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Please join photographers Ellen Carey, Luuk de Haan & Erin O'Keefe for an Artist Talk at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery on their respective alternative photography practices, currently featured in the gallery's group show "big nothing." Curated by Richard Caldicott, the exhibition includes selections from Carey's never-before-shown Zerogram series of photogram and paper negatives, de Haan's big nothing series, and Erin O'Keefe's Things as They Are series.
Ellen Carey, b. 1952 in New York, is an educator, independent scholar, guest curator, photographer and lens-based artist, whose unique, one-of-a-kind experimental work spans several decades. Carey has worked in a variety of cameras and formats, including Polaroid SX-70 and Polaroid PN film; b/w to color; 35mm, medium and large format. Her work has appeared in seminal exhibitions alongside the work of Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, and Robert Mapplethorpe, and has been the subject of 53 one-person exhibitions. Her work is in the permanent collections of over twenty photography and art museums, including George Eastman House, Rochester; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and most recently, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Luuk de Haan, b. 1964 in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, explores historical techniques wherein camera movement and light sources, designed in advance, as well as contemporary tools like software and digital drawing, determine shape and composition. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include group shows “Bergen Geestgrond,” “Inspiratie-kunst, kennis en natuur” and “Silence out Loud” (curated by Joost Zwagerman) at Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen; “Blind Date II” at Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht; and “Ways of the Imagination” at Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam. A group show with Richard Caldicott also opens in June at DIEHL CUBE, Berlin. Besides his photographic work, Luuk de Haan also composes music.
Erin O’Keefe, b. 1962 in Bronxville, NY, is a visual artist and an architect. Her work explores both the specific properties of photography and many of the material and theoretical concerns of architecture. She received her Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University. She is in conversation with a lineage of photographers from Florence Henri to Barbara Kasten to contemporaries who are also examining photography on an elemental level specific to the digital age. She was recently named one of Photo District News’ “30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch,” and she has been reviewed or featured in The New Yorker, Collector Daily, Huffington Post, and Paper Journal.
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is a contemporary New York-based exhibition space specializing in fine art photography and photo-based art. Located in SoHo, NY’s historic photo building at 560 Broadway, the gallery represents a wide range of emerging and established photographers.
In addition to its annual program of photography exhibitions, the gallery regularly hosts artist’s talks and lectures, publishes portfolio collections, photo books and exhibition catalogues, and participates in several top US art fairs, including Paris Photo LA, Art Miami, and Art on Paper.
Press coverage of the gallery’s exhibitions includes the New Yorker, L’Oeil de la Photographie, photograph magazine, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Photo Review, and TIME Lightbox, among others.
Founder and Director Corinne Tapia has over a twenty-year history as a photography curator, consultant and collector; actively collaborates in portfolio reviews on a global scale, including FotoFest (Houston), ICP (New York), Les Rencontres d’Arles (France) and FotoFilmic (Canada); and is dedicated to partnering with public and private institutions to further advance the exposure and careers of the photographers she represents.
