http://www.jenbekman.com/blog news + updates from jen bekman Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:53:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2008/02/06/shows-events-anniversaries-oh-my/ Burning Stubble by Beth Dow | 16" x 16" | platinum palladium print | edition of 25 Please join us on Friday November 2nd, from 6pm-8pm, at an opening reception for Beth Dow's exhibition of black and white photographs, Fieldwork. The exhibition will remain on view through Saturday December 8th, 2007. Jen ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/11/01/beth-dow-fieldwork-opening-friday-1102-6pm-8pm/ 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 20x200 artists, Michael Perry and Kate Bingaman-Burt. Kate ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/10/18/artist-talk-book-signing-this-saturday/ 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 ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/09/24/kate-bingaman-burt-and-ms-jen-bekman-speaks-at-the-apple-store-soho/ 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. 20x200 has been getting some attention as well. You can check out our ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/09/11/press-updates-including-20x200-in-dwell/ The inimitable and indefatigable Kate Bingaman-Burt, a 2006 Ultra, makes her New York City solo debut at Jen Bekman later this month. Kate's taking over the space with her paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations - join us at her opening on Friday, September 21st. Can't wait till then? Kate's I Bought ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/09/11/obsessive-consumption-arrives-at-jb-on-september-21/ 20x200 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 ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/09/11/introducing-20x200-its-art-for-everyone/ Hey, Hot Shot! Summer 2007 Edition Please join us at an opening reception in honor of the Summer '07 edition Hot Shots: Jen Bekman Gallery 6 Spring St (between Elizabeth + Bowery) NYC 10012 Opening Reception Wednesday September 12, 2007 | 6pm - 8pm Tasty beverages provided by Crumpler, makers of excellent bags, in particular excellent ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/09/11/hey-hot-shot-summer-edition-opens-tomorrow-912/ Nina Berman is featured once more in today's (Friday, Aug 31st) New York Times, this time in the Art Listings: NINA BERMAN: 'PURPLE HEARTS' One of the more shocking photographs to come out of the current war in Iraq was taken last year in a rural town in the American Midwest. ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/30/new-york-times-times-two/ Images from the Dark Side of War by Marc Pitzke for Der Spiegel A moving photo exhibition in New York shows what the media doesn't -- shocking photos of seriously wounded Iraq veterans. The images and the soldiers' quotes which accompany them say more about the war than you might want ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/30/international-press-for-purple-hearts/ Here's a round-up of additional press for Nina Berman's Purple Hearts, which has been extended through Saturday September 8th: First off, the show is once more recommended in the NY Daily News, this time in the Sports section, where columnist Bill Gallo writes: It's so very true that a picture can tell ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/26/purple-hearts-more-press-exhibition-extended/ Currently the lead story over at The New York Times online: Words Unspoken on War's Faces by Holland Cotter: Ms. Berman adds no direct editorial comment to the presentation. She has said in interviews that she started photographing disabled veterans soon after the war began mainly because she didn’t see anyone else ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/21/nina-berman-ny-times-review-by-holland-cotter/ Spc. Luis Calderon by Nina Berman Joanna Molloy, the Molloy in New York Daily News gossip column duoRush & Molloy, attending Nina's opening on August 8th. She chatted with Nina for a while about the exhibition, and a small knot of eavesdroppers gathered around them loosely while they talked - ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/21/nina-berman-media-mentions/ Join us at the gallery on Wednesday August 29th, from 6pm-8pm, at a reception and artist talk with Nina Berman. Nina will also be signing copies of her monograph Purple Hearts, which can be purchased for $25. Space is extremely limited so an RSVP is required: send an email ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/20/artist-talk-book-signing-w-nina-berman-wed-aug-29th/ by Alison Grippo We just recieved news that jb photographer Alison Grippo and her team (make-up artist Susie Sobel and stylist H. Tate Reynolds) won the previously mentioned PHTHRD competition. We knew she'd win, but still... big congrats to Alison! Read about it here. In other news, the deadline for the Summer ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/07/alison-grippo-crowned-phthrd-champion-hhs-deadline-extended/ Wasim Khan by Nina Berman The opening reception for Nina Berman's Purple Hearts will be held tomorrow from 6pm - 8pm at the gallery. There will be copies of Purple Hearts, the book, available at the opening. Images from the exhibition along with the artist's statement and the press release have been ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/07/purple-hearts-opens-tomorrow/ A New American Portrait installation view courtesy of Joe Holmes Those of you hoping to catch the final stretch of A New American Portrait will be happy to hear that the show will stay up one extra day! Tomorrow, the gallery will be open from noon to 6 - your last chance to ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/03/bonus-one-more-day-for-anap/ Photo of the JB by Joe Holmes The New York Times ran a feature on Sunday called Summer's Seven Day Week, covering the myriad galleries which actually have August hours. Here's the snippet about the gallery: A brief zig and zag down the Bowery onto Spring lands you at Jen Bekman Gallery, ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/08/01/jen-bekman-gallery-in-the-sunday-new-york-times/ Haven't you heard? jen bekman is at the SCOPE Hamptons art fair. We’ll be featuring quite a few paintings by the lovely Amy Ross and plenty of excellent photography from the gallery’s artists: Christine Collins, Christine Callahan, Ben Donaldson, Holly Lynton, Brad Moore, Karolina Karlic, Joeseph Holmes, Dana Miller, Ian Baguskas, ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/07/26/jb-gets-a-house-in-the-hamptons/ Pfc. Randall Clunen, 19, wounded in Tal Afar by a suicide car bomber © Nina Berman You may recall her award-winning portrait of disfigured Iraq vet Ty Ziegel and his fiancée, Renee, on their wedding day in the Spring Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!. On view from August 8 - 30, 2007, ... http://www.jenbekman.com/blog/2007/07/22/nina-bermans-purple-hearts-comes-to-jen-bekman-in-august/