michael flomen - Boîte Noire Gallery
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michael flomen - Boîte Noire Gallery
1 MICHAEL FLOMEN SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Intuitive Vision, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON. May 2 - Sept.14. WILD NIGHTS, Boite Noire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. April 23-July 18. 2013 NYX* 1993-2013, curated by Sebastien Hudon, Maison de la Culture Cote-desNeiges, Montreal. 12 October – 22 November. GAZE, Espace Expo de La Bande Video, Quebec City, 11 Jan - 10 Feb. NUITS SAUVAGES, VU, Espace American, Quebec City, 11 Jan - 10 Feb. 2011 Angell Gallery, Toronto, November 5- December 3. 2010 Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Michael Flomen, Inside Out, April 10 – May 4. 2009 Contact Photography Festival, Event in the Landscape, Toronto, May 1 – 31. 2008 Galerie Pangée, Montréal, Fragile. The Photograms of Michael Flomen, May 28 – July 14. The exhibition traveled to the Toronto Art Fair from Oct 2 - 6 as a solo presented at the Galerie Pangée booth. 2007 Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont. Interpreting Nature Part II. June 15 – August 25. 2006 Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Teeming, January 14 – March 4. 2005 Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York Teeming, May 5 - June 19. Galerie Thérèse Dion Art Contemporain, Montreal, Higher Ground September 7 – October 8. 2003 Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, September 6 – October 25. Brown Library, Sterling College, Craftsbury, VT, Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, January 19 – March 16. 2002 Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, Higher Ground. February 14 – March 23. Artcore Gallery, Toronto, World, September 11 – 13. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 2 2001 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Rising, March 5 – May 26. Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Seven, May 5 – June 1. 2000 Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York Rising, February 24 – March 25. 1999 Galerie d’art d’Outremont, Montreal, Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, September 9 – October 3. 1998 Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Field, May 2 – May 23. 1997 Galerie Han Art Contemporain, Montreal, Fields, November 22 – December 20. 1995 Langage Plus, Alma, Quebec, Imminent Ground, April 7 – 28. Galerie Vox, Montreal, Imminent Ground, May 27 – June 25. Motel Fine Arts Exhibitions, New York, Friend, photographic installation, May 20 – June 19. 1993 Motel Fine Arts Exhibition, New York, Night, photographic installation. 1988 Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, NY, Shaker Photographs, North Family, 1969-73. Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, Michael Flomen, October 21 – December 3. 1986 PPS Galerie F C Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany, April 18 – December 3. Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Still Life Drapped Stone, February 1 – March 2. Traveled to Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Kamloops Art Gallery, B.C., University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. 1985 Galerie John A. Schweitzer, Montreal, Still Life Draped Stone, Feb.23- March 23. 1984 Galerie Vu, Quebec, Michael Flomen, May 3 – 27. Steigenberger Hotel, Berlin, Michael Flomen, Aus der Sicht des Nachbarn. June 8 – 30. Traveled to Kanada Galerie, Munich, July 18 – August 31. Universitat Oldenburg October 12 – 26, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, November 30 – January 6. 1983 Het Oog Van de Buur, Cultureel Centrum Hasselt, Hasselt, Michael Flomen. Belgium, January 6 – February 5. Musée de l’Architecture, Liège, L’Oeil du voisin, September 9 – October 2 Traveled to: Canadian Cultural Center, Brussels, and to Geemeentekredist, Grote Market, Antwerp. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 3 1981 The American Gallery, Bern Shot in America, September 24 – October 31. The Koussevitsky Art Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, Michael Flomen, June 15 – September 15. 1980 Paul Waggoner Galleries, Chicago, Michael Flomen, May 1 – June 30. 1979 Yajima Galerie, Montréal, Michael Flomen, November 1 – 24. 1975 Vehicule Art Gallery, Montreal Doubletake, May 27 – June 14. 