Past
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DIANE ARBUS: curated by CARRIE MAE WEEMS
3 Jun - 19 Aug 2021 Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 45 photographs by Diane Arbus, curated by acclaimed contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems. A long-time admirer of Arbus's work, Weems has selected images spanning Arbus's fifteen-year career, from 1956 until her death in 1971. The exhibition will be on view at 49 Geary Street from June 3 to August 13, 2021, and will be followed by an exhibition devoted to Weems’s own work in September. Read more -
ELISHEVA BIERNOFF: Starting From Wrong
April 1 - May 28, 2021 Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present its second exhibition of new work by Elisheva Biernoff. Titled Starting from Wrong, the exhibition features twelve meticulously detailed paintings measuring no larger than 4 x 5 inches each. All completed since 2017, Biernoff’s recent paintings are carefully observed, two-sided works based on found and anonymous photographs. The exhibition will be on view from April 1 to May 28, 2021, and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Fraenkel Gallery, to be released on April 7. Please join us on April 22 for the premiere of a conversation between the artist and Fraenkel Gallery President Frish Brandt. Read more -
Christian Marclay
21 JANUARY-25 MARCH 2021 Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present new work by Christian Marclay, incorporating collage, video animation, and photography. The exhibition continues Marclay’s investigation into the relationship between sound and image through sampling elements from art and popular culture, and reflects the anxiety and frustration of the current global pandemic and political crises. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery from January 21 to March 26, 2021. Read more -
Wardell Milan: Death, Wine, Revolt
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 29 October 2020 - 15 January 2021 Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present new work by Wardell Milan. The gallery’s second solo show of the New York-based artist will be on view from October 29 to December 22, 2020. The exhibition features Milan’s ongoing series “Death, Wine, Revolt,” which combines photography, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to explore themes of over-indulgence, destruction, and revolution. While earlier series such as “Parisian Landscapes” looked inward, to personal questions of freedom and desire, Milan made the works on view in response to the turmoil of the global moment. Read more -
I'm Not the Only One
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 10 Sep - 23 Oct 2020 Read more -
ON THE ROAD
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 30 Jul - 7 Sep 2020 On The Road is a celebration of the American road and the mythic role it has played in photography. Sheltered in place and longing for road trips, we are inspired by our artists’ ongoing interest in roads, both as visual phenomena and metaphors. In a time of unprecedented immobility, these photographs from the past 60 years explore a range of approaches to the American landscape and its relationship to the car. We hope they evoke a sense of adventure, independence, and camaraderie. Read more -
ART BASEL ONLINE 2020
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 17 - 26 Jun 2020 Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to participate in Art Basel Online and present this extended selection in our online viewing room with work by Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Nan Goldin, Lee Friedlander, Peter Hujar and others. Featuring Richard Avedon's portraits of Andy Warhol and The Factory; Sophie Calle’s pairing of photography and text; and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Opticks. Read more -
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: BEGINNINGS
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 20 May - 6 Jul 2020 Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Beginnings, the third installation in our series of online exhibitions, 'For the Pleasure of Looking', which highlight our philosophy of living with art. On view simultaneously with Hiroshi Sugimoto: Opticks, the exhibition offers a look into three series that form the foundation of Sugimoto's work. The presentation will be on view through June 14, 2020. Read more -
DANCING IN THE STREETS
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 30 Apr - 14 May 2020 DANCING IN THE STREETS is our second presentation in a new series of online exhibitions. With this selection, we look forward to the moment when we can all celebrate together. Featuring the work of Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Peter Hujar, Alec Soth, and more. Read more -
MAKE MINE A DOUBLE
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 16 - 29 Apr 2020 Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to inaugurate For the Pleasure of Looking, a new series of online exhibitions that highlight our philosophy of living with art. Unusual times call for unusual measures, and our current situation certainly calls for MAKE MINE A DOUBLE, Fraenkel Gallery’s first in a series of idiosyncratic digital exhibitions. With unexpected works by artists central to the gallery’s mission – Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Christian Marclay, and Anonymous among others – MAKE MINE A DOUBLE suggests several perspectives from which to consider that timely request. Feel free to interpret the title any way that fits; we offer the sixteen possibilities below. Read more -
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: OPTICKS
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 2 Apr - 15 Aug 2020 Over more than four decades, Hiroshi Sugimoto has explored the ways photography can be used to record traces of invisible but elemental forces. Opticks is a new series of large-scale color photographs depicting the color of light Sugimoto observed through a prism in his Tokyo studio. Using Polaroid film, he recorded sections of the rainbow spectrum projected into a darkened chamber, paying particular attention to the spaces and gaps between hues. Opticks presents unique enlargements of these Polaroids. Read more
