February 2012
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INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST SOPHIA WALLACE by Jeanne... →
Conceptual artist and photographer SOPHIA WALLACE donated “Raadiy No. 2” fromthe series Modern Dandy to Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s SMALL WORKS FOR BIG CHANGE. Modern Dandy was a recipient of PDN’s The Curator award 2011 and was Critic’s Pick by the Griffin Museum of Photography 2011. It was selected for Identities Now: Contemporary Portraiture a hardcover book by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art...
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December 2011
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No fashion, please!
I was reading Vogue,
when I found a news about an upcoming show at Kunsthalle in Vienna: No fashion, please! The show is curated by Peter Weiermair and consists in famous nude & fashion pictures focused on the relation between body & clothes. A big attention is dedicated to the genderless theme, and so I’m looking forward to see it!
I love photography, fashion, and I’m graduating with a...
November 2011
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“Sophia Wallace photographs men in irritating, namely typical female poses”
– Art Critic Sabine B. Vogel, in her review in Die Presse.
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No fashion, please! – A scream of refusal
Nineteen solo presentations outline the young international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance in the second show of the Kunsthalle Wien’s autumn program focusing on photography and fashion. Borders to other disciplines are crossed in both daring and reckless experiments. In the...
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Which two pictures should I select to represent...
I’m making my announcement cards for my major exhibition of the complete series Truer at Colgate University’s Clifford Gallery. The four person show is called A Fine Line: Private Lives for Public View. Also show are Catherine Opie, Jo Ann Santangelo and Jason Hanasik. View the series here.
Here are some screenshots of some of the combinations I am considering.
Option 1
Option...
October 2011
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Lecturing at PhotoPlusExpo NYC - Friday, Oct 28...
I’m speaking on a panel at Photo Plus Expo tomorrow. The talk is at 1:30pm at the Javitz Center in New York City.
The panel addresses how online publishing affects photography as an industry. I will be speaking about the ways in which the online space presents vital potential for discourses and subjects who are historically and and currently censored in print. I’ll also be sharing...
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August 2011
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“What looks right, or attractive, in a photograph is often no more than what...”
– And I would argue that this applies to race and gender.
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“A kite allows you to see the wind.”
– The last day of the Artist Summer Institute, 2011
July 2011
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What pushed me to pursue photography?
I wanted to communicate beyond the limitations of my spoken language and the time that I live in.
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iragray asked: i just wanted to drop by and say i love your work so much. sure, i love the quality and your style, but i love the subject matter as well. i love that you simultaneously document existence while challenging paradigms. your work doesn't start fights. it is the initial gust of wind in an internal, tumultuous tempest.
thank you, so so much.
thank you, so so much.
June 2011
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May 2011
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prunelle asked: Sophia, I am looking at your work now. I am impressed to say the least. This will take me a while to process. How long have you been following and why haven't you brought this my attention sooner? I used to live in NYC for years but have relocated to Paris. I am a professor presently. Yet, I am still an artist. Mostly fashion collage. Ads. Campaigns. God, I love your portraits. I wish you...
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prunelle recommends : sophiawallace.tumblr.com →
Consistently inspired by the sophisticated curation of Prunelle Jennifer Bailey’s blog. She continues to amaze. Thank you for the mention.
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There are reportedly 12,000 journalists at the Royal Wedding. The entire African continent has perhaps 500 Western journalists at any time.
April 2011
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Proof of Widespread Censorship of LGBT Subjects,...
‘The failure of museums to engage in a wide swathe of art historical scholarship is of grave concern because it raises the question of historical accuracy. Failing to educate the public about the LGBT subject matter or significance of the work, or of the work’s producer, does a profound disservice to the work as a cultural document, to the LGBT community which has produced a number of...
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