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Curated by: Jennifer Ward & Vinod Hopson
October 12 - November 19, 2006
Opening: Thursday, October 12, 6 - 9pm
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| David Woody, Airmen, San Antonio, TX, 2005 |
Native Sons is a new exhibition commissioned by FotoFest featuring work by six Texas-based artists; Sterling Allen (Austin), Chuy Benitez ( Houston), Young-Min Kang (Houston), Max Kazemzadeh (Dallas), Brian Piana (Houston), and David Woody (Austin).
Native Sons takes an ironic, often humorous look at contemporary life in the Lone Star State. The exhibition presents very diverse photo-based work by the six artists. While their works are all photo-related, they run the gamut from traditional photography to drawing and painting, installation and digital production.
“It’s part of FotoFest’s mission to look at art locally and globally. We think a focus on things close to home gives us new perspectives and hopefully places Texas artists on an international stage,” say co-curators Jennifer Ward and Vinod Hopson. “We are interested in what is going on around us. We have watched several of the artists in this show for years and have followed their development.”
Ms Ward, FotoFest Exhibitions Coordinator and co-curator of 2004's Home & Garden, the first TALENT IN TEXAS show, is a native Texan whose Czech roots lie in cities like Shiner, San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. Mr. Hopson, a self-described Yankee now working at DiverseWorks Artspace, was born and raised in New Jersey before moving to Texas in 1996. Together they bring an insider and outsider view to the exhibition. “It is our shared vision and love for the state and its people that inspire this show,” they note.
Native Sons opening reception will feature music from the Honky Tonk Heroes and food by Tacos a Go-Go. The exhibit is open to the public, free of charge, Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm; Saturday, noon - 6pm, from October 12, 2006 through November 19, 2006 at FotoFest Headquarters at Vine Street Studios, 1113 Vine Street, Houston, Texas. For other information, please call 713/223-5522 ext. 19.
For more information please see the Press Release.
SPONSORS
City of Houston through the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, Margaret Regan and Fletcher Thorne-Thomsen Jr., The Wortham Foundation and the FotoFest Board of Directors. The list of FotoFest’s institutional funders and special funders for this exhibit is available on the FotoFest Web site, www.fotofest.org.
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FOTOFEST2008
Discoveries of the Meeting Place |
10 Reviewers Choose 10 Artists for Discoveries of the Meeting Place Exhibit
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| Vojtech Slama, Bodies |
FotoFest announces the 10 artists selected for the 2008 Discoveries of the Meeting Place exhibition. FotoFest asked ten reviewers from the FOTOFEST2006 Meeting Place to choose the most interesting artist that they discovered in the two weeks of the acclaimed portfolio review. The following artists will be exhibited in the seventh Discoveries of the Meeting Place Exhibition during FOTOFEST2008.
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Reviewer |
Vojtech Slama
Czech Republic |
Alejandro Castellanos
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City |
Dan Nelken
United States |
Roy Flukinger
Harry Ransom Research Center, Austin, TX |
Michelle Sank
United Kingdom |
Anna Gripp
PHOTONEWS Magazine
Hamburg, Germany |
Katharina Mouratidi
Germany |
Zhen Gu
Center for Visual Culture Studies,
Fudan University, Shanghai |
Brian Berman
United States
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Virginia Heckert
J. Paul Getty Museum,
Los Angeles, CA |
Kyung Duk Kim
South Korea |
Lesley Martin
Aperture, New York, NY |
Jacob Aue Sobol
Denmark |
Teresa Siza
Centro Portugues de Fotografia,
Porto, Portugal |
Seung Woo Back
South Korea |
Johan Sjostrom
BildMuseet, Umea Universitet,
Sweden |
Vincent Delbrouck
Belgium |
Katalin Timar
Ludwig Museum,
Budapest, Hungary |
Suk Kuhn Oh
South Korea/United Kingdom |
Anne Tucker
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
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Saturday Matinee
Artist Talks at FotoFest |
These Saturday events offer the public the opportunity to hear artists speak about their own work, the exhibit and future projects. The artist talks will be held at FotoFest Headquarters at Vine Street Studios, 1113 Vine St. They are free.
October 21, 2006 - 2pm
Chuy Benitez, Young-Min Kang,
Max Kazemzadeh
November 4, 2006 - 2pm
Sterling Allen, Brian Piana,
David Woody
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| FotoFest School Tours |
| FotoFest offers free guided school tours to all exhibits. To schedule yours now please contact Angela Grace, Director of Literacy Through Photography at ltp@fotofest.org or 713.223.5522 ext. 11 |
| Meeting Place FotoFest Beijing, China |
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Logo for Meeting Place FotoFest Beijing,China
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Thirty international curators and writers, invited by FotoFest, are participating in the Meeting Place FotoFest Beijing portfolio review for Chinese photographers October 23-27, 2006.
This event is the first of its kind in China. FotoFest was invited to replicate its portfolio review program, the Meeting Place, in Beijing by the Chinese organizers who observed the Meeting Place at FOTOFEST2006.
The organizers, Lei Gao, Jimmy Chu and Suschi Si have raised substantial funding from Hewlett Packard China and support from Chinese media, particularly China Photography Magazine. The reviewers represent museums, commercial galleries, top photographers’ agencies, and book publishers from both the U.S. and Europe. More than 200 Chinese photographers have been selected to participate so far.
FotoFest’s artistic directors and the Chinese organizers anticipate that the Meeting Place FotoFest Beijing will create major opportunities for the Chinese photographers who have been selected and will open a door to the West that has been heretofore been unavailable to them in China.
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New! From FOTOFEST2006
Web Galleries
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The new FOTOFEST2006 Web Galleries highlight every artist and exhibition sponsored by FotoFest during the 2006 Biennial with more images, essays and contact information.
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Become a FotoFest Volunteer
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Keep in touch with FotoFest during the Inter-Biennial. We can always use your help. This year volunteers will receive special tours with exhibiting artists and one of our new FotoFest t-shirts.
If interested please contact
Marianne Stavenhagen,
FotoFest Volunteer Coordinator
at info@fotofest.org
or through this online form |
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