An Afternoon With The Artist

Photo by Juliana Lopez

Last saturday we had the pleasure of having Rose-Lynn Fisher at the gallery to discuss her work with visitors. Rose Lynn has a passion for bees and her photographs project that passion on paper.

Thank you to Rose Lynn for a great afternoon, and a big thank you also to our lovely visitors who came by to support her work.

BEE is still open to the public at our DUMBO location.

Saying goodbye to the BEES

With the end of June and the fourth of July weekend around the corner, our current show BEE will be coming to an end. BEE presents beautiful black and white photographs of bees by Rose Lynn Fisher.

The show has been getting some wonderful reviews, make sure to mark your calendars and visit us before the show ends.

You can visit the following links for more BEE buzz

Wall Street Journal

SCI ARTS

Photo-eye Blog

The L Magazine

New Photographers: Feature Shot

BEE Buzz

"For me, the honeybee symbolizes and embodies a congruency of form and function, vision and action, spirit and matter, all being of the same essence. I offer these photographs in celebration, respect, and gratitude for all they do and are." Rose-Lynn Fisher

Our current exhibition BEE finally opened this past Thursday. An electrical outage at the Front street Galleries building attempted to spoil our evening. Luckily enough we were able to stay open and our dear visitors enjoyed an inspirational moment admiring the work of Rose-Lynn Fisher as well as engaging in conversation with her. Our yellow walls definitely added up a bright tone to the environment and everyone was able to appreciate the detail exposed in each of the photographs.

Rose-Lynn photographs of bees using a scanning electron microscope present this singular insect in incredible detail revealing their amazing secret patterns and structures. Her book BEE is also available for purchase at the gallery.

We will host an afternoon with the artist on June 19th, 1pm to 5pm.

BEE will be on view until June 26th, 2010

Hope you can make it!

Congratulations Carl Bower and Rose-Lynn Fisher

We are excited to announce that two of our exhibiting artists have made it to the New York Photo Festival Final Round in the General Book Category.

CARL BOWER

ROSE-LYNN FISHER.

Carl Bower is currently exhibiting photographs from his Chica Barbie series in the current show Select Gender at the Farmani Gallery.

Miss Coffee © Carl Bower

Rose-Lynn Fisher will be exhibiting photographs from her series and current book BEE, opening June 3, 2010.

Sabine ©Rose-Lynn Fisher

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

Photo of the week

Yesterday I arrived at the gallery surprised to see a new portfolio box sitting atop the existing two.  They were photographer John Delaney’s “Golden Eagle Nomads” prints, which were shown at Farmani in 2009.  Because so many people were interested in the prints through out the night, I had the pleasure of showing them four or five times.  I was also able to read over his artist statement a few times.  Below is one part which I feel really embodies his work:

“Native Americans referred to photographers of the 19th century as “shadow catchers”, and feared that the camera would steal away their spirit. That, in fact, is exactly what I hope to do. Not only to capture light, but also the “essence” of the people I photograph. In this way maybe I can preserve more than just a moment before it fades away into time”.

Our photo of the week is from the “Golden Eagle Nomads” series and we feel very lucky to be looking at the actual print here at the gallery. A hand-printed silver gelatin print is truly irreplaceable. 

Telegen and Son

by: John Delaney

Here’s to First Thursdays.

March is here, and now it is finally time to anticipate some warmer weather! Last night we stayed open late and chatted with many about the work of Elene Usdin, and John Delaney, whose fantastic portfolio box we have on display as of yesterday. It was a great "first of the month" evening. 

Because of the many galleries that opened last night our floor was packed with viewers excitedly walking from gallery to gallery, trying to sneak a peak here and there through the masses. We were very bad documentarians unfortunately and did not remember to take pictures until the very last moment.  Here is what the iphone can capture (its better than nothing, right?)

We hope everyone is taking advantage of all the fabulous photo events in March.  We are busy both in and out of the gallery, but would still love to see you! Come take a look at Elene Usdin’s work if you haven’t already, up until the 27^th of March.  

in front of the gallery last night

Flashing Lights: First Thursday DUMBO Gallery Walk

Big week in the art world, we have Armory, Verge, SCOPE, etc. And as for us in the DUMBO neighborhood we embark on another First Thursday Gallery Walk! We are really excited to present the work of Elene Usdin, which will be on view at the gallery until March 27th. We would also like to extend an invitation to view work from our other artists in house, Massimo Cristaldi,  John Fitzpatrick, and John Delaney. We look forward to seeing you all.

