Select Gender Review in L Magazine

We are very proud of the great review the lovely people over at The L Magazine have given us. The show has received a lot of great attention. Read the view by going to the link below.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/select-gender/Event?oid=1591361

Be sure to check out the New York Photo Festival happening May 12-16th. Select Gender will be up during the festival and there will be an artists discussion right here at Farmani Gallery that we will let you know more about in the coming weeks.

http://www.nyphotofestival.com/site/

Photo of the Week

Carl Bower - Circle of Men 2009

Carl Bower is one of the 14 rising photographers currently exhibiting at the gallery as part of our current show Select Gender. In "Chica Barbie" Carl documents Colombian pageants exploring issues of beauty and identity. The analogy of Latin chicas being influenced by the image of an American Barbie is shown in his work, but also the spirits of the Colombian people cheering for their Queens, beautiful images that would represent them as united.

On an interesting note, Circle of Men stands right across Monique Bergen Henegouwen's Prototypicality. Prototypicallyty is a blog installation in which people leave comments on her blog telling her how she should alter her features in a photograph; she in turn transforms herself through Photoshop into a product of public opinion on perceptions of beauty and perfection. Circle of Men is a beautiful photograph that contains significant social commentary. To be admired within the context of the whole exhibit has brought the public to appreciate the work and bring out their own opinions.

Four of Carl's photographs are being exhibited at the Gallery, and his "Chica Barbie" portfolio is also available for viewing.

If you are curious about Select Gender and would like to take a peck into the mind of the curators, their inspirations and influences, this is your chance!

We are set for our Curator's panel tomorrow at 7pm.

Bring your questions and we hope to see you here!

Save the date! April 17, 2010

Select Gender Curators Panel | Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 7PM
Presented by Farmani Gallery 

Caleb Cole The Silk Pajamas 2007/2009

Farmani Gallery is glad to announce that a curators panel on our current exhibition Select Gender will take place on Saturday, April 17, at 7pm at the Farmani Gallery, located at 111 Front St., Ste. 212, DUMBO, BK, NY.

Curators Rafael Soldi, Elle Perez, and Paolo Morales discuss he representation and interpretations of gender-specific culture in emerging photography as well as take questions from the audience.

Hope to see you here.

For more information you can visit this link

Select Gender Opening Night

The awaited reception of Select Gender finally took place this past Thursday at the Gallery, and could not have turned out in a better way. The exhibit became the catalyst of many discussions on gender perceptions in the United States and abroad. Curators, photographers, and enthusiastic visitors engaged in conversation as they appreciated the various forms of gender representations depicted through the photography of Daniel Aguirre, Carl Bower, Caleb Cole, Jason Hanasik, Jamil Hellu, Kate Hutchinson, Katie Koti, Diane Russo, J. Aiden Simon, Sarah Sudhoff, Molly Landreth, as well as the documentary installation by Amelia Tovey + Molly Landreth, and a blog installation by Monique Bergen Henegouwen.

The house was full and the environment was filled with positive feedback from our dear visitors.

A BIG thank you goes to everybody who came to DUMBO to support the exhibition.

We still have an agenda full of exiting events so make sure to keep in tune with our calendar. 

Select Gender will be open until May 22nd