Jen Bekman Gallery is now accepting entries for the Second Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! 2008.

The last round of Hey, Hot Shot! for 2008 is officially underway! We are now accepting submissions for the second edition of Hey, Hot Shot! 2008. Please note our shorter-than-usual entry period: The deadline is Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 @ 8pm.

In other HHS! news, we’ve got a new + improved web site! Big thanks go to the fantastic fellas of Little Jacket for the new logo and design. There’s more to come too — we’ll be making additional improvements to the site’s functionality and adding some nifty new features as well, so visit frequently and often.

Not yet familiar with the awesomeness that is Hey, Hot Shot!? Read on for details about the competition and don’t forget to check out our spectacular panelists.

Hey, Hot Shot! — The Best Thing Going for Emerging Photographers

Hey, Hot Shot! offers unrivaled opportunities for emerging photographers to have their work promoted online, reviewed by top-notch panelists and exhibited in our New York gallery. Now in its fourth year, the international competition has been lauded by curators, critics, educators and journalists. This year, we’ve sharpened our focus on fewer hot shots, giving them even more exposure.

fewer hot shots + longer exhibitions = more exposure
Our panel will select five Hot Shots to exhibit their work in a two-week showcase @ Jen Bekman Gallery. Two shows per year, with half as many people in each exhibition, add up to a higher profile for each winning photographer.

cold hard cash
Each winning photographer will be awarded a $500 honorarium.

ultras go solo
At year’s end two Ultras will be selected from 2008’s ten Hot Shots. The Ultras will be represented by Jen Bekman Gallery and slated for solo exhibitions.

in it to win it
As always, we’ll select contenders to feature daily on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog throughout the entry period.

collect yourself
Contenders will also be considered for 20×200, Jen Bekman’s newest online endeavor which offers limited edition prints at affordable prices. These editions are collected (and coveted) the world over by art lovers, editors and curators.

So what are you waiting for? Get your work out there: Apply Now!

The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 @ 8pm (EDT).

Winners will be announced on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 @ 1pm (EDT).

There is a $60 handling fee for your entry.

Submissions are open to everyone, from anywhere in the world!

        

Jen Bekman. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—the lady is tireless. As if being a full-time gallerist wasn’t enough! Jen still manages to do a million other awesome things, like find the time to be a founding editor of the super hip blog on MediaBistro,  UnBeige.  The New York Times featured UnBeige in an article on Shopping With Design Bloggers.  Check out the full article here.

Also, in case you missed it, see the article on Jen that ran in the Times this past February, Easing the Pain of Collecting.

Image from Birth Piontek’s Sub Rosa series

Bom dia collectors, especially to all of you in Brazil. 20×200 photographer, Fall 2007 Hot Shot and Ultra, Birthe Piontek is currently showing work at São Paulo’s Galeria Leme in a group show, Portrait II. Selected images from Birthe’s Sub Rosa series are on view now through October 4th. The entire series was previously on view at Jen Bekman Gallery, and can be viewed here.

Galeria Leme
Rua Agostinho Cantu, 88
São Paulo, Brazil

Birthe’s edition print:
Untitled (from Sub Rosa)
Birthe’s artist page at Jen Bekman Gallery
Birthe’s site

 

Congratulations are in order for 20×200 photographer Beth Dow who was awarded the Grand Prize fromPhotography.Book.Now’s competition for her book In the Garden.

From the press release:

“I’m both humbled and thrilled by this achievement, and to have my work recognized by such a prestigious group of judges,” said Beth Dow, Grand Prize winner, Photography.Book.Now. “This award will allow me to finish a deeply meaningful project that I may not have otherwise had the chance to do, and I’m profoundly grateful. Congratulations to all the photographers who submitted their work to Photography.Book.Now.”

For those of you in San Francisco, there will be an awards ceremony this Friday, September 19th. RSVP here.

San Francisco Awards Ceremony and Meet-up
Bimbos 365 Club
1025 Columbus Avenue (at Chestnut Street)
San Francisco, CA 94133

Beth is represented by Jen Bekman Gallery.
Images from her last solo show, Fieldwork, can be seen here.
Beth’s 20×200 edition prints:
Bags
Clearing, Wakehurst Place
Beth’s website

Jen Bekman is pleased to present Doing a Lot With Very Little, an exhibition of new paintings by Carrie Marill. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and featured in publications such as New American Paintings, Wired Magazine, and The New York Times. This will be her first solo exhibition in New York City.

