ASPEN, COLORADO.- The Aspen Art Museum presents "New Work 6: Gregory Crewdson, Twilight," on view through February 2, 2003. Photographer Gregory Crewdson creates elaborate photographic tableaux that portray unusual, often fantastic moments of middle-class life. Utilizing a full range of props and settings, Crewdson shoots highly constructed compositions that depict individuals interacting with their often confusing world.
Like others of his generation, his work seems to owe a great deal to Hollywood cinema while questioning photography’s traditional role as a recorder of facts. A graduate of Yale University, Crewdson has gained considerable acclaim as the teacher of a younger generation of artists who have emulated his involvement with highly staged photography.
Since 1998, Crewdson has created large-scale color photographs as part of an ongoing series titled Twilight. Set within domestic interiors or rural neighborhoods, each image captures the moment of a mysterious narrative situation a searchlight from the skies singling out a woman on her front lawn, flowers strangely blooming in a living room always bathed in a beautiful, almost spiritual light. Organized by SITE Santa Fe.
