23 June 2008

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson (Courtesy of the artist)

(The following article is taken from the U.S. Department of State publication, Art on the Edge: 17 Contemporary American Artists.)

Untitled, 1987 from The Natural Wonder series (Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY)

"I'm interested in the question of narrative, how photography is distinct from, but connected to other narrative forms like writing and film. This idea of creating a moment that's frozen and mute, that perhaps ultimately asks more questions than it answers, proposes an open-ended and ambiguous narrative, that allows the viewer to, in a sense, complete it. Ultimately, I'm interested in this ambiguous moment that draws the viewer in through photographic beauty, through repulsion, through some kind of tension."

[Gregrory Crewdson (b. 1962, Brooklyn, New York) attended the Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (MFA 1988), and The State University of New York, Purchase (BA 1985). He has shown his work in numerous group exhibitions both in the United States and internationally, and has had solo shows at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (2004); John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California (2003); the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2002); Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California (2002); Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City (2002, 2001, 1997); and SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2001). Crewdson's work has been the subject of numerous monographs. Since 1993, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Photography at Yale University; he lives in New York City.]