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jen@joe Reception This Sunday

As patient Personism readers know, the gallery keeps me very very busy. I just sent out a big update to my mailing list and figured I'd cross-post it here to show you just how busy! (For those avid Jen followers out there who read all my announcements + blogs, God knows there are zillions of you, sorry for the dull repetition...)

Spring @ jen bekman (and elsewhere too!)

jen@joe Reception *this* Sunday (4/30)
Enjoy some delicious coffee at the jen@joe reception this Sunday (April 30) at Joe on 13th St. | Addie Juell's show gets held over til May 6 (next Saturday) | Our greatest hits are coming back to the gallery for a limited time only, starting on May 11 | Hey, Hot Shot! heats up for Spring | The gallery blogs: updated daily | An amazing Summer group exhibition, Meditations in an Emergency, glimmers on the horizon.
Read on for details!

jen@joe reception THIS Sunday (4/30) 2pm-4pm
jen bekman and Joe are pleased to present jen@joe: a revolving selection of photographs from jen bekman artists exhibited at Joe, the award-winning pair of coffee shops.
Jen and Joe proprietor Jonathan Rubinstein will host a reception to officially launch jen@joe this Sunday, April 30th, from 2-4 PM:

Joe
9 East 13th St. (between Fifth Ave + University)

Stop by for tasty treats compliments of Joe, delcious coffee + some arty chit-chat.

Currently on view at the 13th Street Joe shop are photos by Martin Amis, Kelli Anderson, Dylan Chatain, James Deavin, Joseph Holmes, Florianne de Lassee, Diane Meyer, Youngna Park, Tema Stauffer and Matthew Tischler.

More Monkey Business: Addie Juell Extended
Addie Juell's exhibition The Way It Is has been extended through next Saturday, May 6, 2006.

If you've resigned yourself to missing this most excellent exhibition, you've got a second chance! Seeing these photos in person is approximately a million times better than looking at them online, so come on down...

The jb's Greatest Hits
After three years and dozens of exhibtions, we've got a lot of fabulous work in our archives, so we decided to take some time out of our busy schedule to re-show some of our greatest hits.

From May 10 - June 3, the gallery is going to take a little walk down memory lane.

We'll have work on view from all of our previous solo exhibitions, as well as fresh stuff from artists new to the represented artists roster. I get a little misty-eyed just thinkng about it.

Hey, Hot Shot!, Gallery Blogs + More
In other gallery news, the deadline for the Spring edition of Hey, Hot Shot! is fast approaching. You have until Monday May 8 @ noon to submit your entry.

Also, do check out our often updated gallery blogs, manned by our able interns. Christine is posting regularly to the jen bekman news blog and Anna is filling the Hey, Hot Shot! blog with lots of updates from previous winners, photo news and competition announcements.
Last but not least, we're very excited about our upcoming Summer show, Meditations in an Emergency, an exhibition based on Frank O'Hara's excellent poem by the same name. More detailed information about that show is coming soon.

High Society, Dahling

Page 14 of the April 26, 2006 edition of the New York Sun featured photos of the SVA Mentors dinner. And who is right smack in the middle? Why it's little 'ol me. It's not Page Six, but a girl's gotta start somewhere.

The dinner was at the The Modern (the restaurant in MoMA), hosted by the always dashing Stephen Frailey, the SVA Photography Dept. Chair (and a Hey, Hot Shot! panelist). It was a lot of fun, especially since I got to sit with the most excellent Tim Barber, photographer + curator of Tiny Vices fame.

The Mentors' Show @ SVA's gallery closes tomorrow (so quick!) It includes work from my excellent mentee Nick Fevelo, and from Jake Rowland, who is a previous winner of the Hey, Hot Shot! competition. For more information check out the SVA Mentors site.

Special thanks to the ever-lovely La Lux for scanning the NY Sun page so I could show it to my mama. (And all of you.)

How to Draw a Bunny

I meant to post about How to Draw a Bunny eons ago, right after my TiVo picked it out for me on the Sundance channel, but my bloggy intentions went astray as they so often do.That said, not writing about doesn't mean that I haven't kept thinking about it - it was so great and fascinating and I blabbed on and on about it to anyone who would listen for weeks on end.

Recently, photographer Raul Guttierez blogged about photographer Andrew Moore's Russia series on his very fine Heading East blog, which got me thinking about the film again since Andrew was the producer and DP.

How to Draw a Bunny tells the story of artist Ray Johnson, the incredibly prolific collagist who is well know for his mail art project, Correspondence School.*

The documentary has a lot of great interviews, but what really made it shine was how well-curated it was. Johnson left a lot behind when he died under mysterious circumstances in 1995 - a whole houseful that he'd squirreled away, in addition to everything he'd put out into the world during his prolific career. I can't even imagine the task of sifting through it all and distilling it enough to tell his story, but Moore and director John W. Walter did exactly that.

* This is a brief, lazy, grossly under-simplified synopsis - which is why you should watch the documentary!

Pardon Our Dust!

If you're reading Personism via RSS, sorry for all the new posts showing up when in fact I have not, you know, written any new ones lately.

Thanks to a helpful behind the scenes crew, we're moving to a different host and upgrading our version WordPress and also changing how things look and getting all Web2.0 and what not. We're in the home stretch now.
One day soon there will actually be some new posts, for real. (Perhaps tomorrow even!) I have SO MUCH to say. I'm just saving it.