Dickies drops its Spring/Summer 2020 range under its Life division. Dickies Life nods to the ’90s with its range of “Color Block” gear, honors its workwear past with “Custom Create” apparel and introduces a summer upgrade with its “All Over Print” selection.
Retro inspiration can be found across a range of silhouettes, from oversized quarter-zip fleeces to printed Cuban collar shirts. Color block prints inform short sleeves and hoodies.
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Ruth Lauer-Manenti lives in a cabin in the woods in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Her background is in painting and drawing, but fifteen years ago she inherited a K.B. Canham large-format camera from someone she greatly admired. She taught herself how to use the camera and gradually accomplished in photography that which she had been striving for through drawing and painting. She gathers much of her inspiration from looking at drawings and paintings continuously over decades. Her mother was also an artist. She had a wealth of talent and worked steadily throughout her life, yet her number one role was to take care of her family. Sadly, she left behind a legacy of unwanted, unpublished, unknown work. Lauer-Manenti realizes, now that her mother has passed away, that part of her determination as an artist is to honor her mother and to create a continuum. She has developed a strong spiritual life and practice, since breaking her neck in a car crash at the age of twenty, and adapted a simpler and more ritualistic way of life than she had known.
Opposite – Leaf in Hand, 2019
Exhibition runs through to March 6th, 2020
Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock
NY 12498
Searching for a place to be at peace in the wilderness, my dad bought seven acres of undeveloped land in central New Hampshire in the late 1970s. It wasn’t until 2010 that I became curious about the story of a man named Joseph Plummer, who we were told lived in the same woods during the late 1700s and 1800s. It was said this local legend left his town of a mere 100 people to be in seclusion. Researching and finding very little concrete information about Joseph has paradoxically heightened his presence in my mind and inspired me to seek out what drove him from his life. I uncovered some of his personal belongings and spent summers tracking down the places where he spent his days. Interviews with local residents told of his hostility to “loafers and spendthrifts” and his “mortal opposition to progress, generally.” But the scant information about Joseph only inspires more questions and feeds his local mythology.
Opposite – Secluded Cabin
Exhibition runs through to March 1st, 2020
Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester
MA 01890
I made this work on journeys south to untamed places in the Sea Islands of Georgia with a tribe of like-minded artists. The images and characters come from dreams and memories the land drew out from my personal mythology. Timeless, yet inhabited for millennia, the islands carry a spiritual presence of deep wildness palpable in the light and shadows; the ancient alligators and birds, the feral pigs and donkeys, and the artifacts of their existence lying everywhere. My photographs explore the emotions and spiritual experiences that the land and the light evoked: vulnerability, captivity, lost-ness, sanctuary, and wildness set free.
Photographing in collaboration with the other artists, I conceived of these images made on black and white film as stills taken from a movie. Each is an instant of a longer feature, of a fuller picture not seen but understood to exist. There is a narrative between the frames and a soundtrack within us that I aim to invoke. What we imagine might be the rest of the story is as much a part of the photograph as what we believe we are seeing.
Opposite – Sanctuary
Exhibition runs through to March 1st, 2020
Vermont Center for Photography
49 Flat Street
Brattleboro
VT 5301
Shepard Fairey‘s imprint OBEY has revealed its Spring 2020 offerings in a lookbook shot by Mila van der Linden.
The new collection is typically bold, bringing plenty of OBEY’s artistic references alongside a heavy use of color, patterns and branding. Standout pieces across both mens and womenswear include a pair of eye-adorned overalls, a pastel yellow rugby shirt which is contrasted with block-striped orange and red hues, as well as pastel pink T-shirt that sports an image of a dove and Earth.
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CLOT teams up with provocative Japanese label Fxxking Rabbits (also known as #FR2) on a collection inspired by some of Hong Kong’s most recognizable logos. The capsule collection features T-shirts, hoodies, long sleeve shirts and accessories such as a cap and a tote bag all #FR2’s well-known provocative rabbit motif mixed with CLOT branding. The pieces are available in both black and white colorways, with a special yellow colorway reserved for friends & family.
The collaborative Fxxking Rabbits are available only at JUICE Causeway Bay and on JUICE’s web store.
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