Alia Malley
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,
born 1973 in La Jolla, California, USA, currently works and lives in
Los Angeles. In 2010, she received her MFA in Visual Arts from
University of California, Riverside; in 1994, Malley earned her BA in
Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at University of
Southern California. Malley’s work has been shown in solo and group
exhibitions throughout the country, including the Indianapolis Museum
of Contemporary Art, and Riverside Art Museum, California. In 2010,
Malley was the recipient of the Merck Award at Darmstädter
Tage Der Fotografie, Germany. In 2011, Malley won the CENTER
Dealer’s Choice Award, at CENTER Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her most
recent body of work, A Cavalier in Sight of a Village, was
shown as a solo exhibition in 2011 at Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles,
and included a limited-edition artist’s book. She is currently part
of the two-person exhibition, Landscape and Perspective, at
the Art Rental & Sales Gallery at LACMA, through July 2012.
Joshua Machat works on special projects for the Getty Research
Institute, including Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 and
the upcoming architecture exhibition Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the
Future, 1940-1990. From 2005 to 2010 he was a publicist for Rizzoli
International Publications, Inc., specializing in titles on
architecture, film, and photography. Prior to Rizzoli, Machat was
purchaser and web editor for Photo-Eye Books & Prints. He holds a MA
in Liberal Arts (Great Books Program) from St. John's College and a BA
in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic.
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
