Jeff Deemie

There's not much bio info to be said about this artist, once again- pretty low key..  What I like about this work is that he's photographing these areas after natural disaster (Hurricane Ike)-  with these images you can see the impact man has made on the landscape, but it comes full circle as nature then takes its toll on man made structures and objects.

http://www.deemie.com/index.html

Paul Raphaelson

Bio

• Brooklyn, New York based artist
• Recieved a grant from Brooklyn Arts Council / NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Arts Development Fund, 2008
  
• Recent Exhibitions:  
  
• -Lost Spaces, Found Gardens • Individual Exhibit • Brooklyn Public Library, 2008 - 2009
  
• -Ten Years Under The Manhattan Bridge • Individual Exhibit • Brooklyn Public Library, 2008
  
• -Brooklynature • Juried Exhibit • St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn, 2007
  
• -Environment: Place • Group Exhibit • Photomedia Center.org, 2005
  

His Work

LOST SPACES, FOUND GARDENS
2005-ongoing

"These photographs were inspired by my immediate surroundings in Brooklyn and Manhattan; particularly by overgrown spaces that lurk almost everywhere, but that have dropped off the map of collective consciousness. I’m drawn to the surprises that I find here, to the almost subversive thriving of natural life and unusual form.

Paradise is the Persian word for a walled enclosure. As often as not, in the city the walls are cyclone fences crowned with razorwire. Whatever they lack in charm they make up by providing a framed view from the outside. I find solace in the spontaneous gardens behind the fences. And I’m inspired by all the wild things invading them, by the relief they bring from the city’s antiseptic geometry and sheen." -Raphaeloson

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Guy Crittenden

Bio

• Lives and works in Richmond, VA
• Gallery/studio owner in Richmond, VA
• location scout, art director, painter

Work

• This guy seems pretty low profile but some of the work on his site was awesome.  He enioys nature and explores the land while photographing it.  He does a lot of location work, but also shoots portraits, products and architecture.  Im mostly interested in his digital imagine portfolio.

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Atta Kim

Bio

• Born in Korea in 1956.
• Education in mechanical engineering at Changwon University, Korea.
• Atta Kim's work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; the 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; the Australian Center for Photography, Sydney; and Nikon Salon Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, among others. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; and the Art Museum of Kyongnam Province, China. The ICP exhibition (June 9–August 27, 2006) will be accompanied by a catalogue, including an interview with the artist by ICP Curator Christopher Phillips. Atta Kim was born in Korea in 1956 and currently lives and works in New York.

His Work

• His later and most notable series of works have been exhibited as full color, large scale prints: The Museum Project, which depicts people "preserved" within Plexiglas cases placed in various settings, and ON-AIR, which uses long exposures and image compositing to make individual people and objects dissolve. Kim's work has been heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist concepts of interconnectedness and transience, and he commonly uses Buddhist iconography.
  

Im mostly interested in this work because of the shifty lighting thats created by long exposures.  With this, his work questions the relationship between time and place which I think is pretty interesting.

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Yossi Milo Gallery

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Shai Kremer

Bio:

• Born in Israel in 1974
• 2003-2005 School of Visual Arts, New York. M.F.A - Photography and Related Media
  
• 1998-2002 Camera Obscura School of Arts, Tel Aviv Israel. B.A. - Photography
  
• SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  2009 Infected Landscape Israel, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
• 2008-09
  Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  
  

About the Work:

• "This project is a seven year metaphoric portrayal of the military disfiguration of the Israeli landscape. To describe the complexity of this ever-changing and multi-layered terrain, I chose to keep a distance. The aesthetic, orderly and beautiful compositions parallel the defense mechanism that Israelis have developed in order to protect themselves from the painful reality of the current political situation. The wounds in the landscape correspond to the wounds in the Israeli collective consciousness. My goal is to reveal how every piece of land has become infected with loaded sediments of the ongoing conflict. "- saul gallery, artist statement
  

Shai Kremer Website

Julie Saul Gallery

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Emma Livingston

Bio

• AGE: 32
  
• BORN: Paris
  
• RESIDES: Buenos Aires
  
• EDUCATION: University College, London
  
• EXHIBITIONS: RO Galería de Arte, Galería Riva Zucchelli, Buenos Aires
  
• AWARDS: London Photographic Association; Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
  

About the Work

"Emma Livingston's studies of the natural world play with scale, distances and context. In her photos of the moonscape desert of Northwest Argentina, boulders look like pebbles. Trees burst through the sidewalks of Buenos Aires.

