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Berenice Abbott: 1898-1991

July 17, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Born on July 17, 1898 in Springfield, Ohio, Berenice Abbott is best known for her powerful black-and-white photographs of New York City in the 1930’s. Her pictures of buildings, houses, trains, warehouses and store fronts, provide an incredible record of New York City during that period.

Abbott studied briefly at Ohio State University before traveling first to New York and then, in 1921, to Europe to study sculpture and drawing. Her interest in photography began when she arrived in Paris in 1923 to work as a darkroom assistant for the American Surrealist Man Ray. In 1925, she took up portrait photography and opened her own studio in 1926. She quickly achieved success with her compelling portraits of artists and writers such as James Joyce, Janet Flanner and Jean Cocteau.

Abbott’s first major photographic project, began in 1929, shortly after she returned from Paris. Her documentation of New York, a growing and changing city, is some of Abbott’s best work. Many of her well-known New York images were taken as part of The Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939 (a collection that was later published as “Changing New York”). She continued to photograph New York City for over 27 years.

In 1939, Abbott began what many consider to be her most ambitious project and which spanned more than twenty years. Believing science to be a valid subject for artistic statements, she set out to illustrate that photography was the medium uniquely qualified to unite art with science. During this period, Abbott produced thousands of photographs as well as designing and patenting scientific equipment, including two cameras. In 1958, she was recognized by the Physical Science Study Committee of Education Services, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and worked with them for three years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create a physics text book.

Throughout her career, Abbott recorded the American scene in other states as well, such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and in the Deep South. In 1953, she photographed her journey from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida, and back, documenting a changing America from along the Route One Highway.

Abbott was also known as the person responsible for the present-day fame of the French photographer Eugene Atget, whom she met in Paris two years before his death in 1927. Abbott purchased his works, brought them with her to New York, and arranged exhibitions, print sales and the publication of several books. Atget’s photographs, which documented the architecture and street scenes of Paris, had a significant influence on the development of American photography.

In 1966, Abbott moved permanently to Maine,  but maintained a connection to New York through her collaboration with the New York Public Library, which sponsored a major retrospective exhibition of her work in 1989.   Berenice Abbott died in Maine on December 9, 1991 at the age of 93.

Berenice Abbott jacob-heymann-butcher-shop-345-sixth-avenue-new-york - 1938
Berenice Abbott van-de-graaff-generator-cambridge-massachusetts - 1958
Berenice Abbott nightview-new-york - 1932
Berenice Abbott soap-bubbles-new-york - 1945-6
Berenice Abbott john-watts-statue-from-trinity-church-looking-toward-one-wall-street-new-york - 1938
Berenice Abbott fulton-fish-market-new-york-1930
Berenice Abbott - Magnetism With Key Cambridge Massachusetts-1958-61
Berenice Abbott bowery-bum-new-york 1932
Berenice Abbott 1411-9th street-augusta-georgia -1954
Berenice Abbott blossom-restaurant-103-bowery-new-york 1935

Sources: New York Times, Commerce Graphics

Filed Under: ART, Art History, Photography Tagged With: American Art, Berenice Abbott

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 164

July 13, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of Scott Naismith, Sue Firsker, Alison Langevad, Andy Kehoe, Cece Carpio, Lee Jaehyo, Maria Kreyn and a video by Tate Shots – Grayson Perry, Think Like an Artist.

Cece-Carpio---cececarpio.com
Sue-Firsker-suefirkser.ca
Scott-Naismith-scottnaismith.com
Andy-Kehoe---andykehoe.net
Lee-Jaehyo-leeart.name
Alison-Langevad-alisonlangevad.com
Maria-Kreyn-mariakreyn.com

Filed Under: ART, Fibre Art, Group Feature, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art Tagged With: Alison Langevad, Andy Kehoe, Cece Carpio, Lee Jaehyo, Maria Kreyn, Scott Naismith, Sue Firsker

David Hockney: Painting/Photo Collage

July 9, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

David-HockneyBorn on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, David Hockney is a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.

From 1953-57, Hockney studied at the Bradford School of Art and then at the Royal Collage of Art from 1959-62. He received the Royal College of Art gold medal in 1962 for his paintings and draughtsmanship.

