12 12 Gallery

The SBAC Circa 1994

Home to my first studio and introduction to the wilds of the RVA Arts community, anyone else remember Shockoe Bottom Arts Center?

Here it is, as it was, before it sported a rooftop pool and upscale apartments; before it moved and morphed into the Petersburg Regional Art Center.

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National Juried Photography Exhibition 2009 Finalists

 

Performer | Henrietta Near

Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia has selected 50 works by 49 photographers for 12 12 Gallery's National Juried Photography exhibition.

Of the work chosen Mr. Cox writes:

"The photographers selected for this exhibition employ diverse creative strategies.  What they share in common, however, is a desire to test the descriptive and expressive possibilities of the photographic medium in novel ways. I find in their work a curiosity for subject matter, beauty, vision and wit - which are some of the essential ingredients for a memorable photograph".

At Last | Drake Logan & Jean-Claude Nino

We hope you  can join us Sunday, October 4th from 2-5PM for the Artists' Reception and Exhibition opening. A gallery talk and award announcements will be made by the director during the reception.

An online gallery of the images chosen for this exhibition will be available soon! 

Finalists

Amy Fichter ● Andrea Gilkey ●Andrea Land ●Andrew Zimmermann   Barbara Dombach ● Brendan Kingsley Cary Loving ● Chavawn Kelley ● Christine Carr  ●  D. B. Stovall ● Donna Pinckley ● Dorin Todor ● Drake Logan & Jean-Claude Nino ●  Drew Phillips ● Ellen Mahaffey ● Gary Cawood ● George Collier ● Gary Sand ● Harry Giglio ● Henrietta Near   Jacquelyn Siklos ● James Crable ● Jennifer Shaw ● Jessica Gellweiler Jhinryung Oh ● John Murden Jr ● John Murphy Jr  ● Joseph Labate ● Kai Andersen-Guterman ● Katharine Patrick ● Katharyn Addcox  ● Katherine Perry ● Kortney Ballard ● Liz Roth ● Marc Fagan ● Marlene Hawthorne Thomas ● Michael Borek ● Nic Lyons ● Paula Siwek ● Rebecca Finley   Rebecca Peters ●  Robin D. Germany ● Rowan James ● Shannon Aryes   Shannon Johnstone ● Steven Gerlich ● Susan Worsham ● Susana Raab    Yukari Umekawa

How Not To Cookbook

To most people, a cookbook is more like a museum than a gallery. Take Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” Beneath the red jacket is enough information to stew over for hours and hours, just as you could spend days studying the American Painting wing at the Met.

But apparently a cookbook can be art, too. Until Sept. 27, the Collective Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, is exhibiting “The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons Learned the Hard Way.” The gallery’s white-walled rooms now house row after row of identical black-bound books — a comforting sight in the post-encyclopedia age.

The rooms are only a fraction of the Polish-born artist Aleksandra Mir’s intended work. The book is the artwork, a social project open to anyone who wanted to give it meaning. In “The How Not to Cookbook,” Mir, whose fake postcards of Venice were a big hit at the recent Biennale (scroll down to the bottom of the page here to see them on The Moment), compiled words of wisdom from 1,000 people — lessons they’ve learned through their own mishaps in the kitchen — and arranged them in chapters like Bread, Eggs, Erotica and Mexico. Some of the advice is serious; some is odd. Several are obvious; others yield surprising discoveries. (“Do not boil avocado. Tastes like soap.”) This nontraditional exhibit expresses Mir’s style, which combines her interests in anthropology and interactive art.

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Source: NY Times: The Moment