{"id":387,"date":"2002-07-16T05:15:20","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2008-10-27T05:18:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T05:18:26","slug":"gregory-crewdson-at-luhring-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/16\/gregory-crewdson-at-luhring-augustine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Crewdson, at Luhring Augustine"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ‘Flash Art’ Magazine
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Gregory Crewdson, Dylan Floor, 2002. Photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nGregory Crewdson grew up in Brooklyn, far removed from the wooded hills and neatly mown lawns that provide the backdrop for his photographs of small town America. The distance is all the better to spur his imagination as he creates the highly detailed scenes that have been compared to stills from an alien abduction film. This is the second solo show of work from the \u2018Twilight\u2019 series, on which the artist has worked for four years, and which was shot in the waning daylight or at night. In each photo, individuals or groups of citizens stand frozen in time, pausing in disbelief at some supernatural intervention or freak occurrence.<\/p>\n

The new photographs still evoke an eerie \u2018not quite right\u2019 feel but with a fairy tale twist. In one scenario, a man has just abandoned his car, stripped out of his drab brown suit, and started to climb a gigantic flowering vine. Elsewhere, a strong searchlight (or alien spacecraft\u2019s tractor beam?) cuts through the night illuminating a sky full of butterflies. During the day, dazed young people construct a mountain of flowers in the middle of the street. Prompted by the unnatural events, some characters lose their inhibitions or senses, like the nude and dripping wet, mother who enters the dining room while her husband and two teenage kids finish dinner.<\/p>\n

The recent pictures lack the gore and direct menace of some of Crewdson\u2019s earlier photographs, in which decaying human and animal bodies were not uncommon. The one cadaver that does turn up is that of a young woman, in a classic Ophelia pose, floating face up in a flooded living room. In general, the photographs are beautifully lit and the subject matter is tantalizing, but the townspeople seem to have lost their ability to respond. They are alive but stunned; there is little action and almost no emotion evident on their faces, which does nothing to create sympathy in the viewer. They wander stunned, like Hamlet\u2019s Ophelia in her insanity before she drowned, their blank stares proving King Claudius right when he said, \u201cPoor Ophelia. Divided from herself and her fair judgment without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ‘Flash Art’ Magazine Gregory Crewdson grew up in Brooklyn, far removed from the wooded hills and neatly mown lawns that provide the backdrop for his photographs of small town America. The distance is all the better to spur his imagination as he creates the highly detailed scenes that have been compared to stills from … <\/p>\n

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