Early Works
Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Ave.
Portland, OR
April 5 - 31, 2013
Opening reception: April 5, 6 - 9 pm
Corey Arnold, Roger Ballen, Douglas Beasley, Steven Beckly, Sheri Lynn Behr, Lori Bell, Jesse Burke, Richard S. Chow, Joseph Deiss, Maureen Drennan, Deena Feinberg, Gloria Baker Feinstein, Rich Frishman, Michael Jang, Zoltan Jokay, Ann Kendellen, Lewis Koch, Hannah Kozak, Varese Layzer, Phoebe Lickwar, Jim Lommasson, Ann Massoni, David Pace, Stephen Perloff, Jaime Permuth, Alexis Pike, Jordan Reznick, Trix Rosen, Traer Scott, Jack Semura, Frederick Sharpe, Marsha Stewart, Stephanie Williamson, Charlyn Zlotnik
Curated by Laura Moya and Laura Valenti Jelen
Early Works contains photographs taken by many notable photographers when they were children; each paired with a personal narrative from the photographer recalling the memory of the experience and how it affected them.
The idea for Early Works came from a conversation in which we exchanged stories about discovering photography at an early age. What was it about the medium that kindled our imaginations when we were young?
We wanted to revisit the moment when other contemporary photographers first connected with the medium. We were curious about what childhood images might show us about the nascent stages of creative vision. For many of us, an early fascination with photography led to a life-long passion. How do photographers keep their relationship to the medium alive over the years, and ultimately choose to make it their professional voice?
Many childhood experiences live in our subconscious and are often difficult to navigate, even as adults. Memories of historic moments, of families unraveling, of play, discovery, and struggles with identity are a part of our collective history. This project is about imagery, but equally about personal narrative. A photograph can serve as a strong visual cue that can spark a rich story in a second.
Laura Moya & Laura Valenti Jelen
http://earlyworksproject.org
Of the Afternoon
Exhibition & Issue #2 Launch
Underground Gallery
London, UK
February 28, 2013
6 – 9 pm
Featuring work by:
John Alexander
Jocelyn Allen
Steven Beckly
Nicola Benford
Anthony Gerace
Johannes Gierlinger
Bernhard Handick
Hannah Laycock
Chris Nunn
Ross Rawlings
Adele Reed
Neringa Rekasiute
Kristina Salgvik
Satu Stoljarova
Maria Sturm
Hanna Ukura
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/410753479020240/
http://www.oftheafternoon.com
http://www.undergroundgallery.co.uk/of-the-afternoon/
Dylan and I will be in Montreal from March 1 - 3 for Art Souterrain. My work will be installed at Place Ville-Marie, one of the many public underground zones that will be transformed with art during Nuit Blanche.
We’re looking for a couch to crash on, and good friends to do stuff like this, this, this, and this with. Plus, last time we were in Montreal we had the best bagel and don’t remember where, but plan to find it again. If you can help with any of these goals, get in touch!
More info: http://www.artsouterrain.com/en/home/
List of artists: http://www.artsouterrain.com/en/artists-list-1/
Housewarming
Videofag
187 Augusta Ave
Kensington Market
Toronto, ON
October 22, 2012
8pm
Steven Beckly
Erin Brubacher
Samuel Choisy
Kiana Hayeri
On the occasion of Videofag’s housewarming week, four photographers craft an edit of images on the idea of arriving; setting-up; and making a home. The artists draw from their bodies of work and personal image banks to create a series of pictures not previously in concert. Conversation and questions encouraged. This will be the first of an ongoing series of SLIDE NIGHTS curated by Erin Brubacher.
Videofag is a storefront cinema and performance space in the heart of Kensington Market, devoted to all things queer and transgressive, dedicated to the creation and exhibition of video, film, new media, and live art.
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If I was in Toronto, this is where I’d be tonight. Go out and help Videofag celebrate, Toronto!
That’s So Gay: Girls Who Are Boys Who Do Boys Like They’re Girls
Gladstone Hotel
3rd & 4th floor Galleries
Toronto, ON
June 6 – July 29, 12 – 5 pm daily
Opening reception: Thursday June 28, 7 – 10 pm
Curated by Sholem Krishtalka
Featuring work by: Steven Beckly, Sol Legaults, Cecilia Berkovic, Johnny Forever, Hannah Jickling & Helen Reed, Kyle Lasky, Elisha Lim, Mikiki, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Andrew Zealley
Curatorial Statement
Pride exhibits stereotypically involve representations of desire – men make art about male desire, women make art about female desire. In keeping with my ongoing project of using the That’s So Gay exhibit to expand on what Pride shows can be, and to use them to push and prod and stretch what “queer” can mean, I want to challenge that initial premise, and have male artists show work about women, and vice versa. This simplistic binary system itself raises an obvious and important issue: “man” and “woman” as gender identities, much less sexual object choices, are in and of themselves extremely complex, problematic and fluid. And an essential part of a queer life is the challenging and disruption of these categories.
