Hannah Whitaker

The cover story I shot for this week’s NY Times Magazine....

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:52 -0400

The cover story I shot for this week’s NY Times Magazine. Obviously when a piece about germs came in, they thought of me.

Sneak peek of Limonene. Miami folks: Come to the opening...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:46:24 -0400

Sneak peek of Limonene. Miami folks: Come to the opening tomorrow night at Locust Projects!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HANNAH WHITAKER: LIMONENE Saturday, March...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:41:26 -0400

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HANNAH WHITAKER: LIMONENE

Saturday, March 16, 2013
Conversation with the artist: 6:30pm
Opening reception: 7-10pm
On view through April 26, 2013
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12pm-5pm

Now celebrating 15 years of exhibiting experimental contemporary art, Locust Projects is pleased to present the exhibition Limonene by New York-based artist Hannah Whitaker. The installation in the project room will consist of new, site-specific photographs printed on vinyl and adhered directly to the gallery walls. Using litter scavenged from Miami streets, Whitaker composed impromptu assemblages, all photographed in one week-long trip in February of 2013. She then re-exposed the film using light leaks—where light makes direct contact with the film—and other experimental in-camera techniques. Whitaker, who frequently makes photographs using unpredictable methods and unwieldy materials, continues to embrace chance in Limonene. Unlike past bodies of work however, the new photographs revolve around the material specificity of one particular place—Miami.

Exploring the relationship between consumerism, formalism, and photography the works in Limonene treat found objects in terms of their potential for mark-making. Exploiting the spectacle of consumer culture, recognizable objects resolve into collections of lines or shapes, highlighting the perfect geometry and saturated color of mass production. Exposed through handmade film screens, the light leaks and overlaid graphic forms respond to the repetitious visual motifs put forth by the found objects. The installation includes multiple iterations of a single assemblage, emphasizing the reproducibility of both photographs and consumable goods. The show’s title can be seen on a red plastic lid evident in several photographs. As found text, the title submits to the same creative forces as the rest of the show. Limonene is a chemical that smells like citrus.

ABOUT HANNAH WHITAKER

Hannah Whitaker, b. 1980 in Washington D.C. received a BA from Yale University in 2002 and a MFA from the International Center of Photography/Bard College, New York, NY in 2006. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Thierry Goldberg in New York and group shows at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris, Higher Pictures in New York, and Rencontres d’Arles in France, where she was nominated for the Discovery Prize. She recently co-edited issue 45 of Blind Spot magazine and co-curated its accompanying exhibition, The Crystal Chain, at Invisible Exports in New York. She is also a contributing editor for Triple Canopy.

ABOUT LOCUST PROJECTS

2013 marks the 15-year anniversary of Locust Projects, a not-for-profit exhibition space founded by three Miami artists in order to provide contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas and methods without the limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work, and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists.

Excited to have shot my second look book for Emmanuelle.

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:31:08 -0500

Excited to have shot my second look book for Emmanuelle.

MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT. I shot the body for this Bonnie Prince...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:21:58 -0500

MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT. I shot the body for this Bonnie Prince Billy floaty pen.

Lines of Sight Podcast

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:50:00 -0500

The podcast from Lines of Sight is now online! Listen to me stumbling through an intro and your favorite photographers reading fiction here.

Featured in Cult magazine

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:38:30 -0500

http://thisisacult.org/hannah-whitaker/

Oh hey thanks Shane

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:47:24 -0500

Imaginary Landscape No 1 on Shane Lavalette’s top 10 books of 2012.

http://www.shanelavalette.com/journal/2012/12/06/ten-or-twenty-of-the-best-photobooks-of-2012/

Lines of Sight Readings of photography in fiction 155 Freeman...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:59:00 -0500

Lines of Sight

Readings of photography in fiction

155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY

November 16, 2012
7:00 p.m., $5 suggested donation

Triple Canopy is pleased to present Lines of Sight, a public reading of passages from fiction that describe photography explicitly, as a subject, or adopt photographic strategies of framing, staging, or manipulation. Readers will include Michele Abeles, Alejandro Cesarco, Nancy Davenport, Moyra Davey, Michael Famighetti, Daniel Gordon, and Dan Torop, introduced by Triple Canopy’s Hannah Whitaker.

Photography is often characterized by its suspension between sets of oppositional pairs: image and object, expression and documentation, icon and index, art and technology. A fictionalized photography frees the medium from the most contentious of these oppositions—fact and fiction. When encountered in fiction, a photograph may shift from this state of suspension to instrument of the author. “The Swabian was a grotesque double of Archimboldi, his twin, the negative image of a developed photograph that keeps looming larger” (Roberto Bolaño,2666). How does photography participate in the act of mythologizing? How are photographic methods interpreted and employed in literature? “Many times, just before falling asleep, I’ve remembered my family, as if putting my eye to a small hole and blinking to light them up in the back yard of my house” (Felisberto Hernández, Just Before Falling Asleep). What kinds of characters are photographers? “When I told my husband I hated him, we hadn’t been married long at all. It was when he was taking my picture with his new camera” (Lorrie Moore, Anagrams).

photo credit: Alejandro Cesarco, Picture #7, 2007, C-print, 23.25 x 30.5 in.

Book launch UPDATE

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:45:13 -0400

Due to the closing of the subway tonight at 7pm we’re moving the book launch up today to 4pm. Hope you can still make it!

Sunday Oct 28th
4pm
Present Company
29 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Info here:

http://blondeartbooks.com/2012/10/22/hannah-whitaker-imaginary-landscapes-no-1/

Book Launch: Hannah Whitaker, ‘Imaginary Landscape No....

