photography
November 1: Don’t Blink-Robert Frank Film Screening
Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas / ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesLUAG is pleased to partner with the Lehigh University Department of Art/Architecture/Design and ArtsQuest to present a screening of director Laura Israel's documentary Don't Blink-Robert Frank. This screening is in conjunction with our exhibition Robert Frank/The Americans: 81 Contact Sheets on view through December 10 at DuBois Gallery, Maginnes Hall. For more information about the… Read More November 1: Don’t Blink-Robert Frank Film Screening
Visionaries of the Light
RAUCH BUSINESS CENTER GALLERY 621 Taylor Street, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesOrganized by NAEMI (National Art Exhibitions of the Mentally Ill). Curated by Ricardo Viera. The term “outsider art” was coined by the English critic Roger Cardinal in 1972, taking as a starting point the original concept of “Art Brut” by French artist Jean Dubuffet. Today many terminologies exist—“visionary”, “self-taught”, “art of the mentally ill”—but ultimately… Read More Visionaries of the Light
Aaron Siskind
DUBOIS GALLERY, Maginnes Hall 9 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesAaron Siskind (1903-1991) revolutionized photography and influenced successive generations of artists in all mediums. “When I make a photograph,” he wrote, “I want it to be an altogether new object.” Originally a documentary photographer, Siskind turned his probing eye toward the ordinary and overlooked: torn posters, graffiti, seaweed strewn on the beach. He collapsed the… Read More Aaron Siskind
María Martínez-Cañas
LUAG MAIN GALLERY, Zoellner Arts Center 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA, United StatesSpecial thanks to Tony Ulloa, Casa Serena Collection, for the loan of works to this exhibition. María Martínez-Cañas is a photographer who works beyond the limits of the camera. Conceptually driven, she dissects, collages, digitally manipulates, erases, and recombines images, resulting in a range of forms that includes: photomontage, camera-less photograms, sculptural installation, and archival… Read More María Martínez-Cañas
September 28: Gallery Conversation with Ricardo Viera, 6PM
RAUCH BUSINESS CENTER GALLERY 621 Taylor Street, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesJoin us for a gallery conversation about the NAEMI exhibition: Visionaries of the Light with LUAG Director/ Chief Curator, Ricardo Viera. The exhibition is located at the Gallery at Rauch Business Center. A reception will follow. All LUAG events are free and open to the public.
October 20: Gallery conversation with María Martínez-Cañas, 6PM.
LUAG MAIN GALLERY, Zoellner Arts Center 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA, United StatesOCTOBER 20: Gallery conversation with María Martínez-Cañas, 6 pm. Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center.
November 2: Robert Mann discusses Aaron Siskind
Maginnes Hall 9 W. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA, United StatesJoin us as Robert Mann, director of the Robert Mann Gallery, NYC, discusses the photography of Aaron Siskind. Light refreshments provided. Founded in 1985, Robert Mann Gallery is one of the preeminent photography galleries in the world. Through a diverse roster that highlights both a prominent group of contemporary artists and an outstanding collection of twentieth-century masters, its program interrogates the role of photographic medium—to capture or invent, purify or distort, and to take on new identities—while celebrating its unique history.
Photographs Are Ideas
LUAG MAIN GALLERY, Zoellner Arts Center 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA, United StatesPhotography has been a lifelong passion for LUAG Director and Chief Curator Ricardo Viera. When Viera first came to Lehigh University in 1974, his priority was to establish professional standards for the art works he found. To his dismay, he discovered—among the many paintings, prints, and coins which made up the fine art collection—there was only one photograph. With this discovery his first IDEA was born: to build a teaching collection centered around works-on-paper, including photography.
Pedro Meyer: Truth from Fiction
Fairchild-Martindale Study Gallery 8 E Packer Ave, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesMexican photographer Pedro Meyer (b. 1935), is a pioneer of the digital revolution in contemporary photography, one of the first photographers to manipulate his images digitally. Because of its mechanical nature, photography has often been misconstrued an unbiased reproduction of a single moment, a snapshot of the exact truth - something that Meyer disputes ...
Peter Turnley: The Compassionate Lens
DUBOIS GALLERY, Maginnes Hall 9 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesNelson Mandela emerges from the shadows after twenty-seven years in captivity; the Berlin Wall crumbles; Kurdish refugees flee from Iraq to southern Turkey – these are the scenes of the human condition. If it happened in the last thirty years, photojournalist Peter Turnley was there, camera in hand...