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Orchidaceae: Photographs by Frazier King
April 17, 2008 – June 21,
2008
Opening Reception, Thursday,
April 17, 6-8 pm
Photographic Process Demonstration and Lecture, Saturday, May 3, 1-3pm
In collaboration with FOTOFEST2008, the Museum of
Printing History is pleased to present Orchidaceae by Houston
photographer Frazier King. Through the experience of raising orchids,
Frazier King opens a window into their transformative blossoms, which embody
anthropomorphic qualities. The prints in Orchidaceae reveal an
intimacy akin to human sensuality.
Self-trained as a photographer, King uses his skills to
give his subjects, inanimate or otherwise, a voice, life and world of their
own. The artist states, “Each orchid lives in its own world and invites me to
join it there. Each orchid asks to be photographed in its own way. I merely
listen and follow the instructions of each.”
Using a large format camera, the artist re-creates the
environment of each individual orchid onto Polaroid film. Each negative is then solarized (a technique used by artists such as Man Ray) and then printed on
silver gelatin paper and toned with selenium. Don't miss Frazier's
Photographic Process Demonstration on Saturday, May 3. In addition to a short
lecture, the artist will demonstrate this alternative photographic process.
Frazier King’s photographs have been exhibited in solo and
group shows around the United States, Europe and Latin America. King’s work has
been included in several publications. His work may be found in numerous public
and private collections around the world.
The Museum of Printing History is funded in part by
grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. The Museum of Printing History also wishes to thank
Houston Center for Photography and Lee Murdock
of Orchid Express and Leasing.
Additional images may be
viewed on the artist's website at http://www.frazierking.net/ | |
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Houston Architectural
Trilogy: Photography of Valentin Gertsman
April 24, 2008 – July 19, 2008
Opening
Reception & Book Signing, Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 6:00-8:00 pm
The Museum of
Printing History is pleased to present Houston Architectural
Trilogy: Photography of Valentin Gertsman. This exhibition will
appear at Houston’s Museum of Printing History from April 24, 2008 –
July 19, 2008. On display in Houston Architectural Trilogy
will be selected photographs from Dr. Gertsman’s Houston
Architectural Ballade (2000), Philip Johnson in Houston:
Image and Imagination (2006), and Construction Site = Art
(2007). All books from the trilogy will be for sale at the Opening
Reception. Proceeds will benefit the Museum of Printing History.
Gerald Moorhead, FAIA, and editor of all three books will deliver a
brief lecture at 6:30pm.
The exhibition
will feature new photographs just published in Construction Site
= Art. This book contains one hundred twelve fine-art
photographs based on eleven projects of construction of buildings
and other structures in Houston. The photographs were taken over a
period of twenty-two years (1985 – 2007). This book also features a
preface by the author, and essays by Dr. Kristian Feigelson, Ann
Holmes, Rev. Janusz A Ihnatowicz, Gerald Moorhead, FAIA, Barrie
Scardino, and Tadd Tellepsen.
Dr. Valentin L.
Gertsman was born in Moscow, Russia in 1925 and has lived in Houston
since 1974. He developed a special interest in art from an early
age, but only in 1981, parallel to his medical career, did he begin
to exhibit his sculpture and photography. His work has been shown
across the United States and Europe. Gertsman’s photographs may be
found in public and private collections including Museum Ludvig,
Cologne, Germany; the Collection of the Vatican; Bibliotheque
National, France; Tretiacov State Art Gallery and the State Pushkin
Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia; and the Menil Collection and The
Museum of Fine Art, Houston. Gertsman’s photographs have appeared in
many publications, including Zoom; Southwest Art Magazine,
USA; Traverses and Frank, Paris, France; Society,
Monte Carlo, Monaco; New Russia and Real Estate
International Magazine, Moscow, Russia; Die
Tageszeitung, Berlin, Germany; and Houston Magazine,
Houston Style, The Houston Post, and Houston
Chronicle.
This exhibition is funded in part by Hines, Tellepsen Builders, Spring Branch Medical
Center, Dr. Steven Guilliams, Brenda Cook Cialone, and Jenya Harrison. The Museum of Printing History is funded in
part by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts
Alliance.
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Altered Portraits of the Childhood Cancer Experience
March 13, 2008 - May 31, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 13, 4:00-7:00 pm
In conjunction with FOTOFEST2008, this exhibit represents a
collaboration between the Children's Cancer Hospital at the University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Artful Happenings), Writers in the Schools, and the
Houston Center for Photography.
What children experience during cancer
treatment is very powerful. The process of creating art and writing
is in itself therapeutic because it stimulates imagination and
facilitates expression of feelings. Transforming their experiences
into art is healing and happens naturally for children. The Creative
Arts Program of the Children's Cancer Hospital at M.D. Anderson
worked collaboratively with the Houston Center for Photography and
the Writers in the Schools to provide children with cancer, their
siblings, and young adult survivors of childhood cancer the
opportunity to explore the process of transformation through
photography, art, and writing. The young artists photographed one
another, imaginatively altered the images with various media, and
wrote about their transformations in this intriguing exhibit.
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