'Fraction of a Second:' Opening at 516 ARTS and UNM Art Museum
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'FRACTION OF A SECOND' OPENS THIS WEEKEND!
Opening Reception at UNM Art Museum: Friday, June 5, 6-8pmMembers' Preview 5-6pm
Opening Reception at 516 ARTS: Saturday, June 6, 6-8pmRita Koehler Artist Talk: 4pmCurator Walk-Through: 5pm
Curated by David Bram, editor and publisher of Fraction Magazine, this multi-site exhibition brings together 45 diverse contemporary photographers, both established and emerging, with 35 artists from across the United States featured at 516 ARTS and 10 international artists featured at UNM Art Museum. This exhibition is the center of a new season-long photography collaboration called PhotoSummer in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Join Guest Curator David Bram for a walk-through of 516 ARTS's Fraction of a Second exhibition on Saturday, June 6 at 5pm. Local and visiting artists featured in the exhibition will talk about their work with Bram and answer questions from the public.
The exhibition catalog for Fraction of a Secondis published by Radius Books, and includes essays by Michele Penhall and James Elkins. Penhall says, “With a keen and perceptive sense of what makes a good picture, each month Bram presents a handful of engaging and original portfolios by young and/or emerging artists whose work, in almost all instances, has never before been published or seen online. And he does this one image at a time. ...In addition to the contemporary work Bram presents, he has featured work by a number of established and renowned photographers...This nod to both photography’s history and canon provides balance to the very au courant nature of publishing visual work online, as it also no doubt introduces many young and/or foreign photographers to some of the discipline’s significant artists and iconic images.”
FEATURED ARTISTS:
at 516 ARTS Regional & National ArtistsLeon Alesi (Asheville, NC), Liz Arenberg (Brooklyn, NY), Thomas Barrow (Albuquerque, NM), Clare Benson (Drummond Island, MI), Jonathan Blaustein (Taos, NM), Aaron Blum (Pittsburgh, PA), Daniel Coburn (Lawrence, KS), Matthew Conboy (Pittsburgh, PA), Matthew Crowther (Chicago, IL), Jess Dugan (Chicago, IL), Kirk Gittings (Albuquerque, NM), Alice Hargrave (Chicago, IL), Rita Koehler (South Bend, IN), Karen Kuehn (Peralta, NM), Galina Kurlat (Houston, TX), Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman, Isa Leshko (Salem, MA), Holly Lynton (Amherst, MA), Sara Macel (Brooklyn, NY), Rania Matar (Brookline, MA), Sarah Moore (Missoula, MT), Bruce Myren (Cambridge, MA), David Ondrik (Portland, OR), Edward Ranney (Santa Fe, NM), Kathleen Robbins (Columbia, NC), Bastienne Schmidt (Bridgehampton, NY), Nick Shepard (Portland, OR), Lara Shipley (Missouri), Charlie Simokaitis (Chicago, IL), Kurt Simonson (Long Beach, CA), Tabitha Soren (San Francisco, CA), Cheryle St Onge (Durham, NH), Jim Stone (Albuquerque, NM), and Joel Peter Witkin (Albuquerque, NM).at UNM Art MuseumInternational Artists
Alex Catt (UK), Ellie Davies (UK), Ingvild Melberg Eikeland (Norway), Regis Feugere (France), Paul Gaffney (Ireland), Sachiko Kawanabe (Japan), Yvette Monahan (Ireland), Paolo Patrizi (Italy), Jiehao Su (China), and Hiko Uemara (Netherlands).
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Rita Koehler is a guest artist-in-resident as part of 516 ARTS partnership with the national NPN/Visual Artists Network residency program. For this residency, Koehler will be working on a diptych of opposing sides that is part of her new series titled Xenia. Xeniaisa body of work addressing the transformational role of women religious in the Catholic Church since Vatican II. Portraits from this work will be featured in the Fractionofa Second exhibition at 516 ARTS.