Barbara Mensch, a highly talented photographer, continues to captivate the hearts of New York City residents, history enthusiasts, and aficionados of exquisite black and white fine art photography. Over the past 15 years, she has graced us with three remarkable collections of work. Her first masterpiece, South Street (2007), offers an intimate glimpse into the gritty world of the Fulton Street Fish Market, formerly nestled in Lower Manhattan. Next, in In the Shadow of Genius (2018), she combines striking imagery with rich historical facts about the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. And now, in her latest creation, A Falling Off Place (2023), she presents a wonderful compilation of images spanning from 1980 to 2022, showcasing the ever-evolving landscape of lower Manhattan. Take a look-you won't be disappointed!
News from Robert Anderson Gallery
9/15/2023: Barbara Mensch's "A Falling Off Place"
4/7/2023: New Images by Sylvia and Steven Oboler
Steven and Sylvia Oboler continue to create some stunning nature images. Go to their Photographers Gallery for a selection.
3/23/2022: Oboler Image From Glacier NP
Here's a rare and beautiful view of Grinnell Point in Glacier NP from Steven and Syliva Oboler-see last News item for more Oboler images.
3/23/2022: New Images from Steven and Sylvia Oboler
Steven and Sylvia Oboler are longtime Denver residents who have been creating beautiful photographic images for several decades. Here are two recent images from the Obolers. The Fall Leaves are from the Oboler's yard in Park Hill.
3/1/2021: Updates
Denver and the region's Month of Photography is about to kick off-officially on March 1, 2021. This biennial month long celebration of photography features many exciting diverse exhibition and educational opportunities. Much of the organization is done via the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. For more information, see: www.cpacphoto.org/mop-2/, www.mopdenver.com and www.instagram.com/mopdenver@mopdenver.
As the Covid pandemic may perhaps be winding down, the Robert Anderson Gallery is planning on ramping up gallery activities. Stay tuned for interesting opportunities including a series of online auctions of some great photography. More to follow.
9/1/2020: Ron Cooper's WE ARE SANTA project
Ron Cooper is a superb, awrad-winning photographer who has an amazing collection of stunning portraits from around the world. The Robert Anderson Gallery has been fortunate to have shown several of Ron's images over the years. Ron's most recent project is a book (We Are Santa-Portraits and Profiles, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2021, ISBN 978-1-61689-965-3) containing an amazing collection of fifty Santa portraits from around the country. These Santas are small business owners, teachers, retired military, engineers, carpenters, surveyors, postal carriers, project managers, salespersons among other occupations from all walks of life with varied backgrounds and stories to tell. Ron has captured them in their colorful Santa regalia and, in striking contrast and transformation, in intimate black and white portraits in their street clothes. Interspersed with personal information about each Santa are eight brief essays about Santa life. This is a heart-warming and uplifting book that will bring smiles to your face. Available at all bookstores. All sales proceeds will be donated to the Children's Hospital Colorado. Attached is an image of one of the Santas portrayed in the book, Garth Scoville of Parker, Colorado. Selected additional portraits can be found in the Photographers section of this website under Ron Cooper.
3/18/2020: Robert Anderson Gallery Now Online
The Robert Anderson Gallery has closed its gallery space at 3321 East Colfax in Denver. A sincere thank you to the many loyal and supportive individuals that have interacted with the gallery over the past few years. You can access some of the great photography at the gallery's website (https://www.robertandersongallery.com). You can also follow the gallery on Instagram: @Robertandersongallery4. The gallery is available by phone (303-257-0684) and by email (info@robertandersongallery.com). Attached is one of several unique images available at the gallery.
3/13/2020: The Gathering Place Pop Up cancelled
Due to the ongoing coronavirus concerns, The Gathering Place pop up benefit exhibition scheduled for today (3/13), tomorrow (Saturday, 3/24) and Sunday (3/25) has been cancelled. We sincerely regret any inconvenience. The Robert Anderson Gallery is closed until further notice.
2/29/2020: The Gathering Place presents a Pop-up Art Show at the Robert Anderson Gallery
The Gathering Place will present a pop-up art show at the Robert Anderson Gallery on Friday March 13, 5-8 pm, Saturday, March 14, noon to 6pm and Sunday, March 15th, noon to 5pm. All proceeds from the sale of donated artwork will benefit the Gathering Place. The Gathering Place is a unique center offering many services and support systems for women, transgender people and their children experiencing poverty or homelessness. Please stop by.
At the conclusion of this pop-up show, the Robert Anderson Gallery will close at its current address. Follow the gallery by instagram (https://www.instagram.com/robertandersongallery4/) or by its website (https://www.robertandersongallery.com). Contact us by email (info@robertandersongallery.com) or phone (303-257-0684).
2/27/2020: Photographer's Favorites New Closing Date-March 6, 2020
Please note that Photographer's Favorites will now close on Friday, March 6, 2020. Only a few days left to see the last photographic exhibit at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Here's an image from Rand Smith that attracted a lot of "likes" on the Gallery's Instagram (@robertandersongallery4).
2/14/2020: Photographer's Favorites now at the Robert Anderson Gallery
If you get a chance, come in and see some unique photographic images. Attached is one from Rand Smith on display.
2/7/2020: Photographers Favorites-Patricia Barry Levy
Patricia Barry Levy is a master at photomontage. Patricia currently has a series of three great silos montages at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Here's one of them.
2/5/2020: Picasso at Artists Reception, Photographer's Favorites, Fri Feb 7, 5-8 pm
An artist's reception for photographers with images in the Robert Anderson Gallery's Photographer's Favorites exhibit will be held on Friday, Feb 7, 2020 from 5 to 8 pm. The exhibit will run through March 6, 2020. Recently, Scott Wilson's images of Colorado's wild mustangs have attracted local, regional and national interest. Attached is Scott's image of Picasso, a long-time stallion leader of one of Colorado's wild mustang herds, that will be on display. You can see Scott Wilson's "story" (an inspiring battle with stage 4 cancer) on a Denver Channel 7 feature (https://www.the denverchannel.com/news/life-in-focus-the-hope-and-the-resilience-of-a-colorado-photographers-fight-with-stage-4-cancer).
2/4/2020: Three days to go-artists reception-Photographer's Favorites, Fri, Feb 7, 5-8pm
There will be about 30 Denver After Dark images on display. Here's one-Pete's Kitchen, a Denver classic.
2/3/2020: Reception Friday, Feb 7, 5-8 pm for Photographer's Favorites
We have a great group pf diverse images currently on display. Here's one from Jerry Allison's Nature Morte series (#65, Trefoil).
2/2/2020: Photographer's Favorites-Artist Reception Friday, Feb 7, 5-8 pm
Please join us for a reception for contributors to Photographer's Favorites at the gallery from 5 to 8 pm this coming Friday, Feb 7, 2020. You can get first-hand information on the wheres, hows and whys from the photographers in addition to seeing a large variety of diverse images. Attached is an image from Stephen Podrasky.
1/31/2020: Photographer's Favorites now showing
Please consider seeing Photographer's Favorites at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Many excellent photographic images are on display. Attached is an image from Rand Smith.
1/30/2020: Photographer's Favorites now at the Robert Anderson Gallery
We have been getting outstanding comments about the images by eight photographers currently on display at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Attached is one such image by Greg Matheny. Stop by and enjoy.
1/22/2020: Photographer's Favorites opens tomorrow
Several images picked by seven excellent photographers, among them several of their personal favorites, will be on display starting Jan 22, 2020 at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Attached is one of Loretta Young-Gautier's unique images.
1/4/2020: Robert Anderson Gallery Closed Until Jan 22, 2020
The Robert Anderson Gallery is currently installing a new exhibition and is closed until January 22, 2020. When we re-open, we'll have great show of "Photographers' Favorites." Attached is one of Scott Wilson's image that will be in the exhibit.
12/17/2019: The Urban Landscape through Dec 28, 2019
Stephen Podrasky has some great views of Denver's alleys currently on display at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Attached find one example.
12/15/2019: The Urban Landscape-here's an unique view from the camera of Scott Wilson
Some great Urban Landscape images are currently on view at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Here's an image by Scott Wilson from under NYC's Metropolitan Bridge.
12/10/2019: The Urban Landscape through Dec 28, 2019
Here's one of Stephen Popdrasky's images from a Denver alley. In addition to Stephen's Denver alleys,there are some great images of the world's well-known and not so well-known cities by Scott Wilson and Gordon Middleton on display.
12/3/2019: The Urban Landscape-Gordon Middleton's Work
Gordon Middleton's photographic images have appeared in numerous venues including the highly competitive portfolio competition of Black and White magazine. Attached is one of Gordon's images currently on display in the gallery. Our current Urban Landscape exhibition runs through December 28, 2019.
11/30/2019: The Urban Landscape-Stephen Podrasky's Work
Stephen has produced some great bodies of photographic work over the past few years. The gallery is now featuring Stephen's photographic explorations of Denver alleys. Come and see some colorful and unique images. One of Stephen's images is attached.
11/22/2019: The Urban Landscape-Scott Wilson's work
Attached find an image of Scott Wilson that can be seen in person at the Urban Landscape exhibit at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Additional images by Stephen Podraski (Denver's alleys) and urban images from the US and abroad by Gordon Middleton are also on view.
11/18/2019: Urban Landscape at the Robert Anderson Gallery
Come see some interesting and diverse photographic images at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Attached is an image by Gordon Middleton of a Parisian spiral staircase currently on display at the gallery.
11/14/2019: The Urban Landscape-now through Dec 28, 2019
Thanks to all in the large crowd attending our opening of the Urban Landscape on Nov 8, 2019. The images featuring three outstanding photographers (Gordon Middleton, Stephen Podrasky and Scott Wilson) drew great comments. Stephen Podrasky has a unique and eye-catching body of work centering on Denver's alleys. Attached is one of Stephen's alley images.
11/8/2019: The Urban Landscape-Artist's Reception Tonight, 5-8pm
Stop by this evening at the Robert Anderson Gallery to see some terrific photography. Attached is an image of Scott Wilson's that is among more than 60 "Urban" images that will be on display. Also, new collages by Janice McDonald and clay and steel sculptures by Janey Skeer will be available. Janey has donated one of her unique sculptures to be given away in a blind drawing to gallery attendees.
11/4/2019: The Urban Landscape Opening Wednesday, November 6, 2019
We have a great exhibit that opens this coming Wednesday with an artist's reception on Friday, November 8, 2019 from 5 to 8 pm. The exhibit will feature three photographers who have trained their lenses on the urban landscape. Scott Wilson's images of some of the world's great cities (NY, Paris, Prague to note a few) are colorful and unique. Stephen Podrasky has spent a lot of time combing through Denver's alleys-you be stunned at what he's found. Gordon Middleton has an excellent selection of black and white images, some with a splash of color, from abroad. Attached is one of Gordon's-St. Anne's Church in Dublin.
10/17/2019: Cuba-Two weeks left!
We have had a great run of visitors and wonderful comments about the gallery's ongoing Cuba exhibition. There are only two weeks left to see some great images like the one attached by Cyrus McCrimmon.
