Exhibitions | 1998 | Fraenkel Gallery

Snake Powder, Spore & Mucus Prints

Erin Nelson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:48:01 +0000

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Fourteen Vintage Photographs ca. 1905–1926

Erin Nelson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:22:06 +0000

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Dust Breeding: Photographs, Sculpture, & Film

Erin Nelson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:35:15 +0000

Dust Breeding takes its title from the famous 1920 photograph of Duchamp’s pivotal Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare). Steve Wolfe writes in the exhibition catalog:

This exhibition will include work by artists as diverse as Diane Arbus, Richard Artschwager, Harry Callahan, John Chamberlain, Susan Derges, Marcel Duchamp, Dr. Harold Edgerton, Tom Friedman, Adam Fuss, Robert Gober, Rodney Graham, Christian Marclay, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, J. John Priola, John Schabel, Cindy Sherman, James Welling, Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Rachel Whiteread and Steve Wolfe.

A fully-illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition.

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Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XII

Erin Nelson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:45:11 +0000

Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures is the gallery’s annual opportunity to show off its most recent acquisitions, the newest work by gallery artists and the strange treasures that have been unearthed over the year.

This year’s highlights include new work by Adam Fuss, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Irving Penn, Catherine Wagner, William Wegman and Henry Wessel; rare and classic images such as Joel-Peter Witkin’s Studio of the Painter (Courbet), Paris, Robert Frank’s 1950s print of teenagers waiting in line outside of a television studio in Hollywood, a vintage print of Paul Outerbridge’s 1923 image Ethiopian Form and Ken Moody with his Eyes Closed by Robert Mapplethorpe; unlikely surprises such as Felice Beato’s Review of Fire Brigades (1860), Edouart & Cobb’s San Francisco Fusiliers, San Francisco (1878), Helen Levitt’s portrait of Walker Evans with a drape on his head and Diane Arbus’ Woman with a Floppy Hat. Some of the quirkiest images are by anonymous photographers such as a large-scale hand-colored family portrait from the 19th century and a picture of two tiny ants in the snow.

Also exhibited will be work of Diane Arbus, E.J. Bellocq, Christopher Bucklow, Harry Callahan, Sophie Calle, Gary Fabian-Miller, Nan Goldin, Lewis Hine, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Nadar, Eadweard Muybridge, August Sander, Charles Sheeler, David Smith, Alfred Steiglitz, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Garry Winogrand.

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Self Portrait

Erin Nelson — Mon, 13 Jul 1998 06:06:56 +0000

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1965

gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) [27.9 x 35.6 cm]

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Photographs 1931‑1965

Christa Palazzolo — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:18:07 +0000

David Smith: Photographs 1931-1965

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Recent Seascapes and Agnes Martin: Works on Paper

Erin Nelson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:40:07 +0000

Formal minimalism accompanied by conceptual and perceptual richness unite the two artists, forty-year old Japanese-born Hiroshi Sugimoto and Agnes Martin, a Canadian/American woman over twice his age. Both Sugimoto and Martin use basic forms – the square, rectangle, and line – in a reiterated motif, infinitely varied, to draw the viewer’s attention to their own perceptions, to heighten one’s sense of themselves seeing. Sugimoto’s photographs of sea and sky have been called visual approximation of the infinite. Martin’s pictures, delicate pencil and watercolor, have been described as an attempt to depict the undepictable, to see the unseeable, to feel the unfeelable. What Martin says of her own work could be equally applied to Sugimoto’s photographs, “I want to draw a certain response…not a specific response but that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature – an experience of simple joy…the simple, direct going into a field of vision as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”

Bass Strait, Table Cape, 1997

gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 inches (mount) [50.8 x 61.0 cm]

Hiroshi Sugimoto has lived and worked both in New York City and Tokyo since 1974. He has received numerous awards including a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A retrospective of his work was recently seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Agnes Martin’s first solo exhibition was at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York in 1958. Since that time she has exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1992. Martin lives in New Mexico.

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Wall Drawings and Photographs (1969 through 1998)

Erin Nelson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:42:52 +0000

Asked once if he was the originator of wall drawings, LeWitt answered, “I think the cave men came first.” Sol LeWitt has never been interested in standard notions of authorship, ownership or originality. An early pioneer of Conceptualism, his photographs, sculpture and, particularly the drawing installations, have been a pointed criticism of the traditional art object so revered in the Western high art tradition. In creating an artwork, LeWitt acts more as a composer or director than a traditional visual artist, creating a set of instructions such as “vertical lines, not straight, not touching, covering the wall” and leaving the handiwork to his assistants. Motivated by a desire to make a work of art as two-dimensional as possible, LeWitt has created over 300 wall drawings. Originally developed from four basic kinds of lines and adapted to architectural space, they incorporate elements of chance and impermanence. At the close of an exhibition, drawings are painted over, the artwork erased. Preciousness, scarcity and the singularity of the artist’s touch have no place in LeWitt’s world. “Ideas,” says LeWitt, “cannot be owned. They belong to whoever understands them.”

Cube, 1998

gelatin silver print, 11 x 11 inches

A major force in Minimal and Conceptual movements of the 1960’s, Sol LeWitt has influenced the community of artists, designers, writers and musicologists with his work as well as his thinking. His first one-person exhibition in New York was in 1965. Since then he has had major exhibitions at museums around the world including the Tate Gallery, London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. The Museum of Modern Art, New York exhibited a mid-career retrospective in 1978 and a print retrospective in 1996. A major exhibition is being planned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the year 2000.

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