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Winterfest brings impressive ice sculptures and frosty fun to Seattle Center
A group of renowned artists gathered at the International Fountain this season, transforming ice into captivating sculptures that set the stage for{a href=”https://www.seattlecenter.com/events/featured-events/winterfest” target=”_blank” title=”https://www.seattlecenter.com/events/featured-events/winterfest”}{ }Winterfest{/a}. This festive month-long event at Seattle Center promises to be a feast for the senses with seasonal decor, a winter train and village, lively weekend entertainment on the Armory stage, and a spectacular New Year’s Eve celebration to ring in the new year! (Photo: Elizabeth Crook / Seattle Refined)
A winter wonderland and dervishes dancing : photos of the day
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Supporters of the president of the DRC and leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress party, Felix Tshisekedi, cheer during a campaign rally at Place Sainte Therese in the Ndjili district. Forty-four million people are registered to vote in the presidential, parliamentary, provincial and municipal elections scheduled for 20 December in the central African nation of about 100 million people
Photograph: Arsene Mpiana/AFP/Getty Images
In ‘Body Politic,’ Antony Gormley Traverses the Human-Built Landscape
“Resting Place” (2023). Installation view of ‘Body Politic’ at White Cube Bermondsey. Exhibition photos by Theo Christelis. All images © Antony Gormley, courtesy of White Cube, shared with permission
Since the 1960s, British artist Antony Gormley has used the language of sculpture to examine relationships between human beings, nature, and the cosmos. If you’ve driven the A1 or taken a train past Gateshead in the U.K., you’ll have likely seen the “Angel of the North,” a public work made of weathered COR-TEN steel installed on a hilltop in 1998 that depicts a figure holding out arms that look like riveted wings. One of his most recognizable projects, the work was met with controversy at the time but has since become a beloved landmark.
For decades, Gormley has featured the human form in his work, often using his own body as a starting point for large-scale installations in which abstracted figures wander through outdoor spaces or convene in enigmatic arrangements. In Body Politic at White Cube in Bermondsey, London, the artist investigates our relationship with industrial environments and the tension between migratory impulses and the need for refuge.
In “Test, Bind” a single figure inhabits the center of one gallery, extending long, iron latticework to each wall and the ceiling, simultaneously supported by and supporting its surroundings. And in another room, 244 modular figures made from fired clay sprawl across the floor in “Resting Place,” evoking a gridded urban landscape. As visitors wander through the maze of prone and splayed bodies, the work summons a tense uncertainty. Some appear relaxed while others express discomfort or pain, stirring associations with the risks migrants and refugees take to escape conflict, along with a lack of resources and the effects of the climate crisis.
Installation view of ‘Retreat’ series in ‘Body Politic’ at White Cube Bermondsey
In a series titled Retreat, blocky concrete pieces, which Gormley refers to as “intimate bunkers for one,” form a single-file line through the corridor of the gallery and into the courtyard. Cast to the scale of the artist’s body, each figure compresses and contorts into different postures, with a small opening at the mouth that reveals a human-shaped void inside. “The only place where we can find true freedom is within the infinite darkness of the body available to us once the body is still,” Gormley says. “These works both evoke and embody the space that we all enter the moment we close our eyes.”
Throughout Body Politic, Gormley wrestles with ideas of interiority and external influences, vacillating between human introspection and the inevitability of outside forces. If you’re in London, you can visit the exhibition at White Cube through January 28. A solo show of his work will also open at White Cube New York this spring.
Gormley also has a solo presentation at the Musée Rodin in Paris titled Critical Mass, which remains on view through March 3. Find more on the artist’s website.
“TEST: BRACE” (2021), cast iron, 175.6 x 48.2 x 75.7 centimeters. Photo by Stephen White & Co.
“Test, Bind” (2023). Installation view of ‘Body Politic’ at White Cube Bermondsey
Installation view of ‘Body Politic’ at White Cube Bermondsey
“Stand” (2023). Installation view of ‘Body Politic’ at White Cube Bermondsey
“Retreat: Tuck” (2022), concrete, 81 x 61.5 x 108 centimeters. Photo by Stephen White & Co.
