BARBARA G. MENSCH
Born Brooklyn, NY, 1953
Education Brooklyn Museum Studio School, 1969
Art Students League, 1969
Hunter College, 1976 BFA: Painting
Awards
Leica Camera, Solms, Germany, 1992
JM Kaplan Fund, The Last Waterfront project, 1985
The New York State Council on the Arts, Architecture
Photography and Design Grant, 1984
Drawing Scholarship Academia Di Belle Arte, Florence, Italy, 1972
Solo Exhibitions
2009 "South Street" Harbor Works Gallery, Brunswick Maine
2008 "Southstreet: The Photographs of Barbara Mensch" ; The Southstreet Seaport Museum, New York, NY
2007 "Barbara Mensch NY"; The Museum of the City of New York, NY
2006 "Portraits / The Men of the Market " PhotoGraphic Gallery New York City
2005-2006 "New York: Some Kind of Paradise," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
Barbara Mensch: Water front; Photographic Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "Republican Descent", NewburghPhoto, Newburgh, NY
South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY
2004 "Celebration of New Wing" installation of large prints depicting the Brooklyn Bridge/East River in conjunction with Beyer Blinder Bell architects, Seapor
Museum. Year long exhibition in main lobby of New Wing.
1998 KunstBalkon (Documenta X), Kassel, Germany
1998 "Souvenir Souvenir" (To Remember) Black and White images from a journey through Eastern Europe. KunstBalkon/ Dokumenta x Festival Kassel,
Germany. Funded by a special grant from the minister of art and culture from the city of Kassel.
1993 "Startling Developments" Black and White installed with no frames and waxed surafces. Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1986 South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY
1985 "The Last Waterfront" The Museum of the City of New York, curated by Stephen Hyde Miller, NY
1982 "Twelve Views of a Pregnancy" installation of photographs on walls and tables P.S.1 Long Island City, New York
1981 "Surveys in American Technology" Color Polaroid Images of industrial landscapes. Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1981 "Location: South Central Avenue Los Angeles" The Kitchen, New York, Slide tape presentation curated by Robert Longo also presented at The
Franklin Furnace NYC, Wright State University, Dayton Ohio, and San Francisco Art Institute
Group Exhibitions
2009 "Coney Island" AM Richards Fine Art Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2009 "Personal Favorites" Flo Peters Galler, Hamburg, Germany.
2009 "Hot Fun In The Summertime" Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
2009 "Art Privat" Kassel, Germany curated by Nora Von Der Decken
2008 "Focus On The Seaport" w/catalogue, New York Center For Architecture, New York City
2007 "We Cover The Waterfront" PhotoGraphic Gallery, New York
2006 "20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration"; Bonni Benrubi
Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "57 on 57th", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC, 2004
"Crime Scene", Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, CA, 2004
"By The Gladness Of The River" photographic survey of downtown New York artists from the mid 1950s to present. Seaport Museum, New York
"The Spirit of Creativity at the Seaport – Past and Present,"
2003 South Street Seaport Museum, NYC
2001 "Star, Spangled, Spirit", Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
2001 "Passing Lights" (video) Voogelfrei Art Festival, w/catalogue Darmstadt, Germany curated by Ute Ritschel
1999 Biblioteque National Paris, France, "Photographs from Landmarks of New York III,"
Photo Art Book Art, New Haven, CT, "Somehow Cinematic,"
Winter Art Gallery, Houston, TX, "Visible Traces,"
Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX, "The Brooklyn Bridge,"
1998 "Vogelfrei," Darmstadt, Germany,
"Art Frankfurt," Frankfurt, Germany,
"Footpath Mosaics" Vogelfrei Art Festival, w/ catalogue, Darmstadt, Germany Modular photographs installed on the ground.
