Archive for August, 2009

FALL FORWARD
September 24th – November 7th, 2009

Group Exhibit featuring:

Corey Arnold
Robert Brinker
Sebastian Denz
David Fried
Ludovica Gioscia
Steinar Jakobsen
Matthias Koester
Elena Monzo
Christa Parravani
Roger Ricco
Duston Spear
Karina Wisniewska

NEW YORK, September 24th, 2009—Sara Tecchia Roma New York is excited to kick off the fall season with Fall Forward, a group show featuring painting, photography, and sculpture by the gallery’s artists.  The exhibit opens September 24th and will run through November 7th.  A reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, September 24th from 6 – 8 pm.

During these past summer months, our artists have been hard at work taking part in or preparing for various shows and projects in both the US and Europe. Here’s a sneak preview with more to come. Christa Parravani is currently part of A River Runs Through Me a group show featuring the photography of Alec Soth, Barbara Bosworth and Elijah Gowin curated by Ariel Shanberg, at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, MA. On September 26 photographer Corey Arnold will be featured in, NOW: Art of the 21st Century, at the Philips de Pury and Co., Group Auction in London, England.  Photographer Sebastian Denz’s awaited monograph Skateboarding.3 published by Prestel Verlag will be released in Europe on September 14th and in the US in October (date TBA). Mixed media artist, Ludovica Gioscia has two upcoming solo exhibitions: Mikado at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios in London, England, and Beheaded Monarchs at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The show opens on Ocotber 17th. Painter Duston Spear is part of Twenty Year Invitational and Benefit at The Contemporary Art Gallery at Scared Heart University New Fairfield, CT.

As we near the season of harvest, we have asked our artists to gather in New York and indulge us with a preview of the fruits of their labor. Fall Forward offers the opportunity to come together at the gallery and participate in a discourse on the artists’ individual progress as well as celebrate the arrival of a new art season.

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is located at 529 West 20th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenue. The gallery is on the 2nd floor. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm.  For more information or visuals, please contact the gallery at 212-741-2900, or info@saratecchia.com.

So I’ve started a group on flickr to track down the world’s most interesting pictures of people holding fish.  It’s a momentous moment in a person’s life… holding up that lovely bloody creature that you’ve slaughtered with your bare hands.  A trophy and a memory that you will never forget.  A moment of triumph captured forever in a photograph.  Please join the group and submit some pictures.  Snapshots, old photos from your family album, etc. It’s open to all.

In about a years time I will be compiling all the best images and including them in a yet to be announced project.  On the last page of the set you can find some childhood picks of me and my father back in the day, Southern Cal.  The one above is circa 1984 in Oceanside, California holding the smallest mako shark I’ve ever seen.

Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland is opening a new group show on Thursday.  It’s a quite a who’s who roster of great vintage photography with a few contemporary faces including: Sally Mann, W. Eugene Smith, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Wayne Miller, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Henry Cartier Bresson and Flor Garduno, and well one certain photograph of a guy and a cat and a lot of pink that I shot awhile back.  Stop in and hi-five Charles, he’s the nicest guy you’ll ever meet in this business.

above: Sally Mann and Flor Garduno

Faces: Vintage and Contemporary Photographic Portraits
August 5 - 29, 2009

Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
134 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
503.287.3886

Back in May, I shot a portrait of Francis Ford Coppola on his Rubicon Estate in Napa Valley. The spread is out now in the August issue of Esquire. You can read the interview online here.