1972 Optica Gallery, Montreal, Shaker Light, November 12 - December 3. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca, April 22 -26. 2012 LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, 8 Sept.- Oct. 6. AVIUS, Han Art, Montreal, 6 Sept.- 16 Sept. TERRA COGNITA, Nooderlicht Photofestival 2012, Netherlands, 2 Sept. -7 Oct. Weather, Ricco Maresca Gallery, NY. June 21-August 17. 2011-2012 The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W. M. Hunt collection, Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Oct. 2011- Feb.19.2012. The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Lewis and Clarke College, Portland, Oregon. 2011 SPUTNIK I, A Photographic Project. Museumsberg Flensburg, Germany, May 26 - August 21. Eco-Art, curated by John K. Grande, Pia Hovi-Assad, and Peter Selz, Pori Museum of Art, Finland, April 2 - May 29. Bleu, curated by Marie-Eve Beaupré. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal. Miami/Miami Beach Sculpture Biennale, Curated by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Miami, Florida. 2010 Edge of Vision, The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 4 2010 Atmosphère, curated by Lara Pan, Galerie Pangée, Montreal. Art contemporain Montréal, Exposition Universelle, Shanghai. 2009 First Impressions, The New York Camera Club, New York. Les espaces de l’image, Curated by Gaëlle Morel. Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Montreal. The Edge of Vision, The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture Foundation, New York. The exhibition travelled throughout the United States from 2009 – 2010. The Edge of Vision. Curated by Lyle Rexer. Group exhibiton featuring Ellen Carey, Charles Lindsay, Edward Mapplethorpe, Chris McCaw, Michael Flomen, James Welling, and Silvio Wolf. Contradictions in Black and White, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York. 2008 Sculpture Sackville 2008, Sackville, New Brunswick. Earth Art, Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario. Shooting Abstraction, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami. 2007 Huge, Artcore Gallery, Toronto. 2006 Human = Nature, The Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont. Die Liebe zum Licht. Fotographie im 20. Und 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany. Traveled to Stadtische Galerie Delmenhorst and Kunstmuseum Bochum. Out of Darkness; The Contemporary Revival of Early Photography, University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando. 2005 Oil and Water, Le Mois de la photo à Montreal 2005, Montreal. What's New, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami. Sans Regards or No Eyes: Looking at Collection Dancing Bear, Rencontres d’Arles, France. Summer Show, Tamarack Gallery, East Craftsbury, Vermont. 2004 Water, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York. 2003 Looking Up: Contemplating the Skies, New York Academy of Sciences, New York. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 5 Cameraless Image, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era, International Center of Photography, New York. 2002 PhotoGENEsis; Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California. New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. Gaggles, Flocks, & Coveys; Further, Murders & Exaltations: A Bird Show, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York. Summer Show,Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury, Vermont. 2001 At the Edge: The Horizon Line in Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery, New York. 2000 Particular Vision, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama. Thinner Air, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri. 1998 Several Pictures XII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Temps Composés, Musée D’Art de Joliette, Quebec. 1997 Photographic Views and Vistas, Marcia Raffelman Fine Arts, Toronto. Art à la carte, Galerie McClure, Montreal. 1994 Michael Flomen, Han Art Contemporain, Montreal. Before the Land Behind the Camera, CMCP, Ottawa. Prêt d’Oeuvres d’Art, Musée du Québec, Quebec. 1988 Social Life, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York. 1986 Choix D’Artistes, Galerie John A Schweitzer, Montreal. 1985 Canadian Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. 1984 Fragments, Photographies Actuelle au Québec, Galerie Vu, Québec. 