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August 22, 2019 by Ari Salomon

Marking Time @ Harvey Milk Photo Center

I am excited to announce I will be participating in this 20th anniversary BAPC show curated by Meg Shiffler. I will be exhibiting images from my Rapid Express series.

 

Marking Time
20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Bay Area Photographers Collective

curated by Meg Shiffler 

  • Exhibition dates: September 26 – October 26
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 6 – 8pm
  • Gallery hours: Tu-Th 3-10pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-6pm
  • Location: Harvey Milk Photography Center, 50 Scott Street, San Francisco CA 94117 (website)

In addition to the curated exhibit, a selection of photographs from BAPC founders and a nifty timeline of BAPC’s 20-year run will be on display. The timeline encompasses an important part of my own history as an artist over the last decade.  It will be printed in the exhibition catalog and also presented in a large format on the wall.

About the exhibit (by curator Meg Shiffler)

“What you have caught on film is captured forever…
it remembers everything, long after you have
forgotten everything.” – Aaron Siskind

“How do we mark time? We all do it. Humans compulsively invent new ways to drop pins in the flow of time so that as much of life as possible takes root in our personal memories and collective consciousness. On the occasion of Bay Area Photographers Collective’s 20th anniversary, Marking Time honors the founders and celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of the current membership through recent works that highlight our relationships to each other, the built and natural world, and photography itself.

Each photographer in this exhibition is a visual storyteller, and has marked time by taking a dynamic role in defining a moment, a perfect moment. Members’ works take viewers to a New Orleans cemetery, fields in California’s Central Valley, and the streets of Mexico City. We meet elders from India, transit riders in San Francisco, dancers at a recital, and gamers at play. There are panoramic images that slice a scene into fragments that physically reflect time and speed, and abstract works created with fast shutter speeds followed by slow, sculptural manipulations of the resulting prints.

It is truly remarkable that this artists’ collective has not only endured, but thrived for twenty years. It’s my honor to have worked with every member to curate this anniversary exhibition.”

Exhibiting artists (current members of BAPC):
Jason Andrescavage, Rose Borden, Tamara Danoyan, Anthony Delgado, Gene Dominique, Richard Dweck, Dan Fenstermacher, Linda Fitch, Steve Goldband, Ralf Hillebrand, Ken Hoffman, Ellen Konar, Philip Krayna, Tom Lavin, Dan Lythcott-Haims, Mitch Nelles, Ari Salomon, Angelika Schilli, Cindy Stokes, Rusty Weston, and Nick Winkworth

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March 30, 2019 by Ari Salomon

Kyotographie KG+ @ Dojidai (Kyoto)

April 16-21, 2019 12-7pm (last day till 5pm)
Public reception: 4/20 6-8pm
Dohjidai Gallery of Art (map)

I will be premiering my Rapid Express series at this exciting fine art photography festival in Kyoto.

Kyotographie and KG+ (official satellite event), now in their seventh year, form the core of a month of photography in Kyoto, Japan, running from mid-April to mid-May.  Nineteen members of BAPC will participate in this exhibit at Dojidai Gallery in the heart of Kyoto.  The exhibit will comprise one section of all members’ work on the theme Of Dreams and Reality, and twelve sections of individual members that dive deeper into each one’s interpretation of that theme.  

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GALLERY OF MY IMAGES:

INSTALLATION AND EXHIBITION IMAGES:

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March 17, 2019 by Ari Salomon

Startup Art Fair @ Hotel del Sol (Room #305)


My first Art Fair!

I will have both framed and unframed  prints available.

See you at Room #305.

BAPC is an official “non profit sponsor” of the event. Thank you Ray Beldner and team for making this happen!

