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Michael Lundgren | “If Something Looks Wrong There is Probably Something Wrong,” Believer Magazine

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From Bucky Miller’s interview with Michael Lundgren for Believer Magazine:

Michael Lundgren: The older work, I’ve been noticing more and more now looking at it, was really my way of digesting history, tracing the path of history in terms of photography in general, and specifically landscape photography. It charts the path of my understanding of my predecessors. It’s much less mine, even though I had thought it was mine at the time.

The new work has much less precedent, and the precedent is not in landscape photography. Even though it’s connected to the landscape, the precedent is in work that’s maybe only become possible because of the Pictures Generation.

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Michael Lundgren included in “Where There’s Smoke” at Fraenkel Gallery

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Michael Lundgren’s work is included in “Where There’s Smoke” at Fraenkel Gallery.

“Where There’s Smoke” gathers together four artists who subvert the viewer’s sense of how a photograph can and should operate, both conceptually and perceptually. This is no mere photographic deconstruction, however; a metaphorical intent ricochets through the works. By turns subtle and overt, the imagery both guides and confronts the viewer. The tools employed run the gamut of photographic expression—from hand-collage to the art of sequencing, from the use of reflection and shadow, to chance, suggestion, craft, and, at its most fundamental, a sophisticated intensity of looking.

This exhibition comprises work from Lundgren’s series titled “Matter,” a mythological manifestation of ruin and regeneration. By incorporating human artifacts alongside natural phenomena, the work probes the perceived divide between nature and culture. In the words of the artist: “Embracing a minimalist approach, the images navigate an octave of duality—burial and emergence, solidity and transience, deep and shallow time—the life of cells and the life of stone. The sequence is structured on the connotation of the images, building tension through color relationships and oscillating into black-and-white to enhance and disturb picture logic.”

The exhibition runs concurrently with “Who Do You Love,” a solo exhibition of twelve unique pieces by John Gossage.

Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Tuesday through Friday:
10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Saturday:
11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

“Where There’s Smoke”
July 10 – August 23, 2014
http://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/where-theres-smoke

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Blog post by:
Keavy Handley-Byrne, Gallery Assistant

Rachel Hulin | “Wistful Photographs of Motherhood,” Feature Shoot

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From Ellyn Ruddick-Sunstein’s story for Feature Shoot:

For “Thirty-Five and One: The Short Days and the Long,” photographer and photo editor Rachel Hulin joins her daughter Rose in moments of repose and discovery. As the infant navigates the homes of both the photographer and the two grandmothers, she explores the mother herself, climbing atop her nude body and reaching out for her touch. For the child, each instant is aglow with revelation and novelty, yet for Hulin, each interaction is piercingly precious. Rose’s days are long and sprawling, her mother’s brief and fleeting.

Using a wistful aesthetic drawn from Baroque painting and Technicolor cinema, Hulin allows color to softly drain from all but roses and fabrics pregnant with red. As in a resplendent flower garland painting by Jan Brueghel or Peter Paul Rubens depicting the Virgin and Christ, the mother and child are possessed of a delicate and cherished divinity, a mysterious and ineffable bond through which they alone can communicate. While drawing at times from spiritual imagery, the series is also passionately about this particular mother and child, who will continue to grow side by side.

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Jeannette Montgomery Barron | “1980s New York art scene,” Lodown Magazine

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From Lodown Magazine:

This exhibition presents a nice selection of artists’ photo portraits made in New York in the 1980s−some of them are also included in the volume “Scene,” published by powerHouse Books. The lively and personal portraits gallery brings back the flavour and brilliance of those years when in New York artists, gallerists, and critics experimented new lifestyles and relations which with time have become established cult objects and models.

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Scott Daniel Ellison | “Scott Daniel Ellison at ClampArt,” Art News Blog

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From Dion Archibald’s review of Scott Daniel Ellison’s exhibition for Art News Blog:

The wonderfully quirky works of the painter Scott Daniel Ellison are showing at the ClampArt gallery in New York City. The paintings are weird, dark, mercurial, humorous, a little scary, and a lot awesome. I hadn’t heard of the artist before now, so I have been browsing the internet for his work and I’m a fan! Do click through to the gallery at the bottom of the post to see more works from the exhibition online.

Here’s some beauties from the ClampArt exhibition. . .

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