1996 Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, "Photographs from the
Permanent Collection," curated by Manuel Alvarez Bravo,
1995 "Art Frankfurt," Frankfurt, Germany
1995 "Photographs from the Permanent Collection" Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City w/catalogue curated by Manuel Alvarez Bravo
1994 Grand Central Station, New York Photographs from Landmarks of New York,
"Art Frankfurt," Frankfurt, Germany
Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria, "Amerikanische Kunst,"
1992 "Leica Presents Six American Photographers at Photokina" sponsored by LEICA, Cologne, Germany,
1988 Uris Center Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Photographs from Landmarks of New York,"
Forbes Gallery, New York, "Photographs from Landmarks of New York,"
1985 Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
Municipal Art Society, New York, "Three See South Street,"
"The South Street Survey : Barbara Mensch and Andrew Moore". The Municipal Art Society curated by Elliot Willensky, AIA
1983 Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, New York, "Photography in Diversity"
1982 The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, "Altered Landscapes,"
Santa Fe Gallery of Photography New Mexico, "Alternative Visions,"
"Themes in Contemporary Women's Photography" slide presentations and lectures presented at the Yale University Art Museum, Rutgers University
New Jersey, Franklin Furnace New York City, and other venues. Curated by Shelley Rice.
1981 "Themes in Contemporary Womens' Photography," curated by Shelley Rice
Yale University Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey,
Franklin Furnace, NY
Selected Publications/Bibliography
"Brooklyn's Activists Act to Save Coney Island" Greenpoint Gazette, June 4, 2009
"The City Visible: Emily's Bridge" New York Times, January 11, 2009
"Loaders, Lumpers and the Smell of Fish" New York Times, April 29, 2008
"Spotlight: Barbara Mensch"; Black & White Magazine, Issue 55, December 2007
South Street, Columbia University Press, April 2007
Cityscapes, Columbia University Press, September 2001, edited by Deborah Dash Moore
ABC Nightline "The Myth of the American Dream," Interview about
The New York City Waterfront as a vanishing workplace, Fall, 2000
A History of New York City in Images, Columbia University Press, December, 2000, edited by Deborah Dash Moore
Metropolis Magazine, "The Hidden Bridge," May 2000
Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, "A Hidden World," March 1999
Little Devils, Picture This Publications, Los Angeles, 1997
Landmarks of New York, I, II, III, Harry Abrams, New York, 1997
Light and Time (Luiz y Tiempo), Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, 1995
The Last Waterfront, Scribners, New York, 1995
WNEW TV, "Good Day New York," interview about The Last Waterfront, April 5, 1999
Cover Magazine, review by Kay Kinney, 1992
Village Voice, Centerfold, December, 1992
WBAI Radio, "Art Breaking," with Charlie Finch, December 1992
The New York Times, "Fish Market Shrugs Off Assertions of Mob Links," article by Steven Ehrlanger, interview about The Last Waterfront, October 17,
1987
Booklist , review of The Last Waterfront, January, 1986
The New York Post, review of The Last Waterfront by Jerry Talmer, March 29, 1986
Forbes Magazine, review by Malcolm Forbes of The Last Waterfront, 1985
The Village Voice, review of The Last Waterfront by Guy Trebay, 1985
Manhattan Inc. Magazine, review of The Last Waterfront by April Bernard, 1985
The Daily News, review of The Last Waterfront by Suzanne Hamlin, 1985
Downtown, Journal of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 1985
Journal of the Print World, review of MCNY exhibition, 1985
WNYC, "Everything Else," interview by Pat Collins about The Last Waterfront, June 1985
Photography: The Problematic Model, NFS Press, San Francisco, 1981, edited by Lew Thomas and Peter D'Agostino.
Southwestern Contemporary Arts Journal, review of exhibition, "Alternative Visions," 1981
Afterimage Magazine, review of "Alternative Visions," September 1980
The Village Voice, 1979, 80 centerfold photographs.
Guest Lectures
NYU School of Photography Tisch School of the Arts, "Photography And Painting," November 1999
The New School, "Voicing Their Visions Survey of Six Women Artists," April 1998
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, "Waterfront Photographers," January 1996
Collections
Museum of the City of New York
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Centro Cultural Arte Contemporereo, Mexico City
The Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
The Rouse Corporation of Maryland
Goldman Sachs, New York
Holland & Knight LLP
Uly Barthes, Frankfurt, Germany
Stephan Braunfels Architecture, Munich, Germany
American General Collection
Collection of Nora van der Decken, Kassal, Germany
Teft Applebaum and Associates, London, England
Posard Boek and Associates, CA
Ute Ritschel Collection, Darnstadt, Germany
Pfizer Corporation, New York, NY
