JONI STERNBACH & ANDY BURGESS IN CONVERSATION @ COMO

Thursday, February 13, 2025 6:30-8:00pm

Please join COMO as we continue our lectures series with conversation with artist Joni Sternbach and Andy Burgess, artist and founder of Dark Spring Press. Joni and Andy will be sharing their work and insights into contemporary issues in photobook publishing. This free in-person event requires registration. This in-person event Spaces are limited.

Joni Sternbach is NY based artist/photographer. She works with large format film and early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and to make environmental portraits. Her work centers on our relationship with water, and how as humans, we observe, relate to, and interact with the earth’s oceans. Because her work is so intrinsic to connective bodies of water, it taps into environmental issues like climate change and its accompanying effects.Her work is held in several international and public collections including LACMA, National Portrait Gallery in London, MEP, Joslyn Art Museum, Nelson Atkins Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the recipient of several grants and fellowships including NYFA, Santo Foundation, MacDowell and Ucross. She is represented by Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles.

She is a founding faculty at Penumbra Foundation in NY where she currently teaches and serves on their advisory board.

Andy Burgess is an internationally acclaimed London-born artist currently residing in Tucson, Arizona. He is known for his renditions of modernist and mid-century architecture, panoramic cityscape paintings, and elaborate mosaic-like collages made from collected vintage papers and ephemera. Lauded by Annabel Samspon, Deputy Editor of Tatler as “the next David Hockney”, Burgess continually expands his artistic vocabulary by mastering various media, most recently immersing himself in photography and printmaking. Andy is represented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London, as well as galleries in San Francisco, Laguna Beach, New York and by Etherton Gallery in Tucson. Burgess’s work can be seen at many prestigious international art fairs, including Art Miami, Art Hamptons, The London Art Fair, Art Central in Hong Kong, Art Palm Springs and Art New York.

In 2017, Andy started Dark Spring Press. With now over 20 publications and counting, DSP is an independent publisher presenting elegant, meaningful, small run and limited edition photography books and fine art photography prints. Andy has exhibited these books at the International Center of Photography's annual Photobook Fest in New York City and has represented DSP as a photography reviewer for Medium Photo in San Diego.

This free event is sponsored by COMO Art Foundation. 

Louie palu @ como

Sunday, October 27, 2024 6:30-8:00pm

© Louie Palu

Please join COMO as we launch our lectures series with photographer Louie Palu who will be sharing work and insights that examine many of the issues of our times including climate change, conflict, the subversion of democracy, and how photography plays a role in public dialogue. This in-person event will take place at 1322 Grand Ave, Phoenix. Spaces are limited.

Louie Palu is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has examines social political issues. He is best known for hybrid approaches to creating work that incorporates art and documentary. Louie’s projects have been selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship and World Press Photo Award, and has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Dok Munich Film Festival. His work is held and been exhibited in numerous collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and National Gallery of Art. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. 

Joni Sternbach, Andy Burgess