Robert Mann Gallery Announces 'Leo Rubinfien' Exhibition & Representation News

Leo Rubinfien Exhibition

Leo Rubinfien was recently presented with the "Artist of the Year Gold Award" at the 2009 Lianzhou International Photography Festival in China. Rubinfien presented a solo exhibition of Wounded Cities at the recent festival. A group show of highlights from the LIPF festival is currently touring China, and photographs from Wounded Cities will appear in the festival's catalogue, which is forthcoming.

Rubinfien is also included in the survey exhibition Starburst: Color Photography in America, 1970-1980, opening Feb. 13th at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The corresponding catalogue, by Kevin Moore, is being published by Hatje Cantz, and includes 14 photographs and a short memoir by Rubinfien. A book launch will be held at Edwynn Houk Gallery on February 25th with several of the included photographers participating. Following the close of the exhibition on May 9 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Starburst will travel to the Princeton University Art Museum, where it will be on view from July 10 through September 26.

In April Rubinfien will also be included in a four person exhibition at the Carol Shen Gallery at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn. The other artists in the exhibition, opening April 15, are An-My Lê, Zeke Berman, and John Pilson.

Pictured: Leo Rubinfien
Left: On a Slow Train to Surabaya, 1980 

Representation of Julie Blackmon

Robert Mann Gallery is very pleased to announce representation of artist Julie Blackmon. Combining candid images reminiscent of Helen Levitt's photographs of children with carefully chosen sets, Blackmon creates poignant domestic landscapes. Inspired as much by Dutch master paintings as by photographic history, she interweaves fictional narratives with the unscripted moments of childhood of her own children and the many nieces, nephews and friends that surround them. The eldest of nine siblings, and a mother of three, Blackmon is uniquely sensitive to the dynamics of family life.

Plying the tenuous line between imagination and reality, her tableaux depict often humorous moments in the chaos of the everyday. Blackmon strives to capture the complexity of domestic mise-en-scène, embracing both the fantastic and the quotidian. Portraying subtle vacillations between delight and boredom, her photographs bring to light the difficult balance of the demands of family and self. While playmates and siblings enact their desire for play, adult responsibilities are never too far in the background.

Blackmon's work is included in numerous public collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and George Eastman House, and was included in recent exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the DeCordova Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. In 2008 she was recognized as American Photo's Emerging Photographer of the Year. We look forward to her first exhibition at the gallery in the coming year!

For more information, including pricing and availability, please contact the gallery at mail@robertmann.com.

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