Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1962, Laura Letinsky received her degrees in photography from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (BFA, 1986) and Yale University School of Art, New Haven (MFA, 1991). Her works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Casino Luxembourg; The Netherlands Foto Institute; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Her photographs are present in several permanent collections, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
Festival Opening of the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York Festival The New York Photo Festival 2010 Exposition Exposition : Florigelia Exposition Laura Letinsky - To Want For Nothing Modifier l'image
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. The Show will commence with an opening night gala on March 28, 2012, to benefit inMotion, which provides free legal services to low-income women.
AIPAD 2012 will present four new member exhibitors: David Zwirner, New York; Sasha Wo...
“NYC is the melting pot, the metropolis of the world, and therefore the most natural location for a festival with a mission to bring together global talent that is both timely and critical.”
Jody Quon, curator, NYPH’09
The First International Photography Festival in the United States
Photography, one of the most important visual media of our lives, has been surprisingly uncelebrated, particularly in the United States. New York City, home to the most influential commercial and fine art photography community, has lacked—until now—a large-scale event dedicated to photography. The inaugural New York Photo Festival (May 14–May 18, 2008) delivered a dynamic, high-quality event in what is arguably the photographic capital of the world. This event celebrated both contemporary photography ...
Florilegia is a group exhibition featuring photographic works by Goldschmied & Chiari, Fabio Zonta, Jonny Briggs, Laura Letinsky and Sinaida Michalskaja. In medieval Latin a florilegium is a compilation of texts, the word deriving from flos (flower) and leger (to gather). In fitting with this title, the exhibition brings together disparate works in which flowers or plants feature, each offering a distinctive take on sociological and poetic encounters between art and nature.
© Fabio Zonta
The exhibition includes Goldschmied & Chiari's Nympheas (2007), large-scale panoramic photographs deliberately and playfully evoking Claude Monet's paintings. Subverting the idyllic, unpolluted view of nature offered by the Impressionists, the flowers in Goldschmied & Chiari's works are made of plas...
Brancolini Grimaldi is pleased to announce Laura Letisnksy's second solo show in Italy. The exhibition combines three very recent bodies of work, "To Want For Nothing", "Fall", and "The Dog and the Wolf".
Laura Letinsky photographs an age-old subject: the domestic still life. Fraught with a poignant self-expression, these delicate compositions document or often fabricate, the tabletop traces of human existence. Letinsky's formally calculated constructions, intended for visual and psychological contemplation, are reminiscent of 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting, in which the viewer's attention is drawn to the subtle details which command the still life scenes.
"To Want For Nothing" is a series commissioned by Brancolini Grimaldi this spring. The artist was granted unpreced...