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Travess Smalley

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Travess Smalley: Capture Physical Presence

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:00:00 GMT

Exhibition:   Travess Smalley, Capture Physical Presence

Date:       May 2 – June 1, 2013

Opening:       Thursday, May 2, 6 – 8 pm

Higher Pictures is pleased to present Capture Physical Presence, the first New York solo exhibition by Travess Smalley. These dynamic, abstract digital photo collages undulate between digital and physical image making, defying the viewer’s expectation of gesture and medium.

Smalley’s work is at the forefront of the exploration of medium in contemporary art and approaches the evolving nature of painting and optics through experimental working methods. He uses the tools of contemporary, digital, computer-based life, such as the home office printer and scanner, laser printer, and Photoshop, to explore alternate color theories, the languages of Modernist composition, and post-1960s definitions of psychedelia. His vivid, color-saturated works challenge viewers to let go of preconceived ideas of what is analog versus what is digital, and see the hybrid visual reality of our digitized world.

Smalley creates graphics using Photoshop, prints them out, cuts them up, collages them, scans them back into Photoshop, and digitally manipulates the results, over and over again. With notions of medium, origin, and objecthood becoming quickly obscured in the process, these resulting works consistently update – and expand upon – traditional boundaries for creating and presenting collage.

Born in rural West Virginia in 1986, Smalley graduated from Cooper Union in 2010. He lives and works in Jersey City.

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Rochelle Feinstein

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:00:00 GMT

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Rochelle Feinstein

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:00:00 GMT

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Rochelle Feinstein

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:00:00 GMT

Exhibition: Rochelle Feinstein

Date: March 16 – April 27, 2013

Opening: Saturday, March 16, 8 – 10 pm

On Stellar Rays and Higher Pictures are having an exhibition of the highly influential Rochelle Feinstein. The exhibition brings together two bodies of work, Joy Ride from 2000-05 and The Enigma Project from 2012. Feinstein explores how specific vocabularies - often gendered, class-specific and reductive - might influence the understanding of broader socio-cultural issues. Both on the upside and the downside.

On Stellar Rays presented its first solo exhibition with Rochelle Feinstein in 2011, entitled The Estate of Rochelle F. Other recent solo exhibitions include LAB Space/Art Production Fund, New York, NY (2009); Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (2008); The Suburban, Chicago, IL (2008). Recent group exhibitions include New Galerie Paris, France (2012); Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (2012); Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2012); International Print Center, New York, NY; (2012); White Flag, St. Louis, MO (2011); Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2010).

Rochelle Feinstein is the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. Other recent awards and grants include an Anonymous Was A Woman grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. Ms. Feinstein received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She was appointed to the Yale University/School of Art faculty in 1994 where she is currently professor and Director of Graduate Studies of painting and printmaking. Her work is in numerous prominent museum and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Miami Art Museum.

For further information contact Kim Bourus at 212.249.6100.

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Jill Freedman

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:00 GMT

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Jill Freedman: Circus Days

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:00:00 GMT

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Jill Freedman: Circus Days 1971

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:00:00 GMT

Exhibition: Jill Freedman Circus Days

Date: January 31 – March 9, 2013

Opening: Thursday, January 31, 6 - 8 pm

Higher Pictures presents the first New York exhibition of Circus Days by Jill Freedman. The show will include over twenty vintage gelatin silver prints made and printed by the artist. This is Freedman's third solo exhibition with Higher Pictures.

In 1971, with a borrowed white Volkswagen bus, Jill Freedman joined the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus. She was on the move every night but two, for two months, photographing two shows a day and one show each Sunday. Seven weeks of one night stands'. Freedman traveled with the circus through New York, Massachusetts, parts of New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to make her art.

Jill Freedman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and has had her work published in leading newspapers and magazines. Freedman's work is in important collections including: The New York Public Library, George Eastman House, The Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

For further information contact Kim Bourus at 212.249.6100.

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