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Manual Transmission I

Curators: Patrick Amsellem, Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum,
Joy Drury Cox, Artist, Nathaniel Ward, Curator, Special Projects, Humble

Saturday, July 31, 8:30 P.M.
(Exhibition begins at 9 P.M.)
Bush Gardens Rooftop
250 Moore Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Directions: Ride the L train to Morgan Ave. Exit at Bogart St. Turn right on Bogart St. Walk two blocks to Moore St. Make a right on Moore. Destination is on the left.

Humble Arts Foundation is pleased to present Manual Transmission I, a group exhibition where the curators commissioned 10 artists (individuals or collaborative groups) to create a unique piece comprised of 36 exposures from one roll of 35mm color slide film. The exhibition will display each project of all 36 exposures simultaneously on 10 screens during a one-night rooftop slide show on July 31, 2010, 8:30 P.M.

Manual Transmission I is an analog response to a digital culture of isolated viewers flipping through single images online. There is still great potential in the unique aesthetics and collective experience of the traditional slide show. Further, in focusing on a photographic technology that has seen its heyday come and go, we are reminded that the current methods of digital photography and web viewership will also eventually exist as obsolete and anachronistic.

Humble Arts Foundation presents each carousel as an individual artwork in an attempt to move the creation and dissemination of new photography out of a digital space into a more tangible one, even if only for one night.

Commissioned Artists: Ben Alper, Carey Denniston, Matthew Gamber, Rachel Herman, Alexander Ho, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Jeff McLane, Garret Miller & Curtis Hamilton (collaboration), Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and David B. Smith

Ben Alper graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design with a BFA in photography. His work has been featured in Humble Arts Foundation’s Group Show, the Photographic Resource Center’s Northeast Exposure Online, Wassenaar Magazine, Ahorn Magazine and 52 Editions. In 2005, he co-founded The Exposure Project, a photography collective designed to facilitate collaboration across the medium. This May, Ben will be exhibiting work in the group exhibition Graphic Intersections at the Umbrage Gallery in DUMBO. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Carey Denniston was born in 1981 in Portland, Oregon. After receiving her BA in English; Creative Writing from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, she moved to New York City to study at the International Center of Photography. She entered the MFA program at Hunter College in 2009 and is currently an MFA candidate.

Matthew Gamber earned an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. He is currently an imaging technician with Preservation & Imaging at Harvard University, and Editor-in-Chief of Big RED & Shiny. He has taught at Savannah College of Art & Design, Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University, College of the Holy Cross, and Massachusetts College of Art & Design.

Rachel Herman holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The University of Chicago, and a BA in English Literature from the University of Michigan. Her work has been exhibited nationwide, including a recent solo show at Light Work in Syracuse, NY and group shows at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, and Gallery 400 in Chicago, among others. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch and participated in Review Santa Fe. She is currently an adjunct photography instructor at Columbia College in Chicago and Dominican University in River Forest, IL.

Alexander Ho was born in 1988 in Los Angeles, California, raised in Monterey Park, California, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He received Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Photography from Parsons the New School for Design. His practice, in relation to photography, involves work in conceptual art, fashion, curation, and editing.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman was born in Detroit in 1981. He is the author of a volume of poems, “19 Names For Our Band” (Fence Books, 2008) and the curator of “WRONG: A Program of Text and Image” (Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, 2009). His performances and readings (often integrating the projected image) have been seen at P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Arts and Design and the New School and the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church. Educated at Bard College (in photography) and Brown University (in poetry), he lives and works and blogs about literature and music videos (at everybook.blogspot.com) in Brooklyn.

Jeff McLane is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Born in Oklahoma, his photographic works have focused on rural land function, urban landscape and image capture technology. He received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and is an active contributor of the Los Angeles based art collective From Here To There. Recent exhibitions include New Works, Bandit Gallery, 2009 and From Here To There presents From Here To There, Synchronicity Gallery, 2009.

Garret Miller was born in New York, in late winter of 1983. His first solo show was at Envoy Enterprises in September of 2009, with work from the project “We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us”. He is currently an MFA candidate at the ICP- Bard program.

Curtis Hamilton is currently an MFA candidate (class of 2011) at the International Center of Photography – Bard College program for Advanced Photographic Studies. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and was most recently published in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times.

Paul Sepuya is Brooklyn-based artist currently completing an LMCC Workspace Residency 2009-2010 and will be an artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography in Woodstock this June. Recent exhibitions include 30 Seconds Off an Inch, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Compassion, at the Union Theological Seminary, curated by AA Bronson. His work has been featured and reviewed in Interview, Capricious, Paper, The New York Times, among others. He published SHOOT zine from 2005 – 2008 and is publishing a collaborative book of collage with artist Timothy Hull, out this summer.

David B. Smith lives and works in Brooklyn making conceptual photographs, video, sound, and mixed media works that often result in immersive physical installations. He seeks to illuminate hidden hierarchies of value and connoisseurship in art and culture – particularly related to process and display practices. He has shown and performed internationally in places such as Exit Art, Location One, Humble Arts’ Online, Envoy Gallery, ABC No Rio, Scope Fair, HQ Gallery, Heist Gallery, 3rd Ward, and Why and Wherefore. David also performs music under the moniker Doom Trumpet – samples of songs and visual art can be found on thedavidsmith.com.