Frank Selby "We weren't never here"
Museum 52
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Museum 52 are delighted to present the first New York solo show for Frank Selby. His meticulous paintings and drawings explore the notion of the subject within an image. The exhibition focuses on found Civil War photography. These images are used as the initial source for Selby’s artwork.
Selby found that despite the prevalence of Civil War imagery only one battle was caught on film and this was from a great distance. The rest of the photographs retrieved from the period depict the after effects of the atrocities; mundane and serene images of people, buildings etceteras that could be anywhere but are part of that historical narrative. Our perception of the Civil War was altered because many of the images were manipulated. In one series discovered
by the artist, a photographer had dragged a body from one scene to the next in order to achieve some dramatic effect.
[Image: Frank Selby “Hollywood Forever” (2008) Graphite on polyester 9 x 11 in.]
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Schedule
from March 27, 2008 to April 26, 2008