Installation view of “Resting Place” (2023) in ‘Body Politic’ at White Cube Bermondsey
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Minimalist + Monochrome: Favorites From Art Basel 2023
Exploring the relationship between the physical and physiological, Jesse Wine often experiments with anthropomorphic forms in his work. Crafted from a multitude of materials including ceramic and steel, this piece also exhibits an oxidized copper finish with limbs emerging from a chunky bed-like structure, transitioning from a static to kinetic force.
Influenced by the irreverence and cheekiness of pop art with a minimalistic approach, this sculpture was designed to emulate a calligraphic or typographic symbol – designed from individual lipstick capsules crafted from aluminum and finished in a bold yellow polyurethane paint.
Photo: Courtesy P.P.OW Gallery
Executing textural and sculptural art often exploring political and cultural issues affecting the Latinx community, Pepón crafted this anatomical heart from crepe paper to emulate a piñata – the installation both sonically and visually conveying characteristics of a human heart, even designed with speakers playing the artist’s own heartbeat.
Photo: Courtesy Casey Kaplan Gallery
Designed by hand and incorporating primarily basswood, artist Matthew Roney manipulates this sole material with various tools to produce an abstract sculptural design, revealing a deconstructed artful anatomy which was inspired by American folk art and influenced by a tradition of non-western art.
Photo: Ramiro Chaves
Crafted from Carrera marble, Claudia’s oeuvre typically incorporates biomorphic forms utilizing industrial technology processes. Comte’s main muses include waves, sonar, and of course cacti – which she playfully reworks to embody a more ecological influence.
Photo: Courtesy Mennour Gallery
Conceptual artist Daniel Buren is known for his minimalist mirror motifs. Created with a geometric pattern exhibiting a color block design, this mirror is crafted from 16 aluminum prisms and blue adhesive opaque vinyl, creating an optical illusion of striped rectangular prisms depending on which angle the reflective artwork is orientated.
Photo: Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery
Incredibly rich in both texture and color, this artwork is reminiscent of a bird house crafted from driftwood washed up on the beach. The artist assembled and reworked various pieces together to make the bird house look like a natural form, then beautifully embellished the piece in an ultramarine blue hue.
Photo: Tiffany Harrison, courtesy Schwarzwalder Gallery
In a showcase titled ‘Just Shut Your Eyes Tight, from the ABCs of everyday humanism,’ these neon-hued sculptures are inspired by the mundanity of how we typically experience nature, yet with a contemporary and artful twist. The statuesque green sculpture evokes resistance and stability, and the smaller ones also incorporate similar organic shapes, citing building blocks as a muse.
Photo: Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
Carol Bove’s work is composed through the experimentation of modern metal sculpture. Influenced by industrial construction and architecture, and like many of her artworks, these monochrome blue sculptures are crafted from stainless steel and finished with a coat of urethane paint.
Photo: Courtesy Mennour Gallery
Working with varying juxtaposition of materials including granite, stainless steel, and concrete, Kwade’s work explores the connections among science, space, and time utilizing geometric and linear forms.
Photo: Courtesy Mennour Gallery
With a playful approach to creating sculptural art that is universal yet also intimate and relatable, artist Valentin Carron makes figurines depicting anonymous human forms that are crafted from children’s modeling clay in vibrant color schemes, baked in his own oven, and then carved in wood or cast in aluminum.
Photo: Lance Brewer, courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery
Jammie Holmes is a self-taught painter whose work is inspired by his childhood growing up in the South, often depicting domestic scenarios and everyday life. Crafted from powder coated bronze and acrylic, this monochrome flower pot is one of his first experimentations in installation art and features floral motifs that have appeared in other recent works.
Tiffany Harrison is a multidisciplinary creative who is skilled in visual + literary storytelling. She immerses herself in artful endeavors with creative direction + design, drone videography, and prop styling. Tiffany’s work is super conceptual and is inspired by contemporary art, which she is truly passionate about. You can connect with Tiffany on her website and Instagram.
