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. 

Circuit City/ Ponderosa Steakhouse by Brian Ulrich

Photographer Brian Ulrich will be giving a talk this Friday, January 29th, at Hous Projects gallery in New York City.

The event will be co-hosted by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, curator of the group show VERSUS in which Ulrich’s work is featured, and Heather Huber of Hous Projects gallery.

Ulrich will discuss his photographic work Copia, a project that examines consumer culture and the state of capitalism in America. Images from Copia were published by Aperture and included in the first volume of the ongoing Midwest Photographers Publication Project. In 2009 Ulrich received a Guggenheim fellowship for the further  continuation of the work.

In addition, the talk will address the works in the show VERSUS and Ulrich’s perspective on the new generation of photographers.The event will include a book signing.

Brian Ulrich at Hous Projects gallery
Friday, January 29th, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
31 Howard St 2nd Floor
NY, NY, 10013

View Brian Ulrich’s limited edition photograph Chicago, Illinois, 2005, from the series Thrift

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.

Below is an update on some of the latest goings on with three Aperture artists. On view at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York, The New Antiquity, features work from artist Tim Davis. Similar in tone to My Life in Politics, Davis surveys contemporary culture with his decisive lens, always with an element of wit and skepticism.

Photographer Brian Ulrich of MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project, is on display at Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. His exhibition, Dark Stores responds to the 2001 call from the U.S. government to stimulate the economy through shopping. The work presents a skeptical gaze at the over-developed suburban retail landscape that is instantly recognizable, even considering his omission of logos and brand names.

One of the artists from Aperture’s The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, artist Silvio Wolf has a solo exhibition in Milan, Before Time, featuring works created specifically for Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi that explores the dynamic relationship between object and viewer. Wolf’s project was conceived as a single work consisting of seven different elements, which form a series of stations. After spending years examining images and their role in contemporary society, Wolf now shifts focus to the viewer and to the resulting interaction from this relationship. Click here to purchase a limited-edition print from Silvio Wolf.

Tim Davis: The New Antiquity
Thursday, September 10—Saturday. October 24, 2009
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue at 57th street
New York

Brian Ulrich: Dark Stores
Thursday, September 10—Saturday, October 31, 2009
Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street, Suite 550
San Francisco, California

Silvio Wolf: Before Time
Friday, September 18—Saturday, November 7, 2009
Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi
Corso Venezia, 22
Milan, Italy

Since 1925 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has annually offered Fellowships to artists, scholars, and scientists in all fields. This year, after considering the recommendations of panels and juries comprised of hundreds of distinguished artists, scholars, and scientists, the Board of Trustees has granted 180 Fellowships. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

Congratulations to Brian Ulrich the recipient of a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography. Ulrich will be using this award to continue his Copia project which addresses one of the biggest challenges at the dawn of the 21st century: our relationship to  consumption and the potential reassessing of its role and purpose in our lives.

Join Brian Ulrich at Art Chicago, where he will be signing copies of his book MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project at Aperture’s booth.

View event details here.