Elise d'après Ingres courtesy of Elene Usdin

Simulacra 13 courtesy of Massimo Cristaldi

 

Empty Pool courtesy of John Fitzpatrick

Silent Watch courtesy of John Delaney

Picks for First Thursday (other than our current show):

+kris graves projects: Greg Miller and Ruben Natal-San Miguel

KLOMPCHING: Paula McCartney: Bird Watching 

Rabbit Hole Studios: Rachel Meuler: Sum of Their Parts 

A.I.R. Gallery: "...and sweeps me away" The A.I.R. Gallery National Members Show

In Conversation: Artist Elene Usdin and Gallery Director Elizabeth Barragan.

This Saturday afternoon was spent with our current artist Elene Usdin at the gallery discussing her latest series, Femmes D'Interieur, on view until March 27th. There were plenty of inquisitive guests, who were drawn to her work and Elene was more than happy to answer any questions, even in her broken English. During a lull in the action, the Director, Elizabth Barragan was able to steal a moment and discuss some of the more asked questions about this body of work. Here's how it went down:

EB: "When did you start making this body of work?"

EU: “September 2009. I started for my first show that was in Paris in October of 2009."

EB: "Which piece was completed first?"

EU: "Solange d’apres Ingres," but I shot a series of photographs at the same location, a farmhouse in France, that soon became additional artworks - Mathilde, Ines, Olga and Alice."

EB: "Tell us a bit about your process."

EU: “I begin by taking a photograph in a space that I am attracted to. Both the farm house and large apartment in France where owned by people I knew, a few were taken during a holiday in London. I set up the scene using what is around me. The shoes and chairs and furniture were all lying around, I re-arranged them in order to create the scene where I will then put the women. Although, the popular green pumps are my personal shoes. After I have the setting, I went to the library and to look through art history books to find a woman in history that fits into the setting. After I have found the right woman, I make a high resolution scan and use Photoshop to meticulously pull her out of the painting and place her into my RAW image. It's all very fastidious. From the photo collage is where I get the inspiration for the painting. Then I look at my complete collage and direct the same image directly onto the printed photograph. It's a very painstaking process to make it look just right. I never trace, it completely hand drawn from looking at the original. That is also why the painted artworks are one of a kind."

EB: "…and can you talk a bit about your inspiration?"

EU: “My inspiration has ranged from women of the Renaissance, found in works from painters such as Velasquez, Picasso, Balthus, to Egon Shiele. I also work very much by instinct. I think about the role and the “social position” of women throughout time.  Everything, from the furniture to the woman’s facial expression and dress has a specific role in their piece.”

EB: "Will you continue with this series, and if so, what is the next step?"

EU: “Yes, I do plan on continuing this series.  My next step is painting the woman into the photographs that I have already made in my digital photo collages. First up- Georges d’apres Charpentier."

Elizabeth’s final word…

“I love the pieces where the woman looks truly in scale with her surroundings. It gives me the feeling that the morphed woman is really living like a piece of furniture or decorative element in the surrounding. In particular one of my favorites is  Penelope d’apres Ghirlandaio, who's painted lady is morphed onto a fixed chair, staring out the window from her bathroom. In many ways she too is a fixture in this porcelain palace."

March Madness: Elene Usdin, Art Fairs + Exhibitions!

Today at Farmani we have Elene Usdin come in to chat about Femmes D’Interieur. Unfortunately she is leaving this weekend for Paris (home), so we had a nice q&a to end her visit. Come by this afternoon if you have any last minute questions!

Meanwhile, the month of MARCH is around the corner, and that means many events, openings, and lectures in Manhattan and Brooklyn.  Not only are we mentioned in the photographNYC calendar this month, but a handful of other galleries are also mentioned, all offering awesome events.  Here are a few to look forward too...

Dumbo Gallery Walk (March 4^th): A chance to visit many photograph exhibitions on one night in one Brooklyn neighborhood. Caption, Farmani, Kris Graves, Klompching, Randall Scott, Umbrage. 

 We highlight: Kris graves, and Farmani (0f course!).    

Fairs

The Armory Show: March 4-7. Pier 92, 94 at 55^th St, Thurs-Sat noon-8pm, Sun noon-7pm, thearmoryshow.com. On armoryartsweek.com is a schedule of public events highlighting a neighborhood of bourough’s art scene.

Scope New York: March 4-7. Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, 62^nd St. and Amsterdam Ave. Thur-Sat noon-8pm, Sun noon-7pm, scope-art.com

Verge Art Fair: March 4-7. Dylan Hotel, 52 E 41^st St. Fri-Sat noon-8pm, Sun noon-6pm, vergeartfair.com

The AIPAD Photography Show New York: March 18-21. Park Avenue Armory at 67^th, Thurs-Sat 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-6pm, aipad.com

Museum Talk (march 2^nd)

Brian Walli and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev at the International Center of photography.

