July 8th, 2009
Bose Pacia

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Michael Bühler-Rose
Edition 1/3, 2009
acrylic on unique silver gelatin photogram
8 x 10 inches
Bose Pacia
508 West 26th St, 11th FL
New York, NY 10001
T: 212.989.7074
F: 212.989.6982
mail@bosepacia.com
www.bosepacia.com

After Color
Curated by amani olu
Artists: Michael Bühler-Rose, Talia Chetrit, Matthew Gamber, Stephen Gill, Adrien Missika, Pushpamala N, Arthur Ou, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Michael Vahrenwald


July 8 – August 21
Press preview: Wednesday, July 8, 4 – 6
Opening reception, Wednesday, July 8, 6 - 9 pm
Panel discussion: Wednesday, July 15, 6 – 8

After Color examines how artists employ conceptual black-and-white photography to strengthen their ideas and how such usage comments on the dominance of large-scale, color photography as seen in the contemporary art world over the last 25 years.

In their work, Michael Bühler-Rose, Talia Chetrit and Noel Rodo-Vankeulen raise questions about medium specificity. Bühler-Rose merges a photogram of the word “edition” with hand painted numbers to ask: At what point does a piece become unique, and at what point is it an editioned multiple?

Chetrit reverses the photographic process by using Photoshop’s gradient tool to make digitally fabricated images into traditional silver gelatin prints. Situated somewhere between the photographic and filmic, Rodo-Vankeulen’s mystical and pulsating animated GIFs breathe life into banal and often stilted images.

In a reference to abstract expressionistic painting, Matthew Gamber’s photographs of excessively used chalkboards suggest a kinship between the chalkboard and film photography’s recording capabilities. Stephen Gill’s typological still lifes of discarded betting slips are formal studies of composition and shape. Using South Indian female archetypes as her subject, Pushpamala N playfully restages the representation of women in photography, whether it is documentary, anthropological or art historical.

Finally, Adrien Missika, Arthur Ou and Michael Vahrenwald redefine landscape photography. Missika transforms the Grand Canyon into small, quarter sized landscapes that mimic floating planets. Ou experiments with the transparency of landscape photography by adding decorative elements created in the darkroom to prove its flatness. Vahrenwald’s photographs of depression therapy light boxes, explore the relationship between landscape and self, or in this case, create a surrogate landscape.


SCOPE Basel

June 1st, 2009

Amani Olu Projects

Michael Bühler-Rose, Michael Vahrenwald, Ann Woo

June 8-14th

Scope Basel; Sportplatz Landhor; Riehenstrasse 78a; CH- 4058, Basel; Switzerland

NY Art Fair Calendar

March 1st, 2009

I will be participating in the following events during the NY Art fairs from Wednesday. March 4th- Sunday March 8th.

The Armory
Nature Morte / Bose Pacia
Booth 810, Pier 94

Scope Art Fair
amani olu projects
Booth D01, Lincoln Center, 62 St. @ 10th Avenue.

I will be releasing an  11×14″ limited edition print through the Humble Arts Foundation at:

Pulse New York
Humble Arts Foundation Curates Artlog’s Booth at Pulse New York
Booth P-12, Pier 40, 353 West  Street @ West Houston

I am also happy to announce my participation in the The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography which is being launched at:

VOLTA NY

The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography Book Launch Party
Thursday, March 5, 6 – 9 PM
7 W. 34th Street at 5th Avenue
voltashow.com

The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography After Party
Boucarou
Thursday, March 5, 10 PM until late
64 E. 1st Street at 1st Avenue RSVP required for both events. Guest list strictly enforced. Send RSVPs to: rsvp@hafny.org.

GEP HAFNY Grant

December 4th, 2008

I am very happy to announce that I just received The Humble Arts Foundation’s Grant for Emerging Photographers to pursue my “Little Indian Still-life” project. Read more here.

The next deadline for applications is on the March 27th, 2009, so start planning out your proposal and apply.

Miami/NYC

December 4th, 2008

Although I am on my way to Miami, please get in touch if you are there too. The reception and book launch for The Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward ‘08 which I have been included in is tonight at:

Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
526 West 26th Street, Suite 605
New York City
6-8pm

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Things Are Strange

October 27th, 2008
 
THE CONVERSATION, ALACHUA, FL. 2006. 40″ X 50″ C-Print

HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION PRESENTSTHINGS ARE STRANGE

Curated by Jon Feinstein

Exhibiting Photographers:
Matthew Baum, Dan Boardman, Michael Bühler-Rose, Trey Edwards, Emiliano Granado, William Lamson, David La Spina, Alison Malone, Rachelle Mozman, Eric Percher, Cara Phillips, Matthew Porter, Amy Stein, Brad Troemel, Christian Weber, Hannah Whitaker, Sarah Wilmer, Ofer Wolberger

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6PM – 9PM

On View: Tuesday, November 4 – Saturday, November 15, 2008
+VIEW SELECT IMAGES+

THINGS ARE STRANGE
New Century Artists
530 West 25th Street, Suite 406
New York, NY 10001

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday | 11AM – 6PM

New York, New York—November 2008—Humble Arts Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of Things Are Strange, curated by Jon Feinstein. The group exhibition, which opens on Election Day, presents work by eighteen photographers whose images explores the peculiar, idiosyncratic and often absurd elements of the contemporary world, using them as a metaphor for the current state of social and political affairs. The work includes a range of subjects, from the bizarre phenomena of Emiliano Granado’s documentary pictures of ghost hunters and Cara Phillips’ transformation of plastic surgery machines into terrifying robots to Eric Percher’s exploration of the alienation of late night finance workers and Amy Stein’s images of stranded American travelers. Each photographer, by varying degrees, alludes to a world that is gradually falling apart at the seams.


Northeast Exposure Online

October 27th, 2008

Boston’s Photographic Resource Center has been kind enough to put together a gallery of my work for their Northeast Exposure Online Gallery here.

another “young curator” review

August 20th, 2008

…Florida-based artist Charles Benton’s Opposing Photographers, curated by Michael Bühler-Rose, is a natural starting point, since it uses projectors pointed at opposite walls to place the viewer directly between two photographer’s sightlines, forcing one to confront what Benton sees as the inevitable tension between photographer and subject in an ingenious bit of meta-photography….

from “Beyond Race, groundbreaking music and culture” full text here.

The Form Itself

August 19th, 2008

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The Form Itself”

curated by Michael Bühler-Rose

Talia Chetrit, Adrian Crabbs, Joy Drury Cox, Van Hanos, David Haxton, Matt Johnson, Ryan Kitson, Roula Partheniou, and Austin Willis.

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 W. 27th St., 2nd Fl. NY, NY.
Sept. 4th- Oct. 11th
Reception Thursday, September 4th, 6-9 pm more info soon.

AM New York

August 17th, 2008

AM New York wrote a nice review about my contribution, Charles Benton’s “Opposing Photographers”, to the “Young Curators, New Ideas” show over at the Bond Street Gallery which opened last Wednesday, pictures soon.

I have included the nice words about Benton’s piece below, the rest can be found here :

“The most striking contribution is Michael Buhler-Rose’s presentation of Charles Benton’s “Opposing Photographers.” The installation consists of two slide shows on facing walls, featuring photographers snapping shots of each other. Thus, the roles of photographer and subject are shared by both participants. The viewer is also made part of the action, hearing the click of each slide slotting into place before seeing the image pop up on screen. Further subverting the tenets of the medium, in each portrait, the subject’s face is obscured by their camera. It’s a playful work that fully engulfs the viewer. The installation also benefits from its placement in the basement, giving the work its own environment.”