I was thrilled (Jamie Kennedy may also have something to do with my excitement) this year to be asked to donate a piece to the annual Canadian Art Foundation benefit auction in conjunction with the Canadian Art Gallery Hop 2010. Check out the auction items available online here. The Gala Benefit Dinner and Auction will be held in Toronto on Sept. 23rd. 2010, tickets available here.

I am Lot 15 :)

15 Jessica Eaton
Spectrum 2, 2009
Archival pigment print, Edition 1/5
30” x 40”
Estimate: $1,600 framed

There is tons of great work donated this year - and I was going to list a top 10, but have decided to just pick one piece that should I suddenly find myself with the funds to do so, I WANT! Should the next few months be very kind to me - I will be bidding on LOT 32.

32 Monique Mouton
Untitled, 2009
Oil on wood panel
21” x 22.5”
Represented by Blanket Contemporary Art Inc.
Estimate: $2,700

Okay - I can’t resist! Doing my top 5. Collectors, gift givers….take note. WANT!!! (maybe the next few months will be REALLY KIND!)

LOT 13 Mark Dudiak

LOT 17 Sarah Graham

LOT 30 Niall McClelland

LOT 20 Kristan Horton

LOT 21 Geoffrey James

Thank you to the Canadian Art Foundation in general, this years art advisory committee for the interest in my work,  Toronto Image Works for printing my photograph and to Megan Kalaman for her patience and hard work.

© Sam Falls

Curated by Andrew Laumann

Nudashank is pleased to present Day Glow, an investigation into the stylistic variations and innovative processes of current contemporary photography. Day Glow is Nudashank’s first guest-curated exhibition.

Andrew Laumann is an artist based out of Baltimore, MD. His work was included in Table of Contents at Nudashank in March of 2010. Laumann has recently exhibited his work at Capricious space in Brooklyn, NY and runs Pent House Gallery located in the Norths Arts District of Baltimore, MD since 2009.

August 7 - August 28

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 7th
7 - 10 PM

Coley Brown
Jessica Eaton
Peter Sutherland
Sam Falls
Letha Wilson
Willa Nasatir

© Willa Nasatir / Jessica Eaton / Letha Wilson / Peter Sutherland

I am pleased to announce I will be a part of the Summer Group Show at Angell Gallery, Toronto, along with Bonnie Baxter, Derek Evans and Alex Kisilevich.

The exhibit opens this Thursday 6-9 pm and runs until August 21st, 2010. I hope you can make it out!

The exhibit received a bit of press. A review in the Montreal Gazette by Lori Callaghan:

SHEDDING NEW LIGHT ON PHOTOGRAPHY

And a nice little nod in the Montreal Mirror by Stacey Dewolfe:

WONDER AT PUSH

Most of all a giant thank you to Megan Bradley, PUSH director, who is wonderful.

The University of Amsterdam Alumni Magazine SPUI has used Quantum Pong 3 to accompany an article about gravity. As I practice a lot of pseudo science, it makes me pretty happy to be part of science science :) Now if only I could read what it says about gravity…

Big thanks to Mattmo Concept Design in Amsterdam for finding and including me!

Woman with Camera © Anne Collier

Yipee yeah to sources of funding for photography. For all the ladies this one is well worth applying to.

Women in Photography is pleased to announce the 2010 WIP- LTI / Lightside Individual Project Grant, funded by LTI / Lightside Photographic Services with guest judge Karen Irvine. The $3,000 grant award will provide funding to one female photographer to support project costs. In addition WIPNYC is excited to announce the 2010 WIP- LTI / Lightside Materials Grant, funded by Kodak. This grant provides $1000 in artists choice of Kodak materials and will be awarded to one female photographer.

For more details check out the Women in Photography site.

Giant kudos going out to LTI / Lightside Photographic services. I had the opportunity to work with the lab this year to make five exhibition prints. It is not likely I would have produced the prints in NYC, but through LTI’s ongoing relationship with the also great Humble Arts Foundation. I was directed there when LTI decided to donate a print and scan towards work exhibiting in the 31 Women in Art Photography exhibit. Donations of that sort are god sent - as any emerging photographer I am sure will tell you - and not having to deal with shipping another bonus, so I took them up on it and had them print my work for the HHS Showcase (currently taking submissions!!) at Jen Bekman as well.

Going into a lab you have never worked with is terrifying. I have no shortage of being less than satisfied with labs - and the more I exhibit and make certain kinds of work the more weight I am putting on the quality of final prints and my expectations. Printing my photographs causes me more stress and anxiety then any ideas of the better part of making the work, the parts about making the work. Ideas and exposures are easy. Perfect prints are not. It is here that LTI really impressed me. They were fantastic to work with and did an excellent job. I came to proof and stayed the entire day, every change I asked for was done without once making me feel panic and obsessive or that I was taking up too much of their time. One of the things I appreciated the most spending the day in there was that I also learned a thing or two. I expect whoever is doing my exhibition prints to know more about printing and file management than I do but despise anything happening to my images I might not understand or be aware of, I am starting to demand things of labs but at LTI I didn’t have to. Thanks to everyone at the lab, extra special thanks to Jeffrey Kane who facillitated everything and to Andrej Tur for printing. I eagerly wait for the day I am able to afford to have a single constant relationship with a lab. In the future I will be doing my exhibition printing on visits to NYC.

GALERIE PUSH 372 SAINTe catherine ouest / suite 425 / MONTRÉAL QC

Opening tonight as part of Design Montréal.

Tons of great work! Check out the auction page on the website. See you tonight!