 

 

APRIL 26-28 2019

  • Friday April 26, 6–10 pm
  • Saturday April 27, 12–9 pm
  • Sunday April 28, 12–7 pm
  • VIP Early Access: Friday April 26, 6-7 pm
  • Opening Night Celebration: Friday April 26, 7–10 pm (only general admission ticket needed for entry)

HOTEL DEL SOL 
3100 Webster St, San Francisco, CA 94123 (map)

BUY TICKETS ONLINE
(contact me before you buy tix)

  • General Admission / $15 in advance ($20 at the door)
  • Students/Seniors / $10 in advance ($15 at the door)
  • Three Day Pass / $30 in advance ($40 at the door)
  • VIP / $100

Bypassing the traditional gallery system, stARTup connects art buyers to curated up-and-coming artists. Over 60 artists – selected by art world experts – transform hotel rooms into individual exhibition spaces at the fun and funky Hotel del Sol, a 1950s motor lodge in the Marina District. stARTup is held the same weekend as the SF Art Market gallery fair at Fort Mason (within walking distance) so lots of art to see (and buy).

 

 

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September 10, 2018 by Ari Salomon

Of Dreams and Reality @ Berkeley Art Center

Of Dreams and Reality
Curated by Ann Jastrab

September 15 – October 25, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15, 6-8pm
Closing Program: Saturday, Oct 13, 4-6 pm

1275 Walnut Street Berkeley, CA 94709 (map)

 

Photo by Steve Goldband and Ellen Konar

I will have one image from my new series Rapid Express in this group show. This is the premier exhibition for this new series and I’m very excited to have it out in the world.

BAPC and Berkeley Art Center will be participating in the inaugural year of the Bay Area Month of Photography. Curator Ann Jastrab is Editor In Chief at All About Photo. She was the gallery director for Rayko Photo in San Francisco for ten years. Ann has curated many exhibitions for RayKo as well as for the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Artspan, SFAI, the Center for Fine Art Photography, and other national and international venues outside of San Francisco. She has reviewed portfolios at festivals and competitions around the world.

About the Puerto Rico fundraiser:
This exhibit poster, signed by Frank Espada, is related to his most renowned body of work The Puerto Rican Diaspora.  It can be won in the raffle at the opening reception on Saturday, September 15. Proceeds benefit Foundation for Puerto Rico. 

 

 

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September 6, 2018 by Ari Salomon

Floating Worlds @ Bokeh Bokeh

My series won a Portfolio Award in the San Francisco Bay International Photo Show. It was published this week on “Bokeh Bokeh”.
 
Bokeh Bokeh is an online photo Zine that features works from all photographic genres – fine art, documentary, portraiture, street, …  focuses (or blurs?) on work that is original, beautiful, startling.  
 
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February 22, 2018 by Ari Salomon

Home Show @ PhotoAlliance

PhotoAlliance presents a juried photographic competition with winning entries exhibiting work at the SFO Museum located at the San Francisco International Airport and online @ photoalliance.org. My work will be shown in the online exhibition. These images will be displayed as a part of a “slide show” to a live audience at the next PhotoAlliance event. 

Home may be where we start or end our day – an actual place or a state of mind. Home might be a feeling carried around as something desired or battled for. Home can include inhabitants, community or any form of like-mindedness.

HOME, will be on view at the SFO Museum May 8–August 14, 2018.

JURY: WINNING IMAGES SELECTED BY

  • Tina Barney, Artist
  • Thea Traff, Associate Photo Editor, The New Yorker
  • Christopher McCall, Director, Pier 24, San Francisco

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January 24, 2018 by Ari Salomon

AnthropoScene @ Arc Studios & Gallery

Exhibition: January 27 – February 17, 2018
Opening Reception: January 27, 7 pm – 9 pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, February 17, 1 pm – 3 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 17, 2pm 

Location:  ARC Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA (map)

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays 1-6 pm and Saturdays 12-3 pm

I will have some large horizontal panoramas in this BAPC show at ARC.

