Fraenkel Gallery

#photooftheday Sophie Calle, Mama, 2012, pigment print in found frame, 24-1/2 x 21-1/4 inches [62.2 x 54 cm] #SophieCalle

In a recent interview with the Art Gallery of Ontario, where his work is on view in "Dawoud Bey, John Edmonds, Wardell Milan," Milan describes how his materials shape his work and his process. "A collage can only do so much before it needs to be a sculpture, moving image, a different medium to evoke certain responses. I started off as a draftsman, even in grad school I painted and drew while studying photography in school. There is a certain level of freedom with allowing a d...rawing to influence or form a photographic body of workthe freedom to include photographic images whether it be mine or one from a Google search and seeing it become a part of a drawing. I try to eliminate rules of what can and cannot be done by allowing the mediums to fraternize and congregate in a very fluid way." Milan's multimedia approach to making images is on view in Fraenkel Gallery's current exhibition, #DeathWineRevolt, through January 15, 2021. Pictured: #WardellMilan, What Happens to the Seeds that the Birds Won’t Eat? 2020, cut paste paper, charcoal, graphite, pastel, oil pastel on inkjet print, 38-1/2 x 58 inches

#WardellMilan: Death, Wine, Revolt, is now on view in our gallery and online though December 22, 2020. In several large-scale works, Milan uses enlargements of his own photographs of specific locationsthe Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Martin Luther King was assassinated, or the city of Venicesetting his images in dialogue with historical sites of racist violence or political rebellion. Populating the works are a range of human figures, often nude, whose bodies are pie...ced together from fractured drawings and photographs, and overlaid with blue and white paint. Some groupings suggest erotic coupling or violent encounters, and many arrangements are based on photographic sources. Also on view are a selection of smaller works, including white-on-white cut paper collages depicting hooded Klansmen, and paintings from Milan’s ongoing series of tulips. While earlier flower paintings were inspired by the 17th-century Dutch tulip craze, the new works deconstruct the flowers, transforming them into chaotic arrangements of petals and leaves, hinting at the dissolution the past year has wrought. Explore the exhibition: https://fraenkelgallerysf.viewingrooms.com//17-wardell-mi/

#HiroshiSugimoto has donated a work on behalf of ARTISTS SUPPORT: New York, a newly launched non-profit initiative that directs 100% of the proceeds of artwork sales to local charities. Sugimoto chose to support Avenues for Justice, an organization with the mission to keep at-risk youth from criminal activity through court advocacy, educational and tutoring services, employment and job training, and social and mental health services. Learn more: https://www.artists-support....com/ Image: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Teatro Dei Rozzi, Siena, 2014, gelatin silver print, 32 3/4 x 25 7/8 in (83.2 x 65.7 cm)

Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to take part in OVR:20c, Art Basel’s virtual platform dedicated to works made between 1900 and 1999, on view through October 31. Our presentation focuses on the 1960s, an era characterized by a level of social and political upheaval that feels familiar today. The same decade was also an uncommonly rich and fertile time for photography. Photographers with fresh, original visions were recording the changing world and redefining the rules of the mediu...m. Our presentation highlights work from #RichardAvedon, #BerndandHillaBecher and #GarryWinogrand, as well as #DianeArbus, #LeeFriedlander, #RobertAdams, and #RalphEugeneMeatyard. These photographers made some of their strongest work in the 1960s, when few could make a living through the sale of their photographs alone. Working solely because they wanted to, with little expectation that the images would be embraced by an art market, they produced remarkable photographs that reflect the passion and individuality of their makers. VIP dates: October 28, 12pm CET (6am PT) - October 30, 12pm CET (6am PT) Public dates: October 30, 12pm CET (6am PT) - October 31 12am CET (6pm PT) Explore: https://www.artbasel.com/cata/gallery/1520/Fraenkel-Gallery Images: 1) Lee Friedlander, Italy, 1964, gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches 2) Garry Winogrand, Los Angeles, 1964, gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches 3) Bernd & Hilla Becher, Processing Plants for Coal [Aufbreitungsanlange für Kohle], 1966-1971, six gelatin silver prints on original mount, 33 x 29 inches 4) Richard Avedon, Veruschka, dress by Kimberly, New York, January 1967, gelatin silver print mounted on linen, 23-7/8 x 19-3/4 inches #artbaselOVR20c

