Relevance, 35th Anniversary Exhibition II
My photographs evoke the psychological subtext of quotidian experience, suggesting the complexity of contingent relationships and ambiguous desire. Title information, including names and places, grounds the cinematic in a non-fictive actuality. While the work is not diaristic, I am usually photographing people I know, and my intent is more subjective than documentary as I explore the tension between what I project and how I identify with the subject.
Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York, which, in 2022, will present an exhibition of work from his new book Fever, previously unpublished color photographs made in New York in 1981, and published by Matte Editions. Meteoro Editions will publish a book of his work from Italy, Innamorato, in 2022. Frame is a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and CECArtslink’s Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, through CECArtslink 2019. Recently he was invited to be a Director’s Guest at Civitella Ranieri in Italy.
Inkjet color photograph
14 x 11 in.
He has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, including, most recently, Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford, at Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York, and Shohei Miyachi and Context at Matte HQ. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), the International Center of Photography in New York, and for Strudelmedialive. He graduated from Harvard University and grew up in Mississippi.
Space One Eleven Involvement: Exhibiting Artist: Home Fires: Video Documentary 1995, Electric Blanket 1995; Curator: Darrel Ellis 1997, In This Place 2005