Karen Kilimnik

November 1 - December 20

303 Gallery is pleased to announce our twelfth solo exhibition of the work of Karen Kilimnik. Throughout the gallery, more than 70 works of painting, photography, collage, sculpture and video, are displayed in the Petersbuger style.

Included in the exhibition is a new video of excerpts from the 19^th century ballets, The Awakening of Flora by Marius Petipa, Reconstruction by Sergei Vikharev, music by Riccardo Drigo, with additional excerpts (Le Talisman, Pas D’Esclave  and Animated Frescoes), as performed by the graduate students of The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, on the occasion of Opening Day of the 57^th Carnegie International, and the 200^th anniversary of Petipa’s birth. The video, The World at War, (2018) brings together clips from color and black and white films primarily set during World War II, selected for their music and their depictions of camaraderie between troops and officers singing, seen amid battle as well as off the field.

These works combine the worlds of history, architecture, art, fashion, film and television, music and ballet, animals and nature, science and literature.

Recent major solo exhibitions dedicated to Karen Kilmnik’s work include Château De Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison (2016); Le Consortium, Dijon – La Romanée Conti (2014); the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich (2012); Belvedere, Vienna (2010); Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2006); Serpentine Gallery, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2007); Fondazione Belvilacqua La Masa, Venice (2005); and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2002). Major group exhibitions include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2018); Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2015); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and MoMA PS1, New York (both 2006); MoMA, New York (2005, 2001, 1999); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1997, 1992); and Secession, Vienna (1994). In 2011, Kilimnik created a stage setting for the ballet Psyché by Alexei Ratmansky, at the Opéra national de Paris. Kilimnik lives and works in Philadelphia.

CONTACT

303 Gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 am – 6 pm.

For press inquiries, contact Renee Delosh at press@303gallery.com.

For further information on Karen Kilimnik, visit 303gallery.com or contact Kathryn Erdman.

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H. David Stein: “Spotlight”

November 1 - December 1

In this series of photographs Stein has “spotlighted” portions of the photograph by leaving them in color.  He then alters the black and white remainder of the photograph to make features become more prominent or recede into the background.  The juxtaposition of the color and “black and white” draw your eyes to the various elements of the photograph.  The images are then either printed on metallic photo paper or aluminum giving a metallic sheen to the black and white elements of the photograph.  The images Stein has created reinforce the very nature of photography.

Josephine Sacabo: Josephine Sacabo: Moments of Being

October 3, 2019 - January 4, 2020

MOMENTS OF BEING

What would such an inexperienced soul do without
the solution that a body had been”
-Clarice Lispector

Snapshots of the life within.
Echoes of thoughts and feelings expressed in the only terms I really understand which are those of light and shadow and the softening of edges.
The things expressed have already happened. Here they are remembered tenderly, in the repose of passion.

Josephine Sacabo

Richard Sexton: Enigmatic Stream

August 26, 2019 - January 5, 2020

Men of Steel, Women of Wonder

October 5, 2019 - January 5, 2020

Superman and Wonder Woman are two of the most beloved icons in American pop culture. Created in times of economic adversity and war, these characters quickly emerged as beacons of American morality, representing the ideals of truth, justice, and the American way.

Men of Steel, Women of Wonder examines art world responses to Superman and Wonder Woman ranging from their Depression-era origins to today’s contemporary artist interpretations. The exhibition includes over 70 paintings, photographs, installations, videos, and more by a wide range of artists, exploring national identity, American values, social politics, and the concept of humanity.

Men of Steel, Women of Wonder is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.

Generous support for the Addison’s presentation of this exhibition has been provided by the Arthur and Vivian Schulte Exhibitions Fund.

Photos, Please Do Not Bend: The Catherine Johnson Collection

October 8 - December 29

Johnson’s collection of amateur and vernacular photography will include approximately 200 photos on display, spanning multiple decades. Each group of pictures will be accompanied by a moving quote about dogs relating to the selected photographs.

The title of the exhibition, “Photos, Please Do Not Bend,” refers to a time when photographic prints, due to the time and expense in obtaining them, held more esteem as valued objects. Before the advent of the polaroid camera, one often waited for photos to arrive via mail. Envelopes were marked “Photos, Please Do Not Bend.” This collection allows a glimpse into the lives of dog owners and their relationships with their companions.

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The Distance of the Moon

November 9, 2019 - March 15, 2020

In 1969, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 made history by becoming the first people to set foot on the moon. Unbeknownst to them, this year also marked the arrival of the first works of art to the lunar surface—The Moon Museum. Covertly orchestrated by members of the group Experiments in Art and Technology, a miniscule ceramic tile bearing reproductions of artworks by six artists was snuck onto the lander. A rare original tile, featuring work by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers, David Novros and John Chamberlain, will be on view in The Distance of the Moon.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, this exhibition examines the moon through the lens of photography and video. From Georges Méliès early film Le voyage dans la lune (1902) to Robert Longo’s striking study Untitled (Moon in Shadow) (2006), the moon has served as an important touchstone and inspired countless works of art and imagined lunar voyages. Utilizing images from exploratory missions to the moon, Nancy Graves created an immersive filmic meditation on surface textures and sonic space. Over forty years in the making, James Turrell has slowly transformed a dormant volcano into an aperture for observing the moon and other heavenly bodies.