The exhibition will be on view Friday, September 12 through October 18, 2008 at Jen Bekman Gallery, located at 6 Spring Street, New York, NY, 10012. An opening reception for the artist will be held on the evening of Friday, September 12 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the gallery.

In Carrie’s own words:

Doing a Lot with Very Little is the result of my endeavor to create a series of non-narrative work. I am using recognizable imagery and the language of systems to create a dialog; the mathematical and the organic cohabitate, creating a world of exploration and curiosity.

I chose to paint house plants after coming across some elegant images in a Japanese architecture book. I’ve painted them before and found myself returning to plants when I needed a break from the detailed birds I had been working on over the past year. I like the quiet and contemplative way drawings of ordinary house plants can say so much, through very little.

The abstract drawings are observations in color, value and composition, generating three-dimensional images in a two dimensional space. They act as pauses between the house plant paintings. It is an organic process, each color choice was in response to the previous color painted. Simple marks combine together to create an optical illusion, much like the subtle value changes and intricate lines that make up the images of house plants.

Read Carrie’s full artist statement
Read the full press release

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

Doing a Lot with Very Little will be on view view from September 12th – October 18th, 2008

20×200 and Carrie Marill were selected for the Hot List in Louisiana Homes & Gardens September issue.

Look for Carrie Marill’s solo show, Doing a Lot with Very Little, opening at Jen Bekman Gallery September 12th.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
New York, NY

Opening Reception: Friday September 12th 6pm-8pm

Jen Bekman Gallery art star Amy Ross is in a group show curated by Rita de Alencar Pinto. All Cut Up opens next week at Roebling Hall in Manhattan. From the press release:

ALL CUT UP signals an inventive curatorial approach, whereby the artists have been chosen not by a core theme or unified ideal, but in a process that mirrors collage itself. It is a mental collage of color, texture, scale, and wildly differing themes, which creates a raw and “unsupervised” look. The curator has cast a wide net, traveling all over the United States and Europe to draw upon a group of incredibly talented and varied artists. Each builds on the next, coming together by using the space in the gallery as a conduit. 

Roebling Hall
606 West 26th Street NY, NY
September 4 – October 4, 2008

Amy’s 20×200 editions:

Manshroom

Duck Magnolia

Amy’s works on paper: Jen Bekman Gallery

Amy’s website

Jen Bekman is vying for a panel spot at SXSW ‘09. You can help her secure this place by casting a vote for her proposal:

Curating the Crowd-Sourced World

Type: Panel
Presenter: Jen Bekman, 20×200 | Jen Bekman Projects, Inc.
Description: With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who’s best-suited to determine what’s best – curators or the crowd? People have their religion about one or the other, however this panel will focus on the overlap, the grey areas and how curating and crowd-sourcing enrich each other.

Voting closes on August 29, so please, kind reader, give us a vote!

A Question of Time by Hey, Hot Shot! winner Kate Orne

Opening tonight, Friday August 8th, at Jen Bekman Gallery! The Hey, Hot Shot! winners are all set for their day in the sun! The show will be up through Saturday, August 23rd.

Winning photographers in the exhibition:

Juliane Eirich
Derek Henderson
Roc Herms Pont
Kate Orne
Colleen Plumb

Hope to see you there!

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

Jen Bekman has been a busy bee out West for quite a while. She hosted a 20×200 party this week, and the week before she gave a talk at PSKF. You’d think it be high time for the little lady to return to NYC but no! This weekend (July 26th and 27th) Jen will be in Portland, Oregon to join a panel of reviewers for Photolucida’s Northwest Summer Portfolio Review.

For those of you in the Portland area, check out the Art Institute of Portland on Saturday, July 26 from 6 – 9pm. As part of the weekend Portfolio Review there will be an Portfolio Walk showcasing national and local emerging photographers.

If you see Jen, please send her back to New York straightaway, we miss her around here!