9/12/2019: Cuba-Artist's Reception, Friday, Sept 13, 5-8pm
Please join us to see some great Cuban imagery, collages and steel and clay sculptures and meet the artists at the Robert Anderson Gallery on Friday, September 13 from 5-8 pm. We are located at 3321 East Colfax, immediately east of the Bluebird Theater. The exhibition is free, open to the public and no ticket is needed. Come and enjoy. One of the images that you will see is attached. The image is by Ron Cooper, an exceptional portrait photographer/artist.
9/8/2019: Cuba Now Showing-Robert Anderson Gallery
The initial reaction to our Cuba Exhibition has been great! To the many individuals that have stopped by, thank you. Come meet the artists/photographers this upcoming Friday, September 13, from 5-8 pm. Attached is an image by Ron Cooper-a portrait from Havana.
9/3/2019: Cuba-Opens tomorrow, Wednesday 9/4; artist reception Friday, Sept 13, 5-8 pm
If you want insights as to day-to-day life and culture in Cuba, come see several great images by eight outstanding photographers, Free and open to the public. Attached is a Rand Smith image "Window to the World"
8/29/2019: Gallery Closed in Preparation for Cuba Exhibit
The gallery is currently in the process of installing "Cuba," our next exhibit, Cuba will feature some great images by eight outstanding photographers. We will reopen on Wednesday, September 4, 2019. Attaches is an image by Tony Ortega.
8/26/2019: CUBA-Opening September 4, 2019
The Robert Anderson Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibit titled "Cuba" that will feature the work of eight outstanding photographers and open on September 4, 2019. Also, "Daily Mail" collages by Janice McDonald and miniature steel and clay chair sculptures by Janey Skeer will be on display. An artist's reception will be held Friday, September 13 from 5 to 8 pm. Attached is a Cuba image by Tony Ortega.
8/9/2019: Summer Selections
The Taj Mahal is one of the most photographed and recognized landmarks in the world. Have you ever wondered what it looked like in back? Here's an image by Al Lewandowski of the Taj from behind.
8/2/2019: Summer Selections
The weather has been hot. Here's another "hot" image from our current exhibit. It is an image by Loretta Young-gautier-molten lava in Hawaii with a sign stuck in it! Come and see in person.
July 31-August 3: Gallery Closed for interior work
The will be some interior work being fone in the gallery from July 31 through August 3, 2019. Please forgive any inconvenience. The gallery will reopen Wednesday, August 7. Come by and see some great photography! One such photograph is Michael J Quinn's aerial image of glacial melt from Iceland (attached).
7/22/2019: Summer Selections
The gallery has some great images on display at present. Attached is an image from Jerry Allison's Nature Morte series. Gallery hours are from noon to 6pm Wed through Saturday.
7/14/2019: Bastille Day-Rainy Night in Paris
Thank you to all attending the Robert Anderson Gallery Artist's reception on Friday, July 12, 2019.To commemorate Bastille Day, here is a Michael Flicek Rainy Night in Paris image. Enjoy.
7/10/2019: Meet the Artists, Summer Selections at the Robert Anderson Gallery
See some diverse, unique photographic images and collages and their creators at the Robert Anderson gallery this Friday, July 12 from 5-8 pm. Attached is a photomontage by Patricia Barry Levy that will be on display.
7/8/2019: Summer Selections-Meet the Artists this Friday, July 12, 5-8 pm
You can meet and talk with several outstanding photographers at the Robert Anderson Gallery this Friday, July 12 from 5 to 8 pm. Attached is a "photoimpressionism" image of Loretta Young-Gautier who will have several of her unique images on display.
7/6/2019: Summer Selections-Artist's Reception 7/12/2019
The Robert Anderson Gallery currently has more than 100 photographic images and collages on exhibit, Meet some of the photographers on Friday, July 12 from 5-8 pm. Attaches is a water reflection image by Steven and Sylvia Oboler.
7/4/2019: Happy Birthday Everyone!
Best wishes for a nice 4th of July.
6/27/2019: Summer Selections Now at Robert Anderson Gallery
There are some outstanding images currently being exhibited by more than 15 photographers at the Robert Anderson Gallery. Attached is one from Michael Flicek's "Cities After Dark Series" from Paris-"Man with a Satchel."
6/14/2019: Summer Selections now ongoing
The gallery is fortunate to be hosting the outstanding, diverse images of more than 15 photographers. Stop by for some enjoyable viewing. Attached is one of Michael Quinn's Iceland images.
5/27/2019: Memorial Day at Fort McPherson
Here is an image from Memorial Day at Fort McPherson near Maxwell, NE. A time for remembrance.
5/23/2019: Scott Wilson ( https://www.wilsonaxpe.com) at the Robert Anderson Gallery
The Robert Anderson Gallery is thrilled to be showing the photographic work of Scott Wilson. Scott's stunning images have received wide acclaim and five are currently on view in the gallery. Check out Scott's website for some astonishing photography: https://www.wilsonaxpe.com. Scott Wilson made his dream move to Colorado in August 2015, relocating from the UK, where he was a four-time finalist in the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. Scott was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in August 2016 and told his chemotherapy treatment meant avoiding direct sunlight, so he set about creating a Colorado wildlife portfolio shot entirely Through the Window of his car. Now in remission, Scott is a committed landscape and wildlife photographer. His work has appeared extensively in media including The Sunday Times, Denver Life, Digital Photographer, The Sunday Mail, Colorado Outdoors, 303 Magazine and Denver 9NEWS. Scott was named ‘Denver’s Best Instagrammer’ in 2017, by Westword Magazine. This year Scott earned Colorado Life Magazine’s Wildlife Image of the Year award for his coverage of Colorado’s wild horses.
5/20/2019: Coming UP-Summer Selections Opening June 1, 2019
The Robert Anderson Gallery will exhibit some outstanding images this summer. Work by seven national (Larry Simon, Chicago), international (Nat Coalson, UK), regional (Elaine Querry, Las Vegas NM, Michael Flicek, Casoer, WY) and local (Allan Lewandowski, Denver, Michael Quinn, Windsor, Jerry Allison Estes Park, all Colorado) photographers new to the gallery will be on exhibit. Also, new work by four gallery artists (Janice McDonald- collage, Patricia Barry Levy-photomontage, Loretta Young-Gautier-photoimpressionism and the Oboler's-nature photography) will be on display. Attached is an image by Michael J. Quinn from Iceland. Artists' reception Friday, July 12, 5-8 pm.
5/10/2019: Denver Public High School Student Photography Exhibit Reception Tonight 5-8 pm
From 5-8 pm this evening, 60 photographs taken by students from nine of Denver's public high schools will be on display. These images were juried into the exhibit from several submissions. Attached is an image from Denver South High School's Mohaddeseh Seyyednouri that will be on view. Stop by and see a variety of interesting photographs.
5/3/2019: Denver Public High Schhools Juried Photography exhibition
Opens Staurday, May 4 and runs through Saturday, May 18, 2019. Reception Friday, May 10, 5-8 pm. Attached is an image by Kiran Paris that will be at the exhibit.
4/30/2019: Denver Public Schools Juried Exhibition May 4-18, 2019, Reception May 10, 5-8pm
Please put on your calendar May 4-18, with a reception May 10 5-8 pm to see some outstanding photographic work from students at Denver Public High Schools. All proceeds will go to the students and the schools' visual arts programs. See Tylin Holzer's image attached..
4/17/2019: Notre Dame-Top of the Spire
Here is how the very top of the now gone spire at Notre Dame appeared in 2017.
4/15/2019: Under 2 Weeks Left for Small Works
We have had a great turnout and many wonderful comments regarding Small Works. We are down to the last few days to view disverse, interesting photography. Attached is an example from California's Martha Ketterer.
4/8/2019: Small Works-Three Weeks Left
We have had a great run with the Gallery's current Small Works exhibit. Only 3 weeks left to see images such as James Long's (from New York City) image American Women, Too.
4/1/2019: Small Works-Beauty in Simplicity-Laurie Peek's San Francisco Image
Here's a "street scene" (Green Window Curtains, San Francisco, CA) by Laurie Peek. Symmetry, geometry, lines and subtle complementary colors combine for a striking image. Three weeks left to see this and other great small images at the Robert Anderson Gallery.
3/26/2019: Small Works-Near Ozel Lake
What's a Colorado photography exhibit without a least one Colorado image? Here's a good one-Robert Crifasi's Ozel Lake. Our Small Works exhibition has enjoyed great reviews and has four weeks left. Come by and see some great images.
3/19/2019: Small Works-Suzi Moore McGregor's Saying Goodbye
Some photographers are very adept at combining photographs to create an outstanding image. One such artist is Suzi Moore McGregor. Suzi captures scenes with her iPhone and artfully combines them into a stunning final image as shown here (Saying Goodbye). You can see some of Suzi's work and the work of other outstanding photographers who combine photographs to produce eclectic images at the Small Works Exhibition through April 27, 2019.
3/13/2019: Small Works-What's Behind a Prize-winning Photo?
An image selected by two outstanding jurors (Wendi Schneider and Margy Dudley) as among the best of more than 700 submitted to the gallery's Small Works Exhibition/Competition is depicted here (Trust Fall by Marisa White). Many individuals that have seen the image first hand think is a Photoshop creation. To the contrary, it is a real life creation of Marisa's that took several leaps off a ladder into the ocean! For more of the backstory, see Marisa's The Water Runner blog from October 26, 2018 at: www.whitesparksphotography-blog.com.
3/8/2019: Small Works-Month of Photography Opens Tonight
See 62 small works measuring 14 inches or less in in longest dimension from photographers throughout the US. A great variety of outstanding images on display. Reception from 5-8 pm. Attached is one from Patricia Miller.
3/6/2019: Small Works-Month of Photography Opens Friday, March 8,. 2019
Photography can serve many purposes including documenting our proud heritage. Dale Ralph's photograph of Deerfield (originally spelled Dearfield) shows what is left of an African American village established on the eastern plains of Colorado in 1910. This now ghost town retains some forlorn beauty captured in Ralph's image. See this and other images at our exhibition.
3/5/2019: Small Works-Denver's Month of Photography Exhibition Opens this Friday Evening
Come see some great, diverse photography from about sixty photographers residing throughout the US this Friday (March 8) from 5-8 pm. Many of the photographers will be present. Awards will be announced for this international juried competition and exhibition celebrating Denver's Month of Photography 2019. Attached is Ronald Saunder's image that will be on display.
