Bolsky Gallery

The Helen and Abraham Bolsky Gallery features the work of students in exhibitions organized solely by students. A highly flexible space, the gallery enables the display of a wide variety of work and provides an important laboratory situation. The professional environment encourages students to develop installation, curatorial and event-planning skills.

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When It's a Photograph November 1-25, 2008

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Curated by Soo Kim, Fine Arts faculty member and Interim Director of Photography

This exhibition examines contemporary photography's current fascination with collage, cut-outs, photograms and other altered states of the traditional photograph. The show considers why photographers are revisiting these formal techniques of the avant-garde of the 1910s-1940s at this particular moment. In some cases, it is a material-conscious reaction to digital image-making; in others it is a self-referential examination of photography and its existence as an art form that operates beyond the flat space of the photographic print.

Artists include Doug Aitken, John Bock, Sebastiaan Bremer, Phil Chang, Morgan Cuppet-Michelson, Liz Deschenes, Amie Dicke, Richard Galpin, Arthur Ou, Adam Putnam, Paul Sietsema,Yanina Spizzirri, Carly Steward, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yanai Toister, Inez van Lamsweerde, Marnie Weber, and James Welling.

Made possible by The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation.

Hours: Tues-Sat, 10-5, Thurs 10-7

Related events:

November 5, 11 am, Bolsky Gallery: Exhibition walk-through with curator Soo Kim

November 10, 7:30 pm, Ben Maltz Gallery: Lecture by Charlotte Cotton

November 11, 11 am, Forum: Presentation by Sebastiaan Bremer

November 12, 11am, Bolsky Gallery: Exhibition walk-through with Otis alumni Morgan Cuppet-Michelsen, Yanina Spizzirri, Carly Steward

November 19, 11 am, Bolsky Gallery: Exhibition walk-through with Phil Chang

The Bolsky Gallery

Located on the 1st floor of the Bronya and Andy Galef Center for Fine Arts, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, L.A. 90045.

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Spring 2008 exhibitions by MFA students (pdf)