At Costco they're little vignettes—gingham check over a fancy table, things in that moment that are supposed to make you feel like home. That's what I try to bring into the paintings.
Read more from Michelle's interview here.
Anne's Wedding, Overland Park, Kansas by Mike Sinclair
If you haven't noticed, summer is in full swing. Full 88-degrees swing, if you will. In honor of all the upcoming BBQs and beach fun to be had, JBG now has summer hours, as noted below. We are still open by appointment as well, so if you really, really, really want to see a show just shoot us an email!
JBG Summer Hours
Wednesday through Saturday from Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Or by private appointment.