What drives her is her desire to photograph nature in its varied forms, "a need to record something that is so fragile and ever changing," she says. "Some of the trees I photographed have since been chopped, run into or left to die."-PDN

A quote I read from Emma Livingston explained that she shoots pictures of leaves, branches and flowers so close up that they became abstracted, they looked like imaginary landscapes.  This gave me an idea to experiment with shooting extreme close ups to come up with a base for my images, it make look a little to abstract for my series but its worth a try. Hmm..

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PDN Gallery

Interview

Harriete Estel Berman

Bio

Education

1980 M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Major: Metalsmithing
Minor: Fiber
Awards: Temple University Tuition Scholarship

1974 B.F.A. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Major: Metalsmithing
Minor: Fiber
Awards: Outstanding Metalsmithing Ives Scholarship

Work

"My work begins with post-consumer material diverted from a destiny as trash. Revitalized from the mundane, these recycled tin containers are deconstructed, cut, folded and reassembled into the extraordinary. This metal may not be as precious as gold or silver, but in many ways reveals more about the values of our society. Does value exist within the craftsmanship, by who made it, or by what materials are used? Or is value created through mass-marketing and mass-consumption?"

I am mainly interested in her Grass series, and the idea of constructing representations of natural objects with obviously recycled metals.  It might be an interesting thing to experiment with in photoshop that may or may not add more depth to my images. 

Harriete Estel Berman

Museum of Contemporary Craft

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Carlotta Brunetti

Bio

1969 – 1970 Studied art history in Florence and Munich

1970 – 1972 Studied at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
1972 – 1973 Studied at City and Guilds of London Art School
1973 – 1976 Master’s Degree at Staedelschule, Frankfurt/Main, in Michael Croissant’s class and also with Karl Bohrmann
1994- Worked with Julia Lohmann
1997 Founded Pozzo Pozozza Berlin with Julia Lohmann
2002 –2004 Member of the Board of the Malkasten Artists´Club, Düsseldorf

Work

My wish as artist has for several years been to link my outdoor works with my interior installations.  Pieces have come about that reflect man as a part of nature. Humans are not directly visible in my works, but pear in relics such as trash, footprints, etc., or in cultural associations. In the countryside I create my own spaces and take up the cultural givens of the respective region.

My work outdoors or in landscapes is often felt by many people as superfluous. Art within nature seems to contradict nature itself. Nature doesn’t need us is the usual argument. What is mostly forgotten is that we ourselves are part of nature. We will always have a share in nature, also negatively. What is important is that we do not become oblivious to nature’s unspoiled state and that we thematize her destruction by man. Conceptual interventions in natural, cultural and city landscapes is one of my deepest concerns, and showing their human traces in my work another." -Brunetti

Carlotta Brunetti Site

Jardins-A-Suivre Gallery

Interview

Christophe Gilbert

Bio

• Born in Brussels in 1962, Christophe Gilbert started by taking courses of photography to the Academy of Ixelles in the course of the evening during one year. He integrates then the professional millieu in the capacity as assistant, posts that he will hold during two years, which enables him to discover the sector of publicity. The CCB Awards (Creative Club of Belgium), whose objective is to precede and promote the Belgian creativity, reward it in 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005. Its Levis countryside was retained in Photograph Awards 2005 of the AOP. In the same way, the public could discover its creations with the AD Print Festival 2006 of Brasov (Romania). It currently works on a personal project on the topic of the heritage.

Work

• Gilbert uses a lot of photoshop in his images, I believe his work fits well in the realm of commercial art, but each piece can be taken in so many different ways- where it crosses the line into the art world. All of his pieces are amazing, but I chose to show his landscape pieces as they better relate to what Im doing.

