Artist news
Veronica Stein has been selected to participate in the 2009 “Chicago Artists Month” through the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs during the month of October. She will be performing “Blak Is Brite; a Performance in Brown.” Venue TBA. Updates to come…
Ayana Vellissia Jackson’s recent work, “Commuter Van’s and No Man’s Land,” reflecting Nairobi’s [...]
Ayana V. Jackson: Looking-Glass Self
Galerie Peter Herrmann
Ayana V. Jackson
Looking-Glass Self
Opening: October 17, 7 pm
Exhibition: October 18 – November 22, 2008
Known for approaching her subjects in a manner that is equal parts personal, technical, and intense, Ayana V. Jackson’s images [...]
New photographers to check out
Danielle Scruggs
who also writes about photography on her blog, http://www.daniellescruggs.blogspot.com/
and Ayana Vellissia Jackson,
whose site opens with this great quote:
“Photography and sociology have approximately the same birth date, if you count sociology’s birth as the publication of Comte’s [...]
81 Press
- Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 10, 2010Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles, M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
- The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 10, 2010The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]
- Angaza Afrika: African Art Now (Laurence King, 2009) March 10, 2010Angaza Afrika: African Art Now. Chris Spring, Laurence King, 350 colour illustrations,256 x 226mm, 336 pages, paperback, ISBN – 978 1 85669 548 0, £25. Angaza Afrika: African Art Now, by Chris Spring and published by Laurence King brings together more than 60 of Africa’s most creative contemporary artists, drawn from across the African continent as [.. […]