AIPAD - New York's Fine Art Photography Fair + FOOD: A Simple Cake

 Julie Blackmon's "Thin Mints", Robert Mann Gallery

 Julie Blackmon, "Thin Mints" (detail), Robert Mann Gallery

ART

AIPAD NYC 2014

"THE WORLD'S

LEADING FINE ART

PHOTOGRAPHY 

FAIR"

AIPAD's (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) 2014 Art Fair opened to great excitement at the Park Ave. Armory (643 Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets.) in the heart of Manhattan's upper east side. Visitors to the fair commented on the extraordinary range of photographic works on view and the warm atmosphere the Park Avenue Armory gives to this event. 

Collectors, major museum directors, curators, art dealers, business leaders as well as celebrities and the media know this annual show represents a collection of the best-in-the-world galleries dedicated exclusively to photographic techniques. Important and rare works of art were available.

Like all New York's art fairs, AIPAD was here for one short weekend, then the unsold masterpieces were dispersed back to their homes, around the world! 

Let us now enjoy some of the photographs featured in this interesting and different art fair.

Lee Marks Fine Art, Shelbyville, IN, USA

Alfred Eisenstaedt, "Shaker Village, Mass. 1974"
Galerie Johannes Faber

André Kertész, "Chez Mondrian, Paris" #11
neg. 1926, print. 1977, signed & dated
Michael Shapiro Gallery

André Kertész, "Satiric Dancer" Paris, 1926
Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago USA

Annie Leibovitz, "The Hudson River, New York" 1990
Archival Pigment Print, ed. of 40, 30" x 40", signed, Weinstein Gallery

Ansel Adams
"Magnetic Core Assembly, IBM Plant, Poughkeepsie"
The Weston Gallery, Inc., Carmel, CA, USA

Chinese Photographer Qin Wen
"Cattle Market - Three Gorges, Yangtze River Series" Hyperion Press Limited, NY

Charles Hewitt, "Salvador Dali" 1955
William L. Shaeffer Photographs

Chris Killip
"Rocker and Rosie Going Home" Seacoal Beach, Tynemouth, 1984
Eric Franck Fine Art, London

Edward Burtynsky, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NY

Elliot Ross, "Animal (11), 2007, ed. of 10
Alan Klotz Gallery

Joel Meyerowitz, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Josef Koudelka
"Hauts-de-Seine, Parc de Sceaux, France, 1987"
Eric Franck Fine Art, London 

Julia Fullerton-Batten
"The End of the Affair"
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA

Julia Fullerton-Batten photographer
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA

Jurgen Schadeberg
"Nelson Mandela in his Cell on Robben Island (Revisit)"
 Platinum Print, 20" x 24"
Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Kevin Cooley,
"Controlled Burn 1"
2013 ed. of 4, 40" x 60",
Kopeikin Gallery

Kevin Cooley,
"Controlled Burn 2"
2013 ed. of 4, 40" x 60",
Kopeikin Gallery

Marc Yankus
"Stairs Building"
Clamp Art

Martina Bacigalupo,
"Gulu Real Art Studio VI"
twelve found color prints, unique 1/1
Yossi Milo Gallery

Michael Macku (from Czech Republic)
PACI Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport, CT, USA

Photographer Unknown
"Mobile Air Raid Shelter" (before and after)
England, Daniel Blau Gallery

Richard Avedon
"Andy Warhol, New York City"
Gelatin Silver Print, 8" x 10"
Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, CA USA

Sharon Core, "1866"
from the series 1606-1907 (photo taken 2012)
edition of 7
Yancey Richardson Gallery

Stephen Wilkes
"Snow Covered Bridge, Guilin, China" 2005
ed. of 10,
Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Vik Muni
"The Desperate Man, After Courbet" 2007 (From Gordian Puzzles), edition of 6
David Zwirner

Wang Ningde
"Some Days No. 8"
Silver Gelatin Print, ed. of 10,
M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China

William Genaust (1907-1945)
"IWO JIMA FLAG-RAISING, 2-23-45"
printed in 1945
Daniel Blau Gallery

Zhang We
"Artificial Theater" 2012 ed.of 10,
798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China

(Source: All photographs in this issue were taken by ARTSnFOOD staff with the permission of the individual galleries and the AIPAD Fair Management. Photos are generally cropped-in some from the originals so are not exact renditions. All rights remain with the individual artist, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.)