3/1/2019: Small Works opens in one week
Come see some fantastic images, all measuring 14 inches or less in longest dimension, at the Robert Anderson/Month of Photography Exhibition opening March 8 from 5 to 8 pm. Images from photographers from throughout the US will be on display. One image by Cissie Stich is "Building a Boy" shown here. Cissie's image is from a fine art photocollage project about a personal journey with infertility. The project highlights the impact of the IVF process, use of donor eggs and the insecurity and uncertainties that follow
2/15/2019: Going, going....Two Weeks left to see Howard Harris, Nicole Korbe and Ron Cooper
Some great photographs and art by three outstanding artists (Ron Cooper image illustrated) on display through February 27, 2019. For more information and details, see our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RobertAndersonGalleryDenver
2/2/2019: Smallworks Selected Artists
Congratulations to the following photographers who have had their work juried into Small Works-Robert Anderson Gallery/Month of Photography Juried Show and Competition (listed in no particular order, home state noted in parentheses): Steven Lingeman (MD), Morgan Davis (MO), Russ Rowland (NY), Carol Mell (NM), Marisa White (CO), Jacob Moffett (TX), Ron Cooper (CO), John Manno (NY), Sarah Hadley (CA), Christina Storm (WA), Michael Pannier (SC), John VanDewer (CA), Joan Lobis Brown (NY), James Gilbreath (CO), Michael Quinn (CO), Maureen Haldeman (CA), Suzi Moore McGregor (CO), Roberto Hull (NY), Martha Ketterer (CA), Jeremy Blair (TN), Laurie Peek (NM), Wendy Constantine (CO), Stephanie Timmerman (MA), Thomas Carr (CO), Jerrie Hurd (CO), Kevin Bond (NM), Loretta Young-Gautier (CO), Anna Bruce (CO), Janeane Sanborn (CA), Andrea Edwards (CO), Joanna Epstein (NY), Patricia Miller (CO), Karen Peterson (CO), Paul Greenberg (TX), Lizzy Dahl (CO), Janet Glazer (NY), Preston Utley (CO), Ronald Saunders (NV), James Digby (CO), Mike Herburger (CO), Jim Allen (NY), Mary Aiu (CA), Cissie Stich (CO), Elaine Querry (NM), Dale Ralph (CO), Lynne Buchanan (NC), James Long (NY), Richard Greene (CA), Abby Hepner (CO), Karen Klinedinst (MD), Melanie Walker (CO), Meghan Crandall (WA) and Robert Crifasi (CO). Please plan to see some truly outstanding and diverse photography from March 8 (opening reception 5-8 pm) through April 27, 2019. A sincere Thank You to more than 225 photographers who submitted some great work to the call. A big Thank You also to our outstanding jurors Wendi Schneider and Margy Dudley. Click on the Photographers link at the top of this website, then on Small Works to see many of the outstanding photos that will be on exhibit.
2/1/2019: Now and Coming Up
The gallery's current exhibit (Ron Cooper's Keepers of the Tradition, an exhibit of black and white Native American portraits; Howard Harris' colorful and contemporary Dimensional Photography; and Nicole Korbe's subtle and beautiful oil/wax paintings) have drawn very favorable comments. Howard Harris' images continue to draw national and international attention. The latest addition to Howard's growing list of shows is the Contemporary Art exhibit at the Paks Gallery in Vienna Austria (a photo from the exhibit is illustrated). In March and April, 2019, during Denver's Month of Photography, the gallery will be showing about 60 Smallworks from more than 700 submitted to this national/international juried competition. During the first 2 weeks of May, 2019, the gallery will be exhibiting a juried show of photographs submitted by students that attend Denver Public High Schools. June, July and August, 2019 will see a group show of 3-5 images from each of several talented national, regional and local photographers in an exhibit titled "Personal Favorites." Stop by from noon to 6 pm, Wednesdays through Saturdays and by appointment (303-257-0684).
1/21/2019: Thank You-Opening 1/18/2019 and Smallworks Call
A big Thank You to the art/photography lovers that attended our Gallery opening the evening of 1/18/2019. A large and enthusiastic crowd saw some great work featuring the images of Ron Cooper (illustrated) and Howard Harris along with the oil/wax paintings of Nicole Korbe and several excellent images from gallery photographers and painters. Also, many thanks to the more than 210 photographers who submitted 700 images to be considered in the Gallery's call Smallworks. These 700 submissions are currently being reviewed by our jurors Wendi Schneider and Margy Dudley. Sixty will be selected for display and sale in the gallery during Denver's Month of Photography from March 8 through April 27, 2019.
1/1/2019: Small Works Exhibition/Competition Deadline Rapidly Approaching
12/27/2019: New Exhibition Opening Jan 2, 2019
The Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to announce a new Exhibit which will open Jan 2, 2019 and be on display through February 28, 2019. This exhibit will feature award-winning black and white Native American portraiture by Ron Cooper, colorful and unique Dimensional photography images of Howard Harris and striking oil with cold wax paintings by Nicole Korbe. Please note that a reception for these outstanding artists will be held from 5-8 pm on Friday, Januray 18, 2019.
12/12/2018: Chessmen, work by gallery artists and print sale
An exhibtion of full frame images of "Chessmen (and Women)" during play-for pay chess in New York City's Union Square is now up in the gallery. Also, outstanding photography, painting and sculpture, by several gallery artists, as well as a print sale collectively offer some great holiday opportunities.
10/23/2018: Small Works, Robert Anderson Gallery/Month of Photography
9/4/2018: New Opening Friday September 14, 2018, New Artists
The gallery is excited about its upcoming opening Friday, September 14, 2018 featuring the outstanding work of Lauri Rose Dunn (unique photography), Ana Maria Botero (glass sculpture and painting) and Patti Barry Levy (photomontage). New work by gallery artists will also be on display. Please come and meet the artists from 5 to 9 pm.
Also on display, in collaboration with Margy Dudley, will be five classic images by well-known photographers. An example is illustrated (Elliott Erwitt's Felix, Gladys & Rover).
The gallery is pleased to announce that Ron Cooper's work will be featured in an exhibit in early 2019. Ron is an accomoplished travel and portrait photographer. You can view some of his work on the Photographers section of this website.
8/26/2018: Oppening reception Friday, September 14, 2018 from 5 to 9 pm
Please plan to join us Friday, September 14 from 5 to 9 pm to appreciate the artistry of Patti Barry Levy (photomontage), Lauri R. Dunn (stunning photographic images) and Ana Maria Botero (unique glass sculptures and paintings). Also, new work by gallery artists (Janice McDoinald, Wendi Schneider, Cody Brothers, Dan Fong, Stephen Podarsky, Mieko, Loretta Young Gautier, Adrienne Moumin and Helen Huchinson) as well as a selected sample of vintage images will be on display.
8/6/2018: Adrienne Moumin visits the gallery August 22-25; New Beginngs closes August 31
Adrienne Moumin, a talented east coast-based artist, will visit the gallery between August 22 and 25, 2018. Adrienne, working in her darkroom, develops silver gelatin images of her photographs and uses these prints to make striking, unique photocollages. A recent example is depicted here. If you would like to meet and talk with Adrienne, call 303-257-0684 or email info@robertandersongallery.com. Our current show New Beginnings, will end August 31, 2018. There are some great photographs on the walls, including some of Adrienne's silver gelatin photo collage work. If you haven't had the chance, please stop by. A sincere "thank you" to the many gallery-goers that have been by in see our current show. We are grateful for the positive comments and support for our artists.
8/1/2018: Robert Anderson Gallery Newsletter
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7/18/2018: Gallery Update
The gallery has recently added several iPhone images by Karen Devine and some photo impression images of Ron Landucci to its display. The gallery will be sending out a periodic newsletter with the first edition coming within the next few days. The current show will be up through the end of August. We receive many favorable commenmts about the photographs of Loretta Young-Gautier. One that attracts a lot of attention is attached.
6/13/2018: New Beginnings Opening
A sincere "Thank You" to all the attendees at our first show in our new location. We were gratified by the large turnout. It was great renewing old acquaintances and making new ones. One of the images that sold was Gorilla by Stephen Podrasky from his "Caged" series. The small size on our website does not fully convey the impact of the image-it looks great at 24" x 36." The current show will be up until the end of August. For those not able to come by yet, please do. We are open 12 noon to 6 pm Wed through Sat.
We are in the process of setting up our next show. Some new artists and some innovative/novel applications of photography will be on display. Stay tuned!
5/30/2018: Pop-Up Show-One Night Only, June 1, 2018
The Robert Anderson Gallery will host a one night pop-up show this Friday, June 1, 2018. Here are the details:
5/10/2018: Robert Anderson Gallery-New Beginnings opening Friday, June 8, 2018, 5-9pm
The Robert Anderson Gallery will re-open in new space at 3321 East Colfax Avenue. The gallery is immediately east of the historic Bluebird Theater (constructed in 1914). In addition to the Bluebird's contemporary music, the gallery is nestled among several new and established restaurants and unique bars.
The gallery will emphasize contemporary photography along with outstanding collage, painting, clay, steel and neon art. Gallery hours are from 12 noon to 6 pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and by appointment.
The gallery's opening show (New Beginnings) will feature the work of several accomplished local and regional artists including Janice McDonald, Wendi Schneider,Steven and Sylvia Kester Oboler, Ron Landucci, Mieko, Janey Skeer, Dan Fong, Cody Brothers, Ron Johnson, Stephen Podrasky, Dane Stephenson, Tina Waseloh and Hal Gould along with work from national and international artists such as Adrienne Moumin, Wayne Sorce, Benedict Fernandez, Helga Paris, Dean Brown and others.
3/3/2016: Patricia Barry Levy's Unexpected Developments opening April 1, 2016
The Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Patricia Barry Levy's Unexpected Developments on April 1, 2016. Patricia Barry Levy obtained degrees in history and photography. She started her career as a newspaper photographer then developed her own commercial photographic studio specializing in portraiture. After 20 years, she struck out in a new direction. She combined images obtained in her studio and from her travels to create arresting and striking photographic montages. These montages combine reality and fantasy and often are centered on historic or environmental themes. Levy's work is in numerous private, corporate and museum collections including the Denver Art Museum and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha and has been featured in galleries throughout Colorado and the Midwest. You will enjoy her colorful, unique photographic vision.
1/25/2016: Karen Divine opening at the Robert Anderson Gallery on 1/29/2016
The Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to present the photographic work of Karen Divine from January 29 through March 26, 2016. Karen is acknowledged as an imaginative and innovative practitioner and educator with regard to iPhone art and photography, photogel transfer and alternative photographic processes. Karen's work has been exhibited in Madrid, Spain, Budapest, Hungary, Paris, France and Florence, Italy in addition to several local and national US venues. Karen will be leading 2016 iPhone workshops in Rockport, Maine, Santa Fe, NM, San Miguel Allende, Mexico and India. Karen's popular book A Small Amount of Courage combines her outstanding images and prose.
Please meet Karen at an opening reception from 5-8 pm at the Robert Anderson Gallery (2426 East Third Avenue-between Columbine and Josephine on Third Avenue) on Friday, January 29, 2016. See a selection of Karen's work on either her website (Karendivinephotography.com) or the Gallery's website (Robertandersongallery.com).