Christine Callahan image from Inheritance series

Jen Bekman artist Christine Callahan is part of a group show opening tonight at Heist Gallery. The curiously titled show, I’ll Be Your Mirror…So You Can Break Into Endless Shards “is an obvious reference to the mythic Velvet Underground song titled “I’ll be your mirror” in which Nico sang in her beautiful ingenue voice the first part of this title, it is equally a celebration of love, life, empathy, death and everything we may endure through a shared experience with another.”

Read more here.

Heist Gallery

27 Essex Street New York, New York
July 17 – August 10, 2008
Opening: Thursday, July 17, 6 – 8PM

Once again the tireless Jen Bekman boards an airplane and sets forth out into the wilds of the west to attend a conference dedicated to sharing and learning about new ideas in the creative community. Jen will take part in PSFK and join 25 other “senior professionals from the advertising, design, digital, entertainment, media and marketing industries” for a day of engaging and inspiring colloquiums.

If you are lucky enough to be in the San Francisco area, and are interested in attending (and why wouldn’t you be if you are reading this blog?!), you can grab yourself a ticket here.

Porsche by HHS! winner Juliane Eirich

Yippiee!

The winners of the first edition of Hey, Hot Shot! 2008 have been announced:

Juliane Eirich
Derek Henderson
Roc Herms Pont
Kate Orne
Colleen Plumb

The opening reception will be held on Friday, August 8. The show will be on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through August 23.

Jen Bekman Gallery Presents: Ornithology from Derrick Tan on Vimeo.

Good things are always happening at Jen Bekman Gallery, and this little video is proof. Jen Bekman herself walks you through the Ornithology group show which is currently gracing our walls.

Hopefully it will inspire you to come out and take a closer look.

The show is on view through August 2nd.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

 

Navigating the burgeoning Lower East Side art scene is a little challenging without a little help.  Jen Bekman Gallery generously produced a Google map to help eager seekers find what they are looking for.  Today’s edition of The New York Times acknowledged this endeavor as a great way to begin to orient seekers to the expanding art scene.

Read Mary Billard’s full article here.

Our Summer group show, Ornithology, is opening in less than a week. Mark your calendar and we’ll look for you Wednesday night from 6-8pm to celebrate the talents of these 14 dazzling artists:

Echo Eggebrecht | Todd Forsgren | Laura Levine | Carrie Marill | Christina Muraczewski |Victoria Neel | Lamar Peterson | Jason Polan | Amy Ross | Alec Soth | Amy Stein | Keith Taylor | Bert Teunissen | Luke Stephenson

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

Ornithology will be on view view June 25 – August 2, 2008

 

 

 

The indefatigable Jen Bekman is currently in Madrid, Spain to attend and participate in PHoto España. While there Jen will join a Photography Review panel of photography critics, gallerists, editors and collectors to critique the work of 70 finalists.

Two 20×200 photographers Jessica Bruah and Birthe Piontek have been selected to share their work to the panel and to vie for a shot at a solo show at the next edition of PHoto España.

Buena suerte ladies!

 

All art-world insiders worth their salt will tell you the same thing: Art is first and foremost about what you like. That’s you and your taste, not that of the gallery owner, the press or the museums.  “I think it’s really important to buy what you love,” says Bekman.

By Allison Williams 

Time Out New York Jun 4–10, 2008

Read full article

Jen Bekman and Omar Wasow at the Griffin Museum’s Focus Awards dinner in Winchester, MA.

A warm congratulations to you, Miss Bekman! On May 8th Omar Wasow presented Jen Bekman with the Griffin Photography Museum’s Rising Star Award celebrating her Web savvy commitment to redefining gallery culture. 

PDN’s Jill Waterman filed a report on the ceremony:

The sexiest Internet executive (according to People Magazine), cyber guru Omar Wasow, awarded the Rising Star honor to innovative New York gallerist Jen Bekman, noting that with her latest online exhibition 20×200 Bekman has shipped more than 11,000 prints, to make this exhibit “the gateway drug to the artworld”.

 Read the full entry on the PDN Pulse Blog.

