ISSUE 19 | DREAMBOATS w/ Umbrage Gallery
Dear all,
This week we welcome back Ashley Singley as our guest curator.
Ashley selected a series of photographs by Dreamboats Collective, a new agency featuring four young photographers: Adam Golfer, Joe Leavenworth, TJ Proechel, and Daniel Shea. Unlike our previous shows, this one can be experienced both online and in person (if you happen to be in New York City). The exhibition will be on view from November 5th through December 22nd, Monday through Saturday 11–6 pm, at Umbrage Editions gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn. As a special holiday feature, each artist will make available a limited edition 8”x10” and 11”x14” affordable print series (ranging from $35 to $200) for sale at the gallery.
About the show:
As a group, Dreamboats adds to the growing disambiguation between working personally and working editorially. Membersof the collective, who met at Maryland Institute College of Art, are primarily engaged in contemporary fine art and social documentary practices, but their professed intention is to circumvent the traditional photographic establishment to create a self-sustaining network of distribution and support for the creation of new photographic works. The works selected for the exhibition are from each artist’s recent body of work:
Adam Golfer’s series, Kin*,
Joe Leavenworth’s Pictures from Home,
TJ Proechel’s Dream House, and
Daniel Shea’s Untitled (Baltimore).
BOX 1
Adam Golfer’s Kin* is a photographic investigation into the abstract relationship between Germany and the Jewish people over 60 years since the fall of the Third Reich. Thisproject began as a way to explore Golfer’s personal feelings and biases towards Germany, as a grandson of Holocaust survivors. In 2008 Golfer traveled throughout Germany, exploring the landscape and spending time with young people in their twenties, coming-of-age as part of the third generation, on the other side of a shared history. The photographs created during Golfer’s travels throughout Germany focus on the ways in which psychological aftereffects and trauma are passed down through generations through family, national identity and religion. Golfer is a Brooklyn based photographer who has worked with clients such as W Magazine, NEON, and The Guardian. His first solo show in New York with be at the 92nd street Y in January, where he will be featuring his entire Kin* series.
www.adamgolfer.com
Kin* PHOTO EXHIBIT captions: here
BOX 2
Joe Leavenworth’s Pictures from Home is a selection of photographs created when he returned to live in his native home of Woodbury, Connecticut for the first time in four years. Interested in revisiting landscapes familiar only inmemory, Joe walked to collect traces of a past in present. Leavenworth began his career in New York as a preparator at Pace/MacGill Gallery and as an archivist for the Museum of the City of New York. He is currently based in Woodbury, CT and continues freelancing for such clients as W Magazine.
www.jleav.net
BOX 3
T.J. Proechel’s Dream House is an exploration of the foreclosure crisis in Minnesota. Dream House started in late 2008 in the midst of the housing crisis. During this time, Proechel took a job as an REO housing contractor and began photographing the houses he worked on and the people he met whose lives were affected by the foreclosure. Proechel is based in St. Paul Minnesota and has had 4 impressive solo shows. He has received a multitude of grants throughout his time at MICA and continues to freelance.
www.tjproechel.com
BOX4
Daniel Shea’s Untitled (Baltimore) attempts to demystify Baltimore, Maryland, a city whose reputation is frequently enlarged through the lens of pop culture. Untitled (Baltimore)doesn’t represent a value judgment; rather, a fascination with the congruous relationship between its cold reality and its larger, passive representation. Shea currently runs an intensive after school photography program for teens in addition to freelancing in Chicago IL. He has worked for clients such as NPR, Rolling Stone, Russian Esquire, W Magazine, and Vox Pop. Shea was also represented by Catherine Edelman Gallery for the Chicago Project, where he recently exhibited work.
www.dsheaphoto.net
Curator Bio:
Ashley Singley is the Associate Editor and Director of Exhibitions for Umbrage Editions Gallery and Publications. Based in DUMBO, Brooklyn, the Umbrage Gallery strives to be a leader in the contemporary visual arts community and provide a voice for artists through a diverse system of media, with a concentration in photography. Umbrage also produces high-quality visual books, curates traveling exhibitions, and creates multimedia projects that vary in subject matter from classic photojournalism to cutting-edge art, from pop culture to global human rights, from the closets of drag queens to the runways of fashion. Ms. Singley has been with Umbrage for over two years as a coordinator of exhibitions and publications editor for photographers such as Eddie Adams, Robin Bowman, Tim Hetherington, Graciela Iturbide, Kent Klich, and Sylvia Plachy. Before her position at Umbrage, she worked in many capacities at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL.
We hope you enjoy this week’s show. As always, your comments are welcome.
Best,
Amir Husak
Prem Sooriyakumar
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