Gallery Luisotti

Gallery Luisotti is thrilled to present an exhibition of photographs from Ron Jude’s new series Dark Matter. Please join us this Saturday, April 29 for an opening reception with the artist.

Artist Reception
Saturday, April 29
5:30–7:30pm

432 South Alameda Street
(Entrance on Seaton Street)
Los Angeles, 90013

“In this new body of work, Oregon-based photographer Ron Jude revisits source material he first explored in Alpine Star (2006). Named after a weekly newspaper published in Jude’s hometown in central Idaho, Alpine Star appropriated and cropped images from the paper, to produce a series with an iconography that suggested histories both personal and collective. Dark Matter expands the project, upscaling prints, and working in color, the combination of which further emphasizes texture: the half-tone signature of photo-mechanical printing as much as the damage and vulnerability those images convey.” ––Chris Balaschak, Ph.D

Gallery Luisotti updated their business hours.

"Burke + Norfolk" is a collaboration in spirit between Simon Norfolk and the 19th Century Irish photographer John Burke (1843-1900), who captured images of the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1978-1880. Seeking out the original locations of where Burke sourced his images, Norfolk’s photographs show the pratfalls of defending a flawed position of contemporary politics: the United States-led, multinational mismanagement of the war against terror.

Left: Mahomed Tahir Khan, Aslam Khan & c of Ghazni. (John Burke 1978) (Courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography, London) Right: Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.

📸 Simon Norfolk, from the series “Burke + Norfolk”, 2010 - 11

"It seems like a dark tide has drowned this wonderful country and all the things I photographed; all the beautiful cultural heritage unknown outside Afghanistan; all the newborn hope for the future; all the gentle people I met and fell for - all this has sunk beneath the waves.” – Simon Norfolk

In the above photograph an Afghan commander looks out at the historic highlands of Bamiyan, where in the 6th-century monumental statues of Vairocona Buddha and Guatama Buddha were carved into the sandstone cliff. In 2001 the statues were blown up and destroyed by the Taliban, after the Taliban government declared them as idols.

📸 Simon Norfolk, “Victory Arch”, from the series “Afghanistan: Chronotopia", 2001-02

A Balloon Seller poses next to the wreckage of the old Soviet-era ‘Afghan Exhibition of Economic and Social Achievements’ in Kabul. Balloons were illegal under the 1990’s Taliban rule.

One of the early spots of color to appear in a landscape that had turned inward and dark, the merchant had buried the deflated balloons in hopes there would be a day when they could once again float in the air.

📸 Simon Norfolk, 'Balloon Seller’, from the series 'Afghanistan Chronotopia', 2001-02

In remembrance of a brighter future for an ancient country and rich culture, we will present 7 days of images taken from the 20 years Simon Norfolk photographed Afghanistan.

This first image, taken on the outskirts of Kabul, shows two American bomber planes as they search for Al-Qaeda targets in Tora Bora.

Simon Norfolk, from the series 'Afghanistan, Chronotopia', 2001-02

Congratulations ¡Felicidades! to Christina Fernandez for receiving the 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship Award.

The new Latinx Artist Fellowship was established by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum, with support from the Ford Foundation and the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The foundations have committed $5 million towards the fellowship program, giving $50,000 in unrestricted funds each to 15 Latinx visual artist every year, over the next five years.

In this first round of 15 recipients, Christina Fernandez is one of three artists selected from Los Angeles.

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Congratulations to Christina Fernandez for receiving the 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship award 🎉

Click on the link below to read about the award, and the wonderful group of 2021 Fellows:

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Repost from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

"We are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking new program: the Latinx Artist Fellowship, a $50,000 unrestricted award to 15 of the most compelling Latinx visual artists working in the US today.
This is a long-overdue opportunity to lift up contemporary Latinx artists—and expand and secure their place within art history.
MEET THE 2021 FELLOWS and learn more about our partnership with .S. Latinx Art Forum and Ford Foundation"

Mark Ruwedel has been shortlisted for the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet Prix Pictet –a global award in photography and sustainability.

Selected is his body of work, “LA Fires”, 2017 - 2020, from his four-part, in-progress project titled Los Angeles: Landscapes of Four Ecologies. The photographs document the La Tuna fire in 2017, which is considered to one of the largest in the history of Los Angeles.

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Mark Ruwedel, Paramount Ranch Fire #4, 2019

Artist Ron Jude invites us to contemplate the raw materials of the planet. He has sought locations throughout Oregon—from the high lava plains in the Dechutes National Forest and gorges in the Cascade Range in the center of the state to the sea caves and tide pools near Cape Perpetua along its coastline—as a means of re-engaging with primordial nature.

This photograph features a sea grotto captured in velvety black and white, and printed at nearly 5 feet tall. The series title is "12 Hz," the lowest frequency of sound audible to the human ear and a reference to the limits of human perception.

Opening tomorrow at the Riverside Art Museum: ‘Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’

June 5 - September 26, 2021

"In Golden Hour, over 50 artists and one photography collective offer an aesthetic approach to understanding the complexities and histories of California. These images, gathered from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), have come to define the myths, iconographies, and realities of this unique state. Pairing masters of photography with experimental practitioners in a range of lens-based media that includes photo sculpture, vernacular, and video work, the selection blurs the boundaries of the tropes that formed a California identity. With works ranging from the early 1900s to present day, Golden Hour is neither a didactic history of the state nor an inclusive tale of photographic history, but rather artists’ impressions of the state of being in, and being influenced by, California."

This exhibition includes work by Peter Holzhauer, Mark Ruwedel, Christina Fernandez, Lewis Baltz, CJ Heyliger.

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1. Peter Holzhauer, Balloons, 2008
2. John Divola, 'D07F12', from Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, 1996-98
3. Lewis Baltz, Santa Cruz, 1970
4. Mark Ruwedel, Borate And Daggett #6, 1996
5. Christina Fernandez, CCJ (Leadfield), 2016
6. CJ Heyliger, False Eclipse, 2017

In-Conversation: The Mark Ruwedel Photography Archive at Stanford

Tomorrow, Thursday May 27, 2021
2:30pm – 4:00pm PT

To inaugurate the opening of the exhibition Between: Artist Books, Albums, and Portfolios from the Mark Ruwedel Photography Archive at Stanford, on view May 27, 2021 through September 26, 2021, please join Standford Libraries Photography curator Peter Blank, in conversation with with Mark Ruwedel, National Gallery of Canada Chief Curator of Photographs Emeritus Ann Thomas, Stanford Professor of History Emeritus Richard White.

"Part of the Ruwedel archive project is creating a catalogue raisonné of Ruwedel’s artists’ books, albums, and portfolios. The exhibition will place these smaller, more approachable objects in direct conversations with related materials from the collection, including Andre Breton’s Nadja, Carleton Watkins’s mammoth albumen plates, and artist books by Edward Ruscha’s, Gordon Matta-Clark, Man Ray, and many other works."

Register Here: https://bit.ly/2QWRsyw