Personism

links for 2006-12-31

• Home Sweet Home Jr. - WSJ.com
  Surreal and icky consumerism gone mad. (Via Rob Walker/Murketing.)
  (tags: consumerism housing surreal)
• the kim family benefit art + craft auction
  Beautiful hand made items auctioned off to benefit the family of James Kim. I've been thinking about the family a lot during the holiday season - can't get the sadness of it all out of my mind.
  (tags: benefit auction crafts art)

links for 2006-12-28

• http://fifteenthirty.com/
  Photography by Dylan Chatain. He's got tons of amazing new work up that I hadn't seen yet - thanks to Raul for the pointer. (Dylan was a Hot Shot in 2005, has shown at the gallery several times and has a piece up in the jen@joe on 13th St.
  (tags: photography photo heyhotshot jen@joe nyc)

links for 2006-12-25

• Gender Pay Gap, Once Narrowing, Is Stuck in Place - New York Times
  Largely without notice, however, one big group of women has stopped making progress: those with a four-year college degree. The gap between their pay and the pay of male college graduates has actually widened slightly since the mid-’90s.
  (tags: women gender economy)
• iAN BAGUSKAS Photography
  Ian was just selected for the HHS! ne plus ultra Annual that's opening on January 24th, and he's now represented by the gallery. And he's awesome.
  (tags: photography photo heyhotshot jenbekman bekman gallery)
• joe's nyc
  Joseph O. Holmes: a Hot Shot, an Ultra and now represented by the gallery. The Hey, Hot Shot! ne plus ultra Annual opens on January 24.
  (tags: photography photo heyhotshot jenbekman bekman gallery)
• Saying Yes to Mess - New York Times
  I say: yes, Yes, YES!
  (tags: organization people creativity)
• Alison Grippo | Photography
  Alison is an Ultra! A hot shot! A nice and amusing person! The Hey, Hot Shot! ne plus ultra Annual opens on January 24, 2006. Alison is in it.
  (tags: heyhotshot photo photography b+w gallery bekman jenbekman)

links for 2006-12-22

• everyday/celebrity - a photoset on Flickr
  Noah Kalina's awesome b+w self portraits w. celebrities.
  (tags: noahkalina heyhotshot b+w photo photography celebrities funny)
• He Oughta Be in Pictures - Celebritology
  Noah is interviewed on a WaPo blog about his latest project and talks about how he did it. (I liked it better when it was all seekrit and I was trying to figure out how the hell he made it happen. Sigh.)
  (tags: noahkalina heyhotshot photo photography press celebrities)

links for 2006-12-21

• New at Pentagram
  Pentagram has a blog. (via Kottke.)
  (tags: blogs design branding identity)
• Daniel Lemay of St. Mark's Church Christmas Tree Stand -- New York Magazine
  These are the people I buy Christmas trees from every year, always a Fraser, although I don't have one yet. Is it too late to get one? I can't decide.
  (tags: christmas nyc style consume)
• PRC anniversary show - Arts - The Phoenix
  Article in The Phoenix, Boston's alt. weekly, about the exhibition I am jurying for the Photographic Resource Center.
  (tags: photography photo competition jenbekman press)

Dreier Project Debuts @ The jb Tomorrow

As a holiday treat to myself (and in the vain hope of catching up on all those emails, projects and proposals long overdue) I am handing over the care + feeding of the gallery to The Dreier Project from tomorrow til mid-January. I'll be at the opening tomorrow evening, naturally, but aside from that I am making my self scarce for a few weeks.

The Girl's Room was curated by Chloe Derderian and is the inaugural exhibition for The Dreier Project. I am deeply ambivalent about the title of the show, and Chloe knows that - we talked about it a whole lot beforehand. I am excited about the show itself though - there's a lot of great work in the exhibition and the jb family is well represented: Mara Bodis-Wollner, Dana Miller, Youngna Park, Tema Stauffer and Alice Wells all have work included in the show. So, come check it out!

The Girl's Room
presented by The Dreier Project

Opening Reception:
Wed Dec 20 | 6pm-8pm
Exhibition on view through Jan 13, 2006

jen bekman
6 Spring St
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
NYC 10012

Featuring the work of: Aiyana Udesen | Alice Wells | Alika Cooper
Amy Rice | Amy Ross | Bianca Buchanan | Candace Gottschalk
Caroline Hwang | Carol Tessitore | Chloé Derderian | Christa Donner
Dana Miller | Dee Dee Cheriel | Elizabeth Huey | Esther Pearl Watson
Esther Sanchez | Jacqueline Bovit | Jacqueline Di Milia | Kate and Camilla
Katrin Reifeiss | Kelly Ording | Lily Gilbert | Mara Bodis-Wollner
Mari Dogami | Maya Hayuk | Misaki Kawai | Monica Canilao
Pearl C Hsiung | Rachel Salomon | Robin Cameron | Stephanie Davidson
Swoon | Tema Stauffer | Ye Rin Mok | Youngna Park

Download the Press Release

links for 2006-12-14

• Brooklyn Ramblings: How to Be a New Yorker: 1964 Edition
  ...you have people up to your apartment, give them a drink and call out, "There he goes now - isn't he beautiful!" (via The Morning News)
  (tags: nyc funny 60s)

links for 2006-12-13

• Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » An interview with HS Joe Fornabaio
  What initiated your committed romance with photography? Boredom and a very smart high school teacher.
  (tags: heyhotshot photography photo interviews)
• Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » An interview with HS Sasha Rudensky
  What do you find to be the biggest cliche in photography these days? Sullen portraits of upper-middle class young people staring at the camera
  (tags: heyhotshot interviews photography photo)

links for 2006-12-12

• youngna.com | youngna: 1565 of 1565
  YP interviews herself, or more accurately, gathers up reader questions and answers them in one fell swoop. Questions and answers: both rather amusing.
  (tags: interviews photography photoblogs heyhotshot yp photographers)
• PublicSquare: Painless Publishing
  Possible CMS solution? via matthowie

links for 2006-12-11

• Cool Tool: Blurb * Lulu
  Comparison of on demand publishing sites. Via David Gallagher. We are using Blurb for the HHS! Yearbook, due in mid-January.
  (tags: blurb books design photography)
• Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » An interview with Hot Shot Mette Mærsk
  The interviews continue. Mette is coming all the way from Denmark to attend the opening reception!
  (tags: heyhotshot photo photography interviews gallery jenbekman)
• Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » An interview with HS Shen Wei
  Unsurpsingly, Shen's self portrait is awesome.
  (tags: heyhotshot interviews photo photography gallery jenbekman)
• Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » An interview with HS Victoria Rich
  Victoria is devoted to her Rollei. Enjoys figs and kale.
  (tags: heyhotshot interviews photography photo gallery jenbekman)
• The Graphic Glass Ceiling
  I have resisted re-entering the fray on this subject, but Michael Bierut's post about women and design's celebrity system is interesting. "Because the issue isn't about talent, or ability, or accomplishment. It's about celebrity."
  (tags: design women)
• Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » An interview with HS Joseph Holmes
  What I find fascinating is that, even though I can’t warm up to Lee Friedlander’s work, though I just can’t get on his wavelength, the longer I see his stuff, the more I’m finding that he influences me. What’s that about?
  (tags: heyhotshot photo photography interviews)
• Shen Wei Photographs
  Gorgeous portraits. Amazing how Shen is able to put his incredibly diverse subjects at ease and coax just the best stuff out of that. Fall 2006 Hey, Hot Shot! winner, so nice to have his work in my gallery!
  (tags: photo photography heyhotshot)