Very honored to have an image from The Broken Cabinet on the cover of Antennae #40 and a nice Q & A inside, together with many other wonderful talents.
Download your copy here:
Upcoming Shows
Here's a bunch of early warnings for shows this fall:
Goethe Institut USA- Chicago
Exhibition- A Little Piece of Bauhaus : Forms & Records
10.27.17 – 12.31.17
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/chi/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20953428
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum fer Gestalung - Berlin
Exhibition: New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography
11.15.2017 – 5.3.2018
DePaul University Richardson Library - Chicago
4.1.2017 – 7.1.2017
Intractive Installation: O.L.A.F.T. Research Station
Hyde Park Art Center- Chicago
Exhibiton: O.L.A.F.T.
10.22.2017 – 12.1.2017
Group Show @ MIAD / Perspectives Gallery
Excited and honored to show with some of my contemporaries!
Perspectives Gallery is thrilled to announce its next show: EXTRA SENSORY: PROCESS AND PHOTOGRAPHY, featuring works by Alison Carey, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, Stephen Eichhorn, Doug Fogelson (pictured), Daniel Hojnacki, John Opera, and Julie Weber. Please take a moment to see this beautiful show if you're in Milwaukee!
https://www.facebook.com/PerspectivesGallery/?ref=page_internal
Midwest Photographers Project at MOCP
Happy to share that I have new work in the Midwest Photographers Project (MPP) at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Here's a link to the web version with eloquent words by Allison Grant. Go see the prints (many more in the box than what is displayed online) and works from many great Midwestern artists at the MPP @ MOCP sometime in person.
Ain't Bad Interview
I am excited to share this interview is a Q&A with Rachel Jump for Ain't Bad Magazine:
https://www.aint-bad.com/article/2016/12/01/doug-fogelson/ (*doesn't seem to work on Chrome browsers...)
Nos Futurs? Three CD Set
Very exciting to see this image used on the three CD box set of Nos Futurs?
Featuring:
Christophe Rocher: clarinets
Sylvain Thevenard: electronics
#1 Mike Ladd: spoken word
#2 Anne-James Chaton: poetry
#3 Benat Achiary: vocal
A Collaboration
Sonnenzimmer, the Chicago based art practice and studio of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi, was commissioned to further explore, through planar interventions, the destruction of my photographs from the Chemical Alterations series.
New Memories Video
Images and sound by Doug Fogelson
Video editing by Micah James Zayner
The Od Review
I am thrilled to be featured on Collier Brown and 21st Editions The Od Review blog!
Here is an excerpt:
“And while I know the best results are usually found in the tension between representation and abstraction, my mind is still pulled toward complete obliteration,” says Doug Fogelson.
Fogelson’s reflections recall for me a line from Wallace Stevens’ “Sunday Morning,” where death “strews the leaves / of sure obliteration on our paths,” and yet, she “makes the willows shiver in the sun / For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze / Upon the grass.”
I’m no maiden, alas—but do I sit and gaze at these photographs as if they were willows shivering in the sun? Yes I do. Yes I did. Yes I will.
And here is the link: https://theodreview.com/2016/10/01/issue-10-doug-fogelson-the-leaves-of-sure-obliteration/
Dark Mountain Gathering at Embercome
I recently attended a weekend retreat gathering in the UK for the followers of Dark Mountain. It was quite an interesting time, read my recap here:
https://environmentalcritique.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/dark-mountain-gathering/
Rule Breakers / Don't Take Pictures
I was happy to be a Rule Breaker and loved the words from Kyohei Abe, who is the Executive Director of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography and a cool photographer himself.
Guest Blogger
I was recently asked to write something as a guest blogger for the Artists and Climate Change website, here's the final result:
https://artistsandclimatechange.com/2016/07/05/we-plastic/
Visual Feature
THISISPAPER recently contacted me for a feature on the Potpourri series, here's the link:
http://thisispaper.com/doug-fogelson-potpourri/
Doug Fogelson: On Climate
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
June 12 - September 4, 2016
This solo exhibition brings together two of the artist's recent photographic projects. In Broken Cabinet Fogelson explores the compulsion to collect, document, and study diverse specimens while addressing the roles humans play in facilitating extinction. In Creative Destruction the artist chemically alters photographs of lush natural landscapes, an act that produces new forms and meanings, reflecting the impacts of climate change on the environment.
