URBAN LANDSCAPES- Steven Benson > EXHIBITION 2
EXHIBITION 2
CASUALTY by Don Agnello
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
BUSH by Don Agnello
DECONSTRUCTION by Don Agnello
Don Agnello says "While much of my work involves inanimate objects, I regard Street Photography as my greatest challenge.
Out in the chaotic hustle bustle of an ever changing urban landscape my goal is capturing a moment in time when the elements fall into place to tell a story.
To me a successful photograph of this sort must be visually accessible, and maintain enough interest to hold the viewers attention. Layers of meaningful subject matter add to the context for an overall message that causes the viewer to linger, pondering the story within."
www.donagnello.com
www.instagram.com/donagnello
Out in the chaotic hustle bustle of an ever changing urban landscape my goal is capturing a moment in time when the elements fall into place to tell a story.
To me a successful photograph of this sort must be visually accessible, and maintain enough interest to hold the viewers attention. Layers of meaningful subject matter add to the context for an overall message that causes the viewer to linger, pondering the story within."
www.donagnello.com
www.instagram.com/donagnello
HOMELESS LAS VEGAS by Don Agnello
LAKE EOLA by Don Agnello
PALM IN LANDSCAPE by Don Agnello
ANDROMEDA by Igal Stulbach
Igal Stulbach says, "I'm a visual artist making photography, documentary films and video art. I'm exploring the borders between those fields. Born in Krakow Poland in the year 1949 to Holocaust survivors , now living in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv.
I started my artistic activity at a quite late age. In the year 2015 I made a documentary film about Holocaust second generation named “Group portrait” ( Short monologues by second-generation Holocaust survivors) which was broadcast on Israeli national TV -channel 10 and screened in several cinematheques. My video art and photography works have been shown in exhibitions in Israel and abroad."
www.stulbach.com
I started my artistic activity at a quite late age. In the year 2015 I made a documentary film about Holocaust second generation named “Group portrait” ( Short monologues by second-generation Holocaust survivors) which was broadcast on Israeli national TV -channel 10 and screened in several cinematheques. My video art and photography works have been shown in exhibitions in Israel and abroad."
www.stulbach.com
FLORENTIN by Igal Stulbach
GATE by Igal Stulbach
HABIMA by Igal Stulbach
JAFFA GRAVEYARD by Igal Stulbach
OLDPLACE by Igal Stulbach
105 TWEEK by James Scott
James P Scott's series, Metropolitan Landscapes' is an invitation to reconsider the “ordinary,” in an extraordinary way. Los Angeles is the muse.
In this series, James disregards elements such as traffic congestion, people, and pollution. Instead, focusing on innocuous everyday elements, including street signs and palm trees. Turning these elements into symbols that exert their emotive energy to powerful effect, impelling the viewers’ acknowledgment of beauty in the mundane.
By examining a sign’s personal history, graffiti, age, weather damage, and general mistreatment, the area surrounding them can become a microcosm and a touchstone. Our world is filled with things that provide basic reliable functions yet remain unacknowledged. Fading into the environment the signs live in the mental fog of things that are necessary but never considered. The dust in the corner. The noise of modern life.
James P. Scott’s practice includes painting, photography, digital media, and sculpture, to examine time and space through quotidian entropic signatures on an urban environment.
Referencing graphic symbols, communication systems, and structural decay on networks that permeate the metropolitan landscape in contrast with the natural southern California environment and light qualities, as well as his own diverse travel, cultural and scientific interests, James builds works that have beauty and presence.
James’ studio practice incorporates impressionism, expressionism, realism, photography, collage, and abstraction to express series’ that speak about the nature of communication, organization, and existence as each change through time. Light, color, technology, the dichotomy of belief and knowledge, and occasionally cupcakes are well-explored motifs.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Cahuenga Bear – 30” H x 19.5” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
Exit 35 – 22” H x 28” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
End Road Work – 30” H x 22” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
James, Scott, Welcome•2•LA – 8” H x 10” W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
James, Scott, One Way Birds – 17.75” H x 30” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
James, Scott, 105 Tweek – 13.75 H x 18.75 W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
Contact: James P Scott
art@jamespscott.com
www.jamespscott.net
www.instagram.com/jamespscott/
In this series, James disregards elements such as traffic congestion, people, and pollution. Instead, focusing on innocuous everyday elements, including street signs and palm trees. Turning these elements into symbols that exert their emotive energy to powerful effect, impelling the viewers’ acknowledgment of beauty in the mundane.