I want to introduce this binary in order to demonstrate its overly-simplistic falseness. I want to disrupt the stereotypical representation of sexual-object-choice; I want to open up those binaries to free interpretation by the artists; I want to show artists who themselves identify somewhere in the huge spectrum that exists between these binaries, and whose work will thusly interpret gender and desire freely and openly.
-Sholem Krishtalka
http://www.gladstonehotel.com/events/exhibitions/thats-so-gay
Two and a Quarter
Lomography Gallery
Toronto, ON
May 3 – 31
Opening: May 3, 7 – 10 pm
Curated by Kimon Kaketsis
Steven Beckly, Rebecca Cairns, Jamie Campbell, Kevin Chaves, Michael Clarke, Nathan Cyprys, Shane Fester, Kimon Kaketsis, Brendan George Ko, Sabrina Maltese, Mike Morris, Andrew B Myers, Juliana Neufeld, Sarah Palmer, Jade Lee Portelli, Sammy Rawal, Elise Victoria Louise Windsor
The nostalgic qualities associated with analogue photography—aged, square prints, exposure flaws, soft focus, and light leaks—reappear in our contemporary snapshot imagery. Exploring the theme of nostalgia as trend and inspiration, this group exhibition highlights the creativity possible within the square image. In the spirit of the square revolution, each artist has created their own unique and imaginative image with the classic Diana F+ camera.
Image: Sammy Rawal
This is tomorrow! So excited to be amongst so many great artists. Come say hello, if you’re in Toronto.
See you there, Steven!
I am heading up towards Toronto, Canada with my pal and fellow photographer, Hannah Price, to attend the book release party for Flash Forward 2011. If you’re in the Toronto area, come and say hello! Also, the book is available online now, click the image for more information.
Book Launch & Exhibition Opening:
November 9, 2011, 7 - 10 pmExhibition:
November 9 - November 16, 2011
Monday - Saturday: 12 pm - 6 pmLocation:
AirShip 37
37 Parliament Street, Studio 2
Distillery District, Toronto
Hannah and I curated a slideshow for the nofound photofair. We can’t be in Paris to see it in person, but maybe you can?
Hope & Anchor at The Black Box
nofound_photofair
11-14 November 2011
66 rue de Turenne
75003 ParisCurated by Hannah Myall and Steven Beckly
Rafa Castells, Maren Celest, Tom Chudley, Clemens Fantur, Chelsee Ivan, Jonas Kamm, Anna-Liisa Liiver, Jeff Luker, Lukas Messner, Sylvain-Emmanuel Prieur, Tatum Shaw, Katherine Squier, Lauren Treece, Joshua Whitelaw, Derek Vincent, John ZimmermanLocated in the heart of the exhibition space of contemporary photography fair nofound_photofair, The Black Box is designed to promote the work of the most active photo curators on the Internet through multimedia projects.
The programme of The Black Box will be displayed in a loop during the entire time of nofound_photofair. The TV channel Souvenirs from Earth will broadcast The Black Box on several occasions between November and December 2011.
Last month, I was invited by LGBT organization Coming Out to participate in the Festival of Queer Culture, which began in 2009, and takes place every September in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Last year, due to complaints from public organizations concerning the subject matter of the festival, their exhibition space was closed by authorities a day before the opening. The exhibition was moved to an old garage. This year, despite provocations at the opening and media censorship, all of the festival events were held in their full form. For more information on the festival, visit their website.
Exposure 2011
16th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition
Photographic Resource Center
Boston, MA
July 21 - August 21
Opening reception: Thursday, July 21, 6:30 - 8 pm
Juror Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography at The New Yorker, has selected ten photographers for inclusion in EXPOSURE 2011: The 16th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition.
Steven Beckly (Toronto, Ontario), Single Rooms
Eliot Dudik (Savannah, GA), Road Ends in Water
Tealia Ellis Ritter (Barrington Hills, IL), The Live Creature and Ethereal Things
Elizabeth Libert (New York, NY), Libert & Company
Dina Litovsky (Brooklyn, NY), Untag This Photo
Rania Matar (Brookline, MA), A Girl and Her Room
Mary Beth Meehan (Providence, RI), Undocumented
Monika Merva (Brooklyn, NY), City of Children
Dana Mueller (Somerville, MA), The Devil’s Den
Jason Reblando (Chicago, IL), New Deal Utopias
The artists featured in EXPOSURE 2011 take a strong interest in the human condition. Probing portraits, vibrant social interactions, historically-inflected landscapes, and provocative situations are all present in Johnson’s selections. The placement of each project encourages the viewer to find connections between the artists’ subjects. Although the show encompasses wildly different stylistic approaches, each project flirts with documentary photography, shedding light on the human experience in unique ways. However, the photographers seem more intent on introspection, discovery, and questioning than pointing out conditions in need of change.
