Exhibitions Roe Ethridge Over the “Deep End”
June 16, 2014 Donald Scarinci

The most recent work of Roe Ethridge contains none of his photographs.  Instead it contains a collection of photographic art and other work by new photographers from Yale University in an exhibit that Ethridge curated. Curation as art was the theme of the Whitney Biennial this year.  The selection of the work of several artists and its placement within the exhibit space create an artistic effect determined by the curator.  Ethridge creates his own expression by using the work of new artists in DEEP END: Yale MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, currently featured at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York…

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Exhibitions Composition and Contrast in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems
April 21, 2014 Donald Scarinci

Winding your way through the corridors featuring Italian Futurism to the second floor at the Guggenheim, a treasure of Carrie Mae Weems photographs is exhibited in a thought provoking and moving arrangement. Photographers seeking inspiration for their own work and an illustration of how composition and contrast make images with power and punch should visit the Guggenheim to see this.   So too should those seeking insight about how to display their work or their collections. The individual photographs are masterpieces of composition, staging and technique.  Even Weems photojournalism and her documentary photographs demonstrate her mastery of composition and the use…

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