A departure from his well-known architectural scenes at night, Todd Hido's newest series, titled "Between the Two," includes enigmatic portraits and places. In his minimal images, women are often posed provocatively and mysteriously in locales such as motels or foreclosed homes; the unadorned rooms and walls serve as blank canvases. Nazraeli Press will publish Between the Two as a monograph in December 2006.
Hido caught the attention of the artworld early on in his career. His ties are surprisingly local: he received his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and attended Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). He received his MFA in 1996 from the California College of Arts and Crafts, (Oakland, CA). In 2002, he was awarded the best first monograph from Photo-Eye Books for House Hunting (2001). Collected and shown at numerous public and museum collections, Hido's work is represented by Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco, CA) and Rose Gallery (Los Angeles, CA).
I know that sources of terror in childhood are often sources of attraction in adulthood.
These people and places are stand ins for my paper movie of the past.
I write what I know.
Carl Chiarenza, former chairman of the Department of Art History at Boston University, is the Artist-in-Residence and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY). During his time at Boston University, Chiarenza was responsible for allocating gallery space for the PRC, opening the Image Study Gallery where he organized photographic exhibitions, and developing a course on photographic history. A co-founder of the short-lived, but very influential Imageworks (1971-1976) in East Cambridge and Association of Heliographers, he also taught at Smith College (Northampton, MA) and Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), and was recruited by Polaroid to assist in product development. Chiarenza has been on the Board of Directors at the PRC and has served as a trustee of the Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY).
The subjects of numerous monographs, his evocative, abstract photographs have been seen in over 80 one-person, and in over 250 group exhibitions since 1957. His work is represented by the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston and Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, and can be seen in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), The Harvard University Art Museums, and George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), among many others. Chiarenza has authored numerous essays and photographs in Aperture, Image, Afterimage, The Massachusetts Review, and others, as well as the award-winning book, Aaron Siskind: Terrors and Pleasures (1982). His many monographs include: Chiarenza: Landscapes of the Mind (1988), Carl Chiarenza: Evocations (2002), The Peace Warriors of Two Thousand and Three (2003), and Solitudes (2005). Chiarenza is working on a facsimile of an early artist's book, Interaction: Verbal/ Visual, to be published by Nazraeli in 2006.
