Due to scheduling conflicts at praxis May and June are in a New Location:
― Hopkins Center for the Arts ―
1111 Mainstreet Hopkins, MN 55343 ― Map/ Parking and directions
The Ongoing Moment meets on the third Wednesday of the month from 6:30-9:00pm
hosted by Mpls ― based photographers Richard Ott and Walter Horishnyk
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theongoingmoment
Meetings are free, donations are welcome that goes toward special guest speakers,
snacks and beverages.
Sign up in advance to exhibit your images for a short discussion with the hosts and group attendees
by emailing: walter@horishnyk.com or dickophoto@yahoo.com
“The beginning and end of all artistic activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds us by means of the world that is in the Artist, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.”
― Paraphrased from ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Ongoing Moment is a monthly meeting for PHOTOGRAPHERS / ARTISTS who wish to increase their understanding and improve their practice of there medium. The title refers to the idea that “we share experiences that are formally similar”
We explore past Master photographers and Contemporary photographers, looking at their images and artistic process to help us go forward on our own photographic journey.
Edward Hopper Hardcover – June 1, 2007
by Edward Hopper (Artist), Carol Troyen, Judith Barter , Elliot Davis
Book Giveaway:
At every meeting we have a book giveaway, attendees have a chance to receive our monthly book choice.
One of the most endearingly popular painters of the twentieth century, Edward Hopper produced many works now considered icons of Modern art. Canvases such as Drugstore, New York Movie, and the universally recognized (and often parodied) Nighthawks not only reshaped what painting looked like in America, but created a visual language for middle-class life and its discontents. This extensive new assessment of Hopper, which accompanies a major traveling exhibition, examines the dynamics of the artist’s creative process and discusses his work within the cultural currents of his day–examining the influence not only of other painters, but also of such media as literature and film. And while most studies have tended to see Hopper as the great painter of alienation, this one takes a much broader, more nuanced, and ultimately more representative view. Spanning the entirety of Hopper’s career, but with particular emphasis on his heyday in the 30s and 40s,
STUART D. KLIPPER ― May, 15th 2024
Lincoln Center (portrait of a man in the subway), 1970
STUART D. KLIPPER
One of only a handful of people who have stood on both poles, internationally known photographer Stuart Klippers work takes him to the far reaches of the earth, as well as right back here to Minnesota, where he is again documenting one of his first subjects, the St. Paul High Bridge.
Graduating with a degree in architecture and design from the University of Michigan (BA), Bronx native Klipper moved to Minnesota. Since then, his works have appeared nationally, including several shows at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, a photo essay in the Washington Post, and numerous corporate collections. A professor at Colorado College, Klipper has received multiple grants from the NEA as well as the Guggenheim, Bush, and McKnight Funds.
Link to a PBS short video about Stuart
Passage to America: Stuart Klipper’s panoramic portraits – in pictures
For nearly 30 years, photographer Stuart Klipper has travelled the US, capturing the defining characteristics of its 50 states in his panoramic compositions, as well as journeying further afield to the Earth’s polar regions
- Stuart Klipper’s Passages is at Joseph Bellows Gallery
Coming in soon: June 19th presentation by Robi Chakraborty
After a career doing both commercial and press photography, I became drawn to exploring the cities and villages of my native India, seeking out and photographing the people whose cultures and ways of life are quickly becoming lost in the contemporary, more homogenized world of today.
Now based in the US but having lived in Africa, Nepal and India, where much of my work is focused, I have a unique connectivity to and understanding of my subject matter. I offer a perspective that looks both from the outside in and from the inside out. As an artist who sees myself as a global citizen, I seek to capture what is culturally familiar to me, yet present the image with an appreciation of how an outsider’s eye may see the peoples and cultures that I explore through my work. Rather than solely portraying the novelty, my focus is on presenting the humanity and allowing the viewer to relate to the subjects that I photograph in a way that they otherwise may never get to experience.
Robi is the recipient of several awards from the International Color Awards including Photographer of the Year Award and was the recipient of the 6th Annual Master Cup for his photo, Off the Ground, depicting a tribal child in (region, India) pushing a cycle rim down a village road. The same photo won the 2015 Directors Choice award from Photo Place Gallery Vermont, juried by James P Blair National Geographic photo editor (Retired). Recent awards include the Merit Award in All About Photo Magazine (July 2018) and the Excellence Award in Black & White Magazine (June 2018).
Photo of me 1980 New Delhi