jb in Art in America’s May Issue

jen bekman is featured in the May issue of Art in America. Journalist Stephen Maine’s Report from New York: Down East is a round-up of Manhattan’s Lower East Side galleries. He describes it as a “mecca for independent, highly innovative new galleries.”

Here’s a snippet from what he has to say about jen bekman:

“Hey, Hot Shot” is the name of the quarterly four day long exhibition of 10 emerging photographers that Jen Bekman mounts in her diminutive storefront gallery on Spring Street just west of the Bowery. The shows allow Bekman a highly structured way to make contact with new artists, a favorite aspect of her work. The currently popular “poetic snapshot” esthetic is well represented among the photographers she works with including Tema Stauffer, Dana Miller and Eliot Shepard.

Bekman… opened the gallery in March of 2003 with an emphasis on photography and an eye on the future New Museum location. Eschewing intellectual obscurities, she takes an unencumbered, “populist” approach to marketing her artists.