Allen Frame Exhibition
Gitterman Gallery
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A departure from his previous black and white work, this exhibition features Allen Frame’s color photographs from Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. In these unstaged photographs, Frame extends the formal and conceptual ideas of his black and white series Detour, using color to intensify the sense of immediacy and sensuality of portrait figures observed in intimate situations. The use of color is restrained, with occasional bursts of intensity, drawing the viewer into the subject’s psychological space. The work is autobiographical, in a sense, depicting subjects who are important in his life: friends, lovers, and fellow artists. Solitary figures, elegantly framed, bring to life intimate spaces suffused with a sense of loss and faded grandeur. Nuances of gesture create a poignant mood, hinting at narrative. The situations are compressed; they describe a state of mind and a cinematic landscape of memory. Most of the locations are interiors, and some are hotel rooms, liminal spaces that frame the unease of transience and the ambiguity of desire.
[Image: Allen Frame "Alfredo, Mexico City" (2008) Chromogenic color print 30 x 35.5 in.]
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Schedule
from September 10, 2009 to October 31, 2009