8 Jan 2011 to 12 Feb 2011
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Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 - 5:00
The Kopeikin Gallery
2766 La Cienega Blvd
CA. 90034
Los Angeles, CA
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Steve Fitch: 1970 - 2010 January 8 - February 12, 2011
Kopeikin Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition by photographer Steve Fitch. While by no means a comprehensive retrospective of Fitch's work, several earlier series will be represented as well as newer work to give the viewer a context in which to examine forty years of Fitch's work in the American West. The show opens on Saturday, January 8th with a reception and book signing (100 first edition copies of Diesels and Dinosaurs were recently discovered) from six to eight with the artist. The show continues through February 14th.
"Steve Fitch is an undiscovered master of late 20th century photograph whose work in the american west has been relentlessly copied but never equaled."
- Paul Kopeikin
Steve Fitch is a contemporary of Richard Misrach and Roger Minick, having graduated with them from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971. While there Fitch began a project photographing the vernacular roadside of the American highway for which he received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1973 and the second in 1975. Eventually, the photographs were published in the monograph, "Diesels and Dinosaurs," in 1976.
After receiving a masters degree in fine arts from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1978 Fitch accepted a teaching position at the University of Colorado. In 1981, as a member of the "Marks and Measures" project, with three other photographers, he began photographing prehistoric Native American pictograph and petroglyph sites in the American west. This project was published in a monograph, Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art, by the University of New Mexico Press in 1988.
In 1990, after teaching at Princeton University for four years, Steve returned to New Mexico and began photographing the ongoing abandonment of the high Great Plains. He received the Eliot Porter Fellowship from the New Mexico Council for Photography in 1999 and in 2003 a book of these photographs entitled Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains was published by the University of New Mexico Press along with a traveling exhibition organized by University of New Mexico Art Museum. The entire exhibition of forty photographs was purchased by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Since 1990 Steve have taught photography at the College of Santa Fe and has continued work on several projects. His most recent project was photographing in the Llano Estacado region of western Texas and eastern New Mexico with five other photographers for the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University which will be published by Texas Tech University Press.
As a result of the work he did for "Diesels and Dinosaurs" Fitch became interested in the artistic possibilities of neon and learned to fabricate his own neon pieces. Since then he has made a number of neon installations, several of which are permanently located in out door locations in New Mexico.
Steve and his wife live off the grid in a passive solar adobe house they constructed themselves over six summers, beginning in 1984, on rural land in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. They use photovoltaic panels to meet all of their electricity needs and collect water in an extensive rainwater gathering system.
Manjari Sharma: "Water" January 8 - February 12, 2011
"If you choose to believe that what you see is the holy mother Ganges, then it is. If you don't then it's nothing but flowing water."
Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present Water, a solo exhibition by emerging Indian photographer Manjari Sharma. Water (Paani in Hindi) contains photographs from two recent series of work, Water and Shower. In both Sharma blends traditional Indian ideas of water as being holy, cleansing, renewing and imbues her images with an overwhelming sense of calm and beauty. The show opens on Saturday, January 8th with a reception from six to eight with the artist. The show continues through February 14th.
For months, artist Manjari Sharma has been inviting people to come to her New York apartment to be photographed in the intimate space of her shower. With natural light and a marble backdrop, the elegant portraits from the Shower Series seem to capture the exact moment when the pressures of everyday life begin to wash away. Sharma's use of water permeates her consciousness. Her series Water, shot along the turbulent emerald sea coast of Brazil has a similar sense of calm and renewal.
Manjari Sharma received her BSC in Visual Communication, from the S.V.T. College in Mumbai. In 2004 she completed her BFA in Media Studies, and Still Photography from Columbus College of Art and Design. She has been mentioned in countless blogs and online publications, including Nymphoto, Burn Magazine, Exposure Compensation, Leica, China, UK based Deep Sleep Magazine, American Photo, PDN, Lenscratch and 1000 words magazine, and a 2009 winner for The Strand photo contest. Manjari Sharma currently lives and works in New York City.
Kopeikin Gallery 2766 La Cienega Blvd (just north of Washington) Los Angeles, California 90034 Our hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 - 5:00. 310-559-0800. www.kopeikingallery.com [email protected]
