Alex Avgud

Jay and a Ray of Sun - In Celebration of Pride Month

2020

Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. Eric Kellerman created this sensual nude photograph of a young nude woman with a large zinc vessel under her arm. It is pencil signed, titled and numbered 1 from an edition of 20. The photographer has stamped a red monogram next to his signature. Eric Kellerman is a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for just over half his life. In 2008, he retired from academic life to spend more time on photography. Kellerman works almost entirely in the studio and uses digital equipment from camera to print, although image manipulation is limited to darkroom-like processes. Specializing in the nude, he has a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, drama therapy, athletics, martial arts). Kellerman used to consider his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. Now he's not so sure. He emphasizes line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. He likes to create ambiguity in his photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, he attempts to free the female body of its conventional associations. He has been influenced by surrealism...

"Laura" first looks like a color abstract. Then very slowly you realize it is an extreme close up of a young woman's face. Only slowly do the water droplets appear with each drople...

MIRA LOEW (b 1984, Vienna) Austrian born, Mira Loew began her journey as a photographer and filmmaker with audio-visual media training at the Federal Graphic Institute in Vienna, at...

The artwork's frame is not visible in front. There is a metal frame on the back to hang the photograph. The photo was printed on photo paper and covered with prexy-glass on top. Simakov Kirill – Russian photographer. Born on August 15, 1984 in Moscow. Taking a great interest in photography, Kirill began working at the S.Bermeniev’s National Portrait Gallery in Moscow. He was organizing and conducting photo sessions of world celebrities and outstanding figures of art and politics, curated exhibitions, and belonged to the editorial group on creating books, catalogs in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Milan, Vicenza, New York, etc. In 2012 he received a certificate of completion of the course “Marketing for photographers” and in 2018 completed “Portrait Photography” course at the New York Institute of Photography. In 2013, Kirill founded his own Collection of author’s photos for interior decoration of homes and office space. In 2016 he opened a working studio in Moscow. In 2017 – 2018 there were Kirill’s solo exhibitions: – “Borislav Strulev and Friends”, Conservatory, Belgorod (30 portraits); – “New York or Nowhere”, FLACON Design Factory (40 photos); – “Outstanding People. Portraits on Skateboard decks “, Design Factory FLACON (15 works). – “People, Cities” was held in the gallery “Moscow”, with the support of WESTWING and the Nastenka Charity Fund (12 works). 2018 – Exhibition booth during the ArtFair in Tampa, Florida 2018 – 2019 Official Ambassador of Leica Camera in Russia. 2019 – Personal Exhibition Booth at Red Dot during the Art Basel Miami 2020 – Exhibitor at SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Kirill photographed many personalities – Vasiliy Lanovoi, Dmitry Medvedev, Stephen Seagal, Michail Gorbachev, Boris Efimov, Paul Walker, Vladimir Etush, Al Pacino, Vladimir Putin, Alexey Nemov, Yuriy Solomin, Vyacheslav Fetisov , Woody Allen, Elie Wiesel, Maya Plisetskaya...