Five More Years @ Jen Bekman

Belated Happy New Year greetings! 2008 is off to a great start for Jen Bekman Gallery.

I’m most happy to announce that we’ve renewed our lease at 6 Spring St! We are looking forward to 5 more years in the ‘hood, which has become quite the art destination, thanks to the recent opening of The New Museum and the arrival of scads of excellent new galleries.

Read on for updates on Friday’s Ne Plus Ultra opening, a Sunday reception at Joe, media mentions and other upcoming events.

Ne Plus Ultra, the Hey, Hot Shot! Annual Opens Fri. 2.8 | 6pm-8pm

Image Credit: Untitled from the series Sub Rosa (2006) by Birthe Piontek

Ne Plus Ultra, the Hey, Hot Shot! Annual, opens @ Jen Bekman Gallery on Friday February 8th, 2008. The reception is from 6pm-8pm, and as always frosty beer beverages will be provided by Crumpler.

Please join me and all of this year’s Ultras at the reception:

Nina Berman
Karolina Karlic
Brad Moore
Birthe Piontek

The exhibition will remain on view through Saturday March 15th, 2008. (The gallery’s official 5 year anniversary!)

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
NYC NY 10012
ph: +1.212.219.0166

Joe’s NYC: jen@joe Presents Photographs by Joseph O. Holmes

Image Credit: Broadway (2007) by Joseph O. Holmes

Please join photographer Joe Holmes, Joe proprietor Jonathan Rubinstein and me on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 from 3-5 pm at a reception for Joe’s NYC, the latest installment of our ongoing series jen@joe:

Joe
9 E 13th St.
(between University Place and 5th Avenue)

The exhibition, Joe’s NYC, is comprised of 29 NY-centric prints and will remain on view through April 25th, 2008.

The prints are available in three very affordably priced sizes and will be available exclusively online at jenatjoe.com.

We’ll be hosting other jen@joe events throughout the exhibition. Sign up for the jen@joe newsletter to stay up to date on announcements.

Points of Interest: Online + Elsewhere

Image Credit: White Ice by Tema Stauffer. Read about it on the 20×200 blog.A portion of the proceeds from this edition will benefit The Art Shanty Projects.

As if two openings in one week weren’t enough, there are plenty of other things keeping me busy over the next few months.

20×200 continues apace with two new editions each and every week. Be sure to sign up for our mailing list to get advance notice on new editions.

I’m packing my long johns and heading off to Minneapolis for a few art-filled days (and nights.) I’ll be doing portfolio reviews (afternoon) and a presentation (evening) at the Minnesota Center for Photography on Monday, February 18th.

I’m also looking forward to attending The Art Shanty Projects and the opening of World’s Away at The Walker Art Center. Another show I won’t be missing is Ultra Karolina Karlic’s exhibition at Franklin Art Works.

In quick succession after that: Santa Fe, where I’m honored to be jurying Center’s Singular Image Prize for color photography, Austin, where I’m speaking on a panel at South By Southwest and Houston, where I’ll be reviewing portfolios at Fotofest.

Points of Interest: Online + In Print

Image Credit: Foam Magazine #13 / searching

If you love photography and find yourself in Amsterdam, be sure not to miss the Foam Fotografie Museum, an amazing vibrant venue for exhibitions of established and emerging photographers.

The most recent issue of Foam Magazine, their gorgeous quarterly magazine, includes Jen Bekman: Gallery Without Walls, a long format interview with me by writer Eric Miles, accompanied by portraits from the very excellent Stefan Ruiz.

We have lots of other great media in the pipeline. Some is still a secret, but be on the lookout for Jen Bekman Projects, especially 20×200, in a diverse array of publications including Wired, Redbook and The Artist Magazine.

Also on the horizon: big (exciting! awesome!) changes are in store for Hey, Hot Shot! in 2008.

Stay tuned, and stay up to date: bookmark our blogs, or subscribe to their RSS feeds:

Jen Bekman News Blog
The Hey, Hot Shot! Blog
The 20×200 Blog
Personism (my personal blog.)

Most of all, we’d love to see you in person! Come visit us at the gallery:

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St (between Elizabeth + Bowery)
NYC 10012
+1.212.219.1066

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

Installation Shot from Obsessive Consumption on view at Jen Bekman Gallery until October 27.

Please join us at Jen Bekman Gallery this Saturday, October 20 , from 3pm-5pm, where we’ll be hosting an artist talk and book signing from this week’s 20×200 artists, Michael Perry and Kate Bingaman-Burt.

Kate Bingaman-Burt will be talking about her current exhibition, Obsessive Consumption. She’ll be joined by Michael Perry author of Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, which happens to include some work by KBB herself.

Hand Job: A Catalog of Type published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Kate and Mike will talk about art, design, typography and books. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the event. If you’d like to reserve a copy in advance, send an email to rsvp@jenbekman.com.

Check out Mike’s drawing and Kate’s photo. [Her superb illustration is still available for purchase.]

You can read up on the editions on the 20×200 blog.

See you Saturday!

Postcard Image from Obsessive Consumption.

Welcome back from the weekend, everyone. Kate’s opening was a great success and for those of you who could not make it, we missed you. The show runs until October 27 and the gallery is open from Wednesdays – Saturdays, noon to 6pm and you can come see us anytime during those times to get your dose of Obsessive Consumption. You can see photos of Kate in action as she installs and of the wondrous opening on her Flickr stream. Also, be sure to stay tuned to Kate’s blog: What Did You Buy Today? if you do not already do so, as there are sure to be juicy updates and treats in the next while as she gets back into action.

