Tonight in NY, The Wild & The Innocent featuring work by BITNB artist Skye Parrott

The Wild & The Innocent

A Photography Exhibition Curated By Jordan Sullivan

Clic Gallery
255 Centre Street, NY, NY

Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 28, 6-8pm
March 28 – April 16, 2012

Photographers //
Bree Apperley, Brendan Baker, Alexander Binder, Siobhan Bohnacker, Coley Brown, Patrick Buckley, Ana Cabaleiro, Samantha Casolari, Cody Chandler, Daniel Evans, Todd Fisher, Hannah Godley, Alexis Gross, Todd Jordan, Kohey Kanno, Mikael Kennedy, Collin LaFleche, Nicole Lesser, Jeff Luker, Jennilee Marigomen, Brian Merriam, Aaron McElroy, Skye Parrott, Emma Phillips, Henry Roy, Bryan Schutmaat, Brea Souders, Jordan Sullivan, Agnes Thor, Logan White
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The Wild & The Innocent juxtaposes portraits of bodies and landscapes culled from various photographers’ personal archives. How do these pictures of the human body and natural landscapes relate to one another? How do the two, when shown together, affect our perceptions of nature and ourselves? The Wild & The Innocent seeks to complicate the modern oppositional relationship between the body and nature in order to explore the truths of our own transience and infinitude — our dual limitlessness and powerlessness — as reflected in the wilds of nature and the slopes of the human form.

Included in this exhibition are emerging and established photographers, many of whom often obsessively document their personal lives. These are photographers who constantly seek to reframe the ways we perceive our environment and bodies.

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OPENING FRIDAY!

First Love, Last Rights

**Skye Parrott solo exhibition
@ Capricious Space
November 19, 2010 – January 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 7-9pm

Capricious Space is located at 103 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11211 tel: 718-384-1208
Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 6 pm. For additional information about Capricious, please visit http://www.becapricious.com

Having grown up with a photographer mother, Parrott’s life had been thoroughly documented until her adolescence, and then again by herself starting at seventeen. But the turbulent period in between was a void in terms of visual record. Following the demise of two key relationships, one with her first love, a boy named Alex, and then of their mutual relationship with drugs, they both went off to rehab and soon after she began taking photographs. From that brief era, she was left only with some vivid memories of particular moments. First Love, Last Rites turns around about a year and a half of her life, beginning when she was fifteen. For this work Parrott asked friend (and sometimes collaborator) Valentine Fillol-Cordier to play her, and with her old clothes and the other people who figured into these memories, she set out to recreate her recollections from these previously undocumented years.

Central to this body of work is Parrott’s interest in the subjectivity of memory. “People choose a few things to remember and those memories become representative of entire relationships or events. In doing this work, I was keenly aware that what I remembered might not be ‘real.’ Curious to explore what had actually happened, after making the photographs I interviewed Alex to find out what he remembered. There was a lot of overlap, but there were huge discrepancies too. There were incidents I thought of as key but that he had forgotten entirely but remembered when I mentioned them and vice versa. And there were places where our stories just completely diverged. I think it points to the way that memories form us, and as we form, we reshape them to fit.” This is sometimes reflected in the exhibition: a detail that she mentions in her text is intentionally different in the corresponding photograph. A scene that takes place at night is shot during the day, or a gesture is reconfigured. In this way, Parrott explores the notion that memory, and even experience, is not “true.” Rather it is something in between truth and fantasy because it goes through the filter of who we are.

In a booklet accompanying the exhibition, we are given a glimpse of the physical records that do exist from this time in Parrott’s life. Along with images from the show, she presents personal artifacts including letters, photographs, and items found inside old pockets, a personal text, and the transcript of an interview with Alex.