FOOD

A Simple Cake!

If you want to give a real treat of a "from-scratch" cake as a present to your family, your office or a friend, go ahead and buy the boxed cake mix, but make these substitutions. 
- Use unsalted butter instead of oil
- Use milk instead of water
&
- Add a few extra drops of vanilla. 

Voila! "I knew you were coming so I baked a cake!"

Buttercream Icing 

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 
  

  Directions

  
  

- In large bowl, beat shortening and butter with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla.

- Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry.

- Gradually add milk; beat at medium speed until light and fluffy.

- For a thinner consistency, add 2 - 4 tablespoons light corn syrup, water or milk.

- For stiffer consistency, omit butter and substitute an additional 1/2 cup shortening and 1/2 teaspoon of Butter Flavoring. 

- Keep bowl with icing covered with a damp cloth until ready to use.

(Makes about 2 cups of icing.)

(Source: cake mix idea from a facebook friend, icing from Wilton's Cake Decorating blog)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2014 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

SoHo PHOTO Gallery Exhibits Mid-Career Artists and Emerging Artists + Tomato Soup & Crispy Brussels Sprouts

Alina Oswald, "Smoking Fields" Archival Pigment Print.
(cropped) © 2014 Alina Oswald
Shown as a part of the Juried Emerging Artists Exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery of SoHo PHOTO Gallery

ART
SoHo 
PHOTO 
Gallery
May 2014 Exhibition

On Tuesday, May 6th SoHo PHOTO Gallery had an opening for 5 mid-career artists (downstairs) and a group show of emerging artists (upstairs, in a grand experiment partnered with B&H Photo). 

In many ways photography has replaced painting as the most appreciated medium for two-dimensional fine art. All six exhibitions were interesting and diverse in their approach.

SoHo PHOTO Gallery at 15 White Street in Manhattan.
© 2014 Jack A. Atkinson

Editorial Comment: The juried emerging artist exhibition upstairs, showed only one photo for each new artist. I kept wanted to see more, at least 3 photos by each artist, to get a feeling for their technique and how they think. With only one photo each, when I found a print I enjoyed, I couldn't make a reasonable judgement on the artist's talent, only on the qualities of that individual photograph. The positive side of this equation is the "one-photo-each" restriction gave more artists access to the "packed crowd" at this gallery's opening.

A small fraction of the large crowd at the gallery's opening reception.
© 2014 Jack A. Atkinson

----- (1) People Walking Susan Bowen

“My work is always about motion; these images are part of an ongoing series on the topic of People Walking. Shot at various busy street corners in New York City, I like to record the swirl of activity around me. The vantage point is low; I am often sitting on the ground with a small tripod and rapidly capturing people as they walk by.” © 2014 Susan Bowen Susan Bowen, "People Walking #3544" fibre Rag Pigment Print © 2014 Susan Bowen

