The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD
April 23 - 27, 2025
Park Avenue Armory
Jennifer Greenburg
Billie Mandle
Luis González Palma
Tatiana Parcero
Paul Turounet
Ian van Coller
We are proud to announce our participation in The Photography Show presented by AIPAD | Association of International Art Dealers. The gallery will present work by a by a core selection of represented contemporary artists, ranging from emerging to established. We will lead with work by Luis González Palma, and harmonize with a chorus of previously presented and new voices: Jennifer Greenburg, S. Billie Mandle, Tatiana Parcero, Paul Turounet, and Ian van Coller among them. Highlights by featured artists follow.
Using aesthetics from realism to abstraction this set of works strikes an emotional tone that invites introspection. Overarching themes include invention of story/history/archive, time/consciousness, solitude/silence, intimacy and hierarchy.
jdc Fine Art will headline a selection of works from Luis González Palma. New work eclipses the old. Celebrated for his early work, subsequent decades of work by the famed Latin American artist have been underexposed. The evolved mind is proofed by works surveyed in our booth (and percussed by an online show: The Invention of Myth). This presentation follows our announcement as lead US representative and survey of his evolving 35-year career.
El Sol 3, 2007 (from Astrofolografía, Kōan series)
González Palma’s Möbius studies began in 2013. The series is open and plural. It delves into other ways of creating and understanding photography. Various methods of aesthetic perception are employed to create new implications. The artist began this dialogue by juxtaposing geometric abstraction and his own photographic archive. Portraits from early to recent work reappear but are reimagined. They now incorporate geometric forms rendered over them in acrylic paint or gold leaf. Some works are sculptural and are printed on felt. Expansive and symbolic, the stories generated by these combinations explore the boundaries between photography and painting, emotion and reason, aesthetics and politics.
“Kōan” in Zen philosophy is a question that has no logical solution; its goal is to break the standard patterns of thought and introduce itself into a sudden consciousness of illumination. Embracing this concept, González Palma embarked on a visual exploration, Kōan, which is composed of three series. One, Astrofotografía collages, translates photographs of comets, the moon, and solar eclipses into digital prints on translucent onion paper, then folded and adorned with red thread, a material signature to the artist. Images engaged originate from the archive of the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba, Argentina, the first astronomical observatory in the Southern Cone and, therefore, the place where the first images of outer space were registered from this part of the world.
Who ever thought I’d end up in a cul-du-sac, 2022
In Revising History Jennifer Greenburg replaces the central figure in a found mid-century negative with an image of herself, “playing them.” Performance and the labor of the artist’s hand are critical to creating seamless photographs. These works consider the pitfall of our desire to project idealism and prove individuality through aesthetics. They are a tongue-in-cheek way to examine how our own photographs reinforce cultural tropes.
I intend the series to engage the audience in a conversation about the way we interpret the media, record personal memories, and establish a collective history.
Each life converges to some centre 4
Billie Mandle’s Circumference work reflects depictions of the light in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom. Mandle returned time and again to this site of creativity to convey the atmosphere which invited a deep concentration and expansive poetry. This work is a meditation on how deep and vast journeys can be made within the space of one’s own mind.
I called the project Circumference, because it was a concept Dickinson relied on frequently in her writings; she used the word to evoke the boundary between the visible and invisible, the known and unknown."
Suess Glacier, Antarctica, 2019 - 2022
from Digital Landscapes series
Guggenheim fellow (2018) Ian van Coller has made glaciers a pillar of his study for nearly two decades. Fragile and rare, a few of these endangered landscapes have been reimagined. Distinct from the aesthetics of his straight photographs, and oversized artist’s books, van Coller’s digital landscapes employ such strategies as cropping, post-capture intervention, inversion, color sampling. These visual cues frequently relate to darkroom or digital capture, editing, or printing processes. This new aesthetic overwrites the natural. Soon the only record of these megaliths will be the digital archive.
Nuevo Mundo #4
Tatiana Parcero’s Nuevo Mundo #4 will hold tone for an expansive career and concepts presented as a whole in our booth. Parcero was pregnant when making works belonging to the Nuevo Mudo series. The sphere at the center overlaps the eye’s iris and is encircled by rings that recall both planetary orbits and atomic particles. This visual compression of macro-micro with a human eye is compelling. It is both a window to the soul and to the eternal. This photograph expands the conversation and reaches a universal plane. It has the provenance of being exhibited in a PST: Art show at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripp’s College and appears in the related Getty Published Catalog, Revolution & Ritual.
Manzanar War Relocation Center, 2018
Somewhere Out There, Something is Happening by Paul Turounet is a sweeping study of the physical places and psychological spaces of the contemporary American social landscape. Rendered as limited edition handmade artist’s books and prints, the work considers our inescapable history and whether what is past is a prologue of something happening now.
This nuanced body of work includes scenes the artist encountered in such settings as the remains of Manzanar War Relocation Camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II (featured on view), memorials for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, Orlando, FL, the rolling hills of Wounded Knee in Badlands, SD, and the forest of Philadelphia, MS where three Civil Rights champions met a tragic fate. Turounet’s practice seeks to honor the history of a place through reflection and remembrance. Image becomes artifact, which viewers may use to access and contemplate these same emotions and spaces.
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