Film Screening (march 2^nd)

Month-long continuous viewing of Helen Levitt’s In the Street at Laurence Miller, 20 W 57^th St. 212/397-3930. Laurencemillergallery.com

Meet the Artist: Elene Usdin

Mathilde d'apres Picasso

Saturday, February 27, 2010 (1-4PM) @ Farmani Gallery
111 Front St., Ste. 212, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York

Femmes d’Interieur
Photography and Illustrations
On View through March 27, 2010

Please join us at the Farmani Gallery as we host an occasion to meet and converse with Paris based artist, Elene Usdin on Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 1-4PM about her latest series Femmes D’Interieur. Usdin, who has already shown this series at the Gallery of Graphic Arts in Paris, is making her New York debut with this exhibition. This series features one of a kind mixed media artworks as well as collaged photographic images, which have emerged from Usdin’s keen and stylish sensibilities for photography and illustration. Adding her charm to each brilliant piece, she reinterprets the women made prominent in the Renaissance paintings from the Masters such as Ingres, Raphael, and Velazquez and adds her personal wit and whimsy to a social observation of women as the decorations within their own domesticated situations.

In Femmes D’Interieur, Usdin meticulously combines her talents of illustration and photography to produced exquisite and delightfully detailed unique artworks. Each piece begins as a staged scene where eventually Usdin hand illustrates and paints, with acrylic paint directly onto the photograph, the re-imagined portrait of the Renaissance woman. In these modern scenes she reincarnates these women by morphing their bodies onto common household objects and treating them as part of the decorative elements found in the home. This offbeat examination of “woman-as-object” is at one time unsettling and yet Usdin has the ability to convey this strong subject matter with a sense of enchantment in her chic artworks. It is has been said of Usdin’s work, “it is always about women – the women of fairytales, of mythology, and of fantasy,” and she provides that same ideology in this series.

Usdin, began her artistic career as an illustrator for books and magazines in France and U.S. newspapers such as The Boston Globe and The New York Times. She turned to photography in 2002, experimenting with self-portraiture and soon after collaborated with Hartland Villa on a poster campaign for the Opera du Rhin in France. This led to  successes in her photography career, focusing her lens and creativity to editorial and fashion shoots for magazines. Currently Usdin is a member of the creative collective Hartland Villa that includes art directors Lionel Avignon and Stefan Vivies and was recently awarded with the London Photographic Associations Gold in Fashion for the fair-etale series. She has also been awarded the 2008 Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards honorable mention for her earlier series “Self Portrait with Mattress.” Her editorial and fashion work can also be seen in Eyemazing, Twill, and The World Magazine. 

The exhibition will be on view until March 27, 2010 and features both unique mix media C-prints, which are hand painted with acrylic by the artist as well as a small edition of  photographic collaged artworks. All artworks are mounted on aluminum. Also available during the exhibition is a limited edition (5 in edition) of Femmes D’Interieur Petit Artist Box Set  featuring 10- 8”x6” C-prints, with a signed certificate of authenticity by artist. For more information please call the gallery at 718-578-4478 or e-mail info@farmanigallery.com.

Down the hall next week on Front St...

... the brilliant photographer Greg Miller will be shown at Kris Graves Projects. See you there!

Schnecksville Community Fair

2005, Chromogenic Print

fore more click here

Picture of the Day

The Farmani team and Elene Usdin all agree this is the winner;

Photo by Elene Usdin

Everyone is talking about Ms. Elene Usdin…

Paris-based mixed media artist, Elene Usdin graced us with her lovely presence this past week to install and open her show, Femmes D’Interieur. The opening was very fun and went smoothly, with friends of the gallery’s and Elene’s mingling over her beautiful pieces.

Here are some photos of the install and the finished show that opened Thursday, February 18^th.

Femmes D’Interieur consists of twenty mixed media pieces, 12 that are hand paintings on top of photographs, and 8 that are digitally manipulated found and original photographs. Elene works out of Paris, and this is her first solo show in New York. We were delighted to have her with us this week, and we believe her work is not only delicate and complex, but also aesthetically pleasing and rich with historical references. We drew parallels between her work and that of Pablo Picasso, Egon Shiele, and Diego Velazquez- all whom she has taken inspiration from.

If you were unable to attend the opening, please stop by anytime or come to the first Thursday of March, where we will join all the galleries on the floor to stay open late and enjoy our second opening of Elene’s work.

a. Elene with friends b. Gallery director Elizabeth Barragan and Kris Graves

What we love...

 

Penelope d'après Ghirlandaio

Elene Usdin

Femmes d'Interieur

photographs and illustrations

opening reception with artist: Thursday, February 18th (6-8PM)

On view February 18 - March 27, 2010

Haiti relief benefit in progress...

Hello gang,

So this week we have been busy getting our Haiti Relief Benefit prints organized and ready to send with Rafael Soldi. All of the prints look great, and we are so excited to send them out to their owners. Check out these pictures of the process below.

