Hazel Hankin exhibits at AM Richard Fine Art

ALL ROADS LEAD TO CONEY ISLAND curated by Andrew Garn

Contemporary works of art, paintings, sculpture, films, photographs and historical ephemera.

Works by robert & robbie bailey, todd boebel, matilde damele, françois deschamps,richard eagan, emily feinstein, hazel hankin, robert hickman, hawley hussey, bill jacobson, marc kehoe, salem krieger, laure leber,andrew lichtenstein, doni lucas, ingrid ludt, barbara mensch, philomena marano,ann murphy, bethany obrecht, james reeder, arthur robins, molly schwartz, susan shapiro and robert vizzini.

On view MAY 29th – JULY 12th, 2009
Fri-Sun 1-6pm

Special Event: RICHARD EAGAN & PHILOMENA MARANO founders of The Coney Island Hysterical Society in conversation Saturday June 13th at 4pm

A.M. Richard Fine Art
328 Berry Street, 3rd Floor
(Between South 4th and South 5th Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tel: (917) 570-1476

L to Bedford; J,M,Z to Marcy ave; B61 to Driggs & South 4th street

www.amrichardfineart.com

Photograph © Hazel Hankin

Hazel Hankin's photographs on view at CONEY ISLAND MAYBE Exhibition

Several of HAZEL HANKIN'S Coney Island images are on view in an exhibition about Coney Island

Opening reception: Saturday, November 8 from 6-9 pm

CONEY ISLAND MAYBE

The Puffin Room, 435 Broome Street, NYC (bet. Broadway & Crosby)

November 8 - December 14

Hours: Thursday-Sunday 12-6 pm

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Hazel Hankin winner of Honorable Mention in Px3's Human Condition Competition, Prix de la Photographie Paris.

Combining elements of fine art and documentary photography, HAZEL HANKIN'S work has been widely published and is represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, JGS Inc., and the MAK Center for Art & Architecture. In addition to her personal projects, Hazel carries out a variety of freelance assignments and teaches photography at the City College of New York (CCNY).

Hazel photographed regularly in Cuba In the 1990s. Graphis Press published work from her photo essays on Cuban life in a time of economic crisis and on Muhammad Ali’s humanitarian aid tour of Havana in their books of international photojournalism entitled, The Human Condition. A shot of Ali with Fidel Castro was included in Life's Album of the Year in 1996 and that image and others are included in a traveling photo exhibit on Muhammad Ali (currently at the Hofstra Museum) in 2008.

Hazel’s images of the innovative architecture of Cuba’s National Art Schools were published by the World Monument Fund’s magazine, Icon and appear in the book, Revolution of Forms: Cuba’s Forgotten Art Schools by Princeton Architectural Press. They have been exhibited in Havana, Los Angeles, New York and Vienna, and Lehigh University Art Galleries included several images from this series in a 2006 exhibit entitled Viajeros: North American Artist/Photographers’ Images of Cuba.

Hazel’s ongoing project, Rhythm & Rapture, brings together two of her life’s passions — social dancing and photography — in images of salsa, swing and tango dancers. Work from this series was exhibited in a one-person show at the Houston Center for Photography and has been featured in a DoubleTake magazine cover story, the Spanish photography magazine, La Fotografía, and the German magazine, Aufbau. She is currently working on an in-depth photo essay exploring New York’s pioneering salsa/mambo scene, seen from the perspective of a long-time participant.

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Tibor Bognar Joins GalileoPix

TIBOR BOGNAR is of Hungarian origin and lived in several European countries before settling in Canada. After getting an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, he worked for about a dozen years as a professional musician before he became interested in photography. Since he had already became addicted to traveling as a musician, it seemed natural to combine travel and photography.

In the years since making the decision to devote himself to photography, Tibor Bognar has photographed in well over 100 countries. He has published a coffe-table book about Japan, "Japon, visages de le metamorphose", Editions Vilo, Paris, 2006, in collaboration with his wife, writer Teresa Perez. The two have collaborated on many travel-related articles for European and Asian magazines.

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Israel "Cachao" López by Hazel Hankin

Hazel Hankin photographed Israel "Cachao" López performing at the Blue Note in New York City.

Bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" López, born in 1918 in Havana, Cuba, is credited as the inventor of the mambo. Considered a master of the Latin jam session known as “descarga,” Cachao has won several Grammy awards and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cachao died on March 22, 2008 at the age of 89.

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David Stock's Urban Landscapes

David Stock brings his finely tuned senses for composition, color and irony to his images of city street scenes.

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David Stock Joins GalileoPix

We are pleased to welcome David Stock to GalileoPix. David Stock has been photographing since the age of fourteen. He went on to study photography at Harvard College. Among his professors were Arthur Siegel and Aaron Siskind, who was a particular influence.

In addition to creating images, Stock has a longstanding commitment to darkroom craft and extending the capabilities of fine art digital printmaking.

Stock’s images have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. These venues include the Fogg Art Museum, The California Museum of Photography, the Museet for Fotokunst (Denmark), the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Blue Sky Gallery, the Santa Monica College Photography Gallery, The University of Sinalóa (UNAM), the Kerckhoff Art Gallery (UCLA), Casa da Fotografia FUJI (Brazil), the Angels Gate Cultural Center, and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.

Stock’s photographs have also been featured in many publications, such as Canon Chronicle (worldwide in 5 languages), Z Magazine (cover), Long Beach Museum Quarterly (cover), Arts Rag (cover), Forward Motion, Blue Sky, La Fotografía Actual (Spain), Fotopozytyw (Poland), the Boston Phoenix and the New York Times.

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Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali by Hazel Hankin

Hazel Hankin accompanied Muhammad Ali on trip to Cuba in 1996 and photographed Ali playing around with Fidel Castro as Teofilo Stevenson looks on.

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