In addition to these two bodies of work, the artist will create a new, site-specific, outdoor installation.
Curated by Franck Mercurio
Gallery hours:
Monday - Thursday 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Sundays 1 - 3 p.m. or by appointment.
http://www.brushwoodcenter.org/Programs/Art/ArtExhibitions/Fogelson.html
Camera - less
Group Exhibition at Richard Levy Gallery
June 4 - July 29
Gallery Reception: Saturday, June 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Camera-less, a group exhibition including works by Thomas Barrow, Kate Breakey, Marco Breuer,Richard Caldicott, Caleb Charland, Doug Fogelson, Adam Fuss, Matt Gray, Lotte Jacobi, Glenn Kawabata, Jenna Kuiper, Leigh Anne Langwel,Klea McKenna, David Ondrik, Alison Rossiter, Thomas Ruff, Gayle Stevens, Dr. Dain Tasker, Pablo Zuleta Zahr, and others. These artists put the camera aside to explore avant-garde approaches in photographic image making. Light-sensitive paper is exposed to chemicals, wax, sparklers, X-rays, rain, flowers, digital processes, and a variety of other materials and methods. This exhibition shows a historical and contemporary sampling of techniques found in camera-less photography. Camera-less is part of PhotoSummer 2016 programming.
Historically, camera-less photography began as an experimentation and was used to record the physical world. Inspired by the X-ray machine, Dr. Dain Tasker began applying his knowledge of the this process to record flowers in the 1930s. Contemporary artist Klea McKenna makes photograms of raindrops to study rainfall patterns in different regions, and Leigh Anne Langwell uses sparklers and handmade glass objects to recreate a microscopic world.
Some of these artists employ an alchemist's approach to image making. German photographer Marco Breuer exposes silver-gelatin paper to heat and physical abrasion by burnishing, sanding, and scraping with razor blades. Allison Rossiter creates painterly abstract photograms by dipping and pouring different chemicals on expired photo paper from the 1940s, and Caleb Charland exposes light-sensitive paper to wax and lit matches.
A shared theme in this show is the notion of drawing with light. Albuquerque-based artist Jenna Kuiper uses a painterly approach to compose abstract still-lives in the darkroom using dodging and burning techniques to build her imagery. Chilean artist Pablo Zuleta Zahr arranges prismatic compositions manipulating photographic filters of magenta, cyan, and yellow on a scanner. Dusseldorf School legend Thomas Ruff also uses digital techniques to create colorful light abstractions. Thomas Barrow and Richard Caldicott visually describe the methodology of camera-less photography by including process information in their final presentations.
Exhibition Dates: June 4 - July 29, 2016
Gallery Reception: June 18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Contact: 505.766.9888, info@levygallery.com
http://levygallery.com/press_release/2016/cameraless_2.html
Minding Nature Journal
Minding Nature Journal
May 2016
Volume 9, Number 2
I am honored to have one of my images on the cover of the current Minding Nature Journal. Included inside is a lovely essay about my work by Allison Grant along with many other interesting articles pertinent to our times.
http://www.humansandnature.org/may-2016
http://www.humansandnature.org/doug-fogelson-the-earth-as-we-know-it (direct)
A nice Q & A:
I was recently photographed by Chester Alamo Costello for an ongoing project he is doing of Chicago's artists and he also interviewed me for the Comp Magazine, check it here:
Recently Published:
Creative Quarterly 100 Best of 2015
Chicago Transit Authority Public Art Collection
http://www.transitchicago.com/news_initiatives/art/69th.aspx
Recent Press:
Some recent press from the Creative Destruction exhibition at Sasha Wolf Gallery:
http://ny-photography-diary.com/review-doug-fogelson-at-sasha-wolf-gallery/
http://hifructose.com/2016/03/01/doug-fogelsons-vivid-chemically-altered-photographs-of-nature/
http://museemagazine.com/culture/art-out/doug-fogelson-sasha-wolf-gallery/
Creative Destruction: March 2nd - April 16th, 2016
Opening Reception: March 2nd, 6-8 p.m.