shale – Nina Berman

Palmer Art Museum – November 18

Please join me for an Artist lecture at the Palmer Art Museum at Penn State
University.

I’ll be showing work from the series: Fractured: the shale play

Tuesday November 18
4:30 pm
University Park, PA

Exhibitions/Events: September and October 2014

I’ll be exhibiting work from Purple Hearts, Marine Wedding, Fractured: the Shale Play and the Za’atari project at the following venues this fall. Also, please join me at Photoville, in Brooklyn, NY on September 28 for a panel with Andres Serrano and Sam Barzilay.

Photoville
Za’atari Project
Brooklyn, NY
September 18, 2014 – September 28, 2014
Artist panel with Andres Serrano and Sam Barzilay
September 28, 2014

Palmer Museum of Art
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project
September 23, 2014 – December 14, 2014
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Charleroi Museum
Putain de Guerre
October 4, 2014 – December 13, 2014
Charleroi, Belgium

Manchester Art Gallery
“The Sensory War”
October 11, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Manchester, England

Portland Art Museum
“Blue Sky at 40”
October 18, 2014 – January 11, 2015
Portland, Oregon, USA

Tyson Johnson, from the Purple Hearts series, © Photo by Nina Berman, 2004,

Marcellus Shale exhibition opens in Youngstown, Ohio

The Marcellus Shale Documentary Project moves to Ohio at the Bliss Hall Gallery at Youngstown State University.
March 3 – April 4, 2014

The University has organized the following programs in support of the exhibition.

• Tuesday, 25 March, 7-9 p.m. | Moser 2000 | TITLE: The Science of Shale Gas: Geology, Seismology and Environmental Impacts. Dr. Ray Beiersdorfer, Professor of Geology, Youngstown State University
• Wednesday, 26 March, 7-9 p.m. | Moser 2000 | TITLE: The science of shale gas: The latest evidence on leaky wells, methane emissions, and implications for policy. | Dr. Anthony R. Ingraffea, Ph.D., P.E., Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, Cornell University
• Thursday, 27 March, 5-9 p.m. | Gallery Talk / Gallery Reception | Bliss Hall 2300 | RECEPTION/GALLERY TALK: Brian Cohen, Photographer and Project Director of the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project.
• Friday, 28 March, 4-5:30 p.m. | McDonough Museum Lecture Hall | SCREENING: Triple Divide (film with Mark Ruffalo, Melissa Troutman).

CONTACT: Professor Stephen Chalmers | schalmers@ysu.edu

Photoville in NYC – opens Sept 19, 2013

Photoville, the wildly inventive photography show which takes place in containers on the Brooklyn water front, opens Sept 19.
Provocative work by Donald Weber, Paolo Woods, Peter van Atgmael, and many many more. Come out for the panels, evening projections, and a huge camera obscura. I’ll be in Container 38 with images from the series Fractured:the Shale play.

Arles 2012

Friday July 6 Arles, France

NOOR will present projections of my work “Fractured:the shale play” along with work from colleagues Alixandra Fazzina, showing “Flowers of Afghanistan” and Jon Lowenstein’s “Female Chain Gang.”

Fracking – New York hearings – an update

Today and tomorrow will be the last public hearings on New York State’s plan to allow hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking.

Tuesday 11/29, 1-4 pm and 6-9 pm
Sullivan County Community College, Seelig Theatre, 112 College Road, Loch Sheldrake, NY 12759
Wednesday 11/30, 1-4 pm and 6-9 pm
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007

I’m eager to see what will happen as I’ve immersed myself in this issue since January, exploring shale gas exploration in PA.
I’ve written a few stories on the subject, see here and here and on the the blog .

Below are some recent images taken in Pennsylvania in Bradford and Susquehanna counties.
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