Monica Nouwens
Peter Holzhauer
Big City Forum: Image/Space
Wed, June 6, 7 - 9 pm
Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
This forum will explore how photographers use their practice to inform our way of engaging or viewing public and social space. Part of this will explore how photographers engage the urban landscape of Southern California in both objective and metaphorical ways and how these images inscribe the way we look at Los Angeles, from the larger scope of the urban spread to the in-between, marginal spaces.
Featuring:
Peter Holzhauer
Alia Malley
Monica Nouwens
Moderated by:
Joshua Machat
Senior Project Manager, Getty Research Institute
Peter Holzhauer lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at Pratt
Institute, New York and Massachusetts College of Art and Design,
Boston before receiving his B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Boston,
and his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His
photographs are in the permanent collections of the Boston Public
Library, the Boston Athenaeum, and the George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York. Holzhauer is a recipient of D’Arcy Hayman
Award, Bill Muster Foundation Award, and Hoyt Scholarship. He is
currently an instructor of photography at Cerritos College, Norwalk.
His work has been in recent group exhibitions at the New
York Photo Festival in Brooklyn; Piero Gallery in Orange, New
Jersey; Phantom Gallery in Pasadena, California; and the Portland
Museum of Art, in Maine.
Alia Malley was born in La Jolla, California, and raised in Portland,
Oregon. She received her BA in Critical Studies from USC School of Cinematic
Arts, and her MFA from UC Riverside in 2010. She lives and works in Los
Angeles.
Her series Southland won the 2010 Merck Award at the Darmstädter Tage der
Fotografie, and was presented as a solo exhibition at Sam Lee Galley, Los
Angeles in 2010. She was a 2009 Runner Up at the Forward Thinking
Museum/JGS, and a Finalist/Honorable Mention at the Newspace Center for
Photographyʼs 2008 Juried Exhibition, curated by TJ Norris. She has
participated in recent group exhibitions including Neighborhood, at the
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Backyard, at Sam Lee Gallery -
Pacific Design Center; SHFT, curated by Edie Kahula Pereira at pop-up gallery
locations in New York & Los Angeles; Sculpting Time at the Martin Art Gallery,
Muhlenberg College, curated by Ara Osterweil; and the 2009 CAA Los Angeles
MFA Exhibition, curated by Alex Klein.
Monica
Nouwens completed a postgraduate fellowship in Art Media Studies at
the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and attended the California Institute
of the Arts exchange program for film and photography. Nouwens’
one-person show “ Look at me and tell me .. ‘ will be shown at
Photography Museum Amsterdam (FOAM; http://www.foam.org/
2013) and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and is currently on view at Ron
Mandos Amsterdam
(http://www.ronmandos.nl/exhibition/show/96/monica_nouwens_-
Nouwens
currently collaborates with LA author Claire Phillips, Their project,
presented at the Photography Museum Amsterdam (FOAM, 2013), Stedelijk
Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) and gallery Ron Mandos Amsterdam (Feb
2012) is a ficto-historical photo essay of post-boom America, a
parallax of Hollywood driven cyborg fantasy with the poetic Do It
Yourself underground movement of Los Angeles bohemia.
A
long and extensive print photography career plays an important part
in the viewer’s experience of Nouwens’ work. Besides working as a
regular contributor to publications such as Volume, Icon and Archis,
her shots can be found in Domus magazine, Re-Magazine, Blueprint,
Architect, Surface and many others. Nouwens’ work can be
found in various collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam / Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence / Levi’s, London
/ Prada - U.S.A Corp, New York / Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los
Angeles; Jon Jerde Partnership, Venice; and Bartle Bogle Hegarty,
London