‘Juergen Teller finds beauty in the most mundane moment’: a photographer like no other
“I need to live” is spelt out in neon letters in the entrance of the Juergen Teller exhibition at Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris. A title that goes well with the posters that can be seen all around the city: a self-portrait of the photographer reclining languidly in silky pink shorts while holding a bunch of candy-coloured balloons. In the temporary hall, put in place while the gallery is restored, the work of the photographer known for his gritty, humorous and spontaneous style – the British actor Riz Ahmed claimed Teller once shot him in “20 seconds, two clicks” as he sat on an Ikea folding chair under a tree – is a refreshing antidote to the glamorous side of the city outside.
Opened last weekend, the show is the most important yet dedicated to Teller’s work: more than 1,000 pieces, including photographs, films and installations, cover 10,000 sq metres. Some of the pictures on display have become more famous than the man behind them: Victoria Beckham’s legs popping out of a Marc Jacobs bag, a triptych of Vivienne Westwood naked, an equally naked Charlotte Rampling in the middle of the Louvre, Iggy Pop hugging a tree, Björk with her son.
Teller’s style has become instantly recognisable: shot in streets, outside studios or clubs, using a harsh flashlight, they are unglamorous, unfiltered, diametrically opposed to slick studio fashion photography. Teller is at the forefront of contemporary realism, endlessly replicated online and evocative of the low-fi aesthetic of fashion brands such as Demna’s Balenciaga – the controversial designer’s portrait is included in the show.
An alternative gaze on fashion and celebrity photography, Teller’s work seems to gratify a craving for authenticity. German-born and based in London, where he moved in the 1990s, Teller distanced himself from the glossy style of photographers working in fashion at the time, such as Craig McDean, Nick Knight or Steven Meisel, introducing documentary-inspired style that was compared to the work of William Eggleston, Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus.
Teller is now one of the best known photographers in the world, thanks to his campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Celine and Yves Saint Laurent, among others, with more than 50 books to his credit and solo shows around the world.
What is striking about Teller’s approach, as this exhibition highlights, is a blurring of distinctions between genres, high and low, private and public, personal and commercial work.
“Frankness is the best way to describe him. He is interested to see what is behind the facade,” says Thomas Lenthal, the founder and creative director of System magazine, who has collaborated with Teller for nearly 30 years. “He wants to document his own existence, with recurring characters coming back into his life. His photographs are his life and vice versa; he wants to photograph things that interest him and that’s what keeps him and his work alive.”
The show is conceived like a journey through the essential events of his life – starting, notably, with the suicide of his father, then his own coming of age; later events include his 2021 marriage to Dovile Drizyte, also his creative partner and co-curator of the show. It intersperses personal life, plants, organic elements, books, baby photos, but also personalities such as the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, the film-maker and artist Agnès Varda with her cat, fashion editor Edward Enninful in a public swimming pool, and Yves Saint Laurent up close.
“This is never about the status of the person; he shoots very democratically – objects, people, nature are all placed on the same level,” says co-curator Thomas Weski, joking that Teller neither knows the celebrities he shoots nor the fashion world itself. “Juergen finds beauty in the most mundane space or moment. He is very good with people and works in a spirit of collaboration … He steps in front of the camera, allows himself, too, to show fragility.”
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Vulnerability is central to the show, and is addressed with humour. In 2021, Teller was criticised online for the perceived amateurishness of a shoot he did for W magazine of 28 Hollywood stars, including Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney and Riz Ahmed. For those who celebrate Teller’s knowingly unglossy work, the critics missed the point. The show features these photos as well as the internet comments on them framed like artworks.
Behind Juergen’s lens, reality becomes theatre and glitz becomes human – but his capturing of vulnerability never feels voyeuristic. Teller refuses the title of fashion or art photographer, insisting in interviews that he is just a photographer who produces work. As Charles Baudelaire said: “Créer un poncif, c’est le génie”(“Creating a cliche, that’s genius”). Teller’s work might look simple, but therein lies its brilliance.
Breathtaking Landscape Photography Awards Winners
“Watery Shapes” by Phillip Glombik. First Place.
