IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: AN EVENING WITH GREGORY CREWDSON
Friday, November 20, 2009
7 pm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Auditorium, FREE
| Beneath the unsettling stillness of Gregory Crewdson's dreamlike photographs reverberates the suggestion of mysterious and unimaginable narratives. Using sets of epic proportions and large-scale film crews that translate into pristine single-frame photographs, Crewdson (American, born 1962) conflates the worlds of cinematography and still photography, as well as the realms of fact and fiction, into an expanded field of production. Alluding to the artist's interest in Freud, the unconscious, and interior psychological landscape, the images themselves feature strange and inexplicable moments in natural, suburban, or domestic landscapes, often illuminated by light emanating from unseen sources or bathing its inhabitants in an eerie glow. Such subterranean narratives invoke suspension of time and disbelief, and cast the viewer in perpetual curiosity regarding the otherworldly happenings at hand. Crewdson's Untitled (boy with hand in drain), 2001-02, from the "Twilight" series, is part of the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and was featured in the recent exhibition Bad Habits. Begun in 1998 and completed in 2002, this series examines the luminescent moment at twilight - "the magic hour" - where the transformation from day into night generates an unearthly setting privy to legend and strange happenings. At 7 pm on Friday, November 20, join us for a free event in the Gallery's auditorium featuring a conversation between the artist and Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti. Gusto at the Gallery features free exhibition admission, art activities, tours, and live music from 3 to 10 pm on Fridays. For a full schedule of events, please visit www.albrightknox.org. |
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