Joronne Jeter Splashes Openhouse Gallery With Beautiful Colors

Joronne Jeter spends weekdays as a managing director at Citi and weekends indulging his passion for photography. He used to toy around with pictures, bribing his family and friends with food and other perks so that he’d have portrait subjects. Last year though, Jeter started working with professional models – and the stylists and hairdressers that follow. Instead of food, he promised them a gallery show, and on Friday at Openhouse Gallery, Jeter showed off the results.

Jeter says he wanted to develop his style, and it’s a powerful one. The models’ colorful costumes, original hair pieces and bold makeup are often set against robust backgrounds like the Brooklyn Bridge and the industrial architecture of the Meatpacking District. Jeter’s from Gary, Indiana, and a taste for the unfinished beauty of big buildings has stayed with him. So has his love for the long opera gloves his mother used to wear – a frequent feature on the models. Check out more of Jeter's art on his site and a collection from his April 15-16 show on Openhouse's Facebook page.

Portraits of Joronne's show by New York-based photojournalist Amy Sussman who recently joined Openhouse Gallery as a contributing photographer. Sussman also shoots for the New York Times, Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal. Visit her site and tumblr.

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Pop Up Fashion at Openhouse. Brought to You by Pearl & Company + Horizon Designer Sales

Once spring hits, fashion pop ups in downtown New York are as consistent as Yankee baseball in up, uptown. This week, Openhouse is hosting a fashion pop up store for Horizon Designer Sales and Pearl & Company. We’ve got pin stripes and polka dots, floral prints and zebra stripes. Shoes, dresses, jewelry, tank tops, even a small dog named Brutus. Dog not for sale! Everything else is, and for great prices. The downtown pop up runs from 11 am to 8 pm and ends Thursday evening.

Fashion lines at the Openhouse pop up are 65% to 85% off retail prices, and Horizon Designer Sales provided some great labels. Betsey Johnson, Oscar de la Renta, Cynthia Rowley, Dolce Vita, Ben Sherman and Edun to name a few. Edun is U2 front-man Bono’s label, so you know the line goes great with sunglasses. Plus, proceeds from Edun sales go to African schools, and the cotton’s all organic.

If you’re into, you know, low prices for high-end contemporary fashion from American and European designers, come down to 201 Mulberry. Say hi to Julia Veli Kreibich, an artist-slash-sample sale-producer, who runs Pearl & Company. You’ll see the spring styles (and Brutus too).

Check out Pearl & Company's site. They're fusing fashion and charitable causes like a perfect rivet and blue jeans.

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Photographer Amy Sussman Beautifully Captures Openhouse's Incase for Andy Warhol event for the Wall Street Journal

Amy Sussman, a photographer for the Wall Street Journal, composed a beautiful shot last week at the Incase for Andy Warhol event at Openhouse. Sussman, who frequently captures New York City fashion and art events for top-shelf publications like the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, has a fantastic Web site too. An absolutely beautiful and diverse home that'll make you smile. Explore her backstage fashion photography, follow her through India, and peek inside a tent city. Get ahold of her tumblr account too. Sussman's photo from the Openhouse event was featured recently on the Wall Street Journal's New York photos of the week. Make your day more beautiful by checking out the series.

More New York City perspectives from Antenna Mag, Guest of a Guest, Freshness, Maison Chaplin + Paper Mag. Plus, Incase for Andy Warhol:

Take a peek at Incase's new line of Andy Warhol-inspired Mac, iPhone and iPad cases.

Get Antenna Mag's perspective on the Incase for Andy Warhol event at Openhouse. Antenna Mag.

Read Guest of a Guest's story by Jasmine Frazier or go straight to Wendy Ploger's photo series.

Or, go to Freshness mag, Maison Chaplin + Paper Mag for more photography.

Erro by Anna Larson

Maria Sharapova at Evian's "Live Young" Photo Shoot

On August 24 starting at 11:00 am, Evian and tennis sensation Maria Sharapova will host the "Live Young" Photo Shoot at Openhouse. New Yorkers can star in an Evian photo shoot to create their own personalized "Babies on the Inside" ads.

Attendee photos will be uploaded to the evian online Live young Community; also, attendees will have the opportunity to score an evian baby t-shirt, or tickets to the 2010 US Open tournament!

Mobile Photography at Openhouse with EYE'EM

EYE'EM, an online hub dedicated to mobile photography, will be exhibiting their best pics at Openhouse from 9/27 -9/29.

The top EYE’EM submissions will be professionally processed and printed using high quality materials as alloy and acrylic glass. Digital screens will display single photos, slideshows, and relevant photo streams. The EYE’EM community’s live stream will be displayed, allowing mobile photographers around the world to exhibit their work instantaneously.

The EYE'EM exhibition links the online and offline worlds through real-time interaction between Openhouse, its visitors and the international mobile photography movement.

Submit your photos now at: http://exhibitions.eyeem.com/nyc2010/

New Car

What have we been up to at Openhouse? Before PlayBeautiful set up camp, Mercedes drove up with a cool car - that's right, Openhouse can accomodate a car. Call us next time you need to show yours off.

PlayBeautiful - Reserve your seat now!

PlayBeautiful - the World Cup 2010 experience - kicked off yesterday with wins by Brazil and Paraguay. Fans watched the matches in our 70 seat stadium while munching on World Cupcakes and sandwiches from our Concessions Stand and quenched their thirst at the Cantina with cocktails and imported beer. Hooligans practiced their (virtual) moves at our Game Zone and scored at the PlayBeautiful Game Zone. Want to be part of the Play Beautiful action? Make your reservations here.

The Yoshiaki Yuki Jizaiga art opening, hosted by Gallery Gen was a huge success. The artwork was beautiful and unique, and OHG was happy to have the exotic pieces in the space. In fact, we enjoyed the art so much we extended the show for one more day. See pictures below.






Produced By: Gallery Gen
Date: 4.10.09-4.12.09

Make Me a Supermodel (Episodes 4 & 11)

Produced by Bravo Television
3/16/08

Two episodes of this popular reality show were filmed at Openhouse in March: in the first, the models were challenged to use their bodies as art. Their bodies painted, these contestants filed into our venue in a processional and then posed as a living sculpture as onlookers analyzed their ability to pose. In the second (non-sequential) episode, four finalists were selected from a photo shoot the day before, wherein each of them posed as one of the four elements (fire, earth, wind, water). Then, their four best portraits were enlarged and hung at Openhouse for a gallery showing; the four supermodel-hopefuls, along with supermodel-judges Nikki Taylor and Tyson Beckford, and guest-judge Jennifer Starr, were filmed checking out the photography. See more at - www.openhousegallery.org