Photos of sweeping scenic landscapes from all corners of the earth were entered into The Independent Photographer‘s Landscape Photography Awards and the winners of the November 2023 contest have just been announced. Judged by renowned National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson, the winners and finalists are a beautiful look at the natural world.
Photographer Phillip Glombik took home the top prize for his evocative aerial photo of a river in Iceland. Taken with a drone at the end of the Ölfus River, the image has a calm, hypnotic composition that won over Richardson.
“This was the image that always pulled me back, always invited me to get lost in wonder,” says Richardson, who is the co-founder of the educational collaborative Eyes On Earth. “I know what it is: river sediments in Iceland. But in places, it echoes the forces of creation we see in space telescope images of galactic nebula where stars are born. In other places, it echoes the desert dunes, or perhaps arctic blizzard drifts. The patterns are primordial. But what struck me most is how this image was elevated over similar images by the pattern or ripples that lay over the whole image like a veil. Just wonderful.”
The celebrated photographer also appreciated Ed Smith’s look at a cloud inversion sweeping across the Scottish Highlands, which came in second place. He was particularly drawn to the mystery of the image and the way it bucks the traditional manner in which landscapes are often portrayed.
See more of the powerful winners and finalists below in this contest that honors one of photography’s oldest and most beloved genres. And then stay tuned to see who will win December’s monthly contest, which is currently taking submissions and is centered around the theme People.
Here are the winners of The Independent Photographer Landscape Photography Awards.
“Fringes of Abernethy” by Ed Smith. Second Place.
“Morning Freeze” by Remi Bergougnoux. Third Place.
“Mystical Driftwood Drift” by Jacqueline Anders. Finalist.
“Misty-rious Hill” by Ian Asprey. Finalist.
“Offshore” by Michael Jurek. Finalist.
“Frozen Migration” by Nicolas Castermans. Finalist.
“Into the Mist” by Brandon Yoshizawa. Finalist.
“Inversion” by Kyle Barden. Finalist.
“Untitled” by William Holderfield. Finalist.
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Local Photographer Matches Couples through Photography Session
You have heard of online dating, blind dates, and speed dating.
Kelsey Wyatt, the Owner of Poppyseed Photography is helping couples meet in a new and exciting way,
” I love photography because my grandfather who I called Poppy was always taking pictures and he was a believer in love and I love, love.”
There’s nothing like finding your true love, but Colton Weathers found that dating in todays age can be difficult.
“We had gone through the modern type of dating and it is just not for us we are more of an old soul.”
You fill out an application online and then it is two strangers, one camera, and a chance at a lifetime of happiness.
“Colton is actually my business partner Angelina’s brother and we were trying to find a great girl for him, and we found Haley and they did the stranger shoot, and they were lovingly awkward their first shoot, but they are now extremely happy,” said Wyatt.
Haley Ladd said the hardest part putting yourself out there,
“You fill out this application and the first question is what do you see in your ideal partner..I wanted someone that loved to travel, that loved animals and then most of all had god in their heart,” said Ladd
Then all you have to do is show up..
“Kelsey has us over there like put your arm around her, go nose to nose… But Haley is the one who made me feel better about it she was like come on I don’t bite.”
The couple has been together since october 14th and you could say things have been picture perfect ever since.
“November 25th I asked her to be my girlfriend… We are officially, official.”
So far Kelsey Wyatt has had two successful couples.
It is $50 to fill out an application to learn more visit
Missoula Art Museum accepting applications for missing Indigenous people exhibit
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Missoula Art Museum is inviting Indigenous artists to participate in an exhibition to bring awareness to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relative in Montana.
The exhibition is only open to artists who are Indigenous or who identify as descendants.
Applications are due on Jan. 5 at 11:59 p.m. and the results will be announced Feb. 29.
The exhibition will be open to the public on May 3 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will run through Sept. 7 2024.