Also in other news, Jen will be talking about her work at the gallery, Hey, Hot Shot! and her latest project, 20×200 at an event this Wednesday at 6:30pm at the Apple Store in Soho, sponsored by Gothamist and nyc.photobloggers.org. Among the other participants, Jen will be joined by Hey, Hot Shot! ne plus ultra, Joe Holmes and Eliot Shepard, who had a solo show with Jen back in Spring 2005.

Admission is free, and seats are limited on a first come, first serve basis. It should be a great evening with a lot of great discussion and an informative chat, no doubt. Hope to see you there!

You can find the full invite, here or find more information from the official press release, along with info on location and details below:

September 26, 2007 @ 6:30 PM
at the SoHo Apple Store
103 Prince Street @ Greene (map)
After Party Merc Bar

NYCPB’s Featured Photobloggers
Eliot Shepard Eliot Shepard
Jay Parkinson Dark Shapes Prowl
Joe Holmes Joe’s NYC
Matt Weber Urban Photos
Red deLeon 990000

And a special presentation by Jen Bekman of 20×200, Hey Hot Shot, and the Jen Bekman Gallery

Sponsors
Gothamist and nyc.photobloggers.org
Hosted by Jake Dobkin.

As regular blog readers know, Nina Berman’s recent exhibition Purple Hearts, got an amazing review in The New York Times, which was followed by two additional listings in subsequent weeks and an overwhelmingly fantastic array of international press.

20×200 has been getting some attention as well. You can check out our media mentions to date on the 20×200 blog. Also look for us in the current issue of Dwell and the upcoming issue of Ready Made.

In her free time, Jen’s been pursuing her own journalistic endeavors. Look for her interview with photographer Alec Soth in the Fall issue of photo-eye Booklist.

To stay up to date on all the various Jen Bekman Projects, bookmark our blogs, or subscribe to their RSS feeds:

Jen Bekman News Blog

The Hey, Hot Shot! Blog

The 20×200 Blog

Personism (Jen’s personal blog.)

Enough with the virtual, let’s get real – the best way to have the Jen Bekman experience is live and in person. Come visit us at the gallery:

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St (between Elizabeth + Bowery)
NYC 10012
+1.212.219.1066

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

20×200 is a new Jen Bekman Project. We offer original limited edition artworks at ridiculously affordable prices – prints and photographs for as little as $20 each.

We’ve stocked up on the equivalent of 3 weeks worth of editions to give people an idea of the range of work we’ll be showing. You’ll see work from familiar gallery artists like Amy Ross, Tema Stauffer and our favorite obsessive consumer, Kate Bingaman-Burt. There will be lots of new artists to check out too – for our preview we’re offering a great print from painter Jennifer Sanchez. (And as it will always be, the original painting is available too!)

We might still have some kinks and/or hiccups along the way, so please bear with us in these early days. If something doesn’t seem to work quite right, or is confusing, or if you see a typo: do drop a note to hello AT 20×200 DOT com and let us know about it.

Many, many, many thanks to Raul Gutierrez, David Yee, Alison Grippo, Jeff Kirsch and the fine folks at Little Jacket. I have never worked with such an amazing, talented crew of people. Read more about the 20×200 team on the About Us page.

Co-curators Jörg Colberg and Jen Bekman with Alec Soth at the ANAP opening

Hi there, readers. This is Shane—photographer, blogger, and short-term summer intern at jb—here to give you a bit of news about your favorite gallerist.

Though first, let me just say that if you were not at the opening for A New American Portrait you did miss quite a fantastic event—and I’m not just saying this because I feel obligated to. As already mentioned, the turnout was remarkable and the work looks especially nice “in the flesh.”

Gallerist Ed Winkleman had quite a few kind words to say about the exhibition on his blog, describing the show as “a wonderful survey of contemporary portraiture in photography.” And Padddy Johnson of the notorious Art Fag City had a bit of fun with the digital snaps that Alec took on her camera at the opening. If you’re curious, there are more pictures from opening night available online in both Jen and Jörg’s Flickr streams.

And fortunately, for those of you who weren’t able to make it on Friday, the work will be on view at the gallery until August 3.

Now back to the original point of this post, eh?

Just yesterday, Jen was on a radio show where she spoke with Eva Lake about the ANAP show, the gallery, her new 20×200 project, Hey, Hot Shot!, Personism, blogs in general, her List of Women Speakers for Your Conference, plus a whole lot more.

Basically, she talked about everything ever.

I found that the conversation was very interesting especially for those less familiar with what goes on the at the gallery. Listeners will get a good sense of Jen’s motivations as a gallerist and a bit of information about her plethora of projects.

The podcast is worth a listen if you’ve got the time.

You can download the .mp3 archive here (0:56:55).

Benno Schmidt, Portland Harbor by Spring Hot Shot Mark Marchesi

It’s been a big week at the jb. The Hey, Hot Shot! Spring Edition opening last night was a blast. You still have time to check out the exhibition: it’s on view this Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Noon-6pm.

Next up: we’ll spend the week getting ready for our big opening event on Friday June 22, for our Summer group exhibition A New American Portrait.

Here’s a round up of all the gallery related online mentions as of late:

Hey, Hot Shot! featured on the blog for Popular Photography magazine

Rob Walker interviews Jen about 20×200

Unbeige on 20×200

Josh Spear’s Heather Snodgrass on 20×200

Gallery Hopper on 20×200

Photographer Julian Thomas reconsiders 20×200

Photo-Muse on 20×200, but wait there’s more

JPG Magazine Blog on A New American Portrait

Jason Kottke on A New American Portrait

Photographer Greg Wasserstrom is really excited about A New American Portrait