Skarstedt Fine Art, in cooperation with Luhring Augustine, is pleased to present Fireflies, an exhibition of 9 x 12” black and white silver gelatin prints by Gregory Crewdson. This series was initially photographed in 1996 and will be exhibited for the first time this fall. There will be an artist catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition.
In the summer of 1996, Crewdson spent two solitary months at his family’s cabin in Becket, Massachusetts. His sole purpose was to photograph the fireflies that appeared each evening in the surrounding landscape. Using both small and medium format cameras, Crewdson obsessively photographed his subjects illuminating the night sky. Crewdson was drawn to the flickering lights, in part, by the underlying impossibility of capturing their elusive beauty in pictures. For various reasons, the artist chose not to exhibit this body of work until now.
Printed as single editions, these intimate, black and white pictures seem like a radical departure from Crewdson’s recognizable style of large-scale, cinematic photographs. At the core, however, the fireflies share a set of common interests with Crewdson’s oeuvre; a sense of wonder in the nocturnal landscape, light as a narrative event and a fascination with nature as a psychological mystery. Although consistent in terms of their subject matter, these photographs demonstrate a wide scope of visual expression ranging from almost pure abstraction, to more idyllic representations of the natural landscape.
Gregory Crewdson is an internationally exhibited artist. He is the subject of numerous monographs and articles; he is on the faculty of the Department of Photography at Yale University and lives in New York City. A traveling retrospective of his work from 1985-2005 has been on view since September 2005 at the Kunstverein Hannover, Switzerland at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld, in Winterthur, Switzerland and is currently showing at Lansgalerie, Lindz, Austria. A book of Beneath the Roses, Crewdson’s most recent series of photographs, is due to be published by Abrams, in the fall of 2007.
For further information, please contact +1 212 737 2060 or info@skarstedt.com
In the summer of 1996, Crewdson spent two solitary months at his family’s cabin in Becket, Massachusetts. His sole purpose was to photograph the fireflies that appeared each evening in the surrounding landscape. Using both small and medium format cameras, Crewdson obsessively photographed his subjects illuminating the night sky. Crewdson was drawn to the flickering lights, in part, by the underlying impossibility of capturing their elusive beauty in pictures. For various reasons, the artist chose not to exhibit this body of work until now.
Printed as single editions, these intimate, black and white pictures seem like a radical departure from Crewdson’s recognizable style of large-scale, cinematic photographs. At the core, however, the fireflies share a set of common interests with Crewdson’s oeuvre; a sense of wonder in the nocturnal landscape, light as a narrative event and a fascination with nature as a psychological mystery. Although consistent in terms of their subject matter, these photographs demonstrate a wide scope of visual expression ranging from almost pure abstraction, to more idyllic representations of the natural landscape.
Gregory Crewdson is an internationally exhibited artist. He is the subject of numerous monographs and articles; he is on the faculty of the Department of Photography at Yale University and lives in New York City. A traveling retrospective of his work from 1985-2005 has been on view since September 2005 at the Kunstverein Hannover, Switzerland at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld, in Winterthur, Switzerland and is currently showing at Lansgalerie, Lindz, Austria. A book of Beneath the Roses, Crewdson’s most recent series of photographs, is due to be published by Abrams, in the fall of 2007.
For further information, please contact +1 212 737 2060 or info@skarstedt.com