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				12/2007 GEISAI Miami Art Fair Parsons MFA student Ananda Cavalli included Photo: Ananda Cavalli   Six years since the first inception of GEISAI in Japan in the summer of 2001, Kaikai Kiki announces GEISAI Miami, the American debut of a fair that has been a launch pad into the art world for many emerging artists. Running concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach and hosted by PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, GEISAI Miami will premier in America in December 2007.. WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE SELECTED 20 ARTISTS! Among some 500 applicants, 20 artists were chosen by the GEISAI Miami selection jury Tom Eccles, Massimiliano Gioni, Carol Kino, Lin Lougheed, and Walter Robinson. They have earned their individual booths to exhibit their works at the Parliament Building in the SoHo Studio, in the Wynwood District. Congratulations to the following artists! David Almeida Ananda Cavalli Charles Clough Quashelle Curtis-Christie Blane De St. Croix Eric Doeringer DOLLA Erica Eyres Danielle Giudici Wallis Bruce Gundersen Akira Ikezoe Masamitsu Katsu David Leroi Maria Adelaida Lopez Sumiko Nogi Kristin Posehn Lizabeth Eva Rossof Diana Shpungin & Nicole Engelmann Cordell Thurman TM Sisters Application for GEISAI Miami was open to artists of all nationalities that do not have ongoing commercial gallery representation at the time of their application. Organized by the artist-led art enterprise Kaikai Kiki, GEISAI Miami introduces an entirely new type of fair in the booming Miami art market, allowing artists to represent themselves and to present their work directly to an audience of collectors, art professionals and art enthusiasts. Please come visit GEISAI Miami to see the works of these emerging artists! Where: Geisai Miami When: December 5 to December 9, 07     10/2007 Opening Reception, Elizabeth Dee Gallery Miranda Lichtenstein   Elizabeth Dee Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of new work by Miranda Lichtenstein. Photographs from the past year will be presented along with Lichtenstein's debut video, Everything Begins and Ends at Exactly the Right Time and Place. A reception for the artist will be held at the gallery Saturday, October 20, 6-8pm. Through her evolving practice, Lichtenstein has explored utopian environments, failed systems, the pursuit of higher states of consciousness, the uncanny, and the sublime through the photographic medium. These interests converge in the gallery space for the first time with the presentation of a variety of photographic genres. Themes that appear at first glance to be represented by individual images, in fact, flow throughout the entire exhibition, compelling us to question the nature of representation, particularly of the natural world. In 9 Planes, 5 Unrealized, 2007, utopian ideals take shape through aerodynamic ingenuity. These re-photographed portraits of both real and imagined airplanes serve as doubly mediated representations of travel, possibility, speed and desire. Captured in mid-flight and suspended against a multitude of colored clouds, they embody an individual's attempt to reconcile one's place in the natural world. Repurposed as "painted photographs," the plane images relate to Lichtenstein's ongoing series of Shadow Photographs. In this body of work, painted outlines of plants and flowers take on the appearance of shadows cast by non-existent still-lifes or vegetation set against a darkened sky, thereby challenging the verisimilitude of the photographic process through the application of painterly traditions. The doubling at play in the shadow photographs echoes throughout the exhibition in the form of diptychs whose subject matter ranges from an ancient tree felled by a violent storm to the artist herself entranced by a homemade Dreamachine (a stroboscopic device that produces visual stimuli). Throughout these images, evocations of the sublime in the natural world are juxtaposed with a more interior search for enlightenment. Everything Begins and Ends at Exactly the Right Time and Place, 2007, engages representation and doubling in yet another way. Inspired by the 1975 cult classic, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Lichtenstein (who shares her first name with the central character in the film) stages her own disappearance from a wooded, rocky landscape. The unsettling events depicted in the video are enhanced by its soundtrack, which features a clip from the original movie. Halfway through the video the action repeats, looping twice while the soundtrack from the movie is uninterrupted. Perception of the depicted events thus shifts between what is observed and what is remembered, a state of flux that persists in all of Lichtenstein's work. Miranda Lichtenstein has had solo exhibitions at The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, and Gallery Min Min, Tokyo. Her work has been featured in shows at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Creative Time, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and Stadthaus, Ulm. