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Gallery Kayafas Exhibition

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:18:04 -0500

Today, I took down my solo exhibition at Gallery Kayafas. It was a spectacular experience to show my Hong Kong series in this way- and the press and feedback I received was humbling, including being reviewed in the Phoenix and subsequently the Arts & Events Cover Image for the week. Thank you to Arlette Kayafas, and everyone who came to support the exhibition!

I suppose this means…onto the next one.

Movin’ on up: Greer Muldowney’s photography

By GREG COOK | January 30, 2013

It’s night in Greer Muldowneys photo. Bright lights illuminate cranes perched atop a row of skyscrapers in Hong Kong, all seemingly sprouting overnight, simultaneously.

The title of the Somerville photographer’s show at Gallery Kayafas, “6,426 per km2,” references Hong Kong’s ranking as one of the world’s most densely peopled metropolises. But she’s wary of the critique in many photos of China’s building boom - depicting astonishing development, environmental degradation, old neighborhoods flattened to make way for the new.

“There’s a very Westernized perception… . It’s very bleak. It’s very gray,” she says. “I just don’t think that it’s fair to say they’re doing everything wrong … when they’re just trying to emulate us.”

For six months beginning in 2010, she documented the strata of the city’s development - Chinese and colonial buildings of the 1950s and ’60s stand amidst 1970s and ’80s towers, which themselves are dwarfed by new skyscrapers. She records cheery colored facades and breathing space between towers, but her eye can’t resist the relentless architectural geometry. Which blunts her fresh insights.

“Hong Kong and Kowloon Peninsula are growing up instead of out - like us,” she notes. “They built this city to be as dense as possible to save more green space in the mountains.”

Recent Commercial Work

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:22:37 -0500

Every once in a while I photograph small businesses in the Boston area. Recently, I photographed Bodily Kneads, Inc., a massage therapy practice in Brookline Village, Ma. Jean Svizzero, the owner and lead therapist, was great to work with- specializing in both therapeutic massage and shiatsu techniques.

Just 10 days left to enter the Magenta Foundation's Student Exhibition!

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:57:55 -0500

To all New England photography students and faculty:

Please consider entering the Magenta Foundations, “Undergraduate Photography Now” call for submissions.

This exhibition will be held in conjunction with the Flash Forward Festival and will be located in the Boston Architectural College’s 951 Gallery at 951 Boylston Street for the month of May. There will be an opening reception and programming provided for the accepted students.

ALL submissions are due February 15th, 2013!!

Boston Globe Critics' Picks

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:38:22 -0500

Boston Globe Critics' Picks:

My Photography Catalogue in the Indie Photobook Library

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:29:40 -0500

My Photography Catalogue in the Indie Photobook Library:

Two Students and their First Exhibitions!

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:53:11 -0500

Off Campus, that is…

The holidays must be over, as I have gotten invites and emails about new exhibitions and exhibition opportunities at a frantic rate. Locally, All Visual Boston is back up and running, The Griffin Museum is showing Mary Beth Meehan and David Pace, and I have two very talented students that are having their first professional exhibitions this coming week. I won’t lie- I’m super proud- but you can go to the exhibitions and check them out for yourself.

Lindsey Camilli is in her first group show, “This Narrow Distance” at the Worcester Center for Crafts. She joins fellow artists Stephen DiRado, Hank Hauptmann, Sarah Bilotta, Keiko Hiromi and Robert Johnson in this fantastic photographic exploration of portraiture.

Her “Elderly Series” will be featured January 17 through February 9. Camilli’s beautiful images explore the brutal details and emotion of growing old in these stark portraits.

I hope you can join her and the other artists at the opening on Thursday, January 17.

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Meg Lowney will have her debut as the “Featured Emerging Artist” at Panopticon Gallery this month.

Meg’s exploration of human and physical nature is a visual treat in her, “Texture Series,” which will be on display January 11 through February 25.

Go check them out and be sure to ask Meg about these wonderful double exposures at her opening on Friday the 11th!

New Show, New Year!

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:29:34 -0500

Hello all! I have been neglecting the blog as of late, but have many things on the docket that seem more than TUMBLR worthy- so I’m going to try and stick with it.

Tonight I will keep it short as I have 3 syllabi to work on and school starts this week. This is probably not that exciting to most of you…though I’m writing a class called, “Propaganda in 20th Century Conflict,” that is going to be lots of fun, just in case you’d like to give it a gander…

Copy provided by Photo Department of NEIA.

Gallery Adventures! Myself and Arlette talking sequencing.

Classes are not the only things starting this week, however. This coming Friday the 11th is the opening reception for my exhibition at Gallery Kayafas. Today, Matt and I dropped off the 15 pieces that will be on display from January 11 through February 16th. If you are in the Boston area, please stop by!

This came into the lab today. Tell me something, would you let...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:50:38 -0400

This came into the lab today. Tell me something, would you let this man coach your children?

