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Out my Window, Vis à Vis Elene Usdin: Femmes d`intérieur
Press Release Exhibition: 03.31 – 05.02.2015 Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015, from 6pm to 9pm, the artists will be present Gail Albert Halaban: Out my Window, Vis à Vis Elene Usdin: Femmes d’intérieur Two women photographers show their new work at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff! Gail Albert Halaban, Out my Window (in New York) and Vis-à-Vis (in Paris) Elene Usdin, Femmes d’intérieur Far from being a paparazza, the American artist Gail Albert Halaban invites herself in the intimacy of the inhabitants of New York or Paris - an elegant way to draw the portraits of theses two major cities and those who live there. The approach of the artist is to get in contact with the individuals she photographs through the phone book. Most of the time, they accept and allow Gail Albert Halaban to create links between those neighbors we usually only observe out the window or simply meet in the lobby. Staged, these pictures evolve from landscapes into genre scenes and into portraits. Small theaters where the light is on and where individuals paused in the banality of their everyday life: the kids are taking their bath, we prepare our meals, watch television, or just dream at the window - all stories the photographer lets us imagine the end. The series Femmes d’intérieur by Elene Usdin only includes unicas, painted by hand on the photography. The artist, who is an illustrator and a visual artist as well as a photographer, reinterprets famous paintings from the history of classical or modern art (by Raphael, Ingres, Schiele, Balthus etc), all portraits of women painted by men. These figures of the past, princesses or muses, now pose as cut-out silhouettes within a domestic environment, modern and mundane. They seem to merge with the furniture, in a feminist discourse by an artist who is constantly thinking about the representation of women through her work. Publications: Vis à Vis - Photographs by Gail Albert Halaban, forewords by Cathy Rémy 375 x 285 mm - 128 pages - 55 euros Editions La Martinière Stories - Photographs by Elene Usdin, forewords by Isabelle Blondie 240 x 330 mm - 96 pages - 28 euros Editions Contrejour For any inquiries, please contact Sabine Guédamour by email at [email protected] or by phone at +33 9 51 51 24 50 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 1 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff Press images Gail Albert Halaban, Baby at Window, 2008, Out my Window series Archival pigment print, 50,8 x 61 cm, edition of 10 or 101,6 x 127 cm, edition of 5 Gail Albert Halaban, Ballet, 2008, Out my Window series Archival pigment print, 50,8 x 61 cm, edition of 10 ou 101,6 x 127 cm, edition of 5 The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up to three months after the end date of the exhibition. Obligatory mention: © Gail Albert Halaban, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 2 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff Press images Elene Usdin, Sylvie d’après Bronzino, Femmes d’intérieur series Archival pigment print with acrylic paint, 47 x 70 cm, unica Elene Usdin, Garance d’après Raphaël, Femmes d’intérieur series Archival pigment print with acrylic paint, 47 x 70 cm, unica The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up to three months after the end date of the exhibition. Obligatory mention: © Elene Usdin, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 3 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff Biography Artist Gail Albert Halaban Born in 1970, in Washington, American artist Gail Albert Halaban studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the University of Yale. Working as a commercial photographer, she also creates a personal work in the form of series that question the landscape and society. Long fascinated by the work of painter Edward Hopper, she returns to the scene painted by the artist in her series Hopper Redux. For her Out My Window series, made in New York and followed by Vis-à-Vis in Paris, she photographed apartment buildings, which light up as small theaters, where individuals appear in the banality of their everyday life. The impression of voyeurism we get looking at these spectacular cityscapes disappears when we know how the artist proceed: “I photograph from one residence into the window of another with the consent of both parties using a normal focal length lens. The process of making the photographs connects neighbor to neighbor.” The photographer thus creates a new vision of New York, showing the reality of neighbors on the scale of buildings, both distant and close. Series are regularly exhibited and published. Her last book, Vis-à-Vis, has just been published in French by the Editions La Martinière. Solo exhibitions 2013 Hopper Redux, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA, USA 2012 Hopper Redux, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York 2009 Out My Window, Robert Mann Gallery New York 2008 This Stage of Motherhood, KMR Arts, Washington Depot, USA 2006 This Stage of Motherhood, Robert Mann Gallery, New York 2003 About Thirty, Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York Group exhibitions 2012 New York in Color, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York 2011 Photos!, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany People, Places and Power, Davidson College, Charlotte, NC, USA 2010 Psychological Interior, Out of Place Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Incognito: The Hidden Self