Copyright Arthur Ou

Looking to get out of the city for a day? Take a trip to Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskill Mountains and see Seven Summits, the group photography exhibition featured during their Summer Festival. The exhibition highlights the practice of artists whose adventuresome spirit leads them straight to the source of their subject matter, whether it be found inside the studio or across the country. Seven Summits features fourteen pieces by seven artists, including Artur Ou from the Center for Photographic Media and Culture at Parsons The New School for Design which currently has an exhibition on view at Aperture Gallery, States of Flux. Also featured in the show are works by artists Roe Etheridge and Miranda Lichtenstein.

Mount Tremper Arts was founded by photographer Mathew Pokoik and choreographer Aynsley Vanderbroucke is a multi-disciplinary non-profit that supports contemporary artists in the creation and presentation of new works of art.

Seven Summits
Open on Sundays 12:00 – 6:00pm
July 10 – August 15, 2010

Mount Tremper Arts
647 South Plank Road
MOunt Tremper, New York

Click here to see a full list of events at Mount Trempner Summer Festival.

Photo by Bobby Davidson

Join Aperture this Thursday, June 24th for the opening reception of States of Flux, a summer show of student work from Parsons The New School for Design’s BFA and MFA photography programs. The reception will be hosted by SNAP! the Aperture Young Patrons Program and marks Aperture’s ongoing mission to support the work of promising young artists.

States of Flux was conceived as an examination of ways in which an emerging generation of artists are contending with forces of rapid technological change, new found potential for immediate mass distribution and consumption of images, as well as the burden of almost-immediate, unplanned (or planned) obsolescence of the photograph. The show’s artists are engaged in discourse about post-photographic realism while picturing the complexity of contemporary reality.

States of Flux Opening Reception
Hosted by SNAP! The Aperture Young Patrons Program
Thursday June 24, 2010 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th street, 4th floor
New York, NY, 10001

Photo by Ho Chang

Aperture Foundation and the Center for Photographic Media and Culture at Parsons The New School for Design are pleased to announce States of Flux, a group exhibition of works by Parsons’ students, will be on view at the Aperture Gallery June 24th through August 12th, 2010.

The twelve artist’s in States of Flux, selected from the BFA and MFA photography programs at Parsons The New School for Design, consider the need to produce and consume images while simultaneously addressing the changing nature of the medium itself.

Artists Ho Chang, Chang Kyun Kim, Grady O’Connor, and Nathan Harger consider the physical impact of consumer-effected environments. Working with the shift in image-making from the indexical to the digitally malleable, artists Sally Dennison, Haley Jane Samuelson, Jun Ahn, and Bobby Davidson confront the state of flux that the self encounters in digital space. Artists Lauren Pascarella, Marie Vic, Luke Burke, and Rachel Porter confront the desire to consume. And Merve Unsal, Patrick Taylor, Erica Campbell, and Olga Migliaressi-Phoca employ photographic projection and video strategies to critique systems of power.

States of Flux
Opening Reception: Hosted by SNAP! The Aperture Young Patrons’ Program
Thursday, June 24, 6:00-8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Thursday, June 24-Thursday, August 12, 2010

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

Click here to find out more about SNAP! The Aperture Young Patrons Program

Please join Aperture for some of our exciting upcoming events:

Copyright Barbara Probst

On Tuesday, March 23rd Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design will present an artist talk with Photographer Barbara Probst.

Probst is an internationally celebrated artist who lives and works in both Munich and New York and has exhibited at galleries and museums both in America and Europe. Her work examines the multiple simultaneous narratives of a single moment of exposure, triggering the shutter release of several cameras pointed at different perspectives on one scene with the use of a radio-controlled release system.

Artist Lecture with Barbara Probst
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 pm

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

Additionally this coming Thursday at the SVA theater a screening  of Alfredo Jaar’s film “The Ashes of Pasolini” will be followed by a conversation, presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA in partnership with Aperture, between Alfredo Jaar and filmmaker, poet and critic David Levi Strauss.

Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than fifty “public interventions” around the world, and more than forty monographs have been published about his work. David Levi Strauss is the chair of the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA.

The Ashes of Pasolini Screening and Conversation with Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss
Thursday, MArch 25th, 7:00 pm

School of the Visual Arts
333 West 23rd Street
New York, New York

Next week Sarah Pickering and Susan Bright will be in conversation at Aperture on the occassion of Pickerings first monograph Explosions, Fires and Public Order (Aperture, April 2010).

On the occasion of Aperture’s release of The Düsseldorf School of Photography, a comprehensive assessment of the influential photography movement, Aperture and the photography department in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design presented artist Thomas Ruff and writer, former picture editor, Philip Gefter, on February 12th at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore.

The artist’s talk focuses on Ruff’s early work and participation in the Düsseldorf School as well as his more recent work including images featured in the artist’s JPEGS monograph.

In this clip, Thomas Ruff goes through several key bodies of work following his professor Bernd Becher’s advice to always reflect on the photographic medium. Ruff speaks about his Portrait series which he started at the Düsseldorf Academy and explains how large scale has emancipated photography on the contemporary art scene in the 1980′s. Ruff also touches on the matter of objectivity versus subjectivity as well as on the notion of authorship with his Stars series. Finally when speaking of Jpegs, he focuses on the structure of images he finds on the internet and their distribution. By enlarging them, Ruff also plays with the perception of these images when the pixel patterns become sublime geometric displays of color.

To watch the full talk click here:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

James Welling’s photograms have earned him attention both in Aperture magazine issue #190 and Aperture’s recent publication, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Contemporary Photography. His cameraless works are both aesthetically beautiful and challenging to the trajectory of photography.  Welling will be speaking at Aperture Gallery tomorrow, Tuesday night as part of the Parsons lecture series at 7 pm.

FREE

Artist’s Talk with James Welling
Tuesday, October 6, 7:00 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Aperture with The New School, the Photography Department at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents a panel discussion as part of the Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context series. Kicking off this fall season’s series is Words Without Pictures, which explores pressing issues in contemporary photography and celebrates the launch of the LACMA book project by the same name. Charlotte Cotton, curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA, will moderate a discussion with panelists Alex Klein, artist and Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA; Matt Keegan, artist and editor of North Drive Press; David Reinfurt, graphic designer and co-founder of Dexter Sinister; and Denise Wolff, Aperture Editor. Other special guests include special guests Fia Backström, Johanna Burton, Melissa Catanese, Sarah Charlesworth, Moyra Davey, Darius Himes, John Lehr, Miranda Lichtenstein, Arthur Ou, Ed Panar and Laurel Ptak. Copies of the book will be available at a special price.

Words Without Pictures
Panel Discussion
Thursday, September 17, 2009  7:00 pm

FREE

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Photo by Jessica Todd Harper

Artist’s Talk: Jessica Todd Harper

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Free

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

Join Aperture and the Parsons The New School for Design, as they co-host a discussion with photographer Jessica Todd Harper. This event is part of an ongoing collaborative lecture series between the two institutions. Harper has been the beneficiary of several awards for photographic achievement and has been featured in many publications.  Her work focuses on the private worlds of family and friends and was inspired by her grandmother’s advance into Alzheimer’s. She currently teaches at Swarthmore College and the International Center of Photography. For more details on the event click here.