Hockney’s early work was diverse. He became associated with the British Pop Art movement (though he rejected this label), but his work also displayed expressionist elements. In the late 1960’s his work was “weightier” with a more “traditionally representational manner”.  He spent much of his time in the United States, and California swimming pools and homoerotic scenes became well-known themes in his work.

In the 1970’s Hockney worked as a stage designer creating set and costume designs for productions including Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Mozart’s The Magic Flute which were produced at Glyndebourne Opera House. Hockney was the subject of the 1974 Jack Hazan’s film called “A Bigger Splash” (named after one of Hockney’s swimming pool paintings from 1967).

In the early 1980’s Hockney produced photo collages which he called “joiners” with subject matter from portraits to still life, and from representational to abstract styles. “Using varying numbers of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one of Hockney’s major aims—discussing the way human vision works.”

In the mid to late 80’s, Hockney made use of computers, colour photocopiers and fax machines to create artwork. In 1985, he was commissioned to draw with the Quantel Paintbox, a computer program that allowed the artist to sketch directly onto the monitor. In 1989, he sent work for the Sao Paulo Biennale to Brazil via fax. Hockney experimented with computers, composing images and colours on the monitor and printing them directly from the computer without proofing.

From the 1990’s onward, Hockney has continued to work on a variety of paintings, photographic and digital work, as well as opera productions. His works have been exhibited across the globe and are in the collections of most major museums. As well, many of his works are now located in a converted industrial building called Salts Mill, in Saltaire, near his home town of Bradford.

Hockney currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California and London, England. “Since 2009, Hockney has painted hundreds of portraits, still lifes, and landscapes using the Brushes iPhone and iPad application, sending them to his friends.”

In 2012, Hockney transferred paintings valued at $124.2 million to the David Hockney Foundation, and gave an additional $1.2 million in cash to help fund the foundation’s operations. The artist plans to give away the paintings, through the foundation, to galleries including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Tate in London.

For more information about David Hockney, visit DavidHockneyPictures.com.

David Hockney - A Bigger Grand Canyon, 1998, National Gallery of Australia
David-Hockney Portrait Surrounded by Artistic Devices-1965
David Hockney - We Two Boys Together Clinging
David Hockney The Bigger Splash 1967
David Hockney - Peter Getting Out of Nicks Pool 1966
David-Hockney Portrait of an Artist (Pool-with-Two-Figures)1971
David Hockney Place Furstenberg-Paris-1985
David Hockney Ipad art
David Hockney Pearblossom Highway 1986
David Hockney Man-Taking-Shower-in-Beverly-Hills 1964
David Hockney Mother I - 1985
David-Hockney - Snails-Space-with-Vari-Lites,Painting-as-Performance - 1995-96
David Hockney Ipad Art-2
David Hockney - David Graves Pembroke Studios London-1982
David-Hockney View-of-Hotel-Well-III -The-Moving-Focus-Serie - 1984-8


Filed Under: Collage, Design, Digital, Painting, Photography, Printmaking Tagged With: British Art, David Hockney, English Art, Pop Art

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 163

July 8, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of Tschabalala Self, Takashi Nakagawa, Ralf Wall, Michael Carson, Hua Tunan, Aurora Robson, Alaa Abou SHAHEEN, Julie Alice Chappell and a video essay by Jonathan Kiefer; Art:Film -“Filmmakers can’t seem to resist recreating some of our greatest paintings in movie form. See if you can spot them.”

Aurora Robson-Ona-2014 aurorarobson.com
Michael Carson Just-Give me a Minute 2015-artsy.net/artist/michael-carson
Hua Tunan huatunan.com
Tschabalala Self - Mane 2016 tschabalalaself.com
Ralf-Wall Trees-in-Winter 2015
Alaa Abou SHAHEEN Untitiled-2016 artsy.net/artist-alaa-abou-shaheen
Takashi Nakagawa - In the Middle takashinakagawa.com
Julie Alice Chappell Singer Stinger-facebook.com/juliealicechappellinwonderland

Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Alaa Abou SHAHEEN, Aurora Robson, Hua Tunan, Julie Alice Chappell, Michael Carson, Ralf Wall, Takashi Nakagawa, Tschabalala Self

Canada Day: Celebrating Canadian Artists

July 1, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Happy Canada Day all you Canucks and friends of Canucks out there! In celebration of our National Day, DAF presents a collection of work from well known (and not so well known) Canadian artists.