1981 Flore, les œuvres des photographes canadiens, Galerie Optica, Montreal. 1979 Tendances Actuelles au Québec, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal. Vécu, I Have Lived, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 6 1978 Four Photographers, Galerie Optica, Montreal. New Trends in US and Canadian Photography, Galerie Monas Heirgliphica, Milan. 1976 Young Canadian Photographers, Yajima Gallery, Montréal. ART FAIRS 2000 (ongoing) Art Basel Miami, Art Chicago, Toronto International Art Fair, Artissima Italy, Art Cologne Germany, AIPAD (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers New York), Art Fiero Bologna, Italy, Art Brussels, and Art Dubai. FILMOGRAPHY 2012 GAZE, black and white video, 6m24s. Music by Giancarlo Vulcano, production La Bande de Video, Quebec City. 2008 Under the Cover of Darkness (La nuit est ma chambre noire) - The Work of Michael Flomen. Documentary film by André Cornellier and produced by UMA (Maison de l’image et de la photographie). Montréal. Available on DVD (30 min). Short listed for Prix du public ARTV, Festival international des films sur l’art (FIFA) 2009. CATALOGUES and SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS 2012 2011 2009 Eco-Art, Pori Art Museum, Finland. P41-45. P140-143. The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious. Aperture .New York. Fotografie aus wiener privatsammlungen, Kunst im St. johanns club. P13-14. Fritz Semak and Andra Spallart, Sputnik, A photographic project volume 1, 2010, Edition Lammerhuber . Plate 67. 2009 Lyle Rexer, The Edge of Vision. The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, New York, Aperture Foundation, p.179-199. 2008 Fragile. The Photograms of Michael Flomen, Afterword by John K. Grande, Trout Splashes Press, Montreal, p. 19-31. Horizons – A Book about Travel, Ivory Press, London. Texts by: Aminitta Forna, Mario Vargas L. Losa, Adam Zagajuwski, Hans Magnus Enzesberger, Andre Acinan, and Alvaro Mutis, (Flomen’s work appears on p.156). Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 7 2006 Human = Nature, curated by Victoria Anstead, The Firehouse Gallery, Burlington Vermont, p. 15-17. Die Liebe zum Licht.Fotographie im 20. Und 21.Jahrhundert, curated by Bettina Maassen and Hartmut Neumann, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany. 2005 Dormance et métamorphoses de l'oeil, Denis Samson (poetry) and Michael Flomen (photographs), Editions J'ai Vu, Québec. 2002 Higher Ground (catalogue), Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York. 2000 Rising (Catalogue), Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York. Rising, Portfolio. Limited edition of four. 1999 Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, Story by Stephen Leacock, folio book with nine original silver prints designed by Peter Sibbald Brown 1997 A Photograph, 15 photographs, self-published. 1984 Still-Life Draped Stone, 26 duotone plates, Introduction by Peter Sibbald Brown,Toronto ,Paget Press 1980 Details/M. Flomen, 21 duotone plates, Introduction by Louis Patrick, Yajima Gallery, Montreal. SELECTED ARTICLES and REVIEWS 2014 Border Crossings, volume 33 Number 1 Issue 129. P.100-101. 2013 Josianne Desloges, Michael Flomen, Complainte Lunaire, Le Soleil, Jan. 12. 2010 John K.Grande, “The Edge of Vision”, in Ciel Variable #84, p. 72 – 73. 2009 Tila Kellman, “Hunting Nature”, Chasing History: Sculpture Sackville 2008, in Espace Sculpture, #87, p. 43 – 44. 2008 Hélène Brunet Neumann, "Nuit de nature”, Fragile, Michael Flomen in Vie des Arts, #212, Automne, p. 87. John K. Grande, “Michael Flomen: Utopo-Photo”, in Art Allsorts, Writings on art & Artists, Random Tree Editions, Go If Press, p. 190 – 195. John K. Grande, Utopophotography. “The experimental Work of Michael Flomen”, in Photoicon, #8, 2008, p. 93 – 94. Maxime Catellier, “L’air de l’eau“, in ICI, Montreal. Anonymous, in C International Photo Magazine, #6, p.104 – 105. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 8 2007 John K.Grande, Michael Flomen. “Interpreting Nature”, in Vie des Arts, #208, p.108 – 109. 2006 James D. Campbell, “A Palimpsest of Fire”, in CV Ciel Variable, #70, Winter, Materia et Lumen, p. 8 – 14. Jose Antonio Evora, Michael Flomen, Abstraccionnes Liquidas, in El Nuevo Herald, Sunday January 29, 2006. 