Featured artists: Rose Borden, Adrienne Defendi, Anthony Delgado, Dan Fenstermacher, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, Ralf Hillebrand, Ken Hoffman, Thomas Lavin, Ari Salomon, Angelika Schilli, Cindy Stokes, Denise Tarantino, Nick Winkworth

The changes made to the natural landscape by Homo Sapiens are the subjects of many socially engaged photographers these days. Richard Misrach and Edward Burtynsky, for example, find visual beauty and power in the industrial culture, while depicting as well their effects on and sometimes damage to the environment. If we are now used to seeing all human land use as insidious capitalism run amok, nineteenth-century landscape photographers like Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge, who worked for corporate interests and wealthy patrons a century ago in an age of industrial expansion, were neutral in tone, documenting both the grandeur of nature and what they saw than as the indomitable genius of human will and creativity. Something of this ambivalent tone pervades as well the 1970s New Topographics movement of Lewis Baltz and others, which documented the “man-altered landscape” with the ironic humor and cool observation appropriate to the era of Pop and Minimalism. The typological studies by Bernd and Hilla Becher of blast furnaces and other industrial architecture have a compelling beauty despite the strict functionality (with slight variations) of their similar designs.

Curator: DeWitt Cheng

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January 22, 2018 by Ari Salomon

48 Pillars @ ARC

Exhibition: February 24 – April 14, 2018

Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 24th, 7-9pm

Artists Talk and Closing Reception:
April 14th, 12-3pm

Location:  ARC Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA (map)

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays 1-6PM and Saturdays 12-3PM (and by appointment)

I will have two specially mounted vertical panoramas in this visually stunning exhibition. I won’t be at the opening but look forward to seeing everyone at the closing reception and artist talk.

Featured artists: Carlos Cartagena, Paula Dupois Dupuis, Holly Downing, Georgianne Fastaio, Rebecca Fox, Laura Hapka, Patter Hellstrom, Ester Hernandez, Howard Hersh, Isis Tatiana Hockenos, Vincent Jackson, Ivy Jacobsen, Carole Jeung, Kevin Keul, Joseph Kowalczyk, Katja Leibenath, Paul Morin, Stephen Namara, Hadley Radt, Lucky Rapp, Fernando Reyes, Cindy Shih, Ursula X. Young.

48 Pillars was inspired by a chance encounter at Flax with a close-out sale of deep vertical panels, 48” x 12” x 1 5/8”. 24 local Bay Area artists will produce two pieces each on these identically sized panels that will exactly ring the gallery — 48 works total.
This is the second exhibition at Arc Gallery that is essentially a “structural constraint” show. The other exhibition is our iconic annual, end of summer exhibition, FourSquared. In both exhibitions, the artists are unconstrained in subject matter except to the extent that works need to be a series; but they are constrained in format. The panoramic installation of the columns are visually stunning.

Michael Yochum, Curator

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January 19, 2018 by Ari Salomon

Making of a Beautiful Bridge @ Photo Yokohama

 

February 27 – March 4 (10:30am – 6:30pm daily)
Location: “Gallery M” at Minatomirai Station (map) (Yokohama, Japan)

I will be showing some panoramic images in this large group exhibition. I am excited to have my first exhibition of prints in Japan – after many years shooting the Japanese cItyscape.

I will also participate in a BAPC group exhibition, Places Of Change that will be part of this event. The larger exhibition is called Making of a Beautiful Bridge and is organized by SAMURAI FOTO which is a member-based photo collective that is partnering with BAPC. 

Other participants from BAPC include Rose Borden, Adrienne Defendi, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, and Ken Hoffman.

Other participants from  SAMURAI FOTO include Yoshida Shigeru, Everett Brown and many others.

Making of a Beautiful Bridge is part of the annual Photo Yokohama Festival in Yokohama, Japan. Up to 40,000 people attend for this week of exhibitions, conferences and other events.

   

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September 19, 2017 by Ari Salomon

Housing @ Senator Scott Wiener’s office

The theme of this exhibit is “Housing”. This is a heated subject here in the SF Bay Area where housing has skyrocketed and left many struggling or without the means to live here. At the core it is about the place we call home.

I will be showing images from the home of my Great Aunt in Paris.

Location: The State Building, Senator Scott Wiener’s Office, 455 Golden Gate Ave., Ste. 14800, SF, CA
Exhibition Dates: October 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017
Curator: Joseph Abbati

Reception on October 13, 2017 from 5:30pm-7:30pm. Free — but everyone wanting to attend will need to RSVP via Eventbrite for security reasons. So let me know if you want to come.

 

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