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:16:23 -0400

Book Launch: Hannah Whitaker, ‘Imaginary Landscape No. 1’ and Closing Event for ‘Render Visible’
Sunday Oct 28th
5pm
Present Company
29 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Render Visible organized by Blonde Art Books in collaboration...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:08:51 -0400

Render Visible

organized by Blonde Art Books in collaboration with Matthew Walker

September 30 – October 28, 2012
RECEPTION: Friday, October 5 (7-10pm)
GALLERY HOURS: Saturday and Sunday, noon to 6pm

WORKS BY:
Lea Bertucci, Shelley Burgon, Seth Cluett, Eve Essex & Juan Antonio Olivares, Guy Goldstein, Ben Hall & Nate Wooley, Matt Marble, Daniel Neumann, Elliott Sharp, Jo-ey Tang, Hannah Whitaker, and Philip White
FEATURED PUBLISHERS:
Frog Peak Music, Theresa Sauer, JSBJ, Swill Children, Little Paper Planes, Shifter, FO A RM Magazine, MIT Press, Continuum, ARTBOOK | D.A.P., The Kitchen, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Errant Bodies Press, Duke University Press Books, TriLiteral, LLC, and others.d
PERFORMANCES:
Friday, October 19 – Shelley Burgon, and Eve Essex & Juan Antonio Olivares (8pm)
Wednesday, October 24 – Nate Wooley and Philip White (8pm)

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“Should I switch over to the invisible world?”
– Fischl and Weiss, Will Happiness Find Me?

Recently I wrote a letter that was addressed to ‘Render Visible’ in which I claimed that graphic notation and other visual documents of sound are respondent to Pauline Oliveros’ question ‘Why can’t sounds be visible?’ I am still convinced that she must have been making a statement rather than asking a question. In fact I originally called it a proposition. Yet it is now clear that I do not see Oliveros’ question as a challenge to artists as much as a proclamation of the potential of sound and the act of listening. The proposition was mine.

‘Render Visible’ is a multifaceted presentation of books, works on paper, and performances organized by Blonde Art Books in collaboration with Matthew Walker. In his book Francis Bacon, The Logic of Sensation (1981) Gilles Deleuze wrote, “Paul Klee’s famous formula – ‘Not to render the visible, but to render visible’ – means nothing else.” He applies Klee’s quote to Francis Bacon’s paintings in order to highlight the artist’s sensitivity to non-visible forces and his ability to render them visible.

The artworks presented are typified by their transformation of a functioning musical composition or mapping document from a sound-based performance into a work of visual art. The works are authored by a diverse group of artists, composers, photographers, painters, musicians, performers, engineers, academics, producers, and writers including Lea Bertucci, Shelley Burgon, Seth Cluett, Eve Essex & Juan Antonio Olivares, Guy Goldstein, Ben Hall & Nate Wooley, Matt Marble, Daniel Neumann, Elliott Sharp, Jo-ey Tang, Hannah Whitaker, and Philip White. As a collective, they demonstrate a similar sensitivity to sound’s intimate relationship with visual art practices.

The second component of ‘Render Visible’ is the curated library and bookstore containing over one hundred titles from publishers including Frog Peak Music, Swill Children, FO A RM Magazine, MIT Press, Errant Bodies Press, among others. The collection was compiled following a period of research and dialogue with artists, academics, and publishers participating in the fields of sound art and experimental music. The books function as a vehicle to access and materialize knowledge about a complex medium. The texts focus on the criticism of sound-based practices along with their relationship to architecture, language, and cultural history. Additionally, the library contains works by independent publishers and artists who have produced special editions, abstract publications of graphic scores, and magazines that emphasize critical analysis of contemporary practitioners.

The final component of the presentation is a series of four distinct performances by artists Shelley Burgon, Eve Essex & Juan Antonio Olivares, Nate Wooley, and Philip White. Each of the performers has contributed an artwork to be exhibited and many are published in one or more texts in the library. These aural interpretations, most of which are being performed for the first time, go beyond merely demonstrating the functionality of their visual counterpart. The events render visible the connection between visual art practice and sound, making evident the significance of improvisation, spatiality, imagination, and interpretation that exists in all art making.

Blind Spot lab tomorrow! Featuring a Joachim Koester video work,...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:57:00 -0400

Blind Spot lab tomorrow! Featuring a Joachim Koester video work, a talk by Tom McDonough, and a conversation with Bob Nickas. Organized by Matthew Porter and me.

Imaginary Landscape No. 1

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:02:23 -0400

Imaginary Landscape No. 1

A mention in Le Quotidien de l’Art about my upcoming group...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:30:21 -0400

A mention in Le Quotidien de l’Art about my upcoming group show at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris, La tradition du dégoût, curated by Vincent Labaume. Opens Sept 8.

A nice review of my TGG show in Modern Painters by Joseph...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:02:53 -0400

A nice review of my TGG show in Modern Painters by Joseph Akel

http://josephhakel.com/Hannah-Whitaker-Thierry-Goldberg-Gallery-Modern-Painters

A spread in the Vice Photo Issue, inexplicably titled Purgatory.

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:37:32 -0400

A spread in the Vice Photo Issue, inexplicably titled Purgatory.

I shot all the pictures for the talented Syrette Lew’s new...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:54:14 -0400

I shot all the pictures for the talented Syrette Lew’s new line of bags and jewelry. Check out her site here.

Leftovers from sequencing the Blind Spot issue. Oh and the...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:10:04 -0400

Leftovers from sequencing the Blind Spot issue. Oh and the magazine is out!

Revamped website! Including images from The Use of Noise, which...

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:34:31 -0400

Revamped website! Including images from The Use of Noise, which is up through June 3rd.