By examining a sign’s personal history, graffiti, age, weather damage, and general mistreatment, the area surrounding them can become a microcosm and a touchstone. Our world is filled with things that provide basic reliable functions yet remain unacknowledged. Fading into the environment the signs live in the mental fog of things that are necessary but never considered. The dust in the corner. The noise of modern life.
James P. Scott’s practice includes painting, photography, digital media, and sculpture, to examine time and space through quotidian entropic signatures on an urban environment.
Referencing graphic symbols, communication systems, and structural decay on networks that permeate the metropolitan landscape in contrast with the natural southern California environment and light qualities, as well as his own diverse travel, cultural and scientific interests, James builds works that have beauty and presence.
James’ studio practice incorporates impressionism, expressionism, realism, photography, collage, and abstraction to express series’ that speak about the nature of communication, organization, and existence as each change through time. Light, color, technology, the dichotomy of belief and knowledge, and occasionally cupcakes are well-explored motifs.
IMAGES FOR SALE-
Cahuenga Bear – 30” H x 19.5” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
Exit 35 – 22” H x 28” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
End Road Work – 30” H x 22” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
James, Scott, Welcome•2•LA – 8” H x 10” W
Archival paper
$300 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
James, Scott, One Way Birds – 17.75” H x 30” W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
James, Scott, 105 Tweek – 13.75 H x 18.75 W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 5
Signed on back
Contact: James P Scott
art@jamespscott.com
www.jamespscott.net
www.instagram.com/jamespscott/
CAHUENGA BEAR by James Scott
END ROAD WORK by James Scott
EXIT 35 by James Scott
ONE WAY BIRDS by James Scott
WELCOME-2-LA by James Scott
COMMUNITY ENTRANCE by Joe Johnson
Joe Johnson says, "Local Weather focuses on exurban sites between distinction, where the commercial, residential, and cultivated landscape give way to each other.
The weather, thick night air or whiteout blizzard conditions, allow me to make pictures at the extreme ends of legibility in the photographic tonal range. The pictures appear minimally described where any subject one might reference shimmers in and out of visibility. Photographing in this way is like organizing an abyss, where horizons are implied but rarely realized. I believe the works to be most successful when they unfold to the viewer gradually, where what is pictured may slowly emerge."
Joe Johnson’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Center for Creative Photography among others.
His photographs have been the subject of articles and reviews in Art in America, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Wired Magazine Raw File. The recipient of Center Santa Fe’s Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award, Johnson teaches at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
www.joejohnsonprojects.com
www.instagram.com/j_o_e__j_o_h_n_s_o_n
The weather, thick night air or whiteout blizzard conditions, allow me to make pictures at the extreme ends of legibility in the photographic tonal range. The pictures appear minimally described where any subject one might reference shimmers in and out of visibility. Photographing in this way is like organizing an abyss, where horizons are implied but rarely realized. I believe the works to be most successful when they unfold to the viewer gradually, where what is pictured may slowly emerge."
Joe Johnson’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Center for Creative Photography among others.
His photographs have been the subject of articles and reviews in Art in America, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Wired Magazine Raw File. The recipient of Center Santa Fe’s Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award, Johnson teaches at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
www.joejohnsonprojects.com
www.instagram.com/j_o_e__j_o_h_n_s_o_n
CONSTRUCTION by Joe Johnson
DARK PILE by Joe Johnson
OFFICE by Joe Johnson
TWO HOMES by Joe Johnson
MATERIALS by Joe Johnson
CROSSING by Joshua Tann
Joshua Tann is a California-based fine art photographer. He believes that photography is the best medium for his artistic work because it gives him the most creative freedom.
Most of his photographic images are influenced by his love of travel, art and architecture, something that was nurtured throughout his youth and adulthood. His childhood goal to be an architect was derailed by life circumstances, but his love and interest in architecture continued throughout his life. In 2011 photography became his medium to express this passion, despite his profession as a psychotherapist.
He received a certificate in Professional Photography from the New York Institute of Photography. He also received a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University (Malibu, California) as his formal education.
His creative process started every time he is drawn to a certain scene, event or object. Almost every image he took involved a building or a structure as the main object or background. This is consistent to his interest in architecture and how humanity interact with their environment, particularly the surrounding structures and buildings. Aesthetics will always be a factor during the first few seconds of selecting an image, followed by other factors, such as the relationships between shadow and light, perspective and structures or angles and environment. A final photograph would eventually emerge from this process as the expression of his creative interpretation of that image with the hope of inspiring the viewing public.