12/12/2015: Dan Fong on Carrie Saldo's "Arts District" on Colotado PBS
Dan Fong’s Legends of Rock:
See Dan on Carrie Saldo’s “Arts District”, Rocky Mountain PBS, Thursday, 12/17/2015, 7:30 pm
Talk with Dan and have some hot cider, Robert Anderson Gallery, 2426 East Third Avenue, 5-8 pm Friday, December 18 and 12 noon-6pm Saturday, December 19, 2015
Enjoy Holiday Sale (25% off) of Dan’s limited edition images of The Who and Colorado’s Legends of Rock starting 12/18/2015
09/24/2015: Cody Brothers Interview, New Work
You will find interesting the interview by the New York Observer and accompanying great pinhole images of the Highline in Manhattan (NYC) by Cody Brothers. See at:
08/22/2015: Upcoming events featuring Harvey Stein
HARVEY STEIN will be in Denver for several opportunities of interest to the photography community:
A two day workshop on Docnmentary Street Photography at the the Colorado Photographic Art Center on Satrurday and Sunday, September 12-13, 2015 (see: https://cpac.z2systems.com/np/clients/cpac/event.jsp?event=296&).
An Artist's presentation at the Denver Art Museum on Thursday, September 10 at 7 pm.
An opening of a one-person show "Coney Island/Harlem: Two Iconic New York City Communities" at the Robert Anderson Gallery from 5-8 pm on Friday, September 11, 2015. This exhibition of more than 60 black and white images obtained over 4 decades provides rich, novel insights into two unique New York City communities.
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of Photography and conducts workshops around the world. He has had more than 75 one-person shows and been in more than 140 group shows. He has published 6 books including Harlem Street Portraits in 2013 and Coney Island 40 Years in 2011 (both by Schiffer). His photographs are in more than 56 permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, The George Eastman House, Bibliotheque Nationale, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum and many others. His work is in numerous corporate collections including Hewlett Packard, Barclay Bank and Johnson & Johnson among others. His photographs have appeared in several newspaper and periodicals among which are the New York Times, People, Time, Life, Esquire, Smithsonian, Playboy, Harpers, Der Spiegel and the New Yorker.
05/15/2015: Summer Selections Show, Opening Friday, June 12, 2015
The Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to present its Summer Selections Photography Show running from June 12 through August 22, 2015. This show will feature a series of “mini-galleries” composed of 2-10 images from each of 13 outstanding photographic artists. The work of these peripatetic photographers encompasses numerous locales including India, Japan, Myanmar, Spain, Venice, the Southwest US, the streets of New York City, rock and roll venues throughout the US, underwater views of the Colorado River, and images from Denver's Colfax Avenue and Washington Park. Traditional black and white and color photographic prints as well as prints obtained by nontraditional methods including photograms, lumen prints and multilayered grid prints will be on display. An opening reception is from 5-8 pm, Friday, June 12, 2015.
04/15/2015: Deon Reynolds at the Fathom Gallery in Los Angeles
Fathom Gallery’s Celebration of the Month of Photography in Los Angeles will include Deon Reynolds work (attached). The Robert Anderson Gallery has more of Deon's work available for review.
04/02/2015: Opening April 3, 2015-The Denver Collage Club-The Month of Photography
The Denver Collage Club at Robert Anderson Gallery
April 3rd - May 30th 2015
Opens First Friday April 3rd 5-9pm
The Denver Collage Club is a group of local and international collage artists who have been gathering, sharing and exploring ideas on the topic of collage in physical spaces in Denver and globally through the Internet. The Denver Collage Club was founded by Denver photographer Mark Sink and assisted by Denver collage artist Mario Zoots. The two artists have put together a selection of new works the club’s artists. We have also been very gracious to receive works from the Teresa and Paul Harbaugh collection including select works by Jerry Uelsmann, Alexander Rodchenko and Herbert Bayer. Being able to pull from historical photomontage and collage works and integrating them in between our club’s young contemporary artists creates a thread that spans over 100 years. This exhibition is a celebration of collage, finding the absurd, the beautiful and the strange in the images we find around ourselves. The Denver Collage Club exhibition at Robert Anderson Gallery is in conjunction with Month of Photography Denver.
The Denver Collage Club, a diverse salon of collage artists that meets monthly to discuss the genre and members’ work, is ready for its close-up: The sophisticated cut-and-paste crew is hosting a self-titled group show that opens PRIL3, 2015 at Robert Anderson Gallery in Cherry Creek North, in conjunction with the Month of Photography. Collage Club founder (and MoP mastermind) Mark Sink pulled some of the weight in putting the show together, but he turned the task of curating work by local artists over to collagist Mario Zoots, whose own work marries spare imagery and modernist notions. Together they’ve come up with an exhibit that pays homage to some of the big historical names in collage (including works by Alexander Rodchenko and Herbert Bayer) while also showcasing the genre in contemporary times.
“Collage is a medium that by definition incorporates fragments and deals with opposing tensions, broken images, hidden desires and collective myths,” Zoots says of the exhibit. “This show is a celebration of the medium and Denver Collage’s debut on the Denver art scene. We are trying to see how collage has changed over time and how maybe the contemporary work can still have a conversation with the past.”
Denver Collage Club opens with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Anderson Gallery, 2426 East Third Avenue, and runs through May 30; visit robertandersongallery.com for
2/29/2015: MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY-UPCOMING SHOWS
From March 6 through March 28th, the photographic work of Geoff Winningham and Barbara Mensch will be on display. Winningham's work will feature vintage silver gelatin prints of Texas from the early 1970's and more recent pigment prints of Mexico. Barbara Mensch's sepia-toned silver gelatin images of Brooklyn Bridge will also be on display.
From April 3 through May 30, a stunning array of collage will be shown. The Denver Collage Club, started by Mark Sink and Mario Zoots, is an international group of collage artists who have been sharing and exploring ideas on the topic of contemporary collage in modern art. Among the artists with work in the show will be: Adam Milner, Alexander Rodchenko, Colin Ward, David H. Tippits, Freddie Max Levenson, Gary Emrich, Herbert Bayer, Janice McDonald, Jeromie Dorrance, Jerry Uelsmann, Kyle Huninghake, Laura Shill, Libby Barbee, Mado Reznik, Mario Zoots, Mark Sink, Matthew Rose, Melissa Lynn, Paula Gillen, Samuel Mata, Steve Wilson, Susan Goldstein, Taylor Balkissoon, and Travis Hetman.
01/16/2015: Jack Brauer's Himalayan Photography
If you are in the mood for some stunning images from Nepal, take a look at this recent collection from Jack Brauer (http://www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/himalaya/).
01/04/2014: William Reiquam's
The Radiance of Ordinary Things, opening January 9, 2015
The Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to present William Reiquam's "The Radiance of Ordinary Things" from January 9 through February 28, 2015.
William Reiquam has been creating unique photographic images for more than eight decades. Reiquam is especially adept at finding arresting images within the context of day-to-day life. His photographic journey has taken on more abstract aspects over the past few years. William's eclectic body of work has been exhibited in individual shows, in group shows at prominent galleries (e.g., Camera Obscura) and is on permanent display at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Most recently, William Reiquam's photographs were featured in a single person, three-month exhibition at the central Denver Public Library.
11/7/2014: Legends of Rock by Dan Fong at the Robert Anderson Gallery 11/14/2014-1/3/2015
The Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to present "Legends of Rock" showcasing Denver photographer Dan Fong's extensive images of rock and roll stars. Throughout his long friendship with the late concert promoter Barry Fey, Fong was often the sole photographer granted access to memorable acts like The Who and Led Zeppelin. Fong was also privileged to shoot both Denver stops of the Rolling Stones. Fong's images include such icons as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Peter Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwhistle, Joni Mitchell, Joe Walsh, Joe Cocker, the Doobie Brothers and the Grateful Dead. Fong’s images, usually taken under the low light and rapid movement conditions during concert performances, capture the raw emotions of rock and roll. Fong is a compelling visual story teller who is delving into his vast archives and exhibiting rare and collectible photographs, many for the first time.
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09/18/2014: Deon Reynolds at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, CA
Deon Reynold's images have been selected for showing at a Special Slideshow Event for the current exhibition "COUNTRY: Portrait of an American Sound" at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. Stop by the Robert Anderson Gallery for a look at some of Deon's evocative images.
Continuing its tradition of presenting outstanding photography from national, regional and local artists, the Robert Anderson Gallery is proud to present its next show “Steven and Sylvia Oboler: Twenty-five years in the West.” This contemporary color photography show will run from September 12 through Nov 8, 2014. An opening reception will be held, Friday, September 12 from 5-8 pm.
Steven & Sylvia Kester Oboler have been serious nature photographers for more than three decades. Their photographic images have appeared in Outdoor Photographer, American Vision, multiple editions of the New England Journal of Medicine, and in Bill Fortney’s Great Photography Workshop. Following the tradition of physician/photographer Eliot Porter, the Obolers, who are practicing physicians in Denver, Colorado, are equally at home with both intimate and grand scenic landscapes. The Obolers love spending countless days traveling the back roads of the West in their 4-Runner with their cameras and dogs in tow. Steven & Sylvia were recognized as two of the best amateur nature photographers in American Vision and in Bill Fortney’s Great Photography Workshop. Several of their images have been recognized for excellence in recent Audubon Society of Greater Denver International Nature Photography Contests.
Longtime devotees of film photography, the Obolers only recently gave up their long relationship with Velvia film and made the digital switch while on a trip to visit the polar bears near Churchill, Manitoba in November 2013.
Join us to view more than 75 unique Oboler images which span three decades and which vividly capture and celebrate the American West.
06/01/2014: Robert Anderson Gallery Update
Thanks to all who have visited and supported the Robert Anderson Gallery since our opening in Denver, Colorado about 1 year ago. We have been very pleased with the support and especially appreciative of the terrific artists who have allowed us to feature their work. We have been fortunate to have some of our shows noted in the Denver Post, on Colorado Public Radio and in the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle. We have an outstanding group of shows scheduled for the upcoming months including "Photographic Abstract Impressionism" for July and August and many years of outstanding, diverse photography from the cameras of Steve and Sylvia Oboler in September. Please stop by.
11/15/2013: New gallery artists
The Robert Anderson Gallery is pleased to announce two new gallery artists.
Steve Hix is Colorado-based and has had a long and successful career as a commercial photographer. You will benefit by taking a look at his stunning black and white images of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The images displayed are from a large body of work that he has captured over more than 40 years.
Jean-Christian Rostagni is a Durham, NC-based photographer who has an eclectic body of work, both color and black and white, captured at a variety of locations. Some of his work is depicted on this website and will whet your appetite to look further using the link to Jean-Christian's website on our Links page.
11/1/2013: New show, new gallery artists
Denver After Dark featuring more than 50 photographs taken over 25 years will be on display from November 8, 2013 through January 11, 2014. Join us for an opening reception Frday, November 8 from 5-8 pm.
We are very pleased to be showing the work of three outstanding photographers who reside in the "west."
Jack Brauer is an Ouray, Colorado based mountaineer and photographer. Jack has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Colorado. Jack'sstriking color alpine images from around the world are usually the result of long backpacks off the beaten path. Jack initially used a Tachihara 4x5 large format camera but more recently switched to a digital camera.
Cody Brothers is based in Pecos, New Mexico. Cody and his wife are the owners/operators of thje Vision Photo Lab in Santa Fe, NM. Cody uses nearly exclusively infrared film with his large format, panoramic and pinhole cameras for remarkable, expansive black and white images of the west.
