Josephine Sacabo Photogravure Demonstration
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Demo: 11am
Josephine Sacabo’s Studio
841 Franklin Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
Join Josephine Sacabo in her Marigny studio for a photogravure demonstration. This is a unique opportunity to see the techniques and working space of a prolific artist who has recently transitioned from the darkroom to the photogravure printmaking process. The studio is located at the corner of Burgundy Street & Franklin Avenue.
Doors will open at 10:30am on Sunday, December 11th.
Free and open to the public.
BIO:
Josephine Sacabo, an internationally acclaimed photographer, has had four books of her own work published including “Une Femme Habitee” in Paris in 1991 by Editions Marval; award winning “Pedro Paramo” in 2002 by the University of Texas Press; “Cante Jondo” in 2002 by 21st Publishing; and “Duino Elegie” in 2005 also by 21st Publishing. Sacabo has had solo shows in Paris, London, Madrid, Toulouse, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities. Her work has also been widely published in magazines in the United States and Europe, including Camera Arts, B&W Magazine, Rangefinder Magazine, ZOOM and others. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art – N.Y.; The Museum of Modern Art – N.Y.; The Art Institute of Chicago; Houston Museum of Fine Arts; The Smithsonian – Washington D.C.; The Library of Congress; The New Orleans Museum of Art; The Wittliff Collection – Austin; The Bibliotheque Nationale – Paris; and La Maison de la Photo – Paris; among others. Josephine Sacabo has taught highly acclaimed workshops at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles – France and at the Santa Fe Workshops.
Sacabo’s most recent series, “Óyeme Con Los Ojos” (Hear Me With Your Eyes) was featured as a Fotoseptiembre USA 2010 Signature Exhibit, in San Antonio TX. Her work is currently on display in a retrospective at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and a solo show at A Gallery for Fine Photography.