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, and the New Museum, New York. Where: For more information please contact the gallery at +1.212.924.7545 or visit the website at: Elizabeth Dee Gallery When: October 20 to November 24, 07         09/2007 Huge show with many events Sun Pictures to MegaPixels   Ranging from the elegant to the elemental and from the comically subversive to the evocatively surreal, this large photography show reopens the cavernous Williamsburg Art and Historical Center after its two-year closure for rennovations. The show reflects the present exceptional juncture in photographic history. Dedicated artists are pushing technical boundaries in two directions: back towards the early chemical techniques and forward using digital technology invented just the day before yesterday. The result has been an imaginative explosion that has expanded photography beyond its standard role of authentic recorder of reality. In the hands of these adventurous artists it becomes a magical brush that uses reality to paint their dreams. Read more on the website of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. Where: The WAH Center Located at the corner of Bedford: 135 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211, Phone: 718-486-7372 or 718-486-6012 Map and Directions When: September 29 to November 4 Opening 4 - 6 PM Saturday, Sept. 29 Hours: Friday–Saturday–Sunday, noon to 6 PM         09/2007 Group Exhibition The Powerhouse Arena Gallery Photo: Marlon Gonzales   A group exhibition including former Parsons Photography students at the PowerHouse Arena Gallery in Brooklyn: "The Brooklynites." Where: The Powerhouse Arena 37 Main St., Brooklyn, NY September 6 – September 30, 2007 Curated by Anthony LaSala “Brooklyn is the conscience of New York. While Manhattan tears everything down and changes everything, Brooklyn does a similar thing, but fails miserably at it. It is a crazy quilt of a place. A mongrel place of sorts. It mixes old and modern in a haphazard way. It represents a tiny microcosm of the world—a functional utopia.”—Jonathan Lethem “You know you are from Brooklyn when your car costs $500 and your sound system costs $2500.” —Danielle Smollar         07/2007 Results announced Datacolor Photography Scholarship Photo: Chris Nesbit Photo: Sylvia Laserna Photo: Anna Skladmann   Datacolor, a global leader in digital color management technology, andParsons The New School for Design have announced the results of the third annual Datacolor Photography Scholarship, following a student competition designed to support digital art and creativity in the field of photography. Parsons photography department junior Chris Nesbit was named the winner by a panel of prestigious industry professionals, and awarded a $10,000 scholarship. By juxtaposing drawings of buildings long since renovated or torn down on top of the current landscape, Nesbit’s entry addresses urban memory, and the importance of the past in the contemporary urban landscape. In his award-winning collection, Nesbit combines the past and the present to demonstrate an intersection of our contemporary lives with the history of places now lost. Honorable mentions Silvia Laserna and Anna Skladmann each won the Datacolor PrintFIX PRO™ Suite, an invaluable tool for monitor calibration, and printer profiling in an RGB workflow. In their impressive collections, Laserna focused on humanizing and capturing the spirit of impoverished and underprivileged in Ghana, and Skladmann explored the duality between childhood and adulthood in the lives of privileged children living as part of Russia’s “Nouveau-Riche.” Created as part of Datacolor’s educational outreach program at Parsons, the scholarship was awarded by three judges: Jody Quon, New York Magazine’s Photography Director; Jason Murison Director of PPOW (Pilkington Olsoff Fine Arts, Inc.); and Michelle Chant representing Wieden+Kennedy global advertising. These experts judged photographic and video submissions by more than half of the Parsons junior class.     Photo (left to right): Anna Skladmann, Silvia Laserna, Chris Nesbit, Michelle Bogre Photo: Chris Nesbit Photo: Chris Nesbit Photo: Sylvia Laserna Photo: Sylvia Laserna Photo: Anna Skladmann Photo: Anna Skladmann     05/2007 Calumet Gallery BFA Photography Exhibition   May 8–19, 2007 Opening Reception Tuesday, May 8 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Where: Calumet Gallery 22 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10010 Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Sat, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closed Sunday     05/2007 Photo District News PDN Photography Annual 2007   The work of Parsons students Sarah Wilmer (senior) and Motohiro Takeda (junior) have been awarded as winners of this year's PDN Photography Annual 2007. PDN has also selected Sarah Wilmer as a new and emerging photographer to watch this year. She is highlighted in this year's PDN's 30 2007. You can view her submission by clicking on to http://www.pdngallery.com/gallery/pdns30/2007/     05/2007 Notable Exhibitions Jesse Chun and Julie Mack   Jesse Chun, 06, has recently had exhibitions of her fine art work titled "Korean Comfort Women" in Seoul and Manhattan. Jesse has also photographed an international fashion campaign for a Korean Fashion Designer in addition to a number of editorial jobs. Julie Mack, 05, is exhibiting at Laurence Miller Gallery, Manhattan. From May 10 through June 29, 2007, Laurence Miller Gallery will present "On the Move," emerging artist Julie Mack’s first one person exhibition. The show is an affectionate and humorous study of the artist’s immediate family, a typical American family of five that has begun to climb the socio-economic ladder. Combining great wit and sensuous color, Ms. Mack has created an impressive body of work, sharing the awkward moments that her family experiences before her large-format camera with the long exposures.     05/2007 Surface Magazine Andrew Yee   Andrew Yee, 05 was named one of Surface Magazine's Avant Guardians.