Susanna Pozzoli On the Block Harlem Private View - exhibition and book signing April 1, 2010

Los Angeles
April 1 – August 22, 2010
UCR California Museum of Photography
Susanna Pozzoli On the Block. Harlem Private View

The UCR California Museum of Photography was founded in conjunction with the University of California Riverside.
The Museum works in collaboration with Digital Studio, together they launched a project, entitled Off the block, conceived to involve local high school students. Off the block offers to high school students different resources and activities, such as exhibitions, workshops, artist residencies and lectures.

Colin Westerbeck, Director of the California Museum of Photography, identified in Susanna Pozzoli’s project On the block. Harlem Private View – created during her residency at Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasio Arte (HSF by MA, Harlem New York) - the ideal way to involve aspiring high school-age artists.
The UCR California Museum of Photography invited the artist Susanna Pozzoli, Raffaele Bedarida and Teresa Meucci, curators of HSF by MA, Ruggero and Francesca Montrasio, founders of the residency program, to curate a site-specific project during the first week of April 2010. This project will involve LA high school students. Following the main idea which stands behind Pozzoli’s photographic series On the block. Harlem Private View, they will be accompanied by the artist and HSF team to photograph interiors of the houses in the surrounding area of the Museum. In this occasion students will create a personal portfolio that they will include in their application to college.

Furthermore, the second group show, organised within the project Off the Block, will be inaugurated on April 1st 2010 at the California Museum of Photography. The exhibition, entitled On Site (April 1st – June 19th 2010), is curated by Lisa Henry, and will feature the work of four contemporary artists, who have all undertaken long-term projects investigating landscape, architecture and identity through the Unites States. Other than Susanna Pozzoli's, On Site will present the work of Sheila Pree Bright, Stella Kalaw and Lauren Woods.

On May the 22nd 2010, the book On the Block. Harlem Private View, published by Umberto Allemandi & C. / Montrasio Arte, edited by Raffaele Bedarida, will be presented by the curator Lisa Henry, Artistic Director of the UCR. A book signing, a conversation between the artists, exhibiting in On Site show, and the Director of the Museum and a speech in which Teresa Meucci will introduce HSF by MA project will complete this intense evening.

Susanna Pozzoli (1978) Born 1978 in Italy. After studying literature at Bergamo University, left Italy to continue her studies at the Université la Sorbonne in Paris, where lived for five years. Working in parallel with her university studies developed her skills as a photographer, working as an assistant and becoming a member of the Atelier Reflexe, an independent photography school in Paris. Took part in many exchanges, shows and residency programs at various European schools. In 2004, lived for one year in Barcelona, thanks to a European grant. In July 2007, invited by HSF by MA, moved to New York and decided to stay in the US longer. Now lives and work in New York and Milan.

Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasio Arte

Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasio Arte is a privately funded non-profit Residency Program for international artists, conceived by Ruggero Montrasio. HSF by MA is directed by Francesca Montrasio, and curated by Raffaele Bedarida and Teresa Meucci.

The project, started in 2007, is designed to encourage the creative, intellectual and personal growth of emerging visual artists. HSF by MA invites two or three young artists every three months, providing them with housing and studio in an exceptional townhouse in the district of central Harlem.

Every residency ends with a group exhibition, displaying works and projects accomplished by each artist during her/his stay in New York. In addition to this, a complete show of the artists in residence will be held at the end of the first 3 years. Finally, the first catalogue of a three-volume series (each volume will cover one year) is being prepared presenting a selection from all the artists in residence. Published by Silvana Editoriale and Montrasio Arte (Milan, Italy), the book will have texts in English and Italian as and will be widely distributed in Europe and the US.

Over the past three years HSF by MA has invited twenty-four artists from all over the world: Italy, Israel, Sweden, France, Korea, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Africa and United States. Most of them are increasingly receiving international recognition.
During the first three years of activity, HSF by MA had the pleasure to invite also writers and musicians, such as Marco Mancassola, Mattia Signorini, and young curators as Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Lorenzo Giusti, Margherita Romagnoli e Davide Lacagnina.
In 2009 HSF by MA started a collaboration project with Mongin Art Center in Seoul, and in 2010 started collaborating with the Bezazel Academy of Jerusalem.

HSF by MA is also undergoing intense editorial activity. Furthermore, the program is going to inaugurate a second international artist residency in the city of Detroit, which will be curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Teresa Meucci and Mattia Signorini, and coordinated by Francesca Montrasio.

Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasio Arte
128 West 121 street
New York, NY 10027
www.harlemstudiony.org
Info: info@harlemstudiony.org

Publisher Umberto Allemandi & C. founded in 1983, is one of the most renowned Italian publisher for art and architecture. Among its authors: John Pope-Hennessy, Clement Greenberg, Federico Zeri, Michael Jaffé, Francis Haskell, Jean Clair, Carlo Olmo, Rafael Moneo, Ignasi de Solá-Morales, Renzo Piano, Vittorio Gregotti, ecc. It also publishes exhibition catalogues for museums and galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art of New York, the Parisian Musée D’Orsay, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Poldi Pezzoli in Milan and the Modern National Gallery in Rome.

Info for press release:
teresameucci@harlemstudiony.org