Art comes alive when you share it. This month we were proud to share the works in our personal collection with the San Diego Museum of Art's Gallery Collective. The Gallery Collective offers members special VIP access to Museum events and is a passport to happenings outside the box and in the greater San Diego Arts community.
Read moreEich Print in MoCP Benefit Sells Above Retail
We were honored to be asked to donate a work to the Museum of Contemporary Photography's Benefit Auction. MoCP requested work by Matt Eich; we offered a piece from the Carry Me Ohio series, Skidmark, Chauncey, Ohio 2006. We are happy to report the work did well and sold above retail.
Read moreIan van Coller at the Center for Book Arts, NYC
OUR ANTHROPOCENE: ECO CRISES
through March 31, 2018
Artist's Talk & Reception Friday, March 2 at 6:30 pm
The artists in this exhibition respond to the ecological crises of our Anthropocene, which we ignore at the peril of our own ecocide.
Read moreBackstage with Jennifer Greenburg
Sometimes the Director knocked twice. 2017
Jennifer Greenburg is currently on a teaching sabbatical, so anticipate the rollout of more work in coming months, and be the first to see new productions, such as this latest work, "Sometimes the Director knocked twice. 2017."
I intend for this series to engage the audience in a conversation about the way we interpret the media, record personal memories, and establish collective history… [this] is a study on photography, the nature of the vernacular image, and its role in creating cultural allegories . . . By (re)processing a cross-section of the past I am creating a dialogue about the constructs still entrapped in our national psyche.
Read moreIan van Coller at the MET
We’re excited to announce that the artist book, The Last Glacier, created by Bruce Crownover, Todd Anderson, and Ian Van Coller is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The book was acquired by the Met in 2016, and is on view as part of Drawings and Prints: Selections from The MET Collection, in gallery 690, and is one of several pieces that address “…works by contemporary artists that deal with the environment, both natural and man-made, often in the face of rapidly shifting conditions.”
Read moreParcero in Christie's Magazine
Over time, she has expanded the scope of her investigations, using her face, her torso, her hands, even the souls of her feet, as the basis of "maps" on which to explore "concepts of identity, memory, territory and time . . . the relationship between man and Earth, between nature and the body." The images that she incorporates . . . are what she calls "visual metaphors" relating to some of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change, dwindling natural resources and migration.
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