Today! Oct 28 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET, in partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora, join us for a virtual studio session with artist #WardellMilan hosted by MoAD. The conversation coincides with Milan's new solo exhibition, on view at Fraenkel Gallery from Oct 29-Dec 22, 2020. Register & watch: https://www.moadsf.org//in-the-artists-studio-wardell-milan... Pictured: detail from Wardell Milan's studio, taken earlier this year. Courtesy the artist.

Today is the final day of our holiday publications sale. Presences, photographs by #RichardLearoyd, is currently on sale for $30. This oversized book contains twenty-six powerful and psychologically intimate images. Learoyd’s minutely detailed, large-scale color portraits do not look like other photographs, and are piercing yet gentle. Made with a giant camera comprised of two rooms, Learoyd’s subject occupies the adjacent camera obscura (dark room in Latin). In additi...on to the twenty-six portraits and still lives, the book includes a number of details illustrating the particular focal characteristics of the camera obscura as well as installation photographs. Shop this title: https://fraenkelgallery.com/publications/presences Pictured: Image 1: Presences, cover Image 2: Richard Learoyd, Rachel, 2009, unique Ilfochrome photograph, 60-1/2 x 60 inches (framed) Image 3: Presences, spread Image 4: Richard Learoyd, Shade green gone, 2009, unique Ilfochrome photograph, 60 x 60-1/2 inches (framed) Image 5: Presences, spread Image 6: Richard Learoyd, You and me, 2010, unique Ilfochrome photograph, 60-3/4 x 62-1/4 inches (framed) See more

Wardell Milan 29 Oct 2020 22 Dec 2020 https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/wardell-milan-2020... Image: #WardellMilan, Here the mysterious host raised in the South, now based in the North curates a gathering of friends seeking sanctuary, 2020; charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, pastel, cut and pasted paper on inkjet print; 51 x 60 inches

The Art Gallery of Ontario's exhibition Diane Arbus: Photographs 1956 1971 closes soon, on November 8. In a new video, watch Sophie Hackett, the AGO's Curator of Photography, talk with photographer Neil Selkirk about the prints he made of Arbus's work for the landmark Museum of Modern Art retrospective in 1972: https://ago.ca/agoinsider/print-perfection Image: #DianeArbus, Puerto Rican woman with a beauty mark, N.Y.C., 1965. Gelatin silver print; Sheet: 50.8 40.6 cm. The Estate of Diane Arbus

Now live: Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present a selection of portraits by #KatyGrannan on the December edition of 8-bridges. The portraits highlight Nicole, a woman who posed for Grannan over the course of ten years. Grannan has described her as the most uninhibited person I have ever known. The images they made together explore power, sexuality, identity, and the tension between artist and subject. She was so challenging and wonderful to work with because I had so li...ttle control. Over time, she made my work better, says Grannan. Each month, @8bridges_galleries highlights the crucial work of a Bay Area non-profit arts organization as its beneficiary. This month, the platform features @headlandsarts, a multidisciplinary, international arts center dedicated to supporting artists, the creative process, and the development of innovative ideas and artwork. View the full selection: https://8-bridges.com/decemb/fraenkel-gallery-katy-grannan/ Image: Katy Grannan, Nicole, Sunnydale Avenue (II), 2006, pigment print, 40 x 50 inches [101.6 x 127 cm]

#SophieCalle is on the cover of a limited-edition November issue of Wallpaper magazine, disguised as a tree. The photograph is from her ongoing series A l’Affût (On the Hunt), which began as a commission from the Paris Museum of Hunting and Nature and was inspired by lonely hearts ads placed in a French hunting magazine. Images from the project appear in a special 20-page portfolio within the issue, published in English for the first time. Tap the link below to read the feature in full: https://www.wallpaper.com//november-2020-issue-free-downlo

