Work Scholar Anne Lewis installing Alexander Gronsky's photographs

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Being an exhibitions Work Scholar at Aperture, one has the opportunity to learn the entire process of getting an exhibition onto the walls of a gallery from start to finish. I work closely with Exhibitions Manager Annette Booth and in addition, collaborate with the Design and Editorial departments to help format wall text and captions, work with art handlers to get the job done, as well as coordinate with the exhibition’s curator.

The past few weeks, Annette and I have been busying installing the exhibitions now on view, The Spanish National Photography Prize: Connections and Confrontations as well as Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge. In the weeks leading up to last Friday’s opening reception Spanish curators Carmen de la Guerra and Javier Diez traveled to New York to work on sequencing. Carmen and Annette pared the selection down from around 70 works to a final 49. While they were busy with that, myself and a few other Work Scholars assisted in sequencing Alexander Gronsky’s smaller show of 8 works in the bookstore. Art handlers, Phil and Roger worked with us to hang the different pieces. The day before the opening is always dedicated to getting captions and wall text up, and finally setting the lighting.

At the opening reception, the Spanish National Photography Prize exhibit’s curators led a gallery tour. It was really rewarding to see people enjoying the exhibition we worked so hard on. Annette is a master of installing exhibitions, especially since she began her career at Aperture 7 years ago as a Work Scholar! It is a great opportunity to learn from someone who was once in my shoes.

This Work Scholar post is by Exhibitions Work Scholar Anne Lewis.

Anne is a recent graduate of Tufts University where she studied Art History and International Relations. Her favorite Aperture books are Travelers and Paris-New York-Shanghai. Aside from photography she has a secret interest in cultural property law, loves to swim, and is an Olympics enthusiast.

Click here to learn more about Aperture’s Work Scholar program

This Friday two new exhibitions open at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore:

Photo by Joan Colom

The Spanish National Photography Prize: Connections and Confrontations presented by Aperture in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Culture will debut for the first time in the United States at Aperture’s gallery. This exhibit brings together sixty-five works by fifteen Spanish photographers and winners of the Ministry of Culture’s National Photography Prize. The show seeks to collectively consider the evolution of Spain’s photographic and creative history.

Photo by Alexander Gronsky

Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge will also be on view. Gronsky is the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize winner, this will be his solo show debut in New York. The artist’s photographs of Moscow capture the ambiguity of idyllic-like spots which upon close examination are revealed to be nestled in the midst of urban metropolis. These spaces where city dwellers find solace in nature interact with, but do not seem connected to, their greater contexts.

The Spanish National Photography Prize: Connections and Confrontations
also on view:
The Edge, Photographs by Alexander Gronsky
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
On View: Saturday, November 20, 2010 – Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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

We are pleased to announce some the participating artists included in Slideluck Potshow XIV, Friday evening at Aperture Gallery:

Abelardo Morell, Alexander Gronsky, Amelie Escher, Andrew Dosunmu, Andrew Hetherington, Andrew Moore/Yancey Richardson, Birthe Piontek, Chuck Close, David Maisel, Filippo Mutani, Francois Robert, Harri Kallio, James Worrell, Jeff Harris, Jon Feinstein, Jonathan Torgovnik/MediaStorm, Jowhara AlSaud, Kent Rogowski, Lori Nix, Mathieu Laverdière, Mashid Mohadjerin, Narinda Reeders, Nora Herting, Paolo Woods, Richard Mosse, S. Billie Mandle, Sara Terry, Sarah Hughes, Sophia Wallace, Tiffany Walling & John McGarity, Todd Fisher, Vincent Laforet, Yoav Galai/100 Eyes, Yvonne Venegas, and Zack Seckler!

Tickets $10 – Click here to order or purchase at the door. Proceeds to benefit both Slideluck Potshow and Aperture Foundation.

As beverages will be provided, bring your favorite potluck dish! Also accepting canned food donations to local food drive.

Slideluck Potshow XIV:Inside Out
Friday, November 13, 7:00 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

2009 Aperture Prize-winner Alexander Gronsky, Untitled, n.d., from the series The Edge

All of us at Aperture Foundation would like to thank everyone who submitted work to the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize. This year, Aperture’s editorial and limited-edition print departments—four staff members and three work scholars in all—reviewed over seven hundred portfolios. Our challenge was to select one top prize and five honorable mentions from this overwhelming response. Thus, we are pleased to present Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge/Pastoral as this year’s winner. Congratulations also to Keliy Anderson-Staley, Off the Grid; Alejandro Cartagena, Lost Rivers; Maureen Drennan, Meet Me in the Green Glen; Jason Hanasik, He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore; and Mark Lyon, Landscapes for the People.

Alexander Gronsky’s work, The Edge/Pastoral, will be included in next week’s Slideluck Potshow presentation at Aperture Gallery. Buy tickets now and come get a first look at this year’s Prize winner’s work!