BIG Red & Shiny is BACK!

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:52:23 -0400

After a couple of years away, the editors, creators ans active protesters of their departure have brought BR&S back- your favorite Boston arts journal.

Bigger and better, with a planned monthly release, hosted panels and events- everyone should be excited for a breathe of fresh entertainment and art.

Check out their revamped archive and stay tuned for things to come, and PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THE KICKSTARTER- because the arts always need your support.

www.bigredandshiny.com

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bigredandshiny/big-red-shindig

OHIO-

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:58:00 -0400

Well, Rochester and the Eastman House, first.

Civil War era photographs sent home from the front. Ultimately, they were lost in the mail.

Ohio, and the first storm in weeks.

Anything you can find in a barn.

Goodbye, Upper Sandusky.

Before another Road Trip- The last one

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:02:55 -0400

In June, I went through New York City and Upstate for a few professional engagements and some fun. Here are a few random images from those before I add to the backlog.

Gagosian GalleryPhotoville

Photoville

Woodstock area

The Elks War Memorial…and Matt

Tony Fouhse on The Flash Forward Festival

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:44:03 -0400

Tonight marks the end of the Flash Forward Festival here in Boston- for which I have been on the planning committee for 6 months. It was a fantastic event hosted by the Magenta Foundation with multiple guests, exhibitions and speakers that came to the 3 day event.

Needless to say, I’m a bit tired and at a loss for brain power, but one of our wonderful speakers, Tony Fouhse, has already put up a great post about some of the activities that happened over the last few days. So, I’m re-blogging his Foto-drool for now, but will have more info and photos to come!

Hey Photographers!!

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:15:06 -0400

THIS WEEK: Flash Forward events begin this Thursday! Again, if you are in Boston, and involved in photography, this is not a weekend to miss. Admission is FREE for all exhibitions and events, and you can come to as many as you like -

Flash Forward Festival!!

cosmopolitancouple: The whole trip to Buddha statue took us a...

Mon, 07 May 2012 10:39:17 -0400

cosmopolitancouple:

The whole trip to Buddha statue took us a long way and plenty of time. When we were going home we were hungry and decided to stay in some place at the top for having lunch. I mentioned once that we like quality food so our purpose was to find good place to eat.

We hardly chose “Ebeneezer’s Kebabs & Pizzeria” as best option for us to eat there. And you know what? We didn’t touch food at all! It was terrible! It had not nice smell and look, vegetables looked unrefreshed and tee … does it look like herbal tee?

So we decided it was better to go to Hong Kong for having good dinner… And our lunch was replaced by nuts what we always have with us in case we need quick, high calories and healthy snack.

Anyway… Our suggestion is if you go to the Buddha statue, make sure that you have food with you for not to be caught napping by hunger.

Oh Hi Andrew Bird

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:10:33 -0400

Thanks for starting the summer…

beconinriot: Greer Muldowney ”6,426 per km2” 2010-2011 I...

Sat, 05 May 2012 19:16:19 -0400

beconinriot:

Greer Muldowney ”6,426 per km2” 2010-2011

I stumbled across myself. In French…

Flash Forward 2012

Thu, 03 May 2012 22:00:18 -0400

is for MAGENTA!

Today the Magenta Foundation announced it’s 2012 Flash Forward Artist- Emerging Photographers of Canada, the US and UK. I am honored to be one of the US winners! Congrats to everyone who will be part of the book and festivities!

Winners!

Synonymous

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:38:04 -0400

I have had a few minutes to peruse the guilty pleasure that is tumblr now that the classes that I teach have come to a close. I have become perplexed by what I have found beyond the more mainstream and friendly blogs that I follow. Mostly in this perplexing relationship of .gif files:

Why is it that kitten and soft-core porn short stream video files go hand-in-hand? And why would anyone post either and think it was a good representation of their personal taste?

This may be one of the few things Freud is still valid in analyzing.

Photo 101 Semester - Done. Sad to see them go-yes.

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:23:55 -0400

My intro to black and white photography students had their final today. They were a pretty awesome group; though clearly they don’t stand still.

Anna Bassney

Phil Cifone

ALTER-EGO ii at The Nave Gallery

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:53:00 -0400

This Saturday, April 28th is the opening reception for Alter-Ego ii at the Nave Gallery. I am the guest curator for this exhibition of alternative process and toy camera images, and I am pretty excited about the artists who are in the exhibit. If you are in the Somerville/Cambridge/Boston area, please come check it out!

Opening reception: April 28th 3-6PM

Exhibition: April 28th- May 19th

Somerville Open Studio tours will also be going on the weekend of May 5-6, and the Gallery is on the map!

Here is a sampling of just a few of the featured artists:

Gina Phillips

Dylan Gould

Suzanne Révy

Frances Jakubek

Card Image by Taylor Curry