His architectural influence ranges from the Renaissance and Gothic periods of the Italian duomos and palazzos to the modern design lines of Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, and Michael Graves.
Although architecture is the basis of his photographic work, he is starting to develop interests in other subject matters in photography based on its visual perspective. This includes street photography, where humanity can become the main subject in the context of its environment.
He had exhibited nationally including Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR, ASmith Gallery in Johnson City, TX, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, MN, SXSE Gallery in Molena, GA, Atlanta Photography Group, Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, and Boston, MA.
Internationally he had exhibited in London, Budapest, Tokyo, Barcelona and Paris. He was also selected by several international photography competitions for their awards.
Images for sale:
All titles 13" x 19"
Hahnemuhle archival fine art paper
$ 250 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Contact: Joshua Tann
joshtann@aol.com
www.instagram.com/joshuatannfineart/
Most of his photographic images are influenced by his love of travel, art and architecture, something that was nurtured throughout his youth and adulthood. His childhood goal to be an architect was derailed by life circumstances, but his love and interest in architecture continued throughout his life. In 2011 photography became his medium to express this passion, despite his profession as a psychotherapist.
He received a certificate in Professional Photography from the New York Institute of Photography. He also received a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University (Malibu, California) as his formal education.
His creative process started every time he is drawn to a certain scene, event or object. Almost every image he took involved a building or a structure as the main object or background. This is consistent to his interest in architecture and how humanity interact with their environment, particularly the surrounding structures and buildings. Aesthetics will always be a factor during the first few seconds of selecting an image, followed by other factors, such as the relationships between shadow and light, perspective and structures or angles and environment. A final photograph would eventually emerge from this process as the expression of his creative interpretation of that image with the hope of inspiring the viewing public.
His architectural influence ranges from the Renaissance and Gothic periods of the Italian duomos and palazzos to the modern design lines of Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, and Michael Graves.
Although architecture is the basis of his photographic work, he is starting to develop interests in other subject matters in photography based on its visual perspective. This includes street photography, where humanity can become the main subject in the context of its environment.
He had exhibited nationally including Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR, ASmith Gallery in Johnson City, TX, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, MN, SXSE Gallery in Molena, GA, Atlanta Photography Group, Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, and Boston, MA.
Internationally he had exhibited in London, Budapest, Tokyo, Barcelona and Paris. He was also selected by several international photography competitions for their awards.
Images for sale:
All titles 13" x 19"
Hahnemuhle archival fine art paper
$ 250 unframed
Limited edition of 10
Signed on back
Contact: Joshua Tann
joshtann@aol.com
www.instagram.com/joshuatannfineart/
DECAY by Joshua Tann
LIGHTSOURCE by Joshua Tann
MORNING RUSH by Joshua Tann
PIXELS by Joshua Tann
FOLLOW ME by Joshua Tann
360 SOUND by Kathryn Dunlevie
Kathryn Dunlevie says of her series, 'COVER VERSIONS', "I have always been intrigued by apparent inconsistencies in time and space, and by each individual’s shifting sense of reality. As I fracture and reassemble images to suggest the intrusion of alternate worlds, everyday scenes are transformed into compositions that hint at mysterious underlying structures and intangible extra dimensions.
Incorporating vintage record album covers into my process provides me with a trove of not-so-blank canvases replete with diverse textures and random elements from popular culture. Layering my photographs on top of this wide range of bizarre inspirational springboards takes me in unexpected directions.
As relics from our communal visual archive are overlaid with contemporary images, we seem to jump through space and time. With each 'Cover Version' I am striving to suggest that dimensions, normally separate, have indeed collided."
Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Cathy Kimball, former Executive Director of the ICA San Jose, writes of Dunlevie’s work: "Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, inexplicable spaces and scenarios - streetscapes that elude mapmakers and interior settings that are almost, but not quite, right."
Born on the east coast, Dunlevie lived in six different states by the time she was 12, and in Paraguay when she was 16. She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University, and studied art history and film at the University of Paris, painting at California College of the Arts, and photography in Madrid. She lives in Palo Alto.
Dunlevie has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellowships. Her work was exhibited at FotoFest International from 2002, at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, at Studio Thomas Kellner in Germany, in the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow and in Saatchi Arts’ Best of 2014.