Moody nocturnes and celebratory renderings are shown alongside early stereographs of the full moon, made possible by the most advanced photographic technology of the day. Combining historic prints with modern images of the lunar surface taken by NASA on a series of exploratory missions, The Distance of the Moon considers the relationship between artistic impulse and scientific discovery, and our collective fascination with this celestial body.

Artists: Nancy Graves, Craig Kalpakjian, Robert Longo, Georges Méliès, and James Turrell, with additional materials from the Archive of Amateur Astronomers Society of Voorhees and NASA

Robert W. Fichter: Experimentalist: The Art of Robert W. Fichter

August 28 - December 18

Experimentalist: The Art of Robert W. Fichter presents the first retrospective of the artist’s career in over thirty years. Drawn from his archive at UMBC, 55 works created between 1962 and 2006 highlight Fichter’s exploration of the human condition across photography, printmaking, and painting. Fichter employs shifting moods and mediums as well as wit, humor, and satire to deliver trenchant critiques of war, nuclear proliferation, and environmental disaster. Firmly rooting his expressive compositions in a strong sense of place—the surreal landscapes of his native Florida—Fichter presents a singular vision of humanity on the brink.

Weather Report

October 6, 2019 - March 29, 2020

Weather Report will reveal the sky as a site where the aesthetic, the romantic, the political, the social, and the scientific co-exist and inform one another. The depiction of weather phenomena in the visual arts is traditionally linked with either landscape painting or photography, but in the last two decades artists have increasingly turned to other media to explore weather and, by extension, the larger subject of the Earth’s atmosphere. Featuring the work of Bigert & Bergström, Barbara Bloom, Sara Bouchard, Nick Cave, Violet Dennison, Bryan Nash Gill, Andy Goldsworthy, Nancy Graves, Ellen Harvey, Ayumi Ishii, Jitish Kallat, Kim Keever, Byron Kim, Damian Loeb, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Colin McMullan, Hitoshi Nomura, Pat Pickett, Sean Salstrom, and Jennifer Steinkamp, and an installation by researchers Amanda Bunce, Joel Salisbury, and Michael Vertefeuille. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication with an essay by exhibition curator Richard Klein.

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Deliberate Acts: The Alice Austen Triennial of Photography Opening Night

October 5 - December 31

The Alice Austen House invites you to a celebration of photography, accompanied by cocktails, delicious food, music provided by ARLETTE & FRANKIE G and a not-to-be-missed art auction.

DELIBERATE ACTS, our second triennial exhibition inspired by the writing of Audre Lorde, former Staten Island resident and celebrated Black lesbian feminist, writer, and activist, will attempt to uncover the state of contemporary photography on Staten Island and showcase a borough that is often under-represented citywide.

GILLIAN LAUB will be presented with the Alice Austen Award for the Advancement of Photography.

KELLY VILAR will be honored with the Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate Award for Community Leadership

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Deliberate Acts is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

ABOUT THE ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE A vibrant cultural center and nationally designated site of LGBTQ history, the historic Alice Austen House honors the legacy and daring spirit of Alice Austen 1866-1952), a pioneering photographer and an inspiring modern woman of the Victorian age. Alice Austen carefully recorded a changing New York City at the turn of the twentieth century

Irma Bohorquez-Geisler, Glen DiCrocco, Lee Donlon, Thomas J. Giarraffa, Olga Ginzburg, Louis Heilbronn, Emir Ibrahimof, Roxanne Jacobson, Dany Krom, Adam Pape, Samuel Partal, James Yarusinsky.: Deliberate Acts: The Alice Austen Triennial of Photography

October 5, 2019 - January 12, 2031

DELIBERATE ACTS, inspired by the writing of Audre Lorde, former Staten Island resident and celebrated Black lesbian feminist, writer, and activist attempts to uncover the state of contemporary photography on Staten Island and showcase a borough that is often under-represented citywide. Featuring photography by Staten Island residents and others looking at the borough, this juried exhibition will aim to find contemporary themes and narratives that photographers are currently exploring in their work through traditional, digital and innovative uses of the medium.

Cornell Capa, Richard Avedon, Philip Trager, and others: Shutter Speed

July 30 - December 15

Comprising more than 60 works on paper from the AMAM collection, Shutter Speed explores the ability of photography to capture movement, particularly of the human body. The exhibition spans the history of photography, from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th, stretching from Eadweard Muybridge’s attempts to arrest motion with the camera shutter to Harold Edgerton’s experiments with the stroboscope, and on to Sarah Charlesworth’s appropriated images of falling subjects.

Not coincidentally, Shutter Speed also features many photographs of dancers and athletes, including recently acquired vernacular photographs from the Peter J. Cohen Collection. Conveying the elegance, physicality, fluidity, and velocity of the human body traversing space requires technical expertise and a deep sensitivity, both of which are in evidence in photographs by Cornell Capa, Richard Avedon, Philip Trager, and others. Together these images of movement attest to our fascination with the camera’s ability to catch “the moment,” in the words of André Kertész, “when something changes into something else.”

Organized by Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Andrea Gyorody, with assistance from Amy Baylis ’20.