Kurt Bowman is a Colorado-based photographer with exceptional skill capturing birds and mammals of all types in their environment. Kurt often uses a 500 mm lens with a tele-extender to obtain remarkable bird and mammalian behavior in a strikingly artistic manner.
06/28/2013: Robert Anderson Gallery now open in Denver, CO
The Robert Anderson Gallery is now open at 2426 East Third Avenue in Denver, CO. Gallery hours are from 11 am-6pm Wed-Sat and by appointment.You can contact us by phone at 303-388--1332. The Gallery currently has a group show featuring photographs from nine nationally prominent photographers and four outstanding regional photographers. Please stop by and have a look at the more than 50 diverse and unique images on display.
02/18/2013: Robert Anderson Gallery Relocating to Denver, Colorado
The Robert Anderson Gallery is in the process of moving to Denver, Colorado. An announcement regarding the re-opening of the Gallery will be posted here in the upcoming months. Our sincere gratiude for those of you that have supported the Gallery in New York City. For those interested in Gallery photographers, contact the Gallery by either email (info@robertandersongallery.com) or by cell phone (303-257-0684).
01/23/2012: Review of Chessmen from The New York Photo Review
Chessmen
The phrase “decisive moment” implies a degreeof spontaneity that is often not the case. To catch a critical moment one does not merely look and snap, but rather stops and looks, taking the time to observe a space, evaluate the visual possibilities, and then, wait for all the elements to come together before releasing the shutter, sometimes multiple times.
Robert Anderson’s collection of portraits of pay-for-play “chessmen” in Union Square Park is a good example of this. On his commute through the Park, Anderson observed these players, their boards set up on makeshift tables, ready to play all comers for a small wager. Stopping along the way to or from the subway, he has photographed them since 2010, recognizing the regulars and their opponents. Twenty portraits of these players are now on view in the Robert Anderson Gallery.
Entering the back room one feels like an observer in the middle of the action. The 11 x 14 pigment prints are framed in white mats and hung in two rows. The faces are closely cropped, mostly from the chin to the forehead, and shot as horizontal images that provide only a small bit of out-of-focus background to place the subject in the context of the street. Taken while the players were in the “game,” these are not posed portraits. The faces are rich with texture and, printed in black and white, offer no clue as to what decade they might have been taken. Aside from the close horizontal cropping, what unites these images and makes them a cohesive body of work is the reflection of a chessboard in the eyes.
In several images the subject appears to look impassively at the viewer, sometimes with the slightly superior smile of a master. Generally, however, the player is not looking directly at the viewer but at the board, brows furrowed, presenting a façade of utter concentration on the game. But since they are playing on the street, they are “players” in more than one sense of the word and must allocate at least a modicum of attention to their surroundings, if only to note who is watching and who might be their next opponent.
While I don’t normally associate close-up portraits with street photography, this body of work definitely fits within that genre. And in a digital world where color is the norm, consciously suppressing color in digital media to concentrate the viewer’s eye on the essentials of the image is a welcome continuation of a tradition that works quite well here.
01/03.2013: Dead Ends: NY, by Richard Golden
The Robert Anderson Gallery announces the opening of “Dead Ends: NY”, an exhibit of photographs by Richard W. Golden.
“Dead Ends: NY” contains photographs Golden took in all five Boroughs of New York City where the streets end. Golden found such places where the land meets the water and within the Boroughs, such as at subway, railroad and highway cuts or where one street abuts another.
Sometimes, Golden discovered, people have appropriated public spaces for their own private purposes. Signs of previous use often remained in places that are now desolate or abandoned. Occasionally, it is difficult to tell exactly what is happening. The photographs can also give an unusual view of a familiar landmark. The mood and subject of these photographs are as diverse as the City they represent.
Discussing the “Dead Ends: NY” portfolio, Golden said, “I have attempted in this portfolio to provide a portrait of New York from what is, so far as I am aware, a unique perspective. I hope that these photographs convey something of New York’s physical size and geographic variety as well as the cultural and economic diversity of its inhabitants.”
There have been virtually hundreds of New York City-based photographic exhibits. However, these color images of Richard Golden, focusing on “Dead Ends,” is a novel body of work that offers unique and occasionally surprising insights at what lies at the ends of some of New York’s streets and byways.
Golden recently had solo exhibits of his photographs at the Hadas Gallery in Brooklyn (2011) and at the Burrison Gallery in Philadelphia (2008). He also curated and participated in an exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library (2009). Golden’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, the Adirondack Museum and the Brooklyn Collection of the Brooklyn Public Library.
The Robert Anderson Gallery, which was founded in early 2011, specializes in regional and modern photography.
12/15/2012: Brian Lav's new portfolio-Along the Jersey Shore-now available
Along the Jersey Shore
Growing up in Newark, New Jersey our family, mom, dad, oldest brother Mal and older brother Marc, fled the city and spent summers at the Jersey shore. Days were spent at the beach and evenings were spent at the Penny-arcade. As a young boy summers spent at the Jersey shore were like being in a magical land.
For the past several years, I've been working on a photographic essay capturing the romantic, sublime and often surreal heart and soul of New Jersey. In less than a day on October 29, 2012 super storm Hurricane Sandy turned my ongoing account of this shore culture into a collection of important historical documents that in many cases is all that remains of these iconic places.
I am offering a selection of 15 along the Jersey shore images presented in a custom portfolio case. Each image is signed, numbered and printed 10 x 15 inches on 13 x 19 100% rag paper UV treated for optimal impermanence. This portfolio is being offered in a limited edition of twenty-five sets with three artist proof sets. The first 5 sets are now available for a reduced advanced purchase price of $2500 per set. This is a substantial reduction from a per image investment.
(10% of the proceeds will be donated to the Jersey Shore relief effort)
11/01/2012: Patrick Orton-Central Park Seasons, Nov 8-Dec 22, 2012
Patrick Orton is an artist, curator, designer and photographer. His exhibit of Central Park Seasons features twenty 30" x 40" framed prints selected from those taken during more than 700 visits to Central Park over the past seven years. Several large, unframed prints and a catalogue of the work are also available.
10/19/2012: Benedict Fernandez's A Life's Work extended to 31 October 2012
In view of the interest and great reviews, we are pleased to announce that Benedict J. Fernandez show, A Life's Work, will be extended through 10/31/2012.
10/08/2012: The New Yorker, October 15, 2012 edition, Benedict J. Fernandez, A Life's Work
The New Yorker, October 15, 2012, page 13
Goings On About Town: Art, Benedict J. Fernandez.
Benedict J. Fernandez
The veteran photojournalist, now seventy-six, shows black-and-white work dating back to 1964, when he was on the front lines of the antiwar and civil-rights movements. Always a freelancer, Fernandez was drawn to protests and demonstrations, both progressive and reactionary, including Allen Ginsberg wearing a “Pot Is Fun” placard and a blond child brandishing a sign that asks “Who Needs Niggers?” Other subjects (bikers in Daytona Beach, ranters in Hyde Park) provide diversion, but the photographer’s most valuable work bears witness to pro-war street skirmishes, the aftermath of the Newark riots, and Martin Luther King’s children huddled beside their father’s casket. Through Oct. 31.
Date: Through October 19
Venue: Anderson
Venue Address: 24 W. 57th St., New York, NY
Venue Phone: 646-455-0393
External URL:robertandersongallery.com
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/benedict-j-fernandez-anderson#ixzz28qoxVKNb
09/22/2012: Benedict J. Fernandez in 22 September edition of the Wall Street Journal
Benedict J. Fernandez: A Life's Work
Robert Anderson Gallery
24 W. 57th St., (646) 455-0393
Through Oct. 19
Mr. Anderson has mounted a sampling of work from Benedict J. Fernandez's long career in photojournalism. Mr. Fernandez (b. 1936) does not belong to a photo agency and does not shoot on assignment. He self-selects his projects and, since he is not working against a deadline, works on them until he is satisfied; as a consequence, his pictures frequently have an art photography quality. Unlike much photojournalism that simply records an event, Mr. Fernandez creates images that distill its essence.
The top half of "Wall Street, New York City" (1970) is dominated by a fluttering American flag, but the scene beneath Old Glory is one of strenuous conflict as hard-hat construction workers battle police during a demonstration in support of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. The flag is backlit and light glances off the police helmets and the demonstrators' hard hats, charging the image with vitality. Mr. Fernandez shot both pro- and antiwar demonstrations, as well as actions in favor of, and against, the civil-rights movement. In one a young boy with blonde hair and a crew cut holds a sign that says, "Who Needs Niggers"; there is a swastika in the middle of his placard. Mr. Fernandez took many pictures of Martin Luther King Jr.; in one taken in New York in 1967 King's face exhibits somber determination. In another, taken in Georgia in 1968, his young daughter wears an expression of astonishment at seeing her father in his coffin.
—Mr. Meyers writes on photography for The Wall Street Journal. See his work at www.williammeyersphotography.com.
A version of this article appeared September 22, 2012, on page A20 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Camera Worship: Religion, Music and News.
09/12/2012: New York Photo Review's review of Benedict J. Fernandez exhibition
Turbulent times
Benedict J. Fernandez
A Life’s Work
Norman Borden
This relatively modest retrospective of 41 black and white images belies the fact that no single exhibition or photo gallery for that matter could be large enough to fully display or show a proper appreciation of Ben Fernandez’s life’s work. Then again, Fernandez is not the typical photojournalist with a humanistic eye. He’s also had a distinguished career as an educator; he established the Photography Departments at the New School and Parsons School of Design in the 1970s and inspired many emerging photographers with his unique philosophy of vision. He’s also received numerous awards including Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships.
Throughout his career, Fernandez chose to photograph self-assigned projects – those that he deemed socially significant. He never worked for a photo agency or on assignment for print media because he didn’t want the usual deadline pressures interfering with a project. Still, Fernandez’s talent and commitment were such that he captured some of the iconic images of the 1960s and 1970s. That’s the basis of “A Life‘s Work” – highlights from a series of nine photo essays or “portfolios” that include Protest ; Countdown to Eternity (Martin Luther King); Newark (the riots); Bikers (Daytona Beach); Mental Poverty; Ghosts of Ellis Island; Speaker’s Corner; Puerto Rico; and Russia and China.
His Protest portfolio includes 13 images, or about one-third of this exhibition.
Many of the iconic images – the draft card burnings, the Wall Street demonstrations, Allen Ginsberg holding the sign “Pot is Fun,” and several others – are part of Protest and that may account for its disproportionate share of the show. No matter. These images do not disappoint. They are powerful, memorable and bring a turbulent part of American history to life. The same is true of Countdown to Eternity; the four images range from King’s march to the United Nations in 1967 to his children viewing his body lying in state one year later. The few pictures displayed have a certain intimacy that probably could not have been achieved without the benefit of the photographer’s friendship with King and his personal admiration for the black leader’s beliefs. The images from the aftermath of the 1967 Newark riots are revealing; one shows several National Guard troops, looking like the citizen soldiers they are, sitting in front of a ransacked store, with broken mannequins lying on the sidewalk.
Fernandez’s skills as a printer are also on display—the deep, rich blacks in these vintage silver gelatin prints are the work of a master. In retrospect, the size and scope of this exhibition of a renowned photographer and educator does not overwhelm the viewer and makes it even more enjoyable.