Have a great day everyone!

Alex Colville - To Prince Edward Island - 1965
Dorothea Rockburne - Three Point Manifold - 2008
Lawren Harris - Maligne Lake Jasper Park - 1924
Tom Thomson - Byng Inlet - 1914-15
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun - New Chiefs on the Land
Jean Paul Riopelle - The Wheel II - 1956
Robert Bateman - Rhino and Oxpecker 1975
Franklin Carmichael - The Glade - 1922
Bill Reid - Spirit of Haida Gwaii the Jade Canoe
Joyce Wieland - Paint Phantom - 1983-84
Norval Morrisseau - Mother and Child - 1992
Émile Borduas - Mirror of Frost - 1954
Emily Carr - Blunden Harbour 1928-32
A.Y. Jackson - The Red Maple - 1914
Alex Colville - Child and Dog - 1952 Alex Colville
Sarah Robertson - Joseph and Marie Louise - 1925-35
Daphne Odjig - Mother Earth Struggles for Survival - 1975
J.E.H. MacDonald Mist Fantasy, Sand River Algoma - c1922
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Frank Owen Gehry - 1997
Mary Pratt - Cut Watermelon - 1997
Paul Kane - Flathead Woman with Child 1848-53
Yousuf Karsh - Andy Warhol 1979
Betty Goodwin - Aerialist 1962
Arthur Lismer - A September Gale - 1921

Featured artists:

Arthur Lismer – A September Gale – 1921
Betty Goodwin – Aerialist 1962
Yousuf Karsh – Andy Warhol 1979
Emily Carr – Blunden Harbour 1928-32
Alex Colville – Child and Dog – 1952 Alex Colville
Mary Pratt – Cut Watermelon – 1997
Daphne Odjig – Mother Earth Struggles for Survival – 1975
Paul Kane – Flathead Woman with Child 1848-53
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – Frank Owen Gehry – 1997
J.E.H. MacDonald Mist Fantasy, Sand River Algoma – c1922
Sarah Robertson – Joseph and Marie Louise – 1925-35
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Émile Borduas – Mirror of Frost – 1954
Norval-Morrisseau – Mother and Child – 1992
Joyce Wieland – Paint Phantom – 1983-84
Robert Bateman – Rhino and Oxpecker 1975
Bill Reid – Spirit of Haida Gwaii the Jade Canoe
Franklin Carmichael – The Glade – 1922
A.Y. Jackson – The Red Maple – 1914
Jean Paul Riopelle – The Wheel II – 1956
Tom Thomson – Byng Inlet – 1914-15
Dorothea Rockburne – Three Point Manifold – 2008
Lawren Harris – Maligne Lake Jasper Park – 1924

 

Filed Under: ART, Art History, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: A.Y. Jackson, Alex Colville, Arthur Lismer, Betty Goodwin, Bill Reid, Daphne Odjig, Dorothea Rockburne, Emily Carr, Frank Carmichael, Frank Owen Gehry, J.E.H. MacDonald, Jean Paul Riopelle, Joyce Wieland, Lawren Harris, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Lynn Johnston, Mary Pratt, Norval Morrisseau, Paul Kane, Paul-Émile Borduas, Robert Bateman, Sarah Robertson, Thomas John (Tom) Thomson, Yousuf Karsh

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 162

June 29, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature Clara Drummond, Hopare, Stephanie Buer, Terence Koh, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mohammad Zaza, massju, Leisa Rich and the video Human Sound Objects, an interactive installation in which every participant becomes an object in an ever-evolving soundscape – by Giori Politi, Doron Assayas Terre and Eran Hilleli for the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016.

Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Human Sound Objects from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

Leisa-Rich---monaleisa.com
massju - flickr.com/photos/weirdandwired
Hopare-hopare.com Hopare-hopare.com
Mohammad-Zaza---mohammadzaza.com
Njideka-Akunyili-Crosby---njidekaakunyili.com
Clara-Drummond-claradrummond.co.uk
Stephanie-Buer-stephaniebuer.com
Terence-Koh---Bee-Chapel---Andrew-Edlin-Gallery-New-York

Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Collage, Drawing, Fibre Art, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Clara Drummond, Herzliya Museum, Hopare, Leisa Rich, massju, Mohammad Zaza, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Stephanie Buer, Terence Koh

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 161

June 24, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature Josh Keyes, Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Richter, Etam, Eva Funderburgh, Don Yeomans, Chiharu Shiota, Carlos Delgado and a video from Google Arts & Culture – Kids Explain Art to Experts.

Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Carlos-Delgado---artcarlosdelgado.com
Magdalena Abakanowicz - abakanowicz.art.pl
Back to home - Eva Funderburgh evafunderburgh.com
John-Richter---richterfineartphotography.com
Don Yeomans douglasreynoldsgallery.com/don-yeomans
Etam - facebook.com/etam.grupa
Return II - Josh Keyes -joshkeyes.net
Chiharu Shiota - Sleeping is Like Death - chiharu-shiota.com

Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Carlos Delgado, Chiharu Shiota, Don Yeomans, Etam, Eva Funderburgh, John Richter, Josh Keyes, Magdalena Abakanowicz

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 160

June 16, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature Artsy.net‘s Fourth Art Market series Video,  Bobbie Russon, Victor Wang Patrick, Dougherty, Linda Vachon, Kevin Peterson, Jylian Gustli, Floto and Warner, Carol Nelson

Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

The Art Market (in Four Parts): Art Fairs from Artsy on Vimeo.

linda vachon bit.lylindavachon
Carol-Nelson-carolnelsonfineart
Floto-and-Warner-flotowarner.com
Kevin-Peterson-kevinpetersonstudios.com
Jylian Gustlin jyliangustlin.com
Victor Wang victorwang.net
Bobbie Russon bobbierusson.com
Patrick-Dougherty-stickwork.net

Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Video Tagged With: Bobbie Russon, Carol Nelson, Floto and Warner, Jylian Gustlin, Kevin Peterson, Linda Vachon, Patrick Dougherty, Victor Wang

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 159

June 9, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the PBS video I Could Do That and the artwork of Sophie Favre, Mazatl, Lois Greenfield, Kristin Vestgard, Joe-Sorren, Jeannie Lynn Paske & Simone Prudente, Greg Craola Simkins, and Andrea Mazzoli.

Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Kristin Vestgard kristinvestgard.co.uk
Erba - Simone Prudente and Andrea Mazzoli humuspark.it
Jeannie-Lynn-Paske-obsoleteworld.com
Lois Greenfield - Moving Still loisgreenfield.com
Sophie Favre sophiefavre.com
Joe-Sorren-joesorren.com
Mazatl-graficamazatl.com
Greg Craola Simkins - imscared.com

 

Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Nature, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Andrea Mazzoli, Humus Park, Jeannie Lynn Paske, Joe Sorren, Kiki Smith, Kristin Vestgard, Lois Greenfield, Mazatl, Simone Prudente, Sophie Favre

The Art Market: Patrons

June 8, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Part three of Artsy.net‘s great Art Market series. This short, four-minute video covers the motivation of patrons to fund artists and how the concept of art patronage has changed over time.

The Art Market (in Four Parts): Patrons from Artsy on Vimeo.

Patrons is the third installment of a four-part documentary series, preceded by Auctions and Galleries and followed by Art Fairs, released weekly through mid-June. Together, the four segments tell a comprehensive story about the art market’s history and cultural influence. Visit Artsy.net/art-market-series to watch all the films.

This series is directed by Oscar Boyson and produced in collaboration with UBS.

Director – Oscar Boyson
Editor – Nate DeYoung
Producer – Sean Barth
Producer By – Neighborhood Watch Films
Assistant Editor – Erin DeWitt
Sound – Colin Alexander
Music – Jay Wadley of Found Objects Music Production
Color – Irving Harvey

Filed Under: ART, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Video Tagged With: art galleries, art market, art patrons, Museums

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