An exhibition of twelve platinum-palladium prints by Beth Dow on view @ Jen Bekman Gallery from April 9 — May 16, 2009.
Opening Reception : Thursday, April 9, 2009 | 6pm-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 11, 2009 | 12pm-2pm
Please join us at the gallery this Saturday, April 11th, at 12pm, for our second Munchkins + Mimosas event. Beth will talk about her new series, Ruins, and the platinum-palladium process. Space is limited so please RSVP to info@jenbekman.com.
Jen Bekman Gallery
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6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York City 10012
An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2009 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Ruins will be on view Friday, April 10 through Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Jen Bekman Gallery, located at 6 Spring Street, New York, NY.
In Ruins, her third body of work, Dow affirms her commitment to the contemporary. With great respect for 19th century photographers Giorgio Sommer, Francis Frith and Felix Bonfils as well as the tradition of platinum-palladium printing, her overture culminates in a provocative marriage of form and content. The series depicts faux Classical ruins found throughout the Midwest and challenges ideas of authenticity, nostalgia and the particularly American tendency to appropriate history. The gallery's founder, Jen Bekman notes,
Dow has successfully combined the American vernacular tradition in photography with an alternative photographic process, and she's created something entirely new. Because she reveres the traditions she is working from, she resists the easiest escape from them, irony and condescension, making her achievement incredibly remarkable.
Dow’s work has been exhibited at numerous institutions in the United States and Europe. She won the 2008 Photography.Book.Now / Blurb Competition and was nominated for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize as well as for the 2008 Aperture West Book Prize. She is a past recipient of the McKnight Foundation Fellowship. Her photographs have been featured in Black and White Magazine, the British Journal of Photography, Ag Magazine, and The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Vince Aletti reviewed her first New York solo exhibition for The New Yorker.
Ruins at Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street.
Hours: Wednesday — Saturday, noon – 6pm or by private appointment.
