jen bekman news

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  Happy Birthday 20×200! $3 Flat Rate Shipping Till Monday!

  Posted: 2-September-2010, 6:48pm CEST by Youngna

  You might be celebrating (or mourning) the end of summer this weekend—but either way, here’s something you can cheer about: it’s 20×200’s third birthday! We’re not ones to celebrate alone so we’re offering an uncommon deal to all of you out there:

  $3 FLAT RATE shipping on 8”x10” + 11”x14” prints NOW till Monday at midnight EDT!*

  Consider this a stock up sale! You’ll be saving lots by picking up scores of 8”x10” and 11”x14” prints. (Usually shipping starts at $8.50.) You can put as many prints in these two sizes as you’d like and it’s still just $3. One detail to keep in mind: the $3 shipping and handling fee is applied per size, so if you’re mixing things up with both 8”x10” and 11”x14” prints, the absolute most you’ll pay is $6—still a steal.

  Be sure to peruse all the fabulous editions by JBG artists (and many more):

  Praia Piquinia 27/08/09 15h17 by Christian Chaize

  The Pinetum, Wakehurst Place

  Flying, Shipping and Selling by Carrie Marill

  Support by Sarah McKenzie

  Untitled #10 by Kent Rogowski

  • Rate is applied per size. Special rate can only be applied to orders within the U.S. and does not apply to international orders.
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  Hey, Hot Shot Grand Prize doubled to $10,000 and deadline extended to Tuesday, August 31st

  Posted: 25-August-2010, 11:14pm CEST by Casey

  Outdoor World by Colleen Plumb

  We’re pleased to announce that Hey, Hot Shot! 2010 has been extended to Tuesday, August 31st, and the Grand Prize has been increased to $10,000.

  The HHS! Blog has more information on the extension:

  As part of this community, you are well aware of how hard we work at creating opportunities for artists and spreading the word about the competition. The good news is—it’s working! After we announced that we were teaming up with Blurb to offer each Hot Shot the chance to produce their own book a few weeks ago, a buzz of excitement percolated ‘round the web, and created quite a stir.

  We’re happy to hear that you’re excited—all the energy is bringing new photographers into our community at this eleventh hour. We want to share the love, welcome this new community around us, and give them—and you—a little more time to get your entries in, which is why we’re doubling the Grand Prize to $10,000 and extending the deadline to August 31st.

  So, think you’re a Hot Shot?

  

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  Want to show your work at Jen Bekman Gallery? Enter Hey, Hot Shot!

  Posted: 20-August-2010, 2:03pm CEST by Casey

  

  Think your work is a good fit for Jen Bekman Gallery? If you’re a photographer, we accept submissions through our competition, Hey, Hot Shot!—in fact, it’s the only way to send your photos our way both for consideration here at the gallery and to have your work released on 20×200. A little history: 15 of our 25 represented artists have come to join the JBG roster after they were first discovered through the competition.

  There will be only one season of competition this year, so don’t miss it, submissions close this Sunday August 22, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). The Grand Prize winner gets a $5,000 honorarium, a solo-show and two years of representation from the gallery.

  

  Panelists
  A diverse panel of photography professionals—including founder Jen Bekman, Aperture Foundation publisher Lesley A. Martin, Chronicle Books chairman and CEO Nion McEvoy, a founding editor of Radius Books Darius Himes and photographer Todd Hido—reviews every entry.

  5 Hot Shots: $500 + Group Exhibition
  + A $500 honorarium.
  + Participation in the 2010 Hot Shot Exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery.
  + The opportunity to release an edition on 20×200.
  + A $1,000 credit at Blurb to create your own photography book.

  1 Grand Prize: $5000 + Gallery Representation
  Jen Bekman will select one of the five 2010 Hot Shots for the Grand Prize and announce the recipient on March 15, 2011. In addition to the honors as a Hot Shot, the grand prize recipient will be awarded:

  + A $5,000 honorarium to support a personal project.
  + A solo exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery.
  + Representation from Jen Bekman Gallery for two years, commencing with his/her selection.

  Countless Opportunities for Every Contender
  All entrants are reviewed for participation in 20×200; entering the competition is the only way for photographers to have their work considered for an edition. Every contender receives ample opportunity for online exposure through our blog and on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.

