Martha Naranjo Sandoval opening tonight + more the next 3 weeks!
Martha Naranjo Sandoval opening at Miriam Gallery tonight 6pm, and other shows and events coming up the next few weeks.
Hi all,
Here’s another round-up!
Martha Naranjo Sandoval: The Stench Of Orange Blossoms opening reception at Miriam Gallery (319 Bedford Ave)
Tonight, 1/19 6pm-8pm
I met Naranjo Sandoval fairly recently through artist and good friend Leor Miller. Both Miller and Naranjo Sandoval have been working at the International Center of Photography’s library, but we actually first met at her other workplace, Dashwood Books. We talked for a while about Bard College— her partner attended— and her publishing press Matarile Ediciones that publishes immigrants and their descendants. I’m looking forward to seeing her work duly recognized in this first in-person solo show of hers.
Dear Alien, Dear Doppelganger... opening reception at Abrazo Interno Gallery, The Clemente (107 Suffolk St., 2nd Fl.)
Tonight, 1/19 6pm-8pm
A group show of "photographs and videos that explore queerness as performance of doubling." The artists include Jaguar Mary X, Taro Masushio, Luna Luis Ortiz, and Lisa Ross. More info in post below or link above. Free with RSVP.
Meet the Artist series: Adrianna Ault & Ruth Lauer Manenti at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (Kingston, NY)
Tonight, 1/19 and on-going, see post below or here for other dates
Don’t fret if you can’t make it to the Hudson Valley for these talks, as they “will be live-streamed on CPW’s Facebook page just before the event begins." This is an exciting roster of artists including in future weeks with artist Roger Richardson and Tim Carpenter. I’ve only recently begun to dive into Ault’s work and will be using this lecture as another opportunity to dig deeper and become more familiar.
Carson Foley: Lake Disappointment opening reception at Entrance Gallery (48 Ludlow St.)
Friday, 1/25 6pm-9pm
Not photography but will be an absolutely stunning exhibition by phenomenal visual artist Carson Foley, known for his prints and tattoo work. Will be at the great Entrance Gallery in the Lower East Side.
Sound Waves: A Diasporic Dialogue, with Jacqueline Nassy Brown and Kamau Ware at the Center for Arts, Research, and Alliances (225 West 13th St.)
Saturday, 1/21 3:30pm
This will be the new emerging non-profit’s first public program of the year! I made it to CARA’s holiday market in December and enjoyed the roster of local, community-focused artist and organizations. The upcoming program is “inspired by Neo Muyanga’s ‘A Maze in Grace’ installation in the exhibition ‘A Mass of Cyborgs’” Muyanga’s similar installations have been performed internationally including South Africa. “This dialogue will highlight stories and storytellers of Black Liverpool and Black New York, forging connections between people and places central to the history of enslavement and resistance to it. Jacqueline Nassy Brown is an anthropologist at CUNY, and Kamau Ware is an artist, historian, and creator of the Black Gotham Experience.”
Looking at Family: Sara Macel & Thomas Holton book talk & signing at Launch Photo Books (59 Orchard St.)
Wednesday, 1/25 7pm
Taken from the last time I shared a talk by Holton at Yu & Me Bookstore: “I first learned about Holton’s phenomenal work and commitment to the Lams from his work in the Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York in Fall 2018. The photographs were originally published in 2015 by publisher Kehrer Verlag. I reached out to him to learn more about his work, and he was so generous with offering to talk more after his then exhibit lecture but I dropped the ball on following through. His photographs are a devotion to understanding Chinatown and New York City in contemporary times through the visualization of a single family’s life changes.” I’m not familiar with Macel’s work but looking forward to learning and understanding it. The lecture will surround Holton’s The Lams of Ludlow Street (2016) & Macel’s What Did the Deep Sea Say (2022), both titles published by Kehrer Verlag.
Photography Talk Series: Triton Mobley at Pratt Institute (200 Willoughby Ave., ARC Building)
Tuesday, 1/26 6:30pm and on-going, see dates and times below
I’ve been intending on going to Pratt to see their photography talks but I continue to be so late that I can’t make it. Mobley’s exhibit Keloid Archives was recently on view at Soloway Gallery in New York this past Fall, and was written up in Bomb Magazize: “Art that critically disassembles the technical imaging of Blackness.” Looking forward to becoming more familiar with his work.
