Copyright Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi, the celebrated Japanese photographer, currently has an exhibition at Argos Centre for Art and Media. Work from her photographic series Utatane, featured in Aperture issue #177, is being shown along with the 2009 video Utatane 2. Kawauchi’s other photographic series and a slideshow are also on display.

Exhibition on view:
February 2­­-March 27, 2010

Argos Centre for Art and Media:
Werfstraat 13 Rue du Chantier
1000 Brussels, Belgium

On the occasion of Aperture magazine, issue 198, featuring Jan Tumlir’s article, “Femme Fatale: Zoe Crosher’s reconsidered archive of Michelle duBois,” Aperture is hosting a conversation exploring self-invention and role-playing as told through personal photographs, and what comes of the great “archival theme” in the digital era.

Los Angeles–based artist Crosher and Tumlir recently co-taught a class at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, on the impact of geography on local forms of artistic production, and they will revisit this topic in relation to Crosher’s past work on the city, as well as her more recent series. The discussion will situate Crosher’s work in relation to its historical precedents in the art of Conceptualism, the Pictures Group, and identity politics.

Zoe Crosher’s exhibition reviewed in the New Yorker this week, The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, is on view at New York’s DCKT contemporary until February 14, 2010.

Jan Tumlir teaches at the Art Center College of Design and at the University of California, Los Angeles. His book, Desertshore, was published in 2009 by 2nd Cannons.
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
212-505-5555

Copyright Neeta Madahar

Neeta Madahar, featured in Aperture issue #179, has an exhibition of work created over a two year period of time as the 14th Bradford Fellow at the National Media Museum. Her staged photographs, using flowers and plants as props, explore portraiture in the context of femininity and nature. Aperture Foundation is also pleased to offer an affordable limited-edition print from Madahar’s series Sustenance.

Exhibition on view:
October 16, 2009-February 21, 2010

National Media Museum:
Bradford
West Yorkshire, UK

Kick off Armory Arts week at Aperture Foundation with South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa in conversation with Okwui Enwezor on Tuesday, March 2nd and be sure to stop by our Brunch and Book Signing on Saturday morning on your way to visit The Armory 2010.

Aperture Presents: Zwelethu Mthethwa and Okwui Enwezor in Conversation

Aperture is honored to present a conversation between photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa and pioneering critic and curator Okwui Enwezor. The dialogue will take place Tuesday, March 2nd at Aperture in conjunction with the March 2010 publication of Mthethwa’s long-awaited first comprehensive monograph to which Enwezor contributes an essay. Introduction by editor Joanna Lehan. Book signing to follow.

Mthethwa documents a range of issues pertaining to South Africa-from domestic life and the environment to landscape and labor issues. His images challenge the conventions of both Western documentary work and African commercial studio photography, marking a transition away from the visually exotic and diseased-or “Afro-pessimism,” as Enwezor has referred to it-by employing a fresh approach marked by color and collaboration.

Zwelethu Mthethwa and Okwui Enwezor in Conversation
Tuesday, March 2, 6:30pm

Armory Brunch at Aperture Gallery

In celebration of this year’s Armory Show and the convening of artists, art patrons and art lovers from around the world, Aperture will be hosting an all day Armory brunch. The event will include appearances by Aperture artists-including Zwelethu Mthethwa, Eirik Johnson, Jacqueline Hassink, Joel Meyerwitz, Matthew Montieth, Gillian Laub among others, who will be available to sign their books. There will be special offers on Aperture books, limited-edition prints and more. Come mingle with friends and colleagues. Refreshments will be served.

Armory Brunch
Saturday, March 6, 10:00AM – 1:00PM

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

Aperture at The Armory

And finally, be sure to visit Aperture’s Armory Show booth, where Aperture magazine will be featured in the publications area.

Aperture at the Armory Show
March 4th – 7th
Pier 92, Booth L16
55 street and Twelfth Avenue
New York, New York

© Elliot Black Photography

Thank you all for joining us at last night’s opening reception of the exhibition No Singing Allowed: Flamenco in Photography with a fabulous performance by world renowned dancer Pastora Galván! If you missed it check her out at New York’s Tenth annual Flamenco festival this weekend.

Copyright Robert Adams

50 photographs from Robert Adam’s exquisite series Summer Nights, Walking will be on view at Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea.

This collection of nocturnal landscapes, originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights, was recently revisited by the photographer on the occasion of the books second release as Summer Nights, Walking which was co-published by Aperture and Yale University Art Gallery this past fall.

The exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery of  Summer Nights, Walking updates the work in light of this new edition for which the photographer re-sequenced and re-edited the images, adding thirty-nine previously unpublished photographs.

The exhibit opens this Friday, February 5 and will run through April 17^th.

Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking
Opening reception: Friday, February 5th, 6:00PM – 8:00PM

Matthew Marks Gallery
523 West 24th street
New York, New York

Buy Robert Adams Summer Nights, Walking

Copyright Thomas Ruff

Aperture Presents: An Exclusive Conversation Between Thomas Ruff and Philip Gefter

Aperture and the photography department in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design will be presenting an exclusive conversation between artist Thomas Ruff and writer, former picture editor, and author of Photography After Frank, Philip Gefter, on Friday, February 12th, 2010.

The event will in-part celebrate Aperture’s publication of Thomas Ruff’s monograph JPEGS as well as the release of Aperture’s The Dusseldorf School of Photography, a survey of the influential photography movement that includes Ruff’s work.

The conversation will focus on Ruff’s relationship to his JPEGS series and his newest work in two series: zycles and cassini on view at David Zwirner Gallery. There will be a book signing with both speakers following the event.

Thomas Ruff and Philip Gefter in Conversation plus Book Signing
Friday, February 12, 6:30pm

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

Due to limited capacity, this free event is RSVP-only.
Please send name to reserve at: RSVP@aperture.org

View Thomas Ruff’s JPEGS

View Philip Gefter’s Photography After Frank

Pyramid Lake (at Night), 2004 Richard Misrach/Courtesy Pace MacGill/Fraenkel Gallery

 Apple launched it’s highly anticipated newest product the iPad with Richard Misrach’s image, Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo he took at a Native American reservation in Nevada featured as the backdrop! The photograph, which was instantly seen around the world when photos of the device appeared on the front page of the New York Times’ site, on stage at the Grammy’s by Stephen Colbert and elsewhere. This image is part of a series on the American desert that Misrach has been working on for 35 years.

Check out the full story on Artinfo here.

Richard Misrach’s exhibition of of new photographs as featured in Aperture magazine Issue 193 is now on view at Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York located at 534 West 25th Street, through February 20, 2010.