The Wall Street Journal features Holly Andres' series "The Fall of Spring Hill", currently on exhibition at the Robert Mann Gallery in NYC.

Rebecca Horne interviews Holly about her work.  

RH: How do you go about planning and executing such detailed images? Can you briefly explain your process?

HA: To borrow a distinction coined by Jeff Wall, I’m more of a farmer rather than a hunter. Although I have a really perceptive ‘internal camera,’ I’m not a photographer that shoots daily. I usually embark on a photo project with a prevailing theme in mind for the entire series and then, rather systematically, craft each individual photograph. Typically an idea evolves from a life experience, memory or conversation that elicits a powerful image (or ‘filmstrip’) in my mind. The way that I work requires a lot of pre-production, much like preparing for a film shoot, as well as an extensive post-production phase. Often my work involves the tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext. I’m interested in the cognitive dissonance that can result from employing formal elements such as bright colors, decorative patterns, theatrical lighting and characters that reflect stereotypes of innocence, girlish femininity and motherhood to address unsettling themes.

Read the rest here!

Katherine Wolkoff shot a library of work for Novartis with Hill Holiday.  Thank you Carolyn, you're amazing!

These are the stills, check out the video here!

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Here's what Shawn Records has been up to lately!

Check out the new gallery here.

A solo exhibition of Holly Andres' new body of work The Fall of Spring Hill will be on view at Robert Mann Gallery.

The opening is tonight, January 26th, 2012 from 5-8.

Hope you can make it!

Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue, 212-989-7600
NYC

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Elizabeth Weinberg collaborated with the artist Mike Perry to create these billboards for the LA Live complex in Downtown LA.

They just went up, so if you’re driving by, take a look!

HELLO ARTISTS is excited to announce Holly Andres joining the roster! 

Holly uses photography to ponder the complexities of childhood, the fleeting nature of memory, and female introspection. Typically her images rely on a tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Istanbul, Turkey and Portland Oregon where she lives and works. Her work has been featured in Exit Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Art News, Oprah Magazine, Elle Magazine, The LA Times, and Art Ltd. – which profiled her as one of 15 emerging West Coast artists under the age of 35.

Most recently Andres’s work was selected for Go West! Cutting-Edge Creatives in the United States, a book surveying the best creative minds in architecture, design, art, fashion, photography and advertising - published by German-based, DAAB Books, 2011.

"To me the most interesting and inspiring thing aspect of  new york is how your perspective is created by the level you exist at, physically, and psychically. most of my inspiration comes to me while traveling on my way to my destinations, New York is an amazing town for that.  You can walk, take the train, be underground/overground, cross rivers, see skylines, all on your way to work. Here's a few things I see on my way to my travels around town."

http://file-magazine.com/citylikeyou/profiles/timothy-saccenti

Grant Cornett and his personal project 'Ma Neese' was featured in this months British Journal Magazine.  The story documents Grant's grandmother's home in Colombus Missisippi, that Grant's Gradfather built decades ago.  "It's the only house still standing in my 36 years of living.  I've done everything to crawling in diapers to sneaking cigarettes under that roof, and that's where my interest lies, not so much the aesthetic, allthough it is an interesting looking house."

“Photography became a place for me to escape and think about this life that was changing so quickly and greatly,” he says. “It became my companion, my journal, a tool that keeps on teaching and that needs to be learnt. This has never stopped. But there’s no sense in restricting oneself to one form or the other. People, objects, places, each are constructed of the same matter, each make up and are made up of form. Various lighting techniques, the use of colour or black-and-white –each brings out a different mood, viewpoint, reference.”