Publications reviewing her work have included Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
SOLO EXHIBITS:
Femmes Futuristes, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2023 (upcoming)
Femmes Futuristes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas, 2023
Femmes Futuristes, Pastine Projects, San Francisco, California, 2022
FotoFest 2020: Women of Wonder, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2018: Imaginarium, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2016: Mistick Krewes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:
TOP 40 of 2021, N.Y. Photo Curator
Women’s History Month, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2021
Bay Area Current(ly), PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, California, 2020
School Days, Don't Take Pictures.com, 2019
Alternative Realities - Facts: Mistick Krewes, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2017
www.kathryndunlevie.com
www.instagram.com/kathryndunlevie
Incorporating vintage record album covers into my process provides me with a trove of not-so-blank canvases replete with diverse textures and random elements from popular culture. Layering my photographs on top of this wide range of bizarre inspirational springboards takes me in unexpected directions.
As relics from our communal visual archive are overlaid with contemporary images, we seem to jump through space and time. With each 'Cover Version' I am striving to suggest that dimensions, normally separate, have indeed collided."
Kathryn Dunlevie is a photography-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Cathy Kimball, former Executive Director of the ICA San Jose, writes of Dunlevie’s work: "Through brilliant compositional detail and manipulation, she creates disconcerting, inexplicable spaces and scenarios - streetscapes that elude mapmakers and interior settings that are almost, but not quite, right."
Born on the east coast, Dunlevie lived in six different states by the time she was 12, and in Paraguay when she was 16. She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University, and studied art history and film at the University of Paris, painting at California College of the Arts, and photography in Madrid. She lives in Palo Alto.
Dunlevie has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellowships. Her work was exhibited at FotoFest International from 2002, at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, at Studio Thomas Kellner in Germany, in the US Art in Embassies Program in Moscow and in Saatchi Arts’ Best of 2014.
Publications reviewing her work have included Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, Korea’s photo + and Germany’s Profifoto, as well as The New York Times, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Photo Metro, Artweek, and Artlies.
Highlights of Career:
SOLO EXHIBITS:
Femmes Futuristes, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2023 (upcoming)
Femmes Futuristes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas, 2023
Femmes Futuristes, Pastine Projects, San Francisco, California, 2022
FotoFest 2020: Women of Wonder, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2018: Imaginarium, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
FotoFest 2016: Mistick Krewes, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
JURIED GROUP EXHIBITS:
TOP 40 of 2021, N.Y. Photo Curator
Women’s History Month, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2021
Bay Area Current(ly), PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, California, 2020
School Days, Don't Take Pictures.com, 2019
Alternative Realities - Facts: Mistick Krewes, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2017
www.kathryndunlevie.com
www.instagram.com/kathryndunlevie
AMERICA by Kathryn Dunlevie
LOUCAS HOTEL by Kathryn Dunlevie
NIGHTWATCH by Kathryn Dunlevie
NO 93 by Kathryn Dunlevie
OF THE WEST by Kathryn Dunlevie
------------------------
NY PHOTO CURATOR HOME
https://nyphotocurator.com/
URBAN LANDSCAPES HOME
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson
FIRST PLACE
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/first-place-c-e-morse-pit-79/1
SECOND PLACE
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/second-place-simon-lund-pigeons-2/1
HONORABLE MENTIONS
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/honorable-mentions-linda-briskin-dennis-church-danielle-towers-philip-ringler-prescott-lassman-timothy-kennedy-carole-glauber-don-angello/1
EXHIBITION #1
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/exhibition-1/1
EXHIBITION #2
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/exhibition-2/1
EXHIBITION #3
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/exhibition-3/1
------------------------
NY PHOTO CURATOR HOME
https://nyphotocurator.com/
URBAN LANDSCAPES HOME
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson
FIRST PLACE
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/first-place-c-e-morse-pit-79/1
SECOND PLACE
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/second-place-simon-lund-pigeons-2/1
HONORABLE MENTIONS
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/honorable-mentions-linda-briskin-dennis-church-danielle-towers-philip-ringler-prescott-lassman-timothy-kennedy-carole-glauber-don-angello/1
EXHIBITION #1
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/exhibition-1/1
EXHIBITION #2
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/exhibition-2/1
EXHIBITION #3
https://nyphotocurator.com/urban-landscapes-steven-benson/exhibition-3/1
