Hard Press Editions – Mission Critical Series

One of Jon Gam’s greatest passions was the Mission Critical Series: THE avenue for contemporary art critics to publish current thought and debate about art. The mission critical series evolved out of his relationship in particular with art critic and professor Raphael Rubinstein.  Jon edited Raphael’s poetry in the 90′s (it’s amazing how many critics [...]

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George Stengel: New Hope Impressions

Hard Press Editions was approached by a private collector and admirer of George Stengel to catalogue his collection.  Stengel was an American painter taken with the French Impressionists, who returned to Pennsylvania and imitated their technique on American soil. The results are colorful snapshots of a time in American history when Industry greets pristine nature — [...]

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Marjorie Strider/ Dramatic Gestures

 Every once in a while at Hard Press Editions, we have the chance to bring someone’s work back to center stage. Marjorie Strider was a female pop artist exhbiting with some of the biggest artists at the time;  working with rubber and producing some pretty exciting three dimensional larger than life art such as a [...]

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Raffaele D’Onofrio

donofrioart.com I was introduced to Raffaele D’Onofrio by Jon Gams and was instantly taken by his artwork that explores science, nature and the human connection to our botanical and biological surroundings.  His work is made up of a series of fine dots and strokes. At times, you think you spot a DNA helix or an [...]

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Tibor Freund at the Painting Center, NYC 1/2008

A private collector of the work of Tibor Freund (1910-2007) came to me with the monumental job of cataloguing and archiving a lifetime of Tibor Freund’s paintings, artwork, documents and journals.  The culmination of this work was an exhibition at the Painting Center in New York City (for which I wrote the press release).  Tibor [...]

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Susan Meiselas/ Kurdistan: In the Shadows of History

Kurdistan: In the Shadows of History by Susan Meiselas One of the first projects I worked on was as a researcher at Magnum Photos in New York City one college summer. Most of that time I was in the Editorial Department, but one day a week, I went to  Magnum Photographer, Susan Meiselas’ expansive basement office.  Most days, I set [...]

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Do judge a book by its jacket

For a time, I worked at Image Bank and then at Getty Images (when Image Bank was absorbed by them).  I was an editorial account executive for four years just before stock photography became this self-serve digital stockpile of images open to the public.  I was there at a really great time– when you knew all [...]

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Plant sitter

Two things are the basis of everything I have done and everything I do: research and attention to detail.  Hands down, they are the backbone of everything I do. It has been the foundation of my learning, but it is also the foundation of every succesful project, which brings me back to the little boy, the Plant Sitter, who was [...]

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Is there an audience?

And then, without even looking for it, things fell into place and I was making a living doing just what I wanted to do. I help people realize their projects: films, books, art.   So many people have great ideas, but how do you get to the next step? Where is your audience? Is there [...]

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Photography: pure, honest photography

Across from my maid’s quarters, I looked into the quarters of  an obviously well-to-do family. They lived on the very desirable fourth floor in the building across the street. They had,well,  French doors instead of portals for windows, and they often left the lights on with the curtains open, well into the evening. I had a clear view of the [...]

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