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Best In Show: Ennid Berger at the Long Island Biennial

posted on July 27, 2010 by Jason Quincy

As part of its 90th Anniversary Celebration, the Heckscher Museum of Art's inaugural Long Island Biennial is launching this weekend at its Huntington, NY outpost. Running from July 31 to September 26, the juried exhibition presents a broad range of current creative practice, featuring 44 contemporary artists living in Suffolk and Nassau Counties of Long Island, NY. The selection of works on view were rigorously narrowed from more than 250 applications by an esteemed panel of art world tastemakers, including Dr. Isabelle Dervaux, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at The Morgan Library and Museum, Renato Danese of Danese Gallery, New York, and Richard Lippe, collector of American art, Long Island.

Prints995 contributor Ennid Berger is represented among the 44 artists, and has already taken home the honor of Best In Show this past weekend for her 28"x38" work, Construction (Singapore), 2008 (above). The high-detail digital photograph will also be joining the permanent collection of the National Association of Women Artists' at the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University following its run at the Heckscher Museum, which means that if you can't swing by the Biennial during your late summer jaunt to Huntington's end of Long Island, you at least know that the work has a permanent home.

Scroll below to view a selection of Berger's high-speed black and white offerings from Prints995, or for more information on the Heckscher Museum of Art and the Long Island Biennial, visit the site here.

Stills From A Film: see//eat

posted on July 26, 2010 by Jason Quincy

Conceived and produced by New York City-based artist Katie Shelly, see//eat belongs to a series of multimedia works chronicling the fictional exploits of two extraplanetary kings during a brief stay on earth. Their narrative is documented across two boroughs in alternating forms spanning video performance and animation, street art forms and photography. In the words of the artist, 'these strange protagonists find opportunity for solace and mediation in unusual spaces across New York City':

"They first appeared in photos that I shot in a remote area of the southern Brooklyn shore, again in a collaged video of psychadelic imagery, and again in drawn form as glittery stickers across the [new york city] subway system."

"Their vibe is mysterious and calm. They're these secretive, otherworldly visitors to Earth that humans have observed and documented, but ultimately cannot understand."

Check out additional photographs from the series on Katie's Flickr, or view see//eat in its entirety on Vimeo

Found | see//eat

posted on July 13, 2010 by Jason Quincy

see//eat from katie shelly on Vimeo.

A Slow Storm

posted on July 10, 2010 by Jason Quincy

Over at GOOD online, associate editor Patrick James and Prints995 photographer Michael Koehler ruminate on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the cult of the water, and Koehler's recent project to document American heroes on the front lines of the relief effort. View the full article and additional images at the Picture Show at GOOD online.