Detail from Untitled, 2008 by Richard Misrach

Join Aperture for its 2010 Benefit and Auction on November 1st honoring photographer Richard Misrach; collector, philanthropist, former Aperture Trustee Steven Ames; and gallerist Julie Saul. This year’s auction will be Aperture’s largest ever with opportunities to bid on an exciting roster of prints by Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, Curtis Mann, Mickalene Thomas, Paul Strand, James Welling, Hank Willis Thomas and Kehinde Wiley among others.

Directly following the Benefit and Auction, the first-ever SNAP! Benefit Party and Emerging Artists Silent Auction hosted by SNAP!, Aperture’s Young Patrons Program will feature music spun by special guests DJs, an open bar, and great raffle prizes. The Emerging Artists Auction includes rising photographers such as Timothy Briner, Jen Davis, Adam Krause, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Will Steacy and many more.

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Doves by Jowhara AlSaud

American ReConstruction, an exhibition of new photography, now on view at the Winkleman gallery in Chelsea, brings together artists constructing photography-based work through pre- and post-printing consideration processes. The show juxtaposes such diverse approaches to image making as 2008 portfolio prize runer-up Jowhara AlSaud’s prints made from manually altered negatives to MP3: vol II featured artist Curtis Mann’s bleached photographs. Also on exhibit will be works by 2009 portfolio prize runner-up Mark Lyon, WIP founder Cara Phillips as well as Matthew Albanese and Jeremy Kost.

The show runs through June 12th.

American ReConstruction

Winkleman Gallery
621 West 27th Street
New York, NY, 10001

Click here to purchase Jowhara AlSaud limited edition print Doves

Click here to purchase Mark Lyon limited edition print Emerald Garden Laundromat

Click here to purchase MP3: vol II featuring Curtis Mann

Chicago by Brian Ulrich

Art Chicago, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, opens this Friday!

Visit Aperture’s Art Chicago booth for exciting new and classic Aperture publications, limited-edition photographs and Aperture Magazine subscriptions.

In addition a panel discussion about  Aperture and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s ongoing collaboration The Midwest Photographers Project will take place at Art Chicago’s NEXT Talk Shop this Sunday at 3:00pm. Panelists will include artists Curtis Mann and Brian Ulrich, Aperture’s Christina Caputo and MoCP’s Karen Irvine.

Aperture at Art Chicago
Friday, April 30, 2010 – Monday, May 3, 2010
Booth 12-363

The Midwest Photographers Project Panel Discussion
Sunday, May 2, 2010 3:00 PM
NEXT Talk Shop

Art Chicago
The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago, Illinois

Click here to view MP3: Midwest Photographer’s Project Volume I

Click here to view MP3: Midwest Photographer’s Project Volume II

Click here to buy a limited-edition of Chicago, by Brian Ulrich. 

Curtis Mann, published in Aperture’s MP3: Vol II this past spring, has been selected as one of four photographers presented in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial 2010. For his series Modifications, Curtis Mann collects found photographs depicting conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He then bleaches and scratches the surface of the images, removing information to create new meanings from his source material. Congratulations to Curtis and all those selected for the Biennial 2010, click here to view full list of participating artists.

Click here to view MP3: Vol II through Aperture.

Click here to purchase a limited-edition print from Curtis Mann.

Join the three MP3 II artists for a talk about their work on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

For his series Modifications, Curtis Mann collects found photographs depicting conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He then bleaches and scratches the surface of the images, removing information to create new meanings from his source material. John Opera investigates the uncanny in nature. Moving between representation and geometric abstraction, his works reference historical notions of the sublime and landscape as well as modernist photography. Stacia Yeapanis‘s interest in modes of entertainment and hobbies has led her to explore the simulated-reality computer game The Sims 2, and the craft of embroidery, as she stitches television screen captures of characters in states of distress.

MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, July 23, 5:30 pm

Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
(312) 663-5554

Exhibition on view:
Friday, July 17–Sunday, September 13, 2009

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