The Spring roster is an exciting one with upcoming lectures on Jimmy DeSana by curator Drew Sawyer— be sure to visit the Brooklyn Museum exhibit before, or even after this one!
Community Rave Network at the Avalon Lounge (29 Church St. Catskill, NY)
Saturday, 1/28 10pm-late
Artist and friend Fish Chiu graduated from Bard College's photography program the year before me, but we've been meaning to meet up in the city soon to go take pictures, gallery walk, and book crawl. In addition to Chiu's intimate portraits of landscape and friends, Chiu is a fantastic DJ and will be playing at the great Avalon Lounge in Catskill. They have a great pool table upstairs and if you go on a Friday, I recommend their fish sandwich special, but anything from their Korean kitchen is delicious. Great soju-tinis for those who drink!
Photography BFA Thesis Exhibitions at Pratt Institute (200 Willoughby Ave., ARC Building)
Beginning Monday, 1/30 and on-going see post below for future dates
Tis the season of thesis exhibitions! Artist and friend Kate Vitali will be exhibiting on 3/20 but there’s going to be many shows before and after, so be sure to check out these emerging artists coming out of Pratt.
Wendy's Subway Grand Re-Opening at Wendy's Subway (379 Bushwick Ave.)
Sunday, 1/29 12pm-6pm
I first learned about library and indie publisher Wendy’s Subway from their publishing artist Shala Miller’s Tender Noted in 2021. I luckily picked up one of the last copies from WS fellow Sunny Iyer at their booth at the 8-Ball Community & Printed Matter East Village Zine Fair this past Summer. Looking forward to checking out their newly furnished permanent space and learning more about their work.
Christopher Currence: Reappraisal book launch and signing at Printed Matter (231 11th Ave.)
Wednesday, 2/1 6pm-8pm
I can’t exactly pinpoint how I first became familiar with Currence’s work; it might have been someone he photographed sharing the picture. But it was some years ago, and since I’ve been following each book he’s self-published. At the PM x 8-Ball EV Zine Fair, he had his own table with his books. I bought his first book, Inshallah. (2nd Printing) (2020) there and got it signed. I was glad to see him at last weekend’s Aperture/ParisPhoto exhibit opening where I could properly congratulate him on the upcoming release, and got to browse through Reappraisal. The new self-published book will include a great volume of work from the last six years, including both black-and-white and color photographs from his previous books— and includes a wonderful forward to Currence’s work by poet and writer Stephanie Njeri Wambugu, a friend I made at Bard before she graduated. She recently read at Les Bleus Literary Salon last October in the West Village, but I didn’t make it past the waiting list, but I was happy to run into her and her boyfriend at the Printed Matter Art Book Fair this past Fall.
Everybody Press: An Indie Press Pétanque Party at Carreau Club (68 34th St., Brooklyn)
Wednesday, 2/1 5pm-9pm
A couple of months ago, my friend Cody Simons decided to go to Washington Square Park to play boules. Funnily enough when we got there, we ran into a group of sweet French people who play there every week. Since then, we’ve been playing with them for the last few months, until the weather got pretty unbearable. Through the group, I met Nathanial who I would run into at Eileen Myles’s readings and other events. Nathanial generously sent along this event to our boules email list-serv. I can’t think of anything more exciting, boules and indie presses! Free with RSVP.
Selections from the 2022 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist panel discussion at Aperture (Online, Zoom webinar)
Wednesday, 2/1 6pm EST
The panel will include: Aperture executive director Sarah Meister, New York Times Assistant national editor Clinton Cargill, Aperture creative director Lesley A. Martin, Dashwood Books manager and photobook enthusiast Miwa Susuda, Center for Photography at Woodstock executive director and former International Center of Photography chief/deputy curator Mrian Wallia, and SUNY Purchase Assistant Professor of Art History Leslie M. Wilson. Will certainly be an exciting discussion of this year’s nominations. Looking forward particularly to Susuda’s comments as I regularly annoy her about her thoughts on current photography books. Free with RSVP.