08/29/2012: A Life's Work: Benedict J. Fernandez
For immediate release:
A LIFE’S WORK
Benedict J. Fernandez
www.benedictjfernandez.com
The title of this exhibit is misleading. In order to exhibit Benedict J. Fernandez’s body of work, one would have to hang it in Madison Square Garden and hope to have enough space. This exhibit is about images that have become iconic and recognized the world over, even if the observer has no idea of the identity of the photographer. The power of these Benedict J. Fernandez’s images is universal. What sets Fernandez's work apart from other photo-journalists is that he always works alone on self-assigned projects. He does not belong to photo agencies and does not shoot on assignment. Throughout his long career, he self-selected projects he considered important and worked on them, unfettered by deadlines, until he was satisfied with his body of work. Fernandez has produced portfolios, photo-essays and some of his images have become historic documents in their own right, especially his photographs of the protest movements of the 1960’s.
Benedict Fernandez's photographs have been exhibited in 50 states. His shows have traveled to England, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, Spain and China. His exhibit Countdown to Eternity traveled to 27 African countries in addition to the above sites. Through these widely seen exhibitions many iconic images have emerged which form the basis of this show.
Benedict Fernandez’s work is, at least in part, captured in 14 portfolios which include: Protest, Countdown To Eternity, Mental Poverty, Bikers, Shipyard, Ghosts of Ellis Island, Puerto Rico, The Newark Riots, Growing Up in Harlem, Joseph Papp and the Public Theater, Speakers Corner, Japan, Zahara Spain and China. Benedict Fernandez’s most recent work, in magnificent color and never before seen in public, is Flowers!
For more information about Benedict Fernandez’s work, contact Siiri Fernandez, Curator and instigator of all future shows, at:siiri@almanacgallery.com.
05/27/2012: Off The Beaten Path
For immediate release:
OFF THE BEATEN PATH, GROUP SHOW
ROBERT ANDERSON GALLERY, JUNE 7-AUGUST 3, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION 6-8 pm, THURSDAY JUNE 7
Six talented photographers were asked to provide work that best illustrates their concept of “Off the Beaten Path.” The results provide a diverse collection of outstanding contemporary images:
Geoff Winningham-a Professor of Fine Art at Rice University, holder of several Guggenheim Awards and author of 13 books took the assignment literally. Geoff produced five color pigment prints of “paths” from deep in the heart of Mexico.
Chuck Kelton-New York City’s premiere black and white printer and dark room master, provides five spectacular photograms of trees. These “Carnival Trees” are decorated with hand tinted leaves to produce a forest of photograms-well off the beaten path.
Craig Semetko-a Los Angeles-based street photographer and author of the acclaimed “Unposed,” takes us on a sweep of the Southern United States from California to Florida for some unique and ironic black and white views in the tradition of Elliott Erwitt.
Bill Spira-a talented sculptor and photographer with work in many collections, returns after a 25 year hiatus from New York City gallery shows. Bill produces silver gelatin prints from organic matter found far off the beaten path and arranged in the studio.
Brian Lav-a New Jersey-based photographer and photography educator at Parsons, has a large body of diverse contemporary work. Brian’s personally-printed silver gelatin photographs take us off the beaten path from New Jersey to Nebraska.
Michael Benari-a Boston-based photographer, has a creative and imaginative eye which finds intimate cityscapes within New York City. Michael’s high contrast pigment prints provide sometimes abstract compositions in black, white and shades of grey.
05/13/2012: Kudos for Suzanne Opton
Take a look at Mark Alice Durant's terrific online magazine, Saint Lucy. He just published a conversation with Suzanne Opton along with some other really interesting conversations and photograph (www.saint-lucy.com). Also Suzanne's photograph "Soldier: Mickelson - Length of Service Undisclosed," has been acquired by the International Center of Photography and will be included in their upcoming show, "A Short History of Photography," honoring outgoing director Buzz Hartshorn.
05/07/2012: Oraien Catledge in La Lettre de la Photographie
Take a look at the summary and some images of the Oraien Catledge show in the Monday, 7 May 2012 edition of La Lettre de la Photographie ((lalettredelaphotographie.com). This unique weekday newsletter contains a wealth of information about books, exhibitions, auctions, reviews, news, awards, festivals and other information related to photography. It is international in scope and features images from ongoing exhibitions. This site was voted Life Magzine's 2011 Best Photo Blog and is well worth bookmarking.
03/22/2012: Oraien Catledge: Cabbagetown
This is the remarkable story of Oraien Catledge. Catledge was born in Mississippi in the 1920’s and has lived in Atlanta for more than forty years. At the age of 51 and with a severe visual handicap, Catledge taught himself photography . Over the next two decades, Catledge created empathic black and white portraits of the working people of Cabbagetown, a former mill village made up of 10 narrow streets and shotgun houses, located in Atlanta's urban city center.
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill opened in 1881 and employed Appalachians from North Georgia. After the firm’s closing in 1977, the mill-workers and their families were left to make ends meet any way they could at a time when Atlanta's in-town neighborhoods were being abandoned for the suburbs. Catledge, a trained social worker, began photographing this close-knit Cabbagetown community in 1980 and made nearly weekly visits for the next twenty years. He always returned to pass out his silver gelatin prints to those he had photographed the week before. The “Picture Man,” as Catledge was known among his subjects, photographed instinctively and “broke all the rules.” He lacked visual acuity (the result of a childhood bout with malaria). His visual impairment and use of a 50 mm lens demanded he get close to his subjects. The images he produced are stark (sometimes hard-edged), respectful, and, as he says, contain “no make believe.” The people of the hard-working borough opened up to him, resulting in an impressive collection of photographs of everyday life.
The 37 images on display represent a body of work that documents an entire community with an intimacy more common to family photos. Catledge's portraits were piled in numerous stacks in his basement. Gallerist and curator, Constance Lewis presents a selection from Oraien Catledge’s best Cabbagetown images. The Robert Anderson Gallery is privileged to show these vintage silver gelatin prints for the first time. These complex and moving photographs will be on display from March 22 through May 26, 2012 at the Robert Anderson Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, Suite 503, (between 5th and 6th on 57th), New York, NY 10015 (Robertandersongallery.com; phone: 646-455-0393).
Oraien Catledge’s work is the subject of two publications: Cabbagetown by Oraien Catledge, forward by Robert Coles, University of Texas Press, 1985 and Oraien Catledge: Photographs, edited by Constance Lewis and Richard Ford, University Press of Mississippi, 2010. His photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. He is the 2011 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award (Photography).
03/22/2012: Barbara Mensch in the New York Times
Losing a Precious Sliver of East River Sky
By David W. Dunlap/The New York Times
View from same perspective today.The men of the Fulton Fish Market along South Street did not suffer outsiders gladly. In the early 1980s, however, they warmed to a newcomer from Brooklyn named Barbara Mensch. She was a photographer. She had just moved into an old salting house a block away on Water Street. They let her see the living market in its predawn hours and capture their words and faces: a loader named Philly, a retailer named Heschy, a journeyman named Sweet Pea and a fillet man named Vinny the Bone.
What resulted were “The Last Waterfront: The People of South Street” (1984) and “South Street” (2007), portraits and oral histories collected by Ms. Mensch while the Fulton Fish Market was still vibrant. The fishmongers left for Hunts Point in the Bronx in 2005. Ms. Mensch stayed behind, in a loft she had restored by hand to preserve the large rings on the oak floors left by the brine barrels that once were stored there. Hers is an artist’s loft and an artists’ loft: the sculptural piping under the sink was installed by an assistant to Mark di Suvero, the desk was created from discarded woodwork by an assistant to Richard Serra.
Barbara Mensch Over 30 years in the South Street Seaport Historic District, Ms. Mensch has lost a great deal. Certainly, the sense of being a pioneer, with all the freedom and responsibility that entails, as well as a camaraderie with others in the same boat. Also, the connection through the fish market to something ancient and authentic. And on Sept. 11, 2001, she was stripped of the comforting notion she once had of living in a snug, safe enclave.
But she always had the Brooklyn Bridge and its monumental western anchorage, which — when seen from across Dover Street — is almost as imposing as a pyramid at Giza. She could glimpse these from her windows or behold them in an unbroken panorama from her rooftop perch. “This represented fortitude, dynamism, bravery and resolve,” Ms. Mensch said. “This was everything an artist wanted to look at.”
She said she emulated the work of the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, “who also approached living in Manhattan with the same consciousness: that is, photographing from his window the urban landscape and the high buildings heralding the 20th century.”
A view of the Brooklyn Bridge anchorage from Ms Mensch’s loft.The bridge figured centrally in her recent show, “New York Photographs,” curated by Bonnie Yochelson, at the Robert Anderson Gallery. It has served as such a muse that Ms. Mensch was inspired to explore its history by reading the notebooks of John A. Roebling, the engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge. “It’s all empirical,” Ms. Mensch said with awe as she described the intricate calculations found in Roebling’s pocket-size ledgers. “He’s figuring out how to make this bridge in his head. All the data he collected gave me the first realization that great art is really about to what level can you focus on something and get to the essence of it. If you can’t do that through your work as an artist, then do something else.”
Now, she has lost the bridge, too.
Ms. Mensch’s block, at Water and Dover Streets.Mind you, not completely. Ms. Mensch still has a view of it that most New Yorkers would envy. But a new apartment building at 254 Front Street is just high enough and wide enough to blot out the Brooklyn anchorage and part of the Brooklyn skyline. Josh Barbanel has reported in The Wall Street Journal that the penthouse apartment obscuring her view is listed to rent for $20,000 a month. This is the Manhattan real estate market in play. It is an event, not a tragedy; a small event at that. But it is a moment worth noting. Something important has been diminished.
“I feel very grateful that I had all these years here to nurture my work, because it was presented to me on a platter,” Ms. Mensch said on the rooftop the other day. A visitor could not help noticing that she was using the past tense.
David W. Dunlap/The New York Times.
01/22/2012: Review of Barbara Mensch: New York Photographs from Photograph Magazine
Barbara Mensch at Robert Anderson Gallery Posted January 22, 2012 by Jean Dykstra
Roebling's Folly, courtesy Robert Anderson Gallery
Barbara Mensch’s photographs of New York are like images from another era, rediscovered documents from the time of Stieglitz and Strand. The romantic pictures, on view at the Robert Anderson Gallery through March 3, are love notes to New York, and particularly to that much-photographed structure, the Brooklyn Bridge. Mensch’s Water Street loft, where she has lived for more than 30 years, looks out onto the bridge, and it is the sole subject of 12 of the prints on view. The geometric lines of its cables and the vaulting arc of its towers are captured in lovingly sepia-toned gelatin silver prints.
A second room is devoted to photographs from her series “New York on Foot,” images of industrial structures, back alleys, and down at the heel neighborhoods. The last days of The Thunderbolt, for example, a deteriorating roller coaster on Coney Island that was torn down in 2000, is memorialized by Mensch in a wistful selenium-toned print.
Mensch has done long-term projects devoted to other New York City landmarks, including the Fulton Fish Market, which was the subject of two books, The Last Waterfront (1985) and South Street (2007). There is a poignancy to her work, which has to do not only with the transformation of New York City, but with the transformation of photography itself. Her pictures are reminders of the richness and depth of traditional black and white film, printed by the photographer who shot it.
by Jean Dykstra
01/19/2012: Favoring Film in a Digital Age-Lana Bortolot article in The Wall Street Journal
LANA BORTOLOT (to see Barbara Mensch image currently showing at the Robert Anderson Gallery, enter Favoring Film in the Digital Age into Google)
It's been a while since Kodak was considered "cutting edge," so recent news of the company's shaky future has brought little surprise. The Eastman Kodak Co., which sold its first push-button camera in 1888, has gradually reduced its chemical and photographic paper stock; it retired its Kodachrome film in 2009; and though it invented the first digital still camera in 1975, somehow the company was asleep at the wheel as its competitors raced ahead. Recently, its shares have plummeted as it has worked to finalize the details of a bankruptcy-protection filing.
"Kodak yellow was as familiar a color brand as Coke red, but without the stamina, as technology events have shown us," said Max Kozloff, a local photography critic and photographer.
From image makers to image exhibitors, New York's photography community seems divided by the prospect of the company's demise. Fine-art photographers may mourn the nearly extinct darkroom, but few in the commercial sphere linger in the nostalgia of the silver gelatin print.
Laurence Miller, whose Midtown gallery represents a range of historic, modernist and contemporary photographers, said the demands of the art market have eclipsed Kodak's technology.
Barbara Mensch's 'Cable Studies' (2009), at the Robert Anderson Gallery.."It's a requirement of today's scale: photographers are seeing larger, using larger-format cameras and embracing the world in a bigger way," he said. "Photography is one long technological revolution. If you want to lament the end of film, you'll have to put yourself back 100 years ago and lament the end of glass plates."
But for Brian Young, owner of Phototechnica, one of a handful of traditional photo labs left in the city, it's a matter of aesthetics. "I have yet to be seduced by any black-and-white digital technology. I love Tri-X," he said of the black-and-white film made by Kodak. "It can't be replaced by another product because nothing else is the same. Lots of photographers feel their relationship to film is as intimate as their spouse."
Mr. Miller represents artists such as Burk Uzzle, a former LIFE magazine and Magnum photographer who has shot analog his entire career, but now digitally color-corrects and prints his images. The hybrid process marries film's aesthetics and digital technology's convenience. Mr. Uzzle, whose dark images of charred items are on display at Mr. Miller's gallery through March 31 in an exhibit called "Burned," said he won't miss Kodak should the company fail.
At the Robert Anderson Gallery on 57th Street, Barbara Mensch's black-and-white photographs document not only a past process (Kodak no longer makes the chemistry), but a city that's harder to find. From her top-floor studio in a warehouse abutting the Brooklyn Bridge, Ms. Mensch has, since the late '70s, snapped the waterfront in all its grit and glory.
Her work chronicling the city also, in some ways, mirrors traditional photographic processes. Likening the formerly working waterfront to the loss of an American technology like Kodak, she noted, "There's something very romantic about it. Each print shows that humane element."
And downtown at the Leica Gallery, Michael Crouser's "Mid-Career Retrospective" offers an artist who shoots exclusively with Kodak films, often focusing on vanishing cultures and traditions.
"The birth and life of digital has changed the way people use film," Mr. Crouser said. "But the idea of it being dead is simply not true—it's still supported by Kodak and the artists. The medium you choose is your personal expression; using film and paper feels like a craft to me."
01/12/2012: Barbara Mensch New York Photographs
Robert Anderson Gallery Presents Barbara Mensch: New York Photographs
January 12 – March 3, 2012
Barbara Mensch is best known for her photographs of the Fulton Fish Market, a project of the early 1980s which became the subject of two books: The Last Waterfront (1985) and South Street (2007). This exhibition showcases for the first time two bodies of Mensch’s New York photographs made in the past 15 years.
Barbara Mensch’s Water Street loft, where she has lived since 1979, abuts the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge. This New York icon has been her constant neighbor and photographic subject. One room of the exhibition is devoted to the bridge in its many aspects, seen from Mensch’s windows, from her roof, and from water’s edge. Variations in weather, time of day and composition render this familiar subject startling and otherworldy. The twelve sepia-toned prints on view will form the basis of a limited edition portfolio, with an essay by London Times literary editor Erica Wagner.
A second room of the exhibition, New York on Foot, presents works that are the product of Mensch’s longtime habit of wandering the city with camera in hand. Always dressed for work in comfortable clothes and boots, Mensch is ready to climb, stretch or squat to capture an unusual view of the most ordinary sights, often seen in snow, fog, torrential rain, or wintry dark. She shares this preference for photographing in extreme weather with Alfred Stieglitz, the city’s first great street photographer. Mensch’s choice of the Rolleiflex camera aligns her with the great photojournalists of the mid-twentieth century, who created daring compositions within the square negative format. Her black-and-white prints suggest the drama and romance of mid-century New York as we know it from films and magazines. Mensch’s love of industrial structures, dark alleys, and working class neighborhoods recalls the rough years of the 1970s and early 1980s, when New York felt neglected by the respectable middle classes and was embraced by young artists like Mensch, who found freedom in its empty streets and abandoned buildings. These historical and photographic references lend her work rich layers of meaning and emotion.
Technically, Mensch is a traditional photographer who shoots and processes her own film. The Brooklyn Bridge photographs are sepia-toned gelatin silver prints, and New York on Foot consists of selenium-toned gelatin silver prints. Art historian Bonnie Yochelson has prepared the exhibition and the catalogue, and photographer John Cyr has assisted Mensch in the production of this new body of work.
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11/23/2011: New York Photo Review
Mirrors and Reflections: a group show. Barbara Confino."Mirrors and Reflections, a small well-crafted show at Robert Anderson, is a good introduction to one of photography’s great themes. Consisting mostly of black and white work, the exhibit offers us the chance to meditate upon one of the medium’s essential characteristics: its intrinsic relation to reflected light. From here it is not a great leap to consider the camera’s relationship to reflections of all kinds, particularly those we find in mirrors. There our doubles reside, those welcome or worrisome doppelgangers who present us with ourselves outside ourselves.
From W. Eugene Smith’s photograph of Chaplin looking at himself, to Kertesz’ model lying beside her distorted reflection in the funhouse mirror, to the 19th century lady photographing herself, to Joan Murray’s eleven year old taking stock of her body, images of varying qualities and styles play to this motif.
The show includes simple photographs of reflections as well: lights and shadows on water, mirror-like surfaces of lakes, night lights glistening on dark streets. All fairly standard issue. A nice surprise are the montages by John O’Reilly with their fragmented surfaces informed with cubist feeling.
All in all this is a modest show. Aside from few well-known images, such as Alvarez Bravo’s Retrato de lo Eterno and Steichen’s Little Round Mirror, most are lesser known variants on the title theme, yet there are enough real gems to warrant a visit.
11/18/2011: Mirrors and Reflections
The Robert Anderson Gallery's most recent show, Mirrors and Reflections, opened to a record crowd on the evening of 17 November 2011. This exhibition, in which each image contains either a reflection or a mirror, was curated by Evelyne Daitz and Alison Bradley. More than 60 photographs are featured with images ranging from 1903 to the present era. Take a glimpse at the names of the great photographers who's work is being featured on the Exhibitions tab of this website. Stop by for a look-you'll be pleased you did. Through 7 January 2012.
10/24/2011: Reed Bontecou Exhibition noted in October 31, 2011 edition of The New Yorker
Goings On About Town: Art Reed Bontecou.
Reed Bontecou
Bontecou, the head surgeon at a Washington, D.C., Army hospital during the Civil War, photographed wounded soldiers to document their injuries and treatment. His sepia-toned albumen prints were mounted in the elegant oval formats typical of the period’s popular carte-de-visite portraits, and his subjects do their best to strike a formal pose while half dressed and badly hurt. In the nearly fifty small examples here, grave young men display amputated limbs, bullet wounds, missing fingers, and disfigured faces. But Bontecou’s sympathy turns what could be mere medical curiosities into true portraits—complicated, touching, and unsettling. Through Nov. 12.
Date: Through November 12
Venue: Anderson
Venue Address: 24 W. 57th St., New York, NY
Venue Phone: 646-455-0393
External URL:robertandersongallery.com
Tickets:
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/reed-bontecou-anderson#ixzz1bjsTxq00
10/04/2011: From Museum Publicity.com
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Robert Anderson Gallery Presents Reed Bontecou: Masterpieces of Civil War Portraiture from the Burns Collection
2 October 2011
The 43 albumen photographs on view at Robert Anderson Gallery compromise a rare, and for the most part, first time ever public view of the unique medical images by Reed Brockway Bontecou, MD, Surgeon in-Charge of Harewood U.S. Army General Hospital, Washington, D.C., from the Collection of Stanley B. Burns, MD. The exhibition opened to the public on September 28 and will be on view through November 12, 2011
In recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, Robert Anderson Gallery offers this rare collection of albumen portraits and cartes de visites of wounded soldiers, selected from Bontecou’s personal albums. The photographs represent a unique opportunity to view some of the most moving documents of the Civil War and the associated human casualties.
Reed Bontecou was responsible for pioneering, and taking, the largest number of photographs of wounded soldiers during the Civil War and was the single largest contributor of photographs and specimens to the Army Medical Museum and medical publications of the time. His close up images of surgery, anesthesia, and patients posing with their pathological specimens were unique to his time. Many photographs are of patients pre- and post- operation, views of patients showing the progression of specific treatments, or the various stages of diseases. Bontecou’s images are beautifully posed, and the sitters seem almost serene in his gaze, elevating clinical photography to an art form. They speak a universal language of war, or rather, what it can do in human terms. Bontecou was a master of exposing the nature of the sitter. Beyond the wounds, the amputations, and the gangrene, the subject is presented as naturally as possible. Some images are further enhanced by Bontecou’s own red pen, detailing the trajectory of the bullet that impacted on the patient. These images, with the hand drawn lines, were part of his personal Harewood Hospital teaching album.
Also on view are his Cartes de Visites, an amazing visual document of the medical aspects of war and examples not equaled until fifty years later during WW1. The CDV album is the pioneering effort by one physician to document war wounds and to use photography to teach physicians how to care for these wounds. Due to their historical precedence there can be no doubt that Bontecou’s CDV album, kept at Harewood U. S. A. General hospital, is the premier medical photograph album of the Civil War. On view will be one page of the album, comprised of 12 single CDVs, and four single CDVs from The Amy Medical Museum, Photographs Contributed by R. B. Bontecou.
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09/28/2011: Reed Bontecou: Masterpieces of Civil War Portraiture from the Burns Collection
The 43 albumen photographs on view at Robert Anderson Gallery compromise a rare, and for the most part, first time ever public view of the unique medical images by Reed Brockway Bontecou, MD, Surgeon in-Charge of Harewood U.S. Army General Hospital, Washington, D.C., from the Collection of Stanley B. Burns, MD. In recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, Robert Anderson Gallery offers this rare collection of albumen portraits and cartes de visites of wounded soldiers, selected from Bontecou’s personal albums. The photographs represent a unique opportunity to view some of the most moving documents of the Civil War and the associated human casualties.
Reed Bontecou was responsible for pioneering, and taking, the largest number of photographs of wounded soldiers during the Civil War and was the single largest contributor of photographs and specimens to the Army Medical Museum and medical publications of the time. His close up images of surgery, anesthesia, and patients posing with their pathological specimens were unique to his time. Many photographs are of patients pre- and post- operation, views of patients showing the progression of specific treatments, or the various stages of diseases. Bontecou’s images are beautifully posed, and the sitters seem almost serene in his gaze, elevating clinical photography to an art form. They speak a universal language of war, or rather, what it can do in human terms. Bontecou was a master of exposing the nature of the sitter. Beyond the wounds, the amputations, and the gangrene, the subject is presented as naturally as possible. Some images are further enhanced by Bontecou’s own red pen, detailing the trajectory of the bullet that impacted on the patient. These images, with the hand drawn lines, were part of his personal Harewood Hospital teaching album.
Also on view are his Cartes de Visites, an amazing visual document of the medical aspects of war and examples not equaled until fifty years later during WW1. The CDV album is the pioneering effort by one physician to document war wounds and to use photography to teach physicians how to care for these wounds. Due to their historical precedence there can be no doubt that Bontecou’s CDV album, kept at Harewood U. S. A. General hospital, is the premier medical photograph album of the Civil War. On view will be one page of the album, comprised of 12 single CDVs, and four single CDVs from The Amy Medical Museum, Photographs Contributed by R. B. Bontecou.
The exhibition opens to the public on September 28 and will be on view through November 12, 2011. Press inquiries should be directed to Alison Bradley at info@robertandersongallery.com or by phone, 646 455 0393.
September 13, 2011: Kelton/Sugimoto at Robert Anderson Gallery Review in the New Yorker
Goings On About Town: Art
Chuck Kelton and Go Sugimoto
Chuck Kelton and Go Sugimoto
Kelton, who has printed work for many of the great black-and-white photographers, shows his own handsome, unique photograms, the most arresting of which were made at night with moonlight on trees. Stark white silhouettes of bare trunks and branches stand out in high relief against black voids or shimmer eerily in a pair of silvery, solarized images. Nature is further abstracted in several photograms of jagged rocks that look like torn-paper collages and recall both Aaron Siskind and Al Held. Working with a white-on-white palette, Sugimoto photographs pieces of curled, flopped, or folded paper in a focus so soft that they nearly disappear in a delicate, powdery haze. Through Sept. 24.
Date: Through September 24
Venue: Anderson
Venue Address: 24 W. 57th St., New York, NY
Venue Phone: 646-455-0393
External URL:robertandersongallery.com
Tickets:
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July 20, 2011: The New York Photo Review of Chuck Kelton and Go Sugimoto Show
The July 20, 2011 edition of the New York Photo Review contains the following review of the Robert Anderson Gallery's current show:
Two contemporary silver gelatin masters are featured in this cool and rejuvenating show at Robert Anderson Gallery. In the front room are high contrast photograms of natural objects by the well-known printer Chuck Kelton; in the back are light- filled images of white paper on a white background by a newer presence on the scene: Go Sugimoto.
Largely stark black and white images, Kelton’s photograms might, at first glance, be taken for torn paper collages. But as in any good minimalist work, closer inspection brings richer pleasures. Using with rocks and tree branches, they were made at night by exposing the paper to moonlight. Surprisingly, moonlight turns out to be an important factor in the images. Because the exposure is long and the moon is moving across the sky, the shadow of the three dimensional objects on the paper changes over time. Additionally, the brightness of the moon may change with changing sky conditions. The white areas acquire a penumbra of shades that add an unexpectedly three-dimensional quality to the images. And the border between the black and the white areas on the prints, while not sharp, becomes a rich history of the exposure time.
The white on white photographs by Go Sugimoto take us to the opposite extreme in minimalist photography. White on white is not a new premise in photography, of course, but these pieces are masterfully realized. Sugimoto (no relation to the reigning monarch of minimalist photography Hiroshi Sugimoto) photographed curled scraps of paper, diffusely lit, which he then printed on low contrast paper. With just the bare minimum of shadow in places, his luminous images attain a glimmering presence on the wall, almost like a beam of light gently moving across the room.
Both photographers work rewardingly with the tonalities the black and white gelatin medium offers. The show is worth seeing if only to remind us just how beautiful these can be.
Don Burmeister
July 1, 2011: Works On Paper: Chuck Kelton and Go Sugimoto
Robert Anderson Gallery is pleased to announce “Works On Paper: Chuck Kelton and Go Sugimoto,” an exhibition of photographs that challenge our conceptions of the limits of the photographic practice. The artists share an exceptional ability to execute highly refined silver gelatin prints whose subject matter is both supported by their sumptuous printing and at one with it. Though their subject matter is divergent, both artists push photography beyond its comfort zone of the evidential and representational into a place of abstraction.
Kelton presents us with photograms, magical unique prints made directly by exposing the photographic paper behind the natural objects he wishes to utilize to convey an emotional force. A project of over 5 years, Kelton’s work is powerful in its presentation of abstracted shapes and natural wonders (tree branches, stones) on sublimely printed and toned papers and yet quiet in the awe it inspires, being made of shapes rather than the lines made reproducible by a negative. His work reveals an emotional journey made visible by the subtle manipulations of the natural world onto photographic papers expertly handled and developed with a command and precision rarely seen. Chuck Kelton is well known in the world of photography. As one of the foremost printers of black and white photography in the United States, he is distinguished both for his abilities in the darkroom as well as his long term relationships and collaborations with the artists he prints . Kelton is also an educator, currently teaching at ICP, and having taught master classes at the Woodstock Center for Photography, Anderson Ranch and, in conjunction with Danny Lyon, the Photography Workshop for Native American Teens in New Mexico. His knowledge of photography, refined over decades of practice and observation, create in his images a deep resonance of printed perfection.
Sugimoto’s Paper Work merge his sculptural forms, made from simple copy paper, into photography. The white on white images trap us into wonder of these photographs, where there is little to assure us if we are viewing an object, an abstraction or a photograph of something not quite apparent. Viewed at times as simple shapes and at other moments as complex forms which sometimes evade our understanding, the Paper Work presents us with images that occupy the realms of the tangible and intangible, the visible and the sublime. Pieces from Walk in the Night, Sugimoto’s earlier series, are also presented. These grainy black and white images, renditions of a fairy tale like nighttime landscape he made in his mind, are atmospheric and defy our ability to place them with confidence to a specific locale. Meant to convey an emotion of place and wondering, these early images reflect Sugimoto’s grappling with a subject matter made of thoughts and turned into a photograph. As the writer Reiko Tomii pointed out in an interview in 2007, “The night photography of Sugimoto makes a ready comparison with that of Provoke, a group of radical photographers working in Tokyo almost four decades ago. The works of all are grainy, often blurred, and out of focus. However, whereas the Provoke photographers—especially Moriyama Daido and Nakahira Takuma—endeavored to document the urban life as it was lived and seen by denizens of the underground world, Sugimoto creates a study in abstraction, intent on seeing a netherworld of the city invisible to the ordinary eye.” Sugimoto’s work was first exhibited in the landmark show, Making a Home, Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York, at the Japan Society in 2007. Robert Anderson Gallery would like to extend a very special thank you to Esa Epstein, SepiaEye, for Go Sugimoto’s inclusion in this special show.
June 4, 2011: Dean Brown and Carleton Watkins Show Review, Wall Street Journal
The American West is big. Nineteenth-century Easterners got a sense of how big from the mammoth plate albumen prints, some as big as 16½ inches by 21½ inches, of Carleton Watkins (1829–1916). They showed grand mountain ranges, enormous Sequoia trees, cascading waterfalls, pristine lakes: It was a pretty terrific country we had ended up with. A century later Dean Brown (1936-1973) photographed much of the same area with a hand-held 35mm camera, and used the complex dye-transfer process to make modest 4-by-6-inch color prints of his negatives. Besides the differences in technology, there are important differences in sensibility. Whereas Mr. Watkins strove for awesome grandeur, Mr. Brown sought a rapport with nature.
The close inspection that Mr. Brown's small prints require reveals his sophisticated sense of composition, his delicate feeling for color and his appreciation for the play of light across a landscape. The little patch of bright sun on a distant cliff in "Navajo Reservation, Arizona Spider Rock" (October 1972) makes us peer into the shadows of the intervening canyon. The simplicity of "Hill Country, Texas. Danz." (May 1973), two trees reflected in shallow water and some fields beyond, produces an unspectacular, but very satisfying, image. Green trees seen in profile against hillsides of golden grass, "Near San Juan Capistrano, California" (August 1969) is another example of Mr. Brown's elegant colors and design.
William Meyers, Photography Critic, Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2011
May 5, 2011: Dean Brown and Carleton Watkins: The American Wilderness, A Century Apart
This unique show, which opened on 5 May, will be on view until June 23, 2011. The show brings together two very different yet convergent views of the American landscape. The exhibition presents a lineage of photographic depiction of the American landscape beginning with the grandeur of Carleton Watkins' (b. 1829 d. 1916) Mammoth Plate albumen print circa 1868 and six additional large albumen prints. Watkins' images were seminal in shaping the perception of the then great uncharted Western expanses and uknown landscapes. Watkins offers us large format natural portraits from waterfalls, trees and other grand scenic views of Yosemite and the American west. By contrast, Dean Brown's (b. 1936 d.1973) color images from 100 years later are photographs of the natural terrains he encountered throughout the United States including Alaska. These images are meticulously printed in dye transfer and generally in small sizes rendering them intimate and personal visions. Brown's images reflect a remarkably subtle yet wide-ranging color palette. The photographs of both Watkins and Brown are distinct rarities and the Robert Anderson Gallery is exceptionally honored to present them together. The efforts of Carol Brown in rendering this exhibition a reality are gratefully acknowledged.
February 1, 2011: Geoff Winningham, 1970's Texas and Suznne Opton, Chelsea Vermont, 1972-74
As of 9 February 2011, the Robert Anderson Gallery is open. The outer gallery currently features work by Geoff Winningham and Suzanne Opton. Geoff Winningham's images are from the early 1970's in and around Houston Texas. Winningham's images include those taken at professional wrestling matches, concerts (including Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard), high school football pep rallys, stock shows and rodeos and barnstormer performances (The Great Wallenda). Suzanne Opton's images are portraits, also taken in the early 1970's, in and around Chelsea, Vermont. These images depict family members living in the homes their parents and they grew up in. The differences in life depicted in the early 1970's images of Texas by Winningham and of Vermont by Opton are striking. In the back gallery, a number of images by Barbara Mensch depict scenes from the New York City waterfront, many of which are Barbara's popular book "South Street." Among these images are a series of three entitled "Paris Bar, South Street and Peck Slip, NYC."