Portrait, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Summer Staged, Foley Gallery, New York Domestic, Espai Cultural de Caja, Madrid, Spain GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France 2009 Sexy and the City, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York Au Féminin, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris Right Through the Very Heart of It, Robert Mann Gallery, New York Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 4 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 2008 Good Life, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York 2007 Figure It! The Human Factor in Contemporary Art, Clay Center, Charleston, WV, USA 2003 Swimsuits & Sports, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA Publications (selection) 2014 Vis-à-Vis, La Martinière editions 2012 Poignant Voyeuristic Images Of People’s Lives, Huffington Post Out My Window, Powerhouse editions Paris En Face, Le Monde, by Cathy Remy They Know they are Being Watched, The New York Times, by John Leland Through Hopper’s Eyes, The Guardian, by Killian Fox 2011 New York In Color, book by Bob Shamis, Abrams editions 2010 New York: Portrait of a City, book by Reuel Golden, Taschen editions 2009 Window Watchers in a City of Strangers, New York Times, by Julie Scelfo Awards and grants 2014 Sponsorship of Remote Photography Project, Phase One 2013 Sony World Photography Awards, shortlist 2009 Lucie Award IPA, Architecture City Scapes GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 5 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff Biography Artist Elene Usdin Born in 1971, Elene Usdin graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs of Paris in 1996. Working first as an illustrator and a set decorator for cinema, she regularly publishes her illustrations in newspapers and magazines. Visual artist, illustrator and photographer, she develops since 2002 an artistic body of work with precision and lightness and a great delicacy. Women are the favorite subject of her series, with an approach that plays with genre and stereotypes. Elene Usdin does not hesitate to put herself on stage, in self-portraits between derision, tribute to the great female figures of the history or inspiration found in fairy tales. Rewarded in 2006 by the Picto Prize for Young Fashion Photography and in 2008 by the International Photo Awards, her first monograph, Stories, was published in 2013 by editions Contrejour. In 2014, the Museum of New Art in Detroit showed a large retrospective exhibition of her work: Awake While I Am Dreaming. Solo exhibitions 2014 Salon de la Photo, Paris Awake While I Am Dreaming, Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA 2012 Installation Chambre avec vue, Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris 2011 Chambre d’essayage, Carte Blanche 2011 PHPA, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris 2010 Femmes d’intérieur, Galerie Farmani, Brooklyn, USA 2009 Femmes d’intérieur, Galerie des Arts Graphiques, Paris I’m Yours, Galerie Pierre François Garcier, Paris Group exhibitions 2014 Dans la ligne de mire, scène du bijou contemporain, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 2013 Portraits croisés, Le Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice, France 2012 Des nues et des paysages, Hotel de Sauroy, Paris Magazine De l’Air, Salon de la Photo, Paris 2011 Femmes d’intérieur, Festival Pigalle, Galerie Chappe, Paris De l’Air s’expose, Maison européenne de la Photographie, Paris 2010 Les dix ans du magazine De L’Air, Galerie du jour, agnès b, Paris et Musée de la photographie, Mougins, France 60 ans de Picto, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France 2009 60 ans de Picto, Hotel de Sauroy, Paris Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 6 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 2008 Les Rencontres Transphotographiques de Lille, France Magazine De l’Air, Salon de la Photo, Paris 2007 Galerie de l’Hotel Scribe, Paris Les Rencontres Internationales d’Arles, France Cultural assignements (selection) 2013-2014 Rencontres Internationales d’Arles, workshops, France 2010-2013 La promenade d’Eugénie, Parcours photographique, outdoor exhibition in the town of Luz-Saint Sauveur, France 2004-2007 Opéra du Rhin : photographs and self-portraits, posters for the opera season, Strasbourg, France Publications 2013 Elene Usdin Stories, Contrejour editions 2012 Portfolio Femme d’intérieur and autoportrait, Higgins 2011 Creative Review, London Blink, Korea Foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mastermind, Victionary editions (group publication) Doppelgänger, Gestalten editions (group publication) Only Human, Gestalten editions (group publication) 2010 Essence, Ukraine 2008 Eyemazing, Amsterdam Graphic Spaces, édition Birkhäuser (group publication) 2007 Sleek, Berlin Awards 2013 International Photo Awards, honorable mention 2010 Prix XT0, Los Angeles Prix LPA, London Prix PX3 de la photographie, Paris Artist Wanted, Brooklyn GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France 2009 Prix PX3 de la photographie, Paris NYPH Awards, New York Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 7 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 2008 Prix PX3 de la photographie, Paris International Photography Awards, New York Bourse du Talent # 35 Portrait, Paris 2006 Prix Picto de la jeune photographie de mode, Paris GalerieEstherWoerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris - France Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50 mar. - sam. 14h - 18h www.ewgalerie.com [email protected] 8 GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
