gallery sightings: photo emulsion on handmade paper

The question is, if this blog is about the goings on in my studio (not very much as of March 30th) then why write about a trip to New York city? 


Note taking and note keeping. Unless I put this down in written form, I am going to forget what I saw.


Just a quick stab at recollection. Last Thursday, Bridgette, Jill Scheibler and I walked around a few blocks around 24th street and 10th avenue. In order alleviate some guilt on their part regarding all the painting and sculpture we were looking at, they agreed to go to a few photography venues. Aperture was the big one, where we got to see them lighting Jungjin Lee's  "Wind" exhibition. These were all done on handmade Korean mulberry paper. Later that night we returned with a few extra friends to experience a big Chelsea Thursday evening art opening. 

The next day I walked up Avenue of the Americas with Tim Castlen photographing along the way. Our primary destination was ICP and the Mexican Suitcase exhibit. I'll save a discussion of that for another time. After ICP we continue on up what may have been Broadway until we reached 57th street. I had steered us this way because of the cluster of midtown art galleries, hoping that we would get to Pace MacGill. We didn't but we did visit two galleries on West 57th, the Robert Anderson Gallery and the Marlborough Gallery. 

At the Robert Anderson gallery there were actually three shows up mostly work by Suzanne Opton and Geoff Winingham but in the back were three large black and white prints framed 30" x 30" by Barbara Mensch.

Jean Pagliuso was showing her Poultry and Raptor Suites of enlarged photo emulsion prints on Kaji and Thai Mulberry papers.

Although two doesn't make a trend, it's interesting to see two very different bodies of work with similar means of print making. It makes me rethink whether I want to show students Liquid Light on wood and metal or whether a beautiful handmade paper will win them over.