Christophe Gilbert site

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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Bio

• Born in 1965 in Strassbourg, France.
• Artist lives and works in Paris, France.
• Recent shows include: 

2007 Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster 
2007 ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (solo) 

Her work

TH.2058 BY DOMINIQUE GONZALES-FOERSTER
OCTOBER 2058 - TATE MODERN - LONDON
It rains incessantly in London – not a day, not an hour without rain, a deluge that has now lasted for years and changed the way people travel, their clothes, leisure activities, imagination and desires. They dream about infinitely dry deserts.

This continual watering has had a strange effect on urban sculptures. As well as erosion and rust, they have started to grow like giant, thirsty tropical plants, to become even more monumental. In order to hold this organic growth in check, it has been decided to store them in the Turbine Hall, surrounded by hundreds of bunks that shelter – day and night – refugees from the rain.

A giant screen shows a strange film, which seems to be as much experimental cinema as science fiction. Fragments of Solaris, Fahrenheit 451 and Planet of the Apes are mixed with more abstract sequences such as Johanna Vaude's L'Oeil Sauvage but also images from Chris Marker's La Jetée. Could this possibly be the last film?

On the beds are books saved from the damp and treated to prevent the pages going mouldy and disintegrating. On every bunk there is at least one book, such as JG Ballard's The Drowned World, Jeff Noon's Vurt, Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle, but also Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones and Roberto Bolaño's 2666.

On one of the beds, hidden among the giant sculptures, a lonely radio plays what sounds like distressed 1958 bossa nova. The mass bedding, the books, images, works of art and music produce a strange effect reminiscent of a Jean-Luc Godard film, a culture of quotation in a context of catastrophe.

In the shelter, the prone figures are reminiscent of Henry Moore's 'shelter drawings', while his sculpture for sheep stands next to a giant apple core by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Museums have been closed for years because of water seepages and the high level of humidity. In the huge collective shelter that the Turbine Hall has become, a fantastical and heterogeneous montage develops, including sculpture, literature, music, cinema, sleeping figures and drops of rain.

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Tate Modern

Interview

-Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Honestly I think the work itself sucks, its not much to look at- but the idea behind finding shelter after a catastrophic event is intriguing to me. Its a shame that such developed ideas are represented by such an eyesore.  Which is why I see nothing wrong with visually pulling someone into a piece with color and light- which is what I've been trying to do.

Motoda Hisaharu

Bio

• 1973 Born in Kumamoto, Japan
  
• 1999 Graduated from Kyushu Sangyo University Department of Fine Art 
• 2001 Completed graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

His work

• "Hisaharu Motoda is regarded by many as one of the rising stars in the world of printmaking, having won several major prizes since obtaining a Masters of Fine Arts and Music, where he now works as a teacher. His fame is spreading not only in his native Japan, but also overseas, where he has taken part in exhibitions in countries as Egypt, Canada, Hungary, and Thailand.
  In his Neo-Ruins series Motoda depicts a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar landscapes in the central districts of Ginza, Shibuya, and Asakusa are reduced to ruins and the streets eerily devoid of humans. The weeds that have sprouted from the fissures in the ground seem to be the only living organisms. “In Neo-Ruins I wanted to capture both a sense of the world′s past and of the worldﾕs future,” he explains.
  Motodaﾕs view of the future at first seems nihilistic, but the proliferation of plant life in the ruined streets seems to suggest that there are other ways for the plant to survive even after our great cities have fallen."

Motoda Hisaharu
Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu

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Rudd Van Empel

Bio

• Born in 1958 in Breda, Netherlands.
• Educated at St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts, St. Joost, Breda, Netherlands. 1976-1981
• Been showing his work extensively throughout the US and Europe since 1990s.
• Currently lives and works in the Netherlands.

