New Year, 2010, © Jowhara AlSaud

Kicking off the 2012 art season, check out highlights on view throughout New York! See below for some of our favorite Aperture artists and galleries.

New Photographers at Dazinger Gallery, January 12–February 25, introducing five emerging photographers unlinked to one another through content but brought together for their first time exhibiting in New York City. Featured photographer Tereza Vlčkovà from Aperture’s groundbreaking book, reGeneration 2: tomorrow’s photographers today.

Silverstein Annual at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, January 14–February 25, offers exposure to ten up-and-coming photographers who have been chosen by ten prominent curators, including Nelli Palomaki, reGeneration 2 artist. View her limited edition prints available through Aperture.

Penetration at Foley Gallery, January 12–March 3, recreates the photographic image with five artists who interrupt the common photographic process. Portfolio Prize 2008 Runner-Up Jowhara AlSaud’s portraits of faceless figures, inspired by censorship, are personal photographs made into drawings etched on the surface of a negative, view her limited edition prints here. Pushing the capabilities of photographic paper itself, Marco Breuer scratches and scrapes the light-sensitive paper making conceptual, abstract imagery. See Breuer’s limited edition book by Aperture Early Recordings and Untitled 2007 and the highly acclaimed compilation The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, he was also featured in Aperture magazine issue 172.

Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures at Luhring Augustine, January 6–February 4, displays a selection of Joel Sternfeld’s earliest photographs, taken between 1971 and 1980, documenting his travels across America through vibrant colors twined with wit and satire.

Visions: Tim Hetherington at Bronx Documentary Center, through January 22, is the inaugural exhibit featuring photography and multimedia work produced by photojournalist Tim Hetherington who was killed in April of 2011 as he covered Libya’s revolution.

First Look at Yossi Milo Gallery, January 26–February 18, is the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery space located at 245 Tenth Avenue. The photographers included all had their first solo New York City exhibition presented by the Yossi Milo Gallery. These artists include Robert Bergman, Mohamed Bourouissa, Pieter Hugo, Simen Johan, Sze Tsung Leong, Loretta Lux, Yuki Onodera, Muzi Quawson, Mark Ruwedel, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Lise Sarfati, Alec Soth, Kohei Yoshiyuki and Liu Zheng. A celebration will be held in honor of these photographers on February 16 from 6:00–8:00 pm.

Cambridge England (Cocktails on carpet), 2005, © Martin Parr
Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Group exhibition Embarassment of Riches explores the different applications of wealth in recent day and age around the world through photography and other media works. While the monetary status of some countries today flourishes steadily, many others remain in a state of flux – surging and quickly falling. Contemporary artists, including Jacqueline Hassink, Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman, and Sze Tsung Leong, give visual insight to a culture within a culture: an elite group scattered globally that can buy endlessly and not think twice, wine and dine with the utmost sophistication, and transform the appearance of themselves and the cities they live in. Abundant and sometimes excessive in prosperity at first, these lifestyles can be fleeting and their effects tumultuous. Embarrassment of Riches is a commentary on society and its rich inhabitants from the past decade.

Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000-2010
On view Thursday, September 16, 2010 – Sunday, January 2, 2011

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Harrison Photography Gallery (365)
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
(612) 870-3000

Beijing Xilu, Jingan District, Shanghai, 2004 by Sze Tsung Leong

Ecoaesthetic, a group show on view at Exit art, focuses on artworks by 9 artists whose works confront the impact of war, industrialization and deforestation on the environment. The images included in the exhibition depict both the tragic results of human destructiveness while simultaneously indicating visual aesthetics of eco-degradation. Ecoaesthetic is part of a new initiative from Exit Art called SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics) that looks to present a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. Included in the exhibition are photographs by David Maisel, featured in Aperture magazine issue 172 and Sze Tsung Leong featured in Aperture magazine issue 183.

Ecoaesthetic: The Tragedy of Beauty
June 18 – August 28, 2010

Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave
New York, NY, 10018