Projects: Ming Smith exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (11 W. 53rd St.)
Opening Saturday 2/4, on view until 5/29
The artist and my close friend Bella Garcia has been assisting the Magnum photographer these last few months. Smith’s solo-exhibit will be paired with the release of a book on her long and extensive career defying any single label.
Audre Lorde/James Baldwin-through the lens of Claudia Rankine reading at Performance Space (150 1st Ave)
Monday 2/6 7pm
Again, not a photography show per-se, but an important and excellent program that will have visual concourse and discussion embedded within it. I found out about the event from author and the program’s co-producer Sarah Schulman who I’ve been following since her screening at Bard College of her 2012 documentary with Jim Hubbard, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Per the program’s listing page, it’ll be “A 1984 conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin edited by Claudia Rankine. Read by Russell G Jones and Rosalyn Coleman Williams, directed by Dominique Rider Co-Produced by Tavia Nyong’o and Sarah Schulman.” Free with RSVP.
Tommy Kha: Ghost Bites opening reception at Baxter Street Camera Club (128 Baxter St.)
Wednesday, 2/8 6pm-8pm
Awarded Aperture’s Next Step Award, Kha’s solo-show will also be the book launch of his Aperture monograph, Half, Full, Quarter which will feature essays by the talented artist An-My Le and writer Hua Hsu, two personal mentors of mine.
Here are some exciting reviews and program deadlines coming up for photographers— all are free entry, except one noted.
The New York Times: New York Portfolio Review
Deadline tonight, 1/19 11:59pm EST
The V&A: Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography
Deadline Sunday 1/22
Lenscratch: the LOVE Exhibition open call
Deadline Wednesday, 2/1 time unknown
Penumbra Foundation: Penumbra Workspace Program
Deadline Wednesday, 2/15, 11:59pm EST
The New York Public Library: Picture Collection Artist Fellowship
Deadline Friday, 3/31 time unknown
Lucie Foundation: the Portrait Project, Take Two open call
Deadline Friday, 3/31 time n/a (unfortunately, $20 submission fee per image)
A current list of shows on my mind…
John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres: Swagger and Tenderness, The South Bronx Portraits at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (1040 Grand Concourse)
On view through 4/30
Burn It In: W. Eugene Smith, Roy DeCarava, Ray Metzker and Alex Majoli at Howard Greenberg Gallery (41 E. 57th St.)
On view through 2/28
William Christenberry & RaMell Ross: Desire Paths at PACE Gallery (510 W. 25th St.)
On view through 2/25
Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field at the National Museum of the American Indian (One Bowling Green)
On view through 3/12
Jimmy DeSana: Submission at the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway)
On view through 4/16
Adrián Fernández: Sketch for a Monument at Thomas Nickles Project (47 Orchard St.)
On view through 1/22
Larry Fink at Robert Mann Gallery (14 E. 80th St.)
On view through 1/27
Jill Freedman: A Night at the FDNY Museum at the New York City Fire Museum (278 Spring St.)
On view through 4/2
Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury: Portraits 1967-1968 at Deborah Bell Photographs (526 W. 26th St. #411)
On view through 3/4
Race, Love, and Labor (an excerpt) at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (474 Broadway, Kingston, NY)
On view through 3/19
Richard-Jonathan Nelson: A Lacquered Egress at Yossi Milo Gallery (245 10th Ave.)
On view through 1/28
Social Photography X at carriage trade (277 Grand St., 2nd Fl)
On view through 1/29
Patrick Quinn: Just Say You're Busy at Whaam! Gallery (15 Elizabeth St., 1st Fl. in Elizabeth St. Mall)
On view through 2/11
Xaviera Simmons: Crisis Makes a Book Club at Queens Museum (Flushing Meadows Corona Park)
On view through 3/5
It's Time for Me to Go: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2021-22 at MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue)
On view through 2/27
I did not intend on this round-up of events being so long, but alas there’s a lot to see. Let me know if you got anything for me to check out. I’m looking for podcasts, books, and anything to keep me going. Talk soon!
Rainer
Thanks. No way to visit all those places, even being there. Interesting, the notes and your photographs