Work

" Ruud van Empel has used a digital photographic process to create collages since the early 1980's. He works on one subject at a time ranging from work environments to portraits of women. In each of his series Ruud examines a space, either including humans or void of them. Ruud's series range from The Office (1996-01), Frame Story (1998-00), Study for 4 Women (2000), Study in Green (2003-2004), and World (2005- present). In each series, the use of digital collage allows for a creation of a unique space completely formed from fantasy. Ruud's work is highly detailed and striking in bright color. Ruud van Empel currently lives and works in The Netherlands."-Jackson Fine Art

Ruud Van Empel Website

Stux Gallery

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Johann Ryno De Wet

Bio

• Born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1982.
• Earned his B-Tech degree in Photography at the Tshwane University of Technology from 2002-05.
• 2001, Fine Arts at the Design School South Africa.
• Currently lives and works in Cape Town.
• Recent Solo Exhibitions include: 

2009 "No Man's Land," Galerie Poller, Frankfurt a.M.

  "Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society," Tuscon Museum of Art, AZ

His Work

• "Ryno de Wet is a creator of dystopic and cinematographic worlds in which the 'No Man's Land'-Series plays a leading role. Ryno de Wet colonizes each corner of his photographs with an overdose of mystery, panic and disturbance.  The land of dreams continues to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration, and there are even more people who seem to travel through it when fully awake. There can be no other explanation for his audacious and chimeric photos. Ryno de Wet effectively uses digital techniques to transform a point of departure into one of arrival that is only in his head."

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Poller Galerie

Giacomo Costa

Bio

• Born in Florence in 1970
• Currently lives and works in Florence

His Work

• "He lives freely without pressure. Nevertheless, it turns out that in his creation, elements stemming from his past experiences co-exist acutely. So this passion takes shape in his creations of structures, disproportionate buildings, the solitude that finds form in the absence of human shape, the all powerful man-made wall; gigantic, unbridgeable, separating all.
  
  The use of 3d technology allows him a total freedom and as a painter he first poses a form and then with the inspiration he composes. Thus an image can take weeks for him, up until recomposing. Breaking it up, to recreate the space and thus his work on the same creation can last several months.
  
  Like he specified to us during our interveiw, his creations are realistic and at the same time, they are not. In some of his creations, one sees multiple themes, like the problems of environment, the loneliness of the great urban settings, the gigantism which takes along the world, of the cities separated down the middle by a metaphysical wall or flooded under water.
  
  For Giacomo what counts is that everyone sees what they have a desire for seeing. He leaves free interpretation open for each one of us, positive or negative."-Fine Art TV

I love that this work was described as atypical ..

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Arthur Roger Gallery

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Andy Goldsworthy

Bio

• Born in Cheshire, England 1956
• Attended Bradford Art College 1974-75
• B.A. Preston Polytechnic, Lancaster Annex, Lancashire 1975-78
• His work is sculpture based but taken to another realm through his photography.

His Work

Goldsworthy's innovative creations with natural elements "produce uniquely personal and intense" pieces of art.  Using elements found in nature such as snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers, petals and twigs he builds outdoor sculptures that interact with their environment.  As described, his work creates a sympathetic contact with the natural world, as his work disappears the process his documented by his work in "superb color photographs."

"Goldsworthy deliberately explores the tension of working in the area where he finds his materials, and is undeterred by changes by changes in the weather which may melt a spectacular ice arch or wash away a delicate structure of grasses. The intention is not to “make his mark” on the landscape, but rather to work with it instinctively, so that a delicate scene of bamboo or massive snow rings or a circle of leaves floating in a pool create a new perception and an ever growing understanding of the land."

(Hollis, Jill, Cameron, Ian. Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature, New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1990)

I chose Andy Goldsworthy's art because of the life he is able to portray within these natural objects.  Energy and space are crucial.  He recognizes that change is the key to understanding his work.  Parallel to my work this past semester, portraying nature as the dominant force is one of the main concepts I am working with as well as changing environments.  Human interaction is present with Goldsworthy's manmade natural objects, which is an interesting opposition to my incorporation of synthetic manmade objects.  His creations are powerful and his photographs are striking.

Interview with TIME

Gallery Lelong

Andy Goldsworthy