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FALL / WINTER 2008-2009 HOUSTON CENTER for PHOTOGRAPHY | FALL Contributors in This Issue 1 FALL / WINTER 08-09 1 HOUSTON CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY | FALL / WINTER 2008-2009 HOUSTON CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY | FALL Contributors In this Issue 1. Chas Bowie is a Portland-based writer specializing 1 in photography criticism. Formerly the arts editor of the Portland Mercury, Bowie recently launched That’s Fall / Winter 2008-2009 New discussions do not come from squeezing a Negative (thatsanegative.com), where he writes at Volume XXVI No.1 art into old labels and definitions. Rather, artists length about contemporary and historic photography. Guest Editor shift and blend these definitions, creating new Mary Magsamen disciplines and new venues for thought. Many artists call their work photography, although they 2. Ragan Cole-Cunningham is Director of Copy Editor Fall / Winter 08-09 2 Exhibitions and Education at the Contemporary Art Miye Bromberg don’t use a camera. Technology and tools like Center of Virginia. She is the National Art Education Photoshop feed interdisciplinary proliferation Editorial Board as more and more artists recognize that they are no longer Association’s 2008 Southeastern Art Educator of the David Crossley, Chair 2 What’s Happening at HCP! Year/Museum Division and Virginia Art Education Madeline Yale, Chief Editorial Advisor constrained by a single medium. While the idea and practice of Peter Brown blending disciplines is hardly new, the word “interdisciplinary” Madeline Yale Association’s 2006 Art Educator of the Year/Museum Jeff DeBevec, Marketing Director has recently been given a lot of cache. It is unclear whether Division. Patricia Eifel 3 Paul Hester academics and critics need a new hero, or just a new way of FEATURE David Jacobs looking at art. 3. Leigh Anne Langwell was born in Victorville, CA Jason Dibley 4 This issue features articles that look at these Interdisciplinary Approaches and earned her MFA from the University of NM in Mary Magsamen with Photography Toby Kamps interdisciplinary approaches to photography and the 1998. She has been awarded the John D. Phelan Ebony Porter photographic studio process. Using photography as a Ragan Cole-Cunningham Award for California-born and the Santa Prize for Paul Zeigler Tiff Davis, Intern foundation or means of presentation, the artists presented in 4 Photography. Langwell has also worked as a medical D’Angela Hill, Intern this issue use performance, sculpture, and science to create photographer, technical editor and graphic artist, and innovative and compelling art that breaks out of conventional FEATURE Design adjunct lecturer at the University of NM. labels and forces us to think. In Photographic Knowing by Tracy 8 Tim Lee’s Untitled Antonio Manega, Gazer Design Xavia Karner she addresses the question of interdisciplinary as (Alexander Rodchenko, 1928), 2008 4. Will Michels received an architectural degree from Printing 2008-2009 Supporters a philosophy uniquely embraced by the University of Houston Masterpiece Litho Toby Kamps Visual Studies program. Ragan Cole-Cunningham reflects Pratt Institute in 1991. Later, Michels was the project Benefactor 5 architect in charge of restoring the Battleship TEXAS. SPOT is published twice yearly, in conjunction Houston Endowment, Inc. and explores ideas about the terming of interdisciplinary with the fiscal year of Houston Center for Houston Arts Alliance work through examples of several artists in her essay, HCP EXHIBITION Over the last 15 years, he has photographed a variety Photography. Subscriptions are free to The Brown Foundation, Inc. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Photography: Ramblings on 10 Viewfinder: New Images from of subjects and is currently working on a series of members. salted paper print portraits. Michels resides in Houston Sponsor Interpretation and Self-Reflexive Practices. The artist portfolios Texas Artists SPOT is a journal of independent opinions Drs. Patricia Eifel and James Belli by Leigh Anne Langwell and Ariane Roesch exemplify the idea and works at the Museum of Fine Arts, teaching published by Houston Center for Photography Anonymous of crossing disciplines to create a new way of working with Risa Puleo young aspiring photographers. as one of its many services to the photographic community. The ideas expressed do not Patron photography. 6 represent positions of Houston Center for Texas Commission on the Arts, Leigh Anne Langwell makes small sculptures and then 5. Dr. David L. Jacobs is a Professor of Art at the Photography’s administration or membership a partner agency of the National 14 HCP EXHIBITION uses them to create haunting large-scale photograms and University of Houston. His recent novel, Green Gator and are solely the opinions of the writers Endowment for the Arts Sage Sohier: Perfectible Worlds themselves. Cemo Family Foundation installations that engulf a space with oversized references Blues, is a woefully linear narrative. Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation to body and biology. Langwell’s background as a medical Madeline Yale Copyright © 2009. All rights reserved. James Edward Maloney No portion of SPOT may be reproduced Antonio Manega, Gazer Design photographer has obviously impacted the way she looks at 6. Toby Kamps is the Senior Curator at the without the permission of Houston Center for Clayton Dabney Foundation her art and process – her images look as though they could ARTIST PORTFOLIO Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Photography. Art Colony Association be of cells or sperm and eggs, but instead, they are images Marty Carden 17 Ariane Roesch Houston Center for Photography’s mission of sculptures made in the studio and manipulated through the 7 SINAPPS 7. A widely published sociologist, Tracy Xavia Karner is to increase society’s understanding and QUE Imaging photogram. is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Visual Studies appreciation of photography and its evolving role Ariane Roesch reverses Langwell’s process by taking FEATURE in contemporary culture. Houston Center for Donor Program and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Photography strives to encourage artists, build images and photographs and transforming them into sculptural 22 Photographic Knowing Joan Morgenstern the University of Houston. Karner writes primarily audiences, stimulate dialogue, and promote Marcia and Charlie Gerhardt objects. Roesch reappropriates an image from media such Tracy Xavia Karner inquiry about photography and related media Michael and Susan Plank as 1950’s advertising, literally cutting and sewing until she on photography, visual methodologies and social through education, exhibitions, publications, Lillian and Robert J. Warren construction of the self. fellowship programs and community has physically rebuilt the image into something visually and collaboration. Supporter conceptually new. Her reinterpretation is playful, colorful, and ARTIST PORTFOLIO 8 Leland Ackerly bursting with beautiful textures. Roesch created new pieces 8. Risa Puleo is the Assistant Curator of American For details about membership or advertising, Bob Gulley 26 Leigh Anne Langwell specifically for this issue of SPOT; you can cut out and frame and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art, contact Houston Center for Photography: Julie and Drew Alexander Susan and Patrick Cook them for yourself. University of Texas at Austin. Houston Center for Photography Charles Butt In refusing to box art into a single discipline, we invite EXHIBITION REVIEW 1441 West Alabama, Houston, Texas 77006 Michael and Becky Cemo Telephone: 713.529.4755 the historical and contemporary context of multiple genres 30 New American Talent: 9. Ariane Roesch received her BFA from the Southern Union Fax: 713.529.9248 Eddie Allen and Chinhui Juhn into the interpretation and analysis of a work. Hopefully the The Twenty-Third Exhibition University of Houston in 2007. Her work has recently E-mail: [email protected] Deborah Bay and Edgar Browing distinction and terming of this work as interdisciplinary will 9 been exhibited at tmp.deluxe in Berlin, Germany and Robert Cutts and Becky Roof Nancy Zastudil Visit us online: www.hcponline.org Jeff DeBevec and Sarah Balinskas expand our dialogue and appreciation of the work, allowing WallSpace Gallery in Seattle, WA. Roesch recently David McClain and Jane Schmitt viewers to discuss not only the photographic qualities, but also co-curated the exhibition, Mechanical Perception, Alexander K. and Muffy McLanahan incorporating ideas about other genres appropriate to the work. PHOTO FAIR REVIEW Executive Director and Curator Burt Nelson with UH Alumni from the Photography/Digital Media Madeline Yale Robertson-Finley Foundation The term, interdisciplinary, may or may not be a new hero, but 32 World Press Photo Program. www.arianeroesch.com/ Dai-Shan and Dorothy Wong it is definitely one way to tackle the expanding dimensions of Executive Assistant Anne Wilkes Tucker Thomas and Debrah Yale the art world. Leigh Boone Stephen and Lois Zamora with photographer Will Michels 10 10. Anne Wilkes Tucker is the Gus and Lyndall Pia Puno Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Education Coordinator Anonymous Rachel Hewlett Fine Arts, Houston. BOOK REVIEW Program Coordinator cover: Jason Dibley Ariane Roesch (Houston, TX), 2008 35 West of Last Chance 11. Madeline Yale is the Executive Director & Curator by Peter Brown & Kent Haruf at Houston Center for Photography. Finance Administrator Sean Yarborough Guest Editor, Fall/Winter 2008-9 SPOT Chas Bowie 11 12. Nancy Zastudil is the Program Manager for the Weekend Gallery Manager & SPOT ad sales Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
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