Five More Years @ Jen Bekman

Belated Happy New Year greetings! 2008 is off to a great start for Jen Bekman Gallery.

I’m most happy to announce that we’ve renewed our lease at 6 Spring St! We are looking forward to 5 more years in the ‘hood, which has become quite the art destination, thanks to the recent opening of The New Museum and the arrival of scads of excellent new galleries.

Read on for updates on Friday’s Ne Plus Ultra opening, a Sunday reception at Joe, media mentions and other upcoming events.

Ne Plus Ultra, the Hey, Hot Shot! Annual Opens Fri. 2.8 | 6pm-8pm

Image Credit: Untitled from the series Sub Rosa (2006) by Birthe Piontek

Ne Plus Ultra, the Hey, Hot Shot! Annual, opens @ Jen Bekman Gallery on Friday February 8th, 2008. The reception is from 6pm-8pm, and as always frosty beer beverages will be provided by Crumpler.

Please join me and all of this year’s Ultras at the reception:

Nina Berman
Karolina Karlic
Brad Moore
Birthe Piontek

The exhibition will remain on view through Saturday March 15th, 2008. (The gallery’s official 5 year anniversary!)

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
NYC NY 10012
ph: +1.212.219.0166

Joe’s NYC: jen@joe Presents Photographs by Joseph O. Holmes

Image Credit: Broadway (2007) by Joseph O. Holmes

Please join photographer Joe Holmes, Joe proprietor Jonathan Rubinstein and me on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 from 3-5 pm at a reception for Joe’s NYC, the latest installment of our ongoing series jen@joe:

Joe
9 E 13th St.
(between University Place and 5th Avenue)

The exhibition, Joe’s NYC, is comprised of 29 NY-centric prints and will remain on view through April 25th, 2008.

The prints are available in three very affordably priced sizes and will be available exclusively online at jenatjoe.com.

We’ll be hosting other jen@joe events throughout the exhibition. Sign up for the jen@joe newsletter to stay up to date on announcements.

Points of Interest: Online + Elsewhere

Image Credit: White Ice by Tema Stauffer. Read about it on the 20×200 blog.A portion of the proceeds from this edition will benefit The Art Shanty Projects.

As if two openings in one week weren’t enough, there are plenty of other things keeping me busy over the next few months.

20×200 continues apace with two new editions each and every week. Be sure to sign up for our mailing list to get advance notice on new editions.

I’m packing my long johns and heading off to Minneapolis for a few art-filled days (and nights.) I’ll be doing portfolio reviews (afternoon) and a presentation (evening) at the Minnesota Center for Photography on Monday, February 18th.

I’m also looking forward to attending The Art Shanty Projects and the opening of World’s Away at The Walker Art Center. Another show I won’t be missing is Ultra Karolina Karlic’s exhibition at Franklin Art Works.

In quick succession after that: Santa Fe, where I’m honored to be jurying Center’s Singular Image Prize for color photography, Austin, where I’m speaking on a panel at South By Southwest and Houston, where I’ll be reviewing portfolios at Fotofest.

Points of Interest: Online + In Print

Image Credit: Foam Magazine #13 / searching

If you love photography and find yourself in Amsterdam, be sure not to miss the Foam Fotografie Museum, an amazing vibrant venue for exhibitions of established and emerging photographers.

The most recent issue of Foam Magazine, their gorgeous quarterly magazine, includes Jen Bekman: Gallery Without Walls, a long format interview with me by writer Eric Miles, accompanied by portraits from the very excellent Stefan Ruiz.

We have lots of other great media in the pipeline. Some is still a secret, but be on the lookout for Jen Bekman Projects, especially 20×200, in a diverse array of publications including Wired, Redbook and The Artist Magazine.

Also on the horizon: big (exciting! awesome!) changes are in store for Hey, Hot Shot! in 2008.

Stay tuned, and stay up to date: bookmark our blogs, or subscribe to their RSS feeds:

Jen Bekman News Blog
The Hey, Hot Shot! Blog
The 20×200 Blog
Personism (my personal blog.)

Most of all, we’d love to see you in person! Come visit us at the gallery:

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St (between Elizabeth + Bowery)
NYC 10012
+1.212.219.1066

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm