First Triennial of Photography and Video
Acclaimed Swiss artist Beat Streuli will create a major new public artwork as part of the International Center of Photography's first Triennial of Photography and Video. Streuli's work will consist of a dramatic frieze of photographic portraits that will completely fill the half-block window of the ICP's facade on 43rd Street and Avenue of the Americas. The anonymous portraits are taken on city streets throughout the world. Streuli has produced similar works for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among other locales worldwide.
Beat Streuli: New York >>
Beat Streuli web site >>

George Tice: Urban Landscapes
Photographs that offer beauty in the commonplace, nostalgia in the mundane, and American universality in urban New Jersey. The photographs of George Tice combine an appreciation of beauty with the grittiness of ordinary experience. Tice, the photographer/author of books like Hometowns: An American Pilgrimage, Fields of Peace, and the award-winning Paterson, has turned his camera many times to his native New Jersey. But these images of his home state, taken over the past thirty years, could be almost anywhere in America. They portray the movie theaters, shops, dwellings, and street scenes we have grown up with in cities large and small. Without the slightest effort to romanticize, Tice honors the commonplace with an extraordinary eye and a photographic excellence that is evocative to those of us who have experienced these settings. These pictures will stand the test of time as monuments to the American scene for future generations. 141 duotone photographs.
George Tice: Urban Landscapes >>

Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949–50
Famous for his work in fashion, still-life, and portrait photography, Irving Penn is less well known as a superb photographer of the female nude. Taken during studio sittings with artist’s models, Penn’s unorthodox nudes present voluptuous human forms, often in unconventional poses. Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Earthly Bodies features 60 silver and platinum prints presented publicly for the first time in a major museum exhibition.
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50 >>
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art web site >>

Razvan Ion - hidden_identities - photography, videography, video
curated by Dana Altman, New York
The International Center for Contemporary Art, SPACE Gallery, is pleased to present the photography, videography and video exhibition of the artist Razvan Ion in the period May 9 - 30, 2003. The new series of photographs by Razvan Ion, hidden_identities, expresses his permanent search for the hidden self, the identity threatened by a world of ready-made symbols. His photographs are fragments of an intensely lyrical, sad reality, raising dramatic questions about the role of the artist in a world where conventionality is the rule and truth is just a hollow dictionary definition. The permanent play between clarity and blur serves as a powerful technique to accentuate the conceptual structure of his photography. The result is an image of disturbing beauty, haunting the viewer with its unanswered questions. His new series of images represents the history of personal introspection, a narrative where the artist is the main character, looking for a new personal identity, which must be uncovered step by step, by discarding redundant detail and looking for authenticity. The multiple artistic identities, which reveal facets of daily experience, are apparently invisible but in fact codes that can help decode this complex and multilayered universe.
hidden_identities by Dana Altman >>

San Francisco Photographer and Digital Artist, Douglas Poloway
will be displaying a selection of his works in a group show at Red Ink Studio’s open house and reception April 4th in Palo Alto, California.
Red Ink Studios and DMNA Advertising invite you to their second open house and reception from 5 till 8 pm, Friday, April 4th, 2003.
Red Ink Studios is located at 240 Hamilton Avenue, in Palo Alto.
www.redinkstudios.com
Douglas Poloway: Photography and Digital Imagery >>