Gregory Crewdson
Biography
Gregory Crewdson works within a photographic tradition that combines the documentary style of William Eggleston and Walker Evans with the dream-like vision of filmmakers such as Stephen Spielberg and David Lynch. Crewdson's method is equally filmic, building elaborate sets to take pictures of extraordinary detail and narrative portent. When he was ten, Crewdson's father, a psychoanalyst, took him to see a Diane Arbus exhibition at MoMA, an early aesthetic experience that informed his decision to become a photographer. Crewdson's photographs are like incomplete sentences, with little reference to prior events or what may follow. The artist has referred the 'limitations of a photograph in terms of narrative capacity to have an image that is frozen in time, (where) there's no before or after' and has turned that restriction into a unique strength.
Gregory Crewdson was born in 1962 in New York, where he continues to live and work. Solo exhibitions include Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany and SITE Santa Fe, USA. Group exhibitions include V&A Museum, London (2006), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2005), Guggenheim Museum, New York (2004) and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2000).
Gallery Exhibitions
Summer in the City 2008 - July 10 - August, 2008 Gregory Crewdson, Dream House - October 23 - November 22, 2003
Selected Works
Gregory Crewdson Untitled (house fire), Summer 2004 digital C-print 66 1/4 x 97 inches ed. 3/6
Gregory Crewdson Untitled (yankee septic emergency), 1998 C-print 50 x 60 inches ed. 9/10