Foto Relevance at Photo London 2020 | Foto Relevance

(SEPTEMBER 24, 2020) — Foto Relevance is thrilled to announce our participation in the Picture London 2020 digital art good hosted on Artsy from October 7th via 18th. Now in it’s sixth calendar year, Photograph London offers an eclectic selection of classic will work together with groundbreaking contemporary images from close to the planet. Image London Electronic will be the world’s initial global on the net pictures good, showcasing an fascinating team of galleries from the United kingdom, Europe, the US, and Asia.

Foto Relevance’s on the web booth will element alternatives from gallery artists Deborah Bay, Brenda Biondo, Karen Navarro, JP Terlizzi, Robert Langham, and Margeaux Walter 6 photographers whose styles range noticeably within the style of present-day images-primarily based get the job done. Just about every unique artist generates do the job in a distinctive fashion, ranging from conventional media put together with non-standard subjects, as in the typical silver gelatin and cyanotype prints of Robert Langham, to procedures which benefit from the physical deconstruction of photographs and their re-development as 3D visual objects. In this curated range, each and every artist revisits genres of continue to-daily life, portraiture, and performance in techniques that consciously develop the boundaries of images.

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Deborah Bay is a Houston artist who specializes in constructed studio photography. Her get the job done is in the collection of the Museum of High-quality Arts Houston, the Heart for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and the Dorsky Museum of Artwork at Point out College of New York at New Paltz. Her perform was acknowledged in the Texas Countrywide 2018, and she was a finalist for Artadia Houston 2015. Despite the fact that she skipped currently being a native Houstonian by a few months, she grew up right here, and after a hiatus in Austin, returned in the 1990s. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.

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Brenda Biondo (American, b. 1963) is a photographer whose function focuses on made abstractions, conservation and land-dependent problems, and the way cultural artifacts transfer from the past into the present. The emphasis of her most latest function is atmospheric light-weight and shade. Created applying easy processes relying on classic digital camera techniques, the operate explores the function standard pictures can continue to engage in in developing new visions of popular topics, though tough viewers’ notion of colour and 3-dimensional area.

Brenda’s perform has been exhibited in shows all through the nation and printed in various print and on the internet publications, including The Wall Avenue Journal, The Washington Put up, The Denver Postand Lenscratch. Her photographs are in the collections of the Library of Congress, the San Diego Museum of Artwork, the Museum of Photographic Arts and several firms and private collectors. A solo show of her do the job opened at the San Diego Museum of Artwork in 2017. Her guide of photographs, When On a Playground, was printed by the College Press of New England in 2014 and is now the matter of a five-12 months traveling show organized by ExhibitsUSA.

The daughter of a professional photographer/art director, Brenda grew up surrounded by images and has been making photos for extra than 30 many years. Ahead of beginning her vocation as a good artwork photographer, Brenda labored for a decade in corporate and non-revenue communications in NYC and Washington DC, and then expended nine several years as a freelance writer specializing in environmental difficulties. A native New Yorker, she’s been a resident of Colorado given that 1999, and at this time life in the small city of Manitou Springs, in which the gentle and landscape proceed to encourage her get the job done.

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Robert Langham life in Tyler, Texas, in the exact brick-street neighborhood wherever he was lifted. Until not too long ago, he labored in the exact same darkroom at The Tyler Junior College the place he has taught for 40 years. His artwork is finished on film, utilizing substantial structure cameras and a regular “wet” darkroom. Mr. Langham’s do the job is in various museums, which include The Harry Ransom Middle, the Museum of Fantastic Arts, Houston, the Museum of Southeast Texas at Beaumont, the Grace Museum in Abilene, the Tyler Museum of Art, the Rauschenberg Collection, the Comer Selection, and quite a few private collections.

As an assistant at the Ansel Adams studios in Yosemite, Langham honed his skill at interpreting landscape imagery as expressed in his “Shiprock, New Mexico” pictures. He is also really considerably a naturalist and environmentalist. His hometown, Tyler, is in the Blackfork Creek watershed, higher in the Neches River drainage. His “Blackfork Bestiary” series (a bestiary is an ancient scientific catalog of animals) is a portfolio of dwell animals and insects from this Blackfork Creek ecosystem, are photographed in a very non-standard fashion and composition. All these critters (from black-widow spiders and poisonous snakes to possums and frogs) are then properly launched back into character. Langham is not afraid to experiment with staging non-standard photographic subjects. In his “still-life” work, “Magic and Logic”, he makes what he refers to as a “kinetic still lifetime.” He reinterprets what we believe of as a conventional however everyday living do the job with motion and fiction carried out in digital camera without the need of write-up-processing trickery. “Magic & Logic” demonstrates how he worships the thriller of goals and tips that locate their way into a tangible development. He marvels at how, as a result of all of humankind’s timeline, that everything out of mother nature that was made, developed, or produced, that we see, contact or come to feel, was after only a thought that arose from someone’s desire or imagination. Robert Langham is one of the most unique photographers performing in black & white film-based imagery nowadays.

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Karen Navarro is an Argentine-born multidisciplinary artist living and doing work in Houston. Navarro is effective on a numerous array of mediums that consists of images, collage, and sculpture. Her picture-based operate facilities close to the matter of id, self-illustration, and belonging. Qualified as a trend designer and photographer, Navarro analyzed at the College of Buenos Aires and finished the certificate plan in photography at the Houston Middle for Pictures. Her created portraits are recognised for the use of shade concept, surreal scenes, and minimalist information. In 2018, Navarro was the receiver of the Glassell University of Artwork scholarship from the Museum of Good Arts Houston and most not too long ago she has been given the Artadia fellowship 2019. Her do the job has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Picked shows include the Modern Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), United states of america Galerija Upuluh, Zagreb, Croatia Lawndale Art Heart, Houston, United states Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Usa Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Houston Middle for Images, Houston, United states and Museo de la Reconquista, Tigre, Argentina. Navarro’s perform has been showcased in several publications, which include ARTnews, Generate! Magazine, Observer, Place Journal, Aint—Bad, Lenscratch, and Vogue Italia.

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Margeaux Walter was born in Seattle, Washington and currently life and works in New York Town. She acquired her MFA from Hunter College or university in 2014 and her BFA from NYU’s Tisch Faculty of the Arts in 2006. At present she is the recipient of the Sony Alpha Feminine Award (2020). Walter has been given multiple honors from the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, HeadOn Photo Pageant, Photolucida, Prix de la Photographie Paris, Worldwide Images Awards, and other organizations. She has been awarded artist-in-residence packages at Montalvo Arts Center, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Marble Dwelling Venture, VCCA, Pink Gate Gallery in Beijing and BigCi in Bilpin, Australia (Environmental award).

Walter has participated in dozens of exhibitions at institutions these types of as MOCA in Los Angeles, CA, Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ, The Heart for Photography in Woodstock, NY, Montalvo Arts Middle in Saratoga, CA, Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, CA, Tacoma Artwork Museum in Tacoma, WA, and the Griffin Museum of Images in Winchester, MA. Her function has been showcased in publications like The New York Moments, New York Publish, Seattle Moments, Boston World, and Blouin Artwork Info. Walter’s operate is centered all-around the fragility of id, and the job that images plays in our capacity to keep in mind and generate a self-image. She navigates a entire world of surveillance cameras, drones, social media, ‘smart’ phones, and facial recognition software package, in a constant struggle with both of those visibility and invisibility.

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JP Terlizzi (American, b. 1962) is a New York Metropolis photographer whose up to date observe explores themes of memory, marriage, and id. His illustrations or photos are rooted in the particular and seriously affected all around the notions of property, legacy, and loved ones. He is curious how the previous relates and intersects with the current and how that impacts and designs one’s id.

Terlizzi’s work has been exhibited greatly in galleries and museums nationally, together with reveals at The Heart for Good Artwork Images, Vicki Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver, The Griffin Museum, Tilt Gallery, Panopticon Gallery, Candela Gallery, The Los Angeles Heart of Images, College Gallery at Cal Poly, and The Berlin Foto Biennale, Berlin, Germany, amid other individuals. His solo reveals include displays at Foto Relevance Gallery (August, 2020) The Rhode Island Middle for Photographic Arts, Cameraworks Gallery (Portland, OR) and Soho Photo Gallery (New York, NY). His perform has been showcased in PDN, Pictures Magazine, Yogurt Magazine (Italy), Mono Chroma Magazine, Image Emphasis, All About Picture, L’oeil de la Photographie, The Image Evaluation, F-Quit and Abridged Magazine (Ireland). Terlizzi holds a BFA in Interaction Style and design at Kutztown College of PA, and has researched pictures at equally the Global Middle of Photography in New York and Maine Media Faculty in Rockport, ME.

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Because 2016, Foto Relevance cofounders Geoffrey C. Koslov and Bryn Larsen have focused on the exhibition and acquisition of museum-high-quality, modern fantastic art photography and photography-primarily based operate. Foto Relevance is devoted to supplying a platform for an ground breaking collection of American and intercontinental photographic artists pushing the boundaries of pictures. In addition to advertising the function of artists, Foto Relevance supplies assistance, educating personal collectors and companies in the acquisition and sale of art. Foto Relevance is a member of the Houston Art Gallery Affiliation (HAGA). The gallery is found in the historic Museum District in Houston, Texas in close proximity to the Museum of High-quality Arts, Houston, the Menil Assortment, and the Houston Middle for Images.

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