Thursday, April 11 – Talk on Photography and Walking Art

This Thursday, April 11, I’ll be giving an online talk to the Landscape Research Group Coffee Sessions (https://landscaperesearch.org/events/).

 

Details Below:

Thursday 11 April at 17.00 BST which is 10.00 am Mountain Daylight Time. 

“Flux and Flow: finding new ways to tell stories about landscape through walking and photography”

Alexandra Huddleston is a photographer, writer, and walking artist.  Her recent works move the viewer through time and space, expressing what it’s like to be walking within an ever-changing landscape.  In her presentation to the LRG, she will discuss how researching land through walking has not only changed her understanding of landscapes, but has also entirely transformed her formal and conceptual approach to photography.

“Requiem” on view at Portiersloge / Gatekeepers Lodge, Groningen

The photographs on view at Portiersloge / Gatekeepers Lodge (3/2024) were made during a walking journey along the West Highland Way, a 154-kilometer trail that follows a series of valleys in western Scotland, connecting Glasgow in the southern lowlands to Fort William in the north. They show a landscape in flux, between moist and dry, sun and shade, desolation and abundance, life and death.

Venue: Portiersloge / Gatekeepers Lodge, Groningen, The Netherlands

https://www.portiersloge-groningen.nl

Curator: Wilma Vissers

https://www.wilmavissers.com

See more installation shots: HERE

(Installation shots by Wilma Vissers)

Installation shot by Wilma Vissers

Major new photographic installation featured in “Introducing The River Box”

TITLE : Flux: three years; Oneseed Juniper, Juniperus monosperma (2023)

MATERIAL : digital photography, archival ink-jet print on paper

SIZE : installation size - 47 by 119 in (119.4 by 302.2 cm)

"Flux: three years; Oneseed Juniper, Juniperus monosperma" is an array of seven photographs that come together as a single work of photographic installation. This installation is part of a larger, ongoing, series “Flow: Walking the Upper Arroyo Calabasas, Northern New Mexico” which is an intensive photographic description of a half-mile stretch of an arroyo in New Mexico, USA. The project also explores how the camera - a machine that creates a static image from a single point-perspective – can be used to express the dynamic movement of a walker and to expand the viewer’s experience of space and time.

The Arroyo Calabasas is a dry streambed that fills with water only a few times a year. The rest of the time, it is a path for walkers, horse riders, cyclists, coyotes, deer, and mountain lions. Its upper section flows less than half a mile from my home, and I have walked the nearest portion hundreds of times.

"Flux: three years; Oneseed Juniper, Juniperus monosperma" describes the flow and flux of change and stasis of the arroyo over time as the light and season change and mix with the imprint of passing weather and fauna. It constructs a new vision of the landscape, one that is seen from changing points in space and time, expressing how a walker returns to the same place over and over in changing moments and moods.

“Introducing The River Box” installation shots now online

“Introducing The River Box” is an exhibition that launches the The River Box, a private space dedicated to showcasing works of conceptual landscape photography.

Six photographic works by photographer and walking artist Alexandra Huddleston are on view from December 2023 through March 2024. These pieces introduce the ongoing project “Flow: Walking the Upper Arroyo Calabasas, Northern New Mexico” which brings Huddleston’s photographic installations to an ambitious new level.

Learn more about the exhibition: HERE

I’m November’s Guest Artist on Haus-a-Rest!

This month, I’m the Guest Artist for the Haus-a-Rest issue on “Artist Books.”  They had great questions for me, so it was fun and thought provoking to pull together my answers for the interview.

 

“Guest Artist - Alexandra Huddleston.” Haus-a-Rest. (8 November 2023) Web, interview.

https://haus-a-rest.squarespace.com/guest-artist-alexandra-huddleston

Also, a big Thank You to Nichola Rodgers for reviewing my chapbook “Orientation” (also on Haus-a-Rest).

Nichola Rodgers, “Alexandra Huddleston, Review of Latest Work.” Haus-a-Rest. (8 November 2023) Web, book review.

https://haus-a-rest.squarespace.com/alexandra-huddleston-review-of-latest-work

Launch of “Orientation,” a chapbook featuring Alexandra’s prose on landscape

“Orientation” brings together five prose pieces that describe a radical alteration in the author’s perception as she explores the world on foot.  Most of these pieces were previously connected to individual photographs or photographic projects.  In this chapbook, the texts are given a chance to speak to each other, and to show the progression in Alexandra’s thinking about walking and landscape.

Learn more Here

Upcoming: InterNations Online Talk on the Making of a Collaborative Artists’ Book: ‘A Walk in the Park:

On Saturday the 17th of June at

 

9:00 am - Mountain Time Zone (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

11:00 am - Eastern Standard Time (New York City NY, USA)

5:00 pm – Central European Summer Time (Brussels, Belgium)

 

Alexandra Huddleston (https://www.alexandrahuddleston.com)

 And Mimi Kunz (https://mimikunz.com) will give a live talk on their collaborative book “A Walk in the Park.”

 

Sign Up to participate at: https://www.internations.org

Upcoming Exhibition in Brussels, Friday June 9 through Friday June 16

In the late summer of 2021, as an artist in resident at the Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, I walked and photographed every day in the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels. The photographs from those walks developed into two books, one of which is a collaboration with the Brussels-based artist Mimi Kunz (https://mimikunz.com).

 

On June 9th, Mimi and I are excited to present the exhibition and artists’ book “A Walk in the Park, a collaborative portrait of the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels.”

 

The exhibition will be held at Streetview Anderlecht, Brussels, and has been curated in collaboration with Marianne Csaky (http://www.mariannecsaky.be).

 

Opening – Friday June 9, 2023, 17h00 - 21h00

Open Days (no appointment needed) – Saturday June 10 and Sunday June 11, 14h00 - 18h00

by appointment – Monday June 12 through Friday June 16

STREETVIEW, Rue Raphael 23, Anderlecht, Brussels / +32 494 057488 / @streetviewanderlecht

 

“A Walk in the Park” is an exhibition and artist book that brings together ink painting, poetry, and prose to portray the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre, one of Brussels’ most popular public parks. The artists Mimi Kunz (Brussels) and Alexandra Huddleston (Santa Fe) have spent the last two years developing the work, a playful ode to a beloved place.

Link to the book’s page and flip-through video: https://www.alexandrahuddleston.com/a-walk-in-the-park-artist-book

Link to downloadable press release: HERE

Frank Abruzzese interviews Alexandra Huddleston

Frank Abruzzese interviews Alexandra Huddleston for a Cow House Studios community update.

Link: https://cowhousestudios.com/alexandra-huddleston/

 

For the interview, Frank asked me some excellent, thought-provoking questions!!

 

I participated in a residency at Cow House Studios (County Wexford, Ireland) in 2016.  It was an amazing experience, and I highly recommend checking out their opportunities and programming – past and present.

New Book Launch!

Title: Traces of Time, walking the Jardins de l’Abbaye de la Cambre in summer

Status: Published, November 2022

To create the work in Traces of Time I spent the month of August 2021 walking and photographing daily in the Jardins de L’Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels. Through a slow, meditative, and close examination of one of Brussels most beloved parks, I explored how walking influences my perception of space and place.

The book is a hand-bound, limited edition artist’s book that centers around eight photographic sequences, interspersed with large, single images. Through a close observation of the park’s built and biotic landscape, this work highlights the small, almost imperceptible, hourly and daily transformations that mark time’s passing.

For more information, view the book’s wepage HERE.

New portfolio online : Traces of Time

To create the work in “Traces of Time,” I spent the month of August 2021 walking and photographing daily in the Jardins de L’Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels. Through a slow, meditative, and close examination of one of Brussels most beloved parks, I explored how walking influences my perception of space and place. The resulting photographs will be compiled into two separate books.

 

“A Walk in the Park” will be a collaborative book that brings together my photographs and the calligraphy paintings of Mimi Kunz to create a polyphonic portrayal of the park in summer. (anticipated release: November 2022)

 

“Traces of Time, walking the Jardins de L’Abbaye de la Cambre in summer” will be a hand-bound, limited edition artist’s book that centers around eight sequences of photographic installations. Through a close observation of the park’s built and biotic landscape, this work highlights the small, almost imperceptible, hourly and daily transformations that mark time’s passing. (anticipated release: November 2022)