Cheers,

Farmani Team  

dreaming of travel and warm places...

Our photo of the day is by Rafael Soldi.  For more of his work click here 

Thursday Night in DUMBO

Last Thursday was quite a success!  Here at Farmani, we drew in a crowd of over a hundred for “A Queens Affair”, starring the work of Eric Hairebedian and Kris Graves. The whole floor, which consists of ten galleries in all, was packed with a very diverseand fun group of artists and art-lovers. We ended up selling over half the “A Queen’s Affair” books by the end of the evening, which Kris and Eric were very pleased with. The book will be out this summer.  Here are some photos highlighting the evening, and don’t forget to join us in a few weeks for our next opening.  

a. Calm before the storm                     b. Eric signing his prints                      c. Kris signing his prints     

d. Elizabeth admiring the show.    e. Friends and family having fun.       f. Interns taking charge

February Events!!!

We are jammin' two great shows in the month of February. Check out the debut of Elene Usdin and the pop-exhibition for the book pre-launch of A Queens Affair!

Femmes D’Interieur

Elene Usdin

Photographs and Illustrations

February 18 – March 27, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 18, from 6-8PM

We present the New York debut of Femmes D’Interieur, the latest series from Paris based artist Elene Usdin, with an opening reception on Thursday, February 18, 2010 from 6-8PM. In this series, Usdin combines both her talents of photography and illustration and creates stunning imagery that also provides social commentary regarding the place of women as the decorations within their own domesticated situations.

Usdin, a member of the creative collective Hartland Villa, which includes art directors Lionel Avignon and Stefan Vivies, was recently awarded with the London Photographic Associations Gold in Fashion for the “fair-etale” series. She has also been awarded the 2008 Px3 Prix De La Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards honorable mention for her earlier series “Self Portrait with Mattress.” Her editorial and fashion work can also be seen in Eyemazing, Twill, and The World Magazine.  

This latest series “Femmes D’Interieur,” which has already exhibited at the Gallery of Graphic Arts in Paris, Usdin reflects upon the representation of women as a decorative element, morphing objects like common household items, furniture, and even the countryside with that of women painted in the style of portraits from the Classical Era. This offbeat reinterpretation of “woman-as-object” is at one time unsettling and yet Usdin has the ability to convey this strong subject matter with wit and charm in her stunning artworks. It is has been said of Usdin’s work, “it is always about women – the women of fairytales, of mythology, and of fantasy,” and she provides that same ideology in this series.

Each artwork is a unique original, hand painted C-print mounted on aluminum. For the exhibition the gallery will show a mix of originals and reproductions available in two sizes. For more information please visit www.farmanigallery.com or email us at info@farmanigallery.com. We can also be reached via phone at 718-578-4478.

 

A Queens Affair

Photography by Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian

Book pre-Launch and Exhibition

February 04-13, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 04, from 6-8PM

We host the book pre-launch for A Queens Affair, a collaborative photography endeavor by Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian, due out summer of 2010. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 4, 2010 from 6-8PM at which time book pre-orders will be made available. A Queens Affair is priced at $40 and for the first 100 individuals to pre-order will receive one 8x10” signed archival pigment print from each photographer. These artists prints are exclusive to the book pre-order and will not be reprinted in this style once they are sold out. Both artists will attend the reception and the exclusive artists prints will be made available to take home with a pre-order during the reception.

 A Queens Affair is a culmination of eight years of photographing the development, fixed characteristics and spirited nature of Queens, New York. Both Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian were born and raised in and around Queens and through their photographic partnership share a visual history of their beloved borough.

A special selection of images from the book will be on exhibit and available for purchase for the duration of the show. After which these images will be available in small editions at the Farmani Gallery web site.

 Kris Graves, photographer and creative force behind the +kris graves projects is a graduate of SUNY Purchase College and is currently exhibited in Versus, a group show at Haus Projects in New York. His Queens photography will have its debut with this exhibition at the Farmani Gallery.

Eric Hairabedian, photographer and graduate of both SUNY Purchase College with a B.F.A. and the School of Visual Arts with an M.F.A. has been exhibited in the group show, Ten Photographers, Ten Days and his solo show, Remembrance.

Welcome

Hey all, 

We finally have our blog up and running and we are so excited! Stay tuned to hear all about our upcoming shows and emerging photographers we represent.

A little history about the Farmani gallery...

The Farmani Gallery was established in 2003 as a contemporary photography exhibition space located in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It specializes in photographic works, specifically in the fine art genre. The Farmani Gallery works with emerging and mid-level photographers from all around the world.

For more information check out our website. 

Welcome to the world of Farmani and we hope you enjoy,

The Farmani Team