Rick Owens, Designer of Edgy Fashion and now Edgy Furniture

(Daybed, 2010. Alabaster 350 cm x 120 cm x 100 cm)

Rick Owens furniture exhibition

Pavane For A Dead Princess

May 8 through June 25, 2010

Salon 94 Gallery

12 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128

Monday - Friday 11:00 am - 6:00pm

T 646.672.9212

The Paris-based fashion extraordinaire designer is in the Big Apple staying at the Bowery Hotel to launch his 1st NYC launch of his furniture line produced by Ruth Weissenberg and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn.  The show's title borrowed from a Ravel piano solo evokes the added send of high Victorian sub-obssessions with death and sexuality. Alabaster, the stone of the daybed piece, was used widely in funeral pieces from the Egyptians through today for it's semi-lumescence for a hard stone as well as it's white puritanical appearance and softness in finish. The post and lintel arrangement seems to echo the lines of a tomb or tombstone as well as the starkness between the black horiztonals and the moonlike white anchor.

NY Photo Festival 2010

The Portfolio Reviews are going to be really successful. Looks like great judges including yours truly. Last year I brought an aspiring book photographer and ended up subbing for a no-show instructor on the business of commercial photography so I used my syllabus I taught the PDN PhotoPlus Expo as a framework on the spot -which was nerve wracking and interesting. I met a lot of new talent and upandcomers and some indenial crazy photographersnots too.

THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010

TO TAKE PLACE MAY 12—16

CURATED BY VINCE ALETTI, ERIK KESSELS, FRED RITCHIN AND LOU REED

THREE YEARS IN, ORGANIZERS HAVE SUCCEEDED AT CREATING THE U.S.’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL-LEVEL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

The New York Photo Festival (NYPH) grew out of a simple and stark conundrum: New York City, the world’s capital of photography, had no major photography festival. In fact, there was no American counterpart to the prestigious festivals of Europe. To fill the void, Daniel Power of powerHouse Books and Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency—both based in the creative hotbed of DUMBO, Brooklyn—founded the New York Photo Festival in 2008. After debuting to international acclaim, the festival grew in 2009, in spite of the recession. The increasing success, especially given the circumstances, has affirmed the vital demand for the New York Photo Festival, as well as its staying power. The third annual festival will take place May 12—16, 2010 with expanded programming, more locations across the city, and extended hours.

To help create the festival, Power and Evers select four world-class curators to bring their personal visions of the most provocative and intriguing developments in contemporary photography to the event’s main pavilions. For NYPH’10, they have chosen Vince Aletti, Erik Kessels, Fred Ritchin, and Lou Reed. The curators’ exhibitions will be announced soon.

The New York Photo Festival has become not only an essential destination for photo professionals, amateurs and students from around the world, but also a favorite event of countless art and culture aficionados. The programming includes exhibitions, live performances, slideshows and book signings, in addition to seminars and workshops.