Missoula Art Museum released the following:
Missoula Art Museum invites Indigenous and descendant artists to participate in a juried exhibition focused on bringing awareness to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relative crisis in Montana. The exhibition welcomes a variety of Indigenous voices, including artists residing in communities across the state with any Tribal affiliations. It is only open to artists who are Indigenous or who identify as descendants but does not require proof of enrollment status or blood quantum. MAM asks the public to please share this call for art widely. The submission deadline is Jan. 5, 2024 (11:59pm Mountain Time); artists will be notified of jury results Feb. 29, 2024.
Rachel Allen (Nimiipuu/Nez Perce) serves as juror of this exhibition in her role as MAM’s first Indigenous guest curator. Allen grew up in Great Falls and is exhibition special project manager and co-curator of the upcoming Joe Feddersen retrospective at the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane, WA. This position is part of MAM’s initiative to expand the curatorial voice to include broader Indigenous representation and to create new opportunities for Indigenous museum professionals and leadership in the arts.
To participate, artists can apply through MAM’s Submittable account, linked on the museum website. There is no cost to apply. If the Submittable process is not accessible, artists can contact MAM Senior Curator Brandon Reintjes for alternative instructions. Participating artists receive honoraria, support shipping artworks, and a Friend Circle Membership.
Participants and their loved ones will be invited to an artist/family preview on Apr. 22, 2024. The exhibition will open to the public with a First Friday reception on Friday, May 3, 5-8 PM, and will run through Sept. 7, 2024.
The future of wildlife photography is in good hands as an eight-year-old wins RSPCA Young Photographer of the Year!
The RSPCA Young Photographer of the Year competition showcases the very best animal photography talent, inviting photographers 18 years and under to capture the animal kingdom on a camera or a mobile device.
The competition has been running for over 30 years and is organized by the RSPCA, the world’s oldest and largest animal charity. Consisting of nine categories and an overall winner this year saw a standout performer scoop the top prize as well as becoming the competition’s youngest ever winner.
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Young photographer Jamie Smart from Llandrindod Wells in Powys, Mid Wales, wins the Overall prize at this year’s RSPCA Young Photographer of the Year Awards, for a moody photograph of her Turkey Frederick titled ‘Not Guilty‘. A very impressive achievement at just 8 years of age!
The impressive accolades do not stop there, however, as Smart has also picked up several others, winning both the Portfolio and Pet Portraits categories and coming 3rd in the Small World category. All of the judging was made anonymously which makes the achievements all that more noteworthy.
Speaking on her victory Jamie Smart said, “I’m amazed and proud of myself to have won and proud of my winning image. The shot of Frederick, our turkey, was taken through the bars of his pen and it looked like he was in prison which was quite appropriate due to the bird flu situation at the time. I wanted to show the beauty of his feathers with their iridescent shine, which he loves to display during spring and summer.”
TV presenter and Wildlife photographer Chris Packham, as well as being one of the judges, hosted the award ceremony where he described the winning image as a “fantastic” turkey photo that could be an “album cover for a punk band!”.
Smart was not the only winner on the night however as many other young photographers took home the number one spot. The list of winners from all of the categories is as follows:
Overall winner: Jamie Smart, 8, from Wales.
Small World winner: Beau Healy, 14, from North London.
Under 12 mobile winner: Flynn Thaitanunde-Lobb, 9, from Hampshire.
12-15 mobile winner: Corbyn Thomas, 12, from Lancashire.
16-18 mobile winner: Anna MacDonald, 17, from Perth, Scotland.
Under 12 winner: Hope Whittaker, 11, from Gloucestershire.
12-15 winner: Alex George, 15, from Worcestershire.
16-18 winner: James Pearson, 17, from East Sussex.
Portfolio winner: Jamie Smart, 8, from Wales.
Pet Portrait winner: Jamie Smart, 8, from Wales.
A full list of the winners and runners-up can be found on the RSPCA website.
Congratulations to all the winners! This is a huge achievement for all involved and the work created by the young photographers acts as an indicator that not only the future of photography but the natural world is in good hands.
Next year sees the 200th anniversary of the RSPCA, the UK-based animal charity. The RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2024 opens for entry in May and the charity hopes it will be an even bigger and better competition, and welcomes all budding photographers to enter.
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