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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
ST. LOUIS, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum announced the opening of Abstraction in American Photography, an exhibition of nine photographs from the Museum's collection by such artists as Aaron Siskind and Minor White that explores the potential for abstraction in photography. The exhibition complements the featured exhibition Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976, on...
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Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Ron Slattery at Bighappyfunhouse has made a truly wonderful find: an extensive collection of photographs of Leon Lewandowski, who studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at Chicago's Institute of Design during the 1950s. Here's Ron's explanation: Another wonderful find....
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond is hosting a special visit for CBB members to see an exhibit titled the Crombie Taylor, Aaron Siskind and the Adler and Sullivan Project. Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 2pm. Get more details after the jump. Image copyright Hedrich-Blessing
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Here's another cool exhibit I need to check out. It's called "Crombie Taylor, Aaron Siskind, and the Adler and Sullivan Project" and it's curated by John Vinci and Jeffrey Plank. So what makes it cool?
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Aaron Siskind... Chicago 30, 1949 (Silver Print). From the exhibition Aaron Siskind: The Egan Gallery Years, 1947-1954 at Robert Mann Gallery. "...At the recommendation of his friend Barnett Newman, photographer Aaron Siskind paid a visit to art dealer Charles Egan, one of the few gallerists in New York devoted to contemporary art at the time. The result was four exhibitions at the Egan Gallery. Siskind's...
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ArtCal (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Robert Mann Gallery 210 Eleventh Avenue, 212-989-7600 Chelsea May 15 - June 28, 2008 Web Site Aaron Siskind Robert Mann Gallery presents a selection of photographs by Aaron Siskind that draw upon the four seminal exhibitions the artist had at the Egan Gallery between April 1947 and June 1954. Included are a selection of prints believed to have been presented in the original exhibitions. At the recommendation...
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Stainless Steel Droppings (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
(Vent, click image for larger version. All images copyright Sophie Thouvenin) “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” ~Aaron Siskind Photography as a medium has been little represented as a Friday Favorite [...]
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PORT (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Aaron Siskind, Untitled (Hand and broken glass), 1940s "If you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you have never dreamed of before." -Aaron Siskind I was caught a little off guard when I walked into the Charles Hartman Gallery to see a show of Aaron Siskind's photographs . In most of my favorite photos there is no object in the picture. Just a surface. More often than not, it...
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philosophical conversations (Free subscription) | 12/18/2007
I just love the simplicity of Franz Kline. It reminds me so much of marks on walls of our cities. I can now see why Aaron Siskind responded so strongly to this work. Franz Kline, Suspended, 1953, Oil on canvas...
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MCNY.org Public Programs - all (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
Sean Corcoran leads a panel discussion with Gus Powell, Jeff Mermelstein, Aaron Siskind and Matt Stuart exploring the tradition of street photography.
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Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
Aaron Siskind is interpreted by art historians as an American abstract expressionist photographer. His work, using a large-format camera, created abstract photographs by focusing on the details of nature and architecture. He presents them as flat surfaces to create a new image out of them. These images, he claimed, stand...
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NYC Art (Free subscription) | 09/07/2007
I was looking down the Douglas Kelley Show List to see if there was anything this Super Thursday that was really going to be interesting when I saw the name Gerald Slota. Gerald was one of the very first artists I met when I started going to openings. It was a few years back and I went to see Eric White, because at one of my rare moments of having money I'd bought a lithograph from him and I loved...