----- (2) Comforts of Home Allen Bryan

“The Comforts of Home series invites us into precarious places and unsettling living situations. Exteriors intrude into interiors through windows and doors left carelessly ajar. People are ghostly blurs or fragmented presences. The minute details of objects in these spaces give a glimpse into the past and present. These are figments of a world that isn’t as real as it looks at first glance and that question a comfortable reality.” Allen Bryan, Comforts of Home Series, "Reading Room" © 2014 Allen Bryan   ----- (3) Stairway to Paradise Joan Lebold Cohen “When I studied traditional Chinese paintings, I found the mountains and mists so unfamiliar that I assumed the artists imagined the subjects. Yet I knew that artists usually paint what they see. I sought out those places and was able to find the landscape they have immortalized. After more than forty years of photographing in Asia, I finally traveled to the remote rice terraces in southern China’s Guizhou province. There I found the lush green mountains with finely carved terraces filled with water reflecting a brilliant sky.” "Stairway to Paradise Series" © 2014 Joan Lebold Cohen Joan Lebold Cohen - cropped - "Stairway to Paradise Series" © 2014 Joan Lebold Cohen ----- (4) Dream Chasers Jean Nestares “I have been thinking about new ways to create pauses and silences where breath is held in my artistic world that has always been inspired by movement. In this series of natural images, untouched by any manipulation, I create the sensation of a double dimension by superimposing images on fabric and paper, creating the essence of the dream.”  Jean Nestares, "Dream Chasers Series", images on fabric and paper. © 2014 Jean Nestares  "Dream Chasers Series" © 2014 Jean Nestares ----- (5) Burma: A Strange and Subtle Secret Bruce Wodder “In my new photographic project, I explore the beauty of Burma through its people, and one spectacular cow.  This work covers much of the country and its indigenous people, including tribes from the remote Brown Zone. Ordinarily my personal work is shot on film using medium or large format to achieve the desired look. In this project, all the images are digital capture output to black & white.”  Bruce Wodder - cropped image - "Bamboo Raft Man", Inle Lake, Archival Pigment Print  © 2014 Bruce Wodder Bruce Wodder cropped image - "The Village Cow, Bagan" Archival Pigment Print,  © 2014 Bruce Wodder ----- © 2014 Jack A. Atkinson B&H Workshop (6) Emerging Artists  Juried Exhibition  In Upstairs Gallery This past October, the B&H Event Space partnered with Soho Photo Gallery to launch a grand experiment in photographic training: B&H’s new Portfolio Development Series offered participants a five-month curriculum of free classes and the opportunity to show qualifying work at the gallery. They attended critiques, kept generating new work and posting it to social media, built a website, and finally printed a mini-portfolio which was submitted to Soho Photo Gallery for a juried show. The selected and exciting approaches to photography represent the cream of that crop. Rafael Infante "One Life" (cropped) © 2014 Rafael Infante Alina Oswald  "Smoking Fields" Archival Pigment Print.  (cropped)  © 2014 Alina Oswald

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Soho PHOTO Gallery
15 White Street
New York, NY 10013
212.226.8571

Gallery Hours:

Wednesday - Sunday

1:00pm - 6:00pm

(and by appointment)

(Source: Photos taken at the opening by ARTSnFOOD staff, all photos retain the individual artist's copyright © 2014, text adapted from SoHo PHOTO Gallery's website.)

FOOD
TOMATO SOUP &
ROASTED BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Tomato & Onion Soup with Roasted Brussels Sprouts.
© 2014 Jack A. Atkinson

Tomato & Onion Soup

INGREDIENTS
3 stalks celery diced
2 large onions diced
1 large carrots diced
3 sweet red & yellow peppers diced
3 cloves garlic diced

3 6oz cans of diced tomatoes
1 32oz box of vegetable broth
1/2 cup kechup
Salt, Black Pepper and ground Chipotle Pepper.

DIRECTIONS
- Sauté in olive oil a mirepoix of diced: celery, onions, carrots, garlic and sweet peppers in the bottom of a large stock pot until soft and just beginning to brown (do not burn), stirring often.
- Add the diced tomatoes, put on lid and cook for 8 - 10 minutes (to bring out the sugars and sweeten the tomatoes) stirring often.
- Add the ketchup, stir in.
- Add the vegetable broth, stir and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Season to the soup to taste (start with 1/2 teaspoon each of Salt, Black Pepper and ground Chipotle Pepper - you can always add more).
- Process the soup in a blender, in batches, until creamy, no chunks. (Thickness of the soup is your preference, add vegetable broth if you want to thin.)
- Check one last time for seasoning and adjust as needed.

- This soup is good both hot and cold.
OR
- Serve, like onion soup, by putting pureed soup into in a small crock, with a cut round of toast and grated Swiss cheese on top.
- Then put all under the broiler until melted.
- Serve immediately.

Roasted Brussel Sprouts

INGREDIENTS
20 - 30 Brussels Sprouts (trimmed, cleaned and halved)
Pam spray oil, or coat in a bowl with extra virgin olive oil
Salt 
Black Pepper

DIRECTIONS
- Clean, trim and half all of the Brussels sprouts
- Peel some of the leaves off of each and add to the mix.
- Spread sprouts and leaves evenly onto a large 1/2" walled oven pan.
- Coat sprouts with Pam (or coat in a bowl with E.V. Olive Oil)
- Sprinkle the sprouts with some salt and pepper.
- Roast for 30 +/- minutes in a hot 400º oven (or a broiler for less time) 
- Check ever five minutes or so and stir until some charing occurs.
- Serve as a side dish. (Check for seasoning).

(Source: Original recipes from Atkinson Family Cookbook, Photo by Jack A. Atkinson)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2014 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.