  Curator’s Choice Awards
  Apply by TONIGHT, August 20th, and we will put your work in front of the eyes of esteemed photographer, and Hey, Hot Shot! Guest Curator, Alec Soth. Alec will select one entrant to receive a “Little Brown Mushroom Love Pack” which includes three amazing books and a screen-printed LBM t-shirt.

  Questions?
  Check our Hey, Hot Shot! FAQ. If your question hasn’t been answered, send us a Direct Message on Twitter to heyhotshot</a> or an email to heyheyhotshot.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

  22 Steps to the Sea #2 by First Edition 2009 Hot Shot Kurt Tong

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  Jen Bekman Artists adds Hot Shot Kurt Tong

  Posted: 17-August-2010, 11:15pm CEST by Jeffrey Teuton

  People’s Park #38 by Kurt Tong

  We are pleased to announce that Kurt Tong, one of the two 2009 Hey, Hot Shot! Ultras has been added to the Jen Bekman Gallery site.

  We have included a selection of images from Kurt’s22 Steps to the Sea, Farewell in Labrador, and People’s Parkseries. Kurt has a large body of work and we encourage you to explore both the gallery site and Kurt’s personal site to see full bodies of work and other series.

  A Bit More About Kurt:
  Tong has worked and traveled extensively across Europe, the Americas and Asia. In 1999, Kurt co-founded Prema Vasam, a charitable home for disabled and disadvantaged children in Chennai, South India before becoming a full-time photographer in 2003.

  He received a Masters in documentary photography from London College of Communications in 2006. He has since been chosen as a winner in the first Lens Culture – Rhubarb Photo Book Award, the Blurb Photography Book Now competition and the prestigious Jerwood Photography Award.

  Kurt’s photographs have been widely exhibited around the world at venues including: Jen Bekman Gallery in New York, Impressions Gallery in Bradford, The Royal Academy in London, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Abbaye de Neumunster in Luxembourg and the CPA Exhibition in Chengdu, China. This summer and fall, several of Kurt’s projects will be on view in the UK and France.

  Farewell in Labrador #19 by Kurt Tong

  22 Steps to the Sea #26 by Kurt Tong

  To see more work from Kurt Tong check out his site. and make sure to get on the gallery mailing list to make sure you hear more about Kurt and his solo exhibition coming to the gallery in the next year.

  Speaking of Hey, Hot Shot! the 2010 deadline for submissions is this Sunday, August 22nd at 8 p.m. (EDT). Note that the deadline for Alec Soth’s Curator’s Choice Award is slightly earlier, Friday, August 20th at Midnight (EDT).

  The prizes this round, other than getting your work seen by our amazing panel: $5K, gallery representation, a solo exhibition at JBG, a $1K Blurb credit to each Hot Shot, and a chance for editions on 20×200.

  For more info head over to heyhotshot.com or just click here to apply now!

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  Art Benefit For Team in Training at JBG

  Posted: 12-August-2010, 6:45pm CEST by Jeffrey Teuton

  Untitled by Anna Ullman

  Isobel Schofield and Jacob Rhodes of Try Benefit Art Show blog are using our gallery space for a silent auction later this month to raise money for Team in Training (TNT), which is part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  In addition to auctioning their artwork, Isobel and Jacob are also training for a triathlon with TNT. The organization raises money to help combat and find a cures for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Myelom. At the silent auction for TNT, works by over a dozen artists will donated with all proceeds going directly towards finding a cure for cancer.

  The Details:
  Saturday, Aug 28th
  7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
  Auction Winners being announced at 9:00 p.m.
  Where: Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, NY NY
  Check out artists and work in the auction here.

  Come out to show these artists your support and help find a cure for cancer!

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  See You in September

  Posted: 11-August-2010, 11:44pm CEST by Jeffrey Teuton

  (This was one of the first images to come up for a “summertime” image search. It amused me and so here it is. That is it, summer summer summertime.)

  When Land Use Survey comes to an end this Saturday the 14th, we will be closing our doors for a little housekeeping and maybe sneak in a vacation…or two. We’ll still be posting to the blog and be open by appointment, so fear not, it won’t be completely silent over here. This just means if you want to see us in person, you need to hurry on in to catch Land Use Survey, a show Time Out New York calls:

  a panoramic sampling of American vistas, beginning with a few token images of untouched wildernesses. But these days, the U.S. of A. has ever fewer places where one can tremble before the natural sublime, so “Land Use Survey” offers a proportionate representation of strip malls, tract housing and swaths of paradise blighted and paved over.