In the past, I have been able to photograph the glorious skies and views of the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridge from my deck. During the recent spate of fires, beginning in August, I have been confined to my home, and the photographs I make are taken from the same spot as the earlier series, but as dense smoke renders the Golden Gate invisible, I have focused on my more immediate surroundings. There were days when the smoke created day for night, post-apocalyptic vi...ews right out of a sci-fi Hollywood movie. The most obvious and undeniable culprit here is climate change, whose impacts are increasing at an exponential rate. The future has arrived. Richard Misrach This print by #RichardMisrach is included in Magnum Photos Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture Foundation. Ending this Sunday, October 25, the sale offers the chance to buy $100 prints by over 100 photographers, with proceeds benefiting Aperture Foundation and various other organizations. Fraenkel artists #NanGoldin and #AlecSoth have also contributed images. Learn more: https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop Image: Richard Misrach, View from My Front Porch (Telephone Pole), 8:12 a.m., September 9, 2020, from the series The New California (for Dorothea Lange)

Today is the final day of our show I'm Not the Only One. The exhibition was recently featured in Elephant Magazine, in a story by Alex Merola that looks at the role of screens and technology in our experience of isolation and connection. In it, he compares #MishkaHenner's collective YouTube choir, for which the show was named, with #LeeFriedlander's photographs of televisions. "Though screens have become littler and littler, perhaps the medium, in all its myriad shapes and s...izes, signals something even scarier still in 2020: the prospect that it may be the only remaining place (or non-place) to connect. Yet, in Henner’s I’m Not the Only One, the message that ultimately beams beyond the screen, through the cacophony of cries, is a more comforting one. If we are alone, we are alone togetheralbeit, for now, at varying bandwidths, resolutions and frames per second." We want to thank everyone who has interacted in some way with the work in this show. What has surprised and sustained us in this time has been the connections in the face of the distances, social and otherwise. Image: Lee Friedlander, Galax, Virginia, 1962, gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches https://elephant.art/this-prophetic-makeshift-virtual-choi/

To celebrate the opening of #WardellMilan's upcoming exhibition in our gallery, join Fraenkel and the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) for a virtual conversation between the artist and MoAD's Elena Gross.

Final Days: I'm Not the Only One, our group exhibition exploring connection and isolation, closes on October 23. Included in the show is this #photograph by #KatyGrannan. Of the image, Grannan notes, "Alexa is a first generation Mexican American. An avatar of la Virgin de Guadalupe, her graceful presence speaks for herself, the disenfranchised, and countless unnamed migrants who disappear in the barren deserts along the US/Mexican border." Learn more: https://fraenkelgall...ery.com/exhibitions/im-not-the-only-one Katy Grannan, Alexa, 2018, pigment print, 55 x 41 inches [139.7 x 104.2 cm]

Upcoming Event: Join @art21 for a special digital screening and conversation with artist #RichardMisrach, recently featured in the Borderlands episode from their latest season of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Following a screening of the artist’s Borderlands segment, Misrach will be joined by Sarah Meister (Curator, Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art) for a conversation and Q&A. Tuesday, October 27... 5:30pm ET / 2:30pm PT The program will take place via Zoom. Learn more and register: https://art21.org//event-screening-and-conversation-with-/ Speaking of getting registered, today is the last day to register to #vote in California! Are you ready? . . . Image: Richard Misrach, Wall, Near Los Indios, Texas, 2015, 60 x 79-1/8 inches [152 x 201 cm]; Illustrated in Border Cantos, published by Aperture, 2016

Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to participate in the latest iteration of @ArtBasel’s Online Viewing Rooms, OVR:20c, which focuses exclusively on artworks produced in the 20th century. #artbaselOVR20c launches on October 28 and remains live until October 31, with public days running from October 30 to 31. Our #artbasel presentation will feature works from 1960's. Learn more: bit.ly/OVR-20c... Image: #RobertAdams, Arriba, Colorado, 1966, gelatin silver print, 9-3/8 x 7-3/8 inches [23.8 x 18.6 cm]