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
July 8, 9, & 10
Nathan Philips Square
100 Queen Street West
Celebrating its 50th year, the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE) is Canada’s largest juried outdoor art exhibition. Taking place every July on Nathan Phillips Square, it is one of Toronto’s most vibrant public social events, and an economic and inspirational benefit to Ontario’s creative and cultural communities. Since 1961, over 20,000 artists have shown their work at this annual art event in Toronto.
As the largest outdoor art exhibition in Canada, TOAE offers a fresh-air alternative to conventional art shows and galleries. Hundreds of artists participate and an estimated 100,000 visitors attend the exhibition every year. Side by side, established artists, undiscovered talents and innovative students sell their work directly to the public and make lasting connections with art dealers and collectors.
Preview the work of this year’s 300 exhibitors in advance. A catalogue featuring work of each of the selected artists is now available on the TOAE website at www.torontooutdoorart.org. Browse the artist catalogue by media category, booth section, or search for your favourite artists by name.
Come visit me in the Turquoise Section at Booth #259!
PROOF 18
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
June 24 - July 30, 2011
Opening Reception: June 24, 6 - 9 pm
Steven Beckly, Linda-Marlena BucholtzRoss, Jenna Edwards, Tad Hozumi, Mike Andrew McLean, Elise Windsor
Proof is Gallery 44’s annual exhibition of photo-based work by Canadian emerging artists reflecting a range of current concerns and practices in contemporary photography. Proof 18 showcases the work of Steven Beckly, Linda-Marlena BucholtzRoss, Jenna Edwards, Tad Hozumi, Mike Andrew McLean and Elise Windsor. Sincere thanks to Isabel Martínez for her timely essay on image-making and viewing in an age of image saturation within our virtual image culture.
The artists in Proof 18 create works that reflect on photography’s inherent faculties, and versatility. They examine the phenomena of light, utilize the still image to fabricate illusions, recontextualize the found or unintended, and bring together endangered and new technologies in interesting ways. - Proof 18 essay by Isabel M. Martínez
A Love Supreme
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
June 9 - August 27, 2011
Opening Reception: June 9, 6 - 9 pm
Juror: Peter Barberie, Curator of Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artists: Steven Beckly, Lisa Boughter, Andrew Burgh, Sebastian Collett, Gregory Davis, Gina Delia, Maureen Drennan, Emily Rooney, Daney Saylor
The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is excited to announce A Love Supreme, 2nd Annual Contemporary Photography Exhibition. This year’s title refers to the dramatic transformation in John Coltrane’s creative process and sound in his legendary recording. Moving away from jazz standards to a spiritual and instinctual way of making music, Coltrane forever changed his medium. In this spirit, today’s photographers are creating new visual languages, pushing the medium in unprecedented and unpredictable ways, forever changing how we define photography.
Best of 2010
featuring award winners from the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
January 17 - February 25, 2011
FCP Gallery
100 King Street West, Toronto
Opening reception: January 20, 6 - 8 pm
The Best of 2010 exhibition brings together the work of the award winners from the 2010 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE), representing some of the most exciting work being produced today in contemporary fine art and craft. Fourty-two artists will show their latest work at the FCP Gallery from January 17 - February 25, 2011.
Every year since its inception in 1961, the TOAE assembles an esteemed roster of judges to award cash prizes and materials to artists who are outstanding in their field, including ceramics, computer generated work, drawing, fibre, glass, jewellery, metal, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, watercolour and wood. Out of more than 400 exhibitors in 2010, TOAE judges selected 42 artists to receive more than $35,000 in awards donated by individual and corporate donors. For a full list of award winners and donors, please visit our website at www.torontooutdoorart.org
New Directions 2011: Moments of Being
Curated by David Bram
wall space gallery
Santa Barbara, CA
January 4 - 29, 2011
Reception with David Bram: January 12th, 6 - 8 pm
wall space gallery is thrilled to present New Directions 2011: Moments of Being, curated by the creative and talented David Bram, creator and publisher of Fraction Magazine. Moments of Being is the visual connection, the emotional relationship between photographer and subject.
Leon Alesi, Steven Alverez, Steven Beckly, Jonathan Blaustein, Nan Brown, Liz Clayman, Daniel W Coburn, Andy Cook, Kristen Fecker, Jon Feinstein, Elizabeth Fleming, Martha Fleming Ives, Alan Gastelum, Flavie Guerrand, Max Hirshfield, Ann Conway Jennings, Eddie Lanieri, Ash LaRose, Winky Lewis, Elizabeth Clark Libert, Holly Lynton, Coco Martin, Meridith Miller, Heather Musto, Russ Osterweil, Kate Pollard, Shawn Robinson, Haley Jane Samuelson, Michael Sebastian, Larysa Sendich, Katie Shapiro, Meera Margaret Singh, Tabitha Soren, Agnieszka Sosnowska, Amber Terranova, Chikara Umihara, Vikky Wilkes, Antonio Ysursa
Click here to see the selection of work.
Image: Martha Fleming-Ives
http://www.wall-spacegallery.com
http://www.fractionmagazine.com