2005 Martha Langford, “Oil and Water”, Michael Flomen, Evan Lee, Laura Mallard, in Image and Imagination, McGill University Press, 2005, p. 239 – 242. Henry Lehmann, “Two Visions in Photo” in The Gazette, Montreal, Oct 1. André Seleanu, “Higher Ground”, in Vie des Arts, No. 201, Hiver 2005. 2004 James Balog, “The Future of Nature” in American Photo, May/June, p. 86 – 89. 2003 Chris Braithwaite, “Flomen Show – three dimensional books of water and light” in The Chronicle (Orleans County), Jan. 15, p. 13. Elizabeth Finch, “The Flash of Nature” in Art on Paper, Vol. 7, No. 6, (April),p.80 1999 Maxime Jacobs, “Les photographies de Michael Flomen sont-elles un leurre?”, in L’Express d’Outremont, no. 183, August 27. 1997 Peter Sibbald Brown, “Starfield”, Text for Fields Exhibition, Galerie Han, Montréal. Bernard Lamarche, “Fields”, in Le Devoir, December 13. 1995 Jennifer Couelle, “Michael Flomen”, in CV Photo, Autumn, p. 61. Josephine Mills, “Apocalypse Now”. Michael Flomen, Imminent Ground, in Black Flash, Vol. 13.3, Fall, p.18 – 19. 1989 Gary Powers, “Michael Flomen”, in Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, p. 162. 1988 Michael Koetzle, “Michael Flomen”, in Photographie. Das Internationale Magazine fur Fotographie, Film und Video, December 12. Portfolio Photographie 12, Verlag Photographie, 6 plates. 1985 George Bogardi, “Exhibition review of Still-Life Draped Stone”, Schweitzer Gallery, in Canadian Art Magazine, Summer, p. 18 – 19. Richard Baillargeon, “Désignation et évocation in Photo Selection”, Vol. 5, No. 2, mai-juin, p. 42 – 43. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 9 Nina Liu, “Still Life Draped Stone”, (book review) in American Photographer, Vol. 15, No. 3, September, p. 87 – 88. 1984 Roland Gross, “Das Warten auf die Gesichter”, in Feuilleton, December 4. 1983 Katherine Tweedie, “All the Facts are Real Fiction”, in Quebec Photography Invitational, Saidye Bronfman Center, p. VIII – XII. F.T., “Flomens liefde voor fotographie”, in De Standaard, December 18, Brussels. Anonymous, “L’œil du voisin. Photographies de Michael Flomen”, in Le Peuple, December 25, Brussels. Johan de Vos, “Canada achter’t hoekje (On Flomen’s travelling show in Belgium)” in De Morgen, December 14. 1982 George Bogardi, “Through the Lens of Michael Flomen” in Chimo Magazine Vol. 5, No. 1, February/March, p. 56 – 58. 1980 David Elliot, “Taking a Look Around with Minick and Flomen”. In Chicago Sunday Times, June 15. Marco Misiani, ”Details/M.Flomen”, in Printletter, No. 28, July, Zurich, p. 31. 1979 Pierre Dessurault, ”Vécu, I Have Lived”, Galerie de l’image, Ottawa. 1975 ”Exhibition review - Vehicule Art Gallery”, Arts Magazine, October 23, Montreal. AWARDS 2013 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec 2005 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec 1993 Canada Council Arts Award Grant ‘A’ 1993 Bourse de ressourcement, Studio de New York, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles du Québec 1979 Canada Council Arts Award Grant ‘B’ ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2004 Michael Flomen, Light Conversation. Lecture given in the series Seminars with Contemporary Photographers, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com 1 0 1982-84 Photography instructor, Concordia University, Montrwal 1978 Photography instructor, Concordia University, Montreal NOMINATIONS 2013 Scotia Photography Award 2009 Prix Pictet, Water. VIRTUAL VEIWING SPACES Forward Thinking Museum Alligatorzine, Zine 97, Zine 98. RADIO Vinyl Cafe, CBC Radio, Stuart Mclean, July 9,10,11. 2011. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Harvard University Art Museums - Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Hanmi Photography Museum, Seoul Art Bank, Ottawa Museum for Canadian Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal Los Angeles County Museum of Art Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ministry of External Affairs, Ottawa Musée de L’Architecture, Liège, Belgium Mt. Lebanon Shaker Museum, New Lebanon, NY Musée National du Québec, Quebec The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Archives of Canada, Ottawa UMA, Maison de l'image et de la Photographie, Montreal, Canada Glenbow Museum, Calgary , Alberta Nippissing University, North Bay, Canada The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Kitchener –Waterloo Art Gallery, ON. Boîte Noire Gallery | Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, Space B222 West Hollywood, CA 90069 | +1.323.217.2237 | www.boitenoiregallery.com