Blood is the New Black artists Skye Parrott and Alec Friedman present Secrets
a photography group show
October 29 – November 14
Opening reception October 29, 7 – 10 pm
Space 1520
1520 N. Cahuenga, Los Angeles, CA

David Armstrong
Hisham Bharoocha
Cass Bird
Angela Boatwright
Robin Broadbent
Alexandra Catiere
Samantha Casolari
Cody Chandler
Rachel Chandler
Chris Chenier
Todd Cole
Tony Cox
Jessica Craig-Martin
Sam Falls
Seth Fluker
Alec Friedman
Jason Fulford
Marcelo Gomes
Julia Hetta
Richard Kern
Andreas Laszlo Konrath
Jeremy Liebman
Nicholas Lorden
Pamela Love
Dan Martnesen
Sophie Morner
Santiago Mostyn
Skye Parrott
Virginia Rolston Parrott
Marc Pilaro
Pedro Ramos
Reka Reisinger
Ola Rindal
David Benjamin Sherry
Jordan Sullivan
Peter Sutherland
Martynka Wawrzyniak
Weston Wells
iO Tillett Wright

For our Japanese friends, please visit this show already in progress featuring works by Blood is the New Black artists Ahonen and Lamberg and Skye Parrott.

Graphic Impressions

Ahonen and Lamberg
Bjorn Copeland
David Aron
Frank Haines
Hisham Akira Bharoocha
Keegan McHargue
Mario Hugo
Mark Borthwick
Skye Parrott
Studio NewWork

Time：
2010.10/21(thu)～11/16(tue) 11:00-20:00

Reception Part：
10/21(thu) 18:00-20:00

Address:
B GALLERY(BEAMS JAPAN 6F)
3-32-6 shinjyuku  Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo,160-0022 JAPAN

You are invited to HOMECOMING, a week-long creative space featuring programming curated by Dossier with a photo studio by photographer Dan Martensen. Events include live performances, art exhibitions, panel discussions, screenings, and more. See attached invite for full schedule.

Homecoming
267 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY
Open Daily 12 – 12
Sit for a portrait with photographer Dan Martensen, 2 pm – 8 pm daily
Participate in a video booth confessional project by Crystal Moselle and Skye Parrott, all day every day
Enjoy free coffee provided by Birch Coffee
Curated cultural events each night

Cocktail reception, parties and music events are by invitation only and require an RSVP.
All other events are open to the public.

Pick up a copy of Smoke Bath. Featuring works by Cali Dewitt, Josh Slater, Skye Parrott and loads of other great artists.

Smoke Bath is a collection of photographs and art work loosely based on the theme of camping/ nature/ exploring. The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that provides free summer vacations to New York City children from low-income communities. The goal of smoke bath is to showcase the work of artists that are inspired by nature and raise money for freshair.org in the process.

Check our http://www.smokebath.com/ for more info.

Skye Parrott revamped her website, adding new personal work and more.

Take a look.

Please come by for the opening of Younger Than I’ll Be, a photography group show curated by Skye Parrott, which is opening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music next Wednesday, April 7. The show is about New York, its association with youth and change.

Artists: David Armstrong, Cass Bird, Larry Clark, Jessica Craig-Martin, Adrian Gaut, Nan Goldin, Marcelo Gomes, Saul Leiter, Robert Longo, Skye Parrott, Virginia Parrott, Jack Pierson, David Schoerner, Peter Sutherland, Weegee

Younger Than I’ll Be
April 7- May 23
Opening reception: Wednesday, April 7, 6-8 pm
Natman Room, BAM Peter Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn NY

In Milan for Fashion Week? Along with the art directors at SM, Skye Parrott put together a series of seven slideshows of both personal and fashion work, which will be shown in a cinema set-up.

The show is running from February 26 through March 3, so even if you can’t make the opening, try to stop by and see it if you’re in town. For more info visit the Wonder Room site.

Last night we hosted a holiday dinner for 40 of our closest friends and members of the BITNB family! A big thank you to all who came out to Good Girl Dinette for dinner, your company was all we needed to celebrate the wonderful year that was 2009, and to usher in the even better 2010. We wish our extended family of fans, customers, friends, and artists a happy holiday season, and all the best in 2010.

We thank you all for the love and support. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.

xo

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