small city mouse in the big city [mostly Chelsea], day one

Bridgette and I are visiting NYC for a few days and trying to absorb as much work as we can. So this is a bit of a photocentric gallery report not in any specific chronological order. Basically we headed down to the galleries beyond 10th avenue in Chelsea looking for Karen Kliminik's installation

and ended up finding a lot of work before and after we stopped in at 303 gallery. The most memorable work for me was the work of Mark Morrisroe at ClampArt. I keep telling my students in alternative photography about the strange reds that James Fee tweeked out of his prints through chemical means. The same orange red was present in many of the chemically abused prints by Morrisroe made in the 1980's. This is due to the fact that older papers made before the mid-90's  had cadmium included in the manufacturing and non-traditional high contrast developers and toners were able to convert the cadmium into cadmium selenide or cadmium sulfide.

http://www.clampart.com/inventory/inventoryimages/imagemorrisroe08.htm

Bridgette and our friend Jill Scheibler loved the painted on and scratched upon inkjet prints of Sarah Anne Johnson's "The Artic Circle" at Julie Saul Gallery.

http://www.saulgallery.com/johnson/statement.html

More tomorrow about chickens and wind pictured on paper coated with photo emulsion.