  Please join us when we re-open for the fall season with a reception for Derek Henderson’s Mercy Mercer exhibition on September 10, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

  In the meantime, head over to 20×200 and Hey, Hot Shot! in the coming weeks to keep in touch with Jen Bekman Projects while the gallery is closed. See you in September!

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  Derek Henderson’s Mercy Mercer for sale

  Posted: 6-August-2010, 10:50pm CEST by Jeffrey Teuton

  

  Derek Henderson, whose solo exhibition, Mercy Mercer will open at Jen Bekman Gallery in September, has a book of the same name, available for purchase. The book is only available in the United States through the gallery and is a publication of the New Zealand-based gallery Michael Lett. If you’re a lover of printed matter, we invite you to come into the gallery and take a look at this stunning 140-page publication, Henderson’s photographic examination of the Waikato River in New Zealand and of the people who live there.

  For details and any further inquiries about Mercy Mercer please email info@jenbekman.com. The books are priced at $100.

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  Time Out New York Gives Land Use Survey 4 Stars

  Posted: 4-August-2010, 11:05pm CEST by Jeffrey Teuton

  Gravel by Beth Dow

  Anne Wehr of Time Out New York reviews Land Use Survey in the magazine’s latest issue, writing:
  

  These days, the U.S. of A. has ever fewer places where one can tremble before the natural sublime, so “Land Use Survey” offers a proportionate representation of strip malls, tract housing and swaths of paradise blighted and paved over.

  She discusses several works from the exhibition, including the Beth Dow photograph above, noting:

  Re-inhabited Circle K: Mr. Formal, Phoenix, AZ (2006), a photograph by Paho Mann, and two small canvases by Michelle Muldrow (both 2009) are all severe, frontal views of single-story suburban stores, each grimmer than the last. Other works underscore nature’s diminishment: In Gravel (2006), photographer Beth Dow uses shifting focus and the sensuous subtleties of palladium printing to make falsely romantic mountains out of rubbish-dotted molehills.

  Read the complete review at Time Out New York and stop in to see the show before August 15th!

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  Land Use Survey Artists: On Water

  Posted: 28-July-2010, 10:54pm CEST by Jeffrey Teuton

  Untitled, Inlet by Chris Ballantyne

  In Land Use Survey we highlight artists who are inspired by the landscapes around them; as a little departure, it’s quite interesting to see how the same group of photographers and painters depicts bodies of water. As these artists switch their gazes from fields and mountains to pools and ponds, it’s a small ‘Water Use Survey’ if you will. Hopefully these images provide a bit of a visual escape from the summer heat!

  The Lake Project 12 by David Maisel

  
  Untitled from the Haenyo series by Ian Baguskas

  Untitled from California Vernacular series by Liz Kuball

  Bathers in Wave Pool, Orlando, FL by Alex MacLean

  These wet works are by a just a handful of the twenty-eight artists on view at the gallery, up until August 15th. Come in and see how they fare on land.

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  First Ever Art Walk Chelsea, Thursday, July 29th

  Posted: 28-July-2010, 4:28pm CEST by Jeffrey Teuton

  From the series Female Bodybuilders by Martin Schoeller

  Ever feel like Chelsea more or less shuts down for summer vacation during July and August? Well, as if to specifically prove this assumption wrong, a group of terrific Chelsea galleries have come together and organized the first ever Art Walk Chelsea, this Thursday, July 29, from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. The official, website description reads as follows:

  Please join us on July 29, 2010 from 5- 8 PM for the first annual Chelsea Art Walk, a cooperative event organized by over 25 galleries throughout northern Chelsea. With busy summer schedules, it can be difficult to make the trip to Chelsea during regular business hours. Participating galleries will offer extended hours and special events that showcase the vibrancy of the summer arts scene in Chelsea, while local sponsors will offer food and drink specials throughout the evening.

  Just a few of the stellar galleries participating are Cheim & Read, ClampArt, Marlborough Chelsea, P.P.O.W., and Yossi Milo Gallery. One highlight will include a book-signing by Martin Schoeller (responsible for the virtually indescribable image above) at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m..

  A complete list of participants, and specific event details can be found at the Art Walk Chelsea website.