Susan Burnstine: Within Shadows

 

Please join us Saturday, October 22, from 6 – 8 p.m. for the opening of Susan Burnstine: Within Shadows. The exhibition will run through Saturday, November 26. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception and book signing of her new monograph, Within Shadows.

The Last Goodbye

 

Eschewing the use of traditional cameras, Susan Burnstine creates her dream-like visions entirely in-camera with one of over twenty hand-made film cameras and lenses. Though frequently unpredictable and often technically challenging, these cameras (an amalgam of plastic, vintage parts and random household objects) and their extensive limitations demand a high level of instinct and intuition—the same tools that are key when trusting in the unseen.

In the Midst

 

Burnstine, a Los Angeles base photographer, has been featured in various international publications, including B&W Magazine, Photo Magazine Romania and Rangefinder Magazine. Her work can be found in private and public collections throughout the world, most notably at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Capital Group in Los Angeles, and recently in solo exhibition at the AD Galerie in Genolier, Switzerland.

Until the Sky Fades Away

 

Within Shadows, Burnstine’s first monograph, was recently released in Europe at the Venice Biennale in June 2011 and arrived stateside in September 2011. The book has since gone on to win the Gold award for PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris in the Professional Fine Art Books category and a Bronze overall.

Traverse

 

For more information regarding Susan’s work please feel free to contact us here at the gallery!

Master Class with Susan Burnstine at Houston Center for Photography

 

A limited number of spaces are still available for the October 22 Master Class: Visual Narratives with Susan Burnstine at the Houston Center for Photography.

Bridge to Nowhere

 

The class, focusing on exploring and realizing individual narratives through the power of photography, will run from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.  For more information, please visit HCP’s relevant page here.

Those unable to attend are still invited to the opening reception of Susan Burnstine: Within Shadows to be held here at the John Cleary Gallery that evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Mitch Dobrowner: New Storm Images

 

Regular blog followers and gallery visitors will remember the striking storm images of Mitch Dobrowner from our summer show in July and August.

Mitch has recently added new images to the collection.  For more information regarding these new works or any other images in the series, please feel free to contact us here at the gallery!

Rope Out

 

Cell Lightning

 

Pillar Cloud

 

Veil Cloud

 

Mammatus

 

Wedge

 

Jupiter

 

Dark Star

 

Inflow Bands

 

Rotating Top

 

It’s also not too late to order your limited edition book and print from 21st Editions released earlier this fall.  This represents the first publication by Dobrowner and is sure to be as well designed and printed as the rest of the books by this fine publisher.  Limited to 280 copies with only 200 for sale, the book is 144 pages, includes 64 full bleed duotone images, and measures 12 1/2" x 12 1/2." This book is wrapped in handmade Twinrocker paper and is accompanied by your choice of one of four signed 16" x 20" silver-gelatin contact prints. The prints were made for Mitch Dobrowner by Ted Cullen and are the only silver-gelatin prints ever offered by the artist.  The price is $750.  More information, as well as images of the accompanying prints, may be found at our previous blog post on the subject.

2011 NYC Affordable Art Fair

 

Next week Catherine is heading off to the 2011 Affordable Art Fair in New York located at 7 West 34th Street (near 5th Avenue).

 

The John Cleary Gallery’s booth, F7, will be showcasing many of our artists, highlights including:

Niniane Kelly: Parallel Pear

 

Renate Aller: Oceanscape, January 2, 2009

Maggie Taylor: The Collector

Charles Grogg: Camellia

Dan Burkholder: Three Trees Near Water, New York

Mitch Dobrowner: Trees-Clouds

 

Tickets may be available for printing at the following links:

Private Preview: Wednesday, September 21, 6-8pm

Code= ONPPGJCLEAR

 

Regular Day Pass: Thursday the 22nd - Sunday the 25th

Code= ONDPGJCLEAR

 

Please stop by and check out our fantastic selection of fine art photography!

The gallery will also be open for regular business hours during the fair.

Houston Fine Art Fair

 

This week from Thursday, September 16 through Sunday, September 18 marks the inauguration of the Houston Fine Art Fair, located at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

 

 

If you manage to make it out to the fair, please visit our friend Peter Fetterman of the Peter Fetterman Gallery in booth #404.  Peter will also be giving a talk on “Everything you need to know about collecting Fine Art Photography” at 12 noon on Saturday, September 17.

Tickets for the event may be obtained here, provided by the Peter Fetterman Gallery.

Enjoy!

Jeri Eisenberg: Bokeh

Please join us Saturday, September 17, from 6 – 8 p.m. for the opening of Jeri Eisenberg: Bokeh. The exhibition will run through Saturday, October 15. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception.

Magnolia, No. 13, 2011

Bokeh, the Japanese term for an “aesthetic quality of the blur” in a photographic image, is the latest installment in Eisenberg’s Sojourn in Seasons: Sketching with Light Amongst Trees, with this exhibit focusing specifically on the foliage of the spring and summer months. Eisenberg began the series upon the advent of her father’s loss of both vision and memory and maintains the work is unabashedly retinal, as much object as it is image. Shot through a purposefully oversized pinhole or defocused lense and printed onto Japanese rice paper and lightly coated with wax, the images represent a distortion of recognizable form reminiscent to her fathers ocular and mnemonic deterioration.

Quaking Ash, No. , 2008

According to the artist, her work is “firmly grounded in the natural world, a particular place, a particular season, a particular time. But by obscuring detail, only the strongest brush strokes emerge: the images become sketches with light, literally and figuratively.” Ignoring grand vistas or exotic locales, Eisenberg focuses instead on the ordinary rather than the spectacular, on the common landscapes of day to day life.

Forsythia, No. 3, 2011

As a working and teaching photographer in rural upstate New York, Eisenberg has exhibited in spaces ranging from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection, Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, New York to the Cordon Potts Gallery of San Francisco. Corporate collections include Banana Republic (New York, NY), Vinson & Elkins, LLP (Houston, TX) and the Sheraton Hotel (Stockholm, Sweden), among others. Bokeh is Eisenberg’s second solo exhibition at the John Cleary Gallery, following her successful showing in March of 2009.

Giant Magnolia, No. 2, 2010

For more of Jeri’s work you can check out our Bokeh exhibit page at the John Cleary Gallery website here or please feel free to stop in or give us a call with any other questions.

Salt of the Earth

 

This past summer I had the pleasure of working for an organization in western Michigan before going on tour and on one of the rare occasions I got to get away from camp to run into nearby Muskegon I passed a giant mount of sand (?) salt (?) something (?) and was instantly reminded of the work of one of the gallery’s artist, Tom Hawkins.

My poor imitation (it’s the sincerest form of flattery, right?):

 

The real deal:

Salt Mound, Bonaire

 

Salt Harvest #5, Bonaire

 

Salt Harvest #3, Bonaire

 

For information about Tom Hawkins or to see more of his work, check out his website here or contact the John Cleary Gallery here!

~Joseph