Noah Addis

Filmmakers Galleries opens a new exhibit, Have A Nice Day, as part of an ongoing exchange PF/PCA has with Center For Emerging Visual Arts (CFEVA) in Philadelphia. Selections of recent cutting-edge works by Noah Addis, Lewis Colburn, Don Edler, Jordan Griska, Mami Kato, Maggie Mills, Tim Portlock, Alison Stigora, Jennifer Williams, and Kimberly Witham are as wide ranging in concepts as they are in medium and treatments. The show includes digital prints, sculpture, paintings, and large site-specific vinyl graphics. Exhibit openning to coincide with Three Rivers film Festival, Opening Night.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers 477 Melwood Avenue

I should have real film back by early next week but in the meantime here are a few more polaroids.

I’d like to extend a special thanks to Shrish Kothari, who was a great assistant during these first two shoots.

Like many photographers I have been thinking about how to document the occupations that started on Wall Street in New York and have spread across the United States. After visiting the occupation here in Philadelphia, I was amazed by the diversity of the participants. Instead of focusing on the signs, tents and marches, I wanted to focus on the people involved in the movement. I decided the best way to do this would be to set up a portable studio at the occupation site in order to make very simple collaborative portraits.

I’ll be shooting more portraits in Philly, New York and hopefully other cities over the coming days and weeks.

These are scanned polaroids, the final images were shot on 4×5 film. Stay tuned.

A Spotlight Exhibition featuring
Career Development Program Fellow Noah Addis

August 25 – September 15, 2011

Artist Talk & Reception: Thursday, August 25th, 5 – 7 PM

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA)
237 S. 18th Street, The Barclay, 3^rd Floor,
Philadelphia, PA  19103
215-546-7775
www.cfeva.org

Hours:  Monday – Friday 11am – 5pm
and by appointment

The Kensington section of Philadelphia was a working-class neighborhood until the 50′s when the textile mills and other factories shut down and the neighborhood went into a steady decline. Kensington Avenue, which runs under an elevated subway train, is the epicenter of the heroin and cocaine trade in the city. It’s on the Eastern edge of what has come to be known as the ‘badlands’, a high-crime area where gangs control the flourishing drug trade.

Kensington Avenue, known as ‘the stroll’, is also inhabited by many of the city’s prostitutes and their johns. Recently several murders attributed to the ‘Kensington Strangler’ have brought media attention to the area, but even before the current string of murders, crime and violence against prostitutes was commonplace, underreported and rarely pursued by police.

The weed-filled land that dots the area is used by drug addicts looking for a place to get high and by prostitutes looking for a place to do business.

I’m very excited to have been selected to participate in The Summer Show Project 2011 at Foley Gallery in New York.

The Summer Show Project offers the unique chance for artists to work directly with Foley Gallery, creating new work to be curated in a group exhibition in June 2011.

A photograph from my work in Peru will be featured in the Holiday Emerging Artist’s Auction at Daniel Cooney Fine Art. The online auction starts today and runs through December 16th.

Daniel Cooney Fine Art is a great gallery in Chelsea that is committed to showing the best in emerging art and under-recognized work by established artists.

Holiday Emerging Artist’s Auction Online

Inquiries: 212 255 8158 or dan@danielcooneyfineart.com.

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 West 25th Street, #506
New York, NY 10001
212 255 8158

Happy Holidays. Bid early and often!

I’ll be showing a slideshow of recent work at the first ever Slideluck Potshow to be held in Philadelphia.

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW Philadelphia

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

7pm Potluck  |  9pm Slideshow  |  Afterparty to follow

Slideluck Potshow is a New York City-based, non-profit arts organization that provides an opportunity for artists and arts-appreciators to gather around food, friends, and artwork for an unforgettable night. This event, which began in a Seattle backyard ten years ago and regularly draws crowds of a thousand people in NYC, is finally coming to the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center!

The evening begins with a couple hours of mingling and dining on the home-cooked delights of those who attend, and then the lights are dimmed, the crowd is hushed, and a spectacular slideshow commences. Think slideshow + potluck dinner.

Participating artists are Noah Addis, Chris Bavaria, Glenn Benge, Janet Cass, Chung Chak, Peter DiCampo, Alex Djordjevic, Judy Gelles, Gregory Gentert, Laura Glabman, Jordanna Kalman, Michael Koehler, Dan Lobdell, Catherine Maloney, Maria Moller, Aaron Nutter, Natalie Obermaier, Joe Quint, Brian Reeves, Dale Rio, Stephanie Schatz, Samantha Sheehan, Nancy Siesel, David Soffa, Jenna Stamm, Blaise Tobia, Christine Welch, and Mark Winicov.

Slideluck Potshow Philadelphia was curated by:

Robert Cozzolino
Curator of Modern Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Martin McNamara
Principal, Gallery 339

Villa Maria del Triunfo, Lima, Peru. 2010

A photograph from my recent trip to Lima will be included in the New Normal exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO. My work was selected for the Juror’s Honorable Mention award by Edward Robinson, the Associate Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

New Normal is on display from November 5 – 27, 2010 with an opening reception on November 5 from 6-9pm. I’ll be unable to attend the opening due to an assignment. But it looks to be an interesting show if you’re in the Colorado area.

I’m excited to be participating in the Philadelphia Open Studio tours for the first time. Since I don’t really have a studio, I’ll be showing my work at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Center City, Philadelphia at 1521 Locust Street, Lower Level.

POST is taking place on October 2-3 from noon-6pm.