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Anne Collier

Past exhibition
January 21 - February 20, 2010
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Anne Collier Developing Tray #2 (Grey), 2009 C Print 43 x 52 1/2 inches 43 x 52 1/2 inches (framed) (109.2 x 133.4 cm) Paper Dimensions: 43 x 52.5 inches Edition of 5 and 2 AP
Anne Collier
Developing Tray #2 (Grey), 2009
C Print
43 x 52 1/2 inches
43 x 52 1/2 inches (framed)
(109.2 x 133.4 cm)
Paper Dimensions:
43 x 52.5 inches
Edition of 5 and 2 AP

January 6, 2010, New York— For her first full-scale solo exhibition in New York, Anne Collier will present a concise body of recent photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Collierʼs photographic works, which typically incorporate images of found everyday objects, including magazines, record sleeves, jigsaw puzzles, used books, analogue darkroom equipment, and abandoned self-help manuals, operate at the threshold between the personal and the universal. Informed as much by advertising and technical photography of the late 1960s and 1970s as more recent approaches to photoconceptualism, her work invites the viewer into an animated web of formal and psychological associations. Collierʼs works explore questions of perception and representation and the mechanics of the gaze. Negotiating biography, nostalgia, and melancholia Collierʼs work establishes a tension between her employment of an almost ʻforensicʼ photographic objectivity and the often highly subjective and emotive content she focuses on.

 

In the galleryʼs second space Collier presents a slide-projection piece entitled Woman With A Camera (35 mm) that was developed during a residency at Artpace, San Antonio, TX. The work sequentially projects 18 individual frames from the 1978 film Eyes of Laura Mars. Transferred from 35mm film stock into 35mm slides the work translates cinematic time into something akin to photographic ʻtime.ʼ In this durational piece, Collier presents a fragmented narrative sequence, which focuses on a specific moment in the film where Laura Mars, a fashion photographer portrayed by Faye Dunaway, has a horrific premonition of a murder whilst taking a photograph. Describing this work, writer Tom McDonough, in an essay published in Collierʼs recent artistʼs book Woman With A Camera (35 mm), articulates the complex associations the work provokes:

 

Lauraʼs active looking, a displaced form of excessive or dangerous desire, is punished: her usurpation of voyeurism calls forth extremes of murderous sadism. Collier mobilizes these references, returning to the conjunction of woman and photographic apparatus as the site of a knot of overdetermined meaning. Her aim is not so much to expose the ideology of sexual difference behind the cliché, than to explore the very interminability of such taboos in seeing.

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List of Works
Installation Views
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation.
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. A few works featured.
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Two works shown.
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Three works shown.
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Some works featured.
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Three works featured.
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Two works featured.
  • Installation view of Anne Collier's first full-scale solo show in New York, featuring a body of photographic works and a new slide-projection installation. Still of slide-projection installation. 18 slides in total.
Works
  • Anne Collier Woman with a Camera (35mm), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Woman with a Camera (35mm), 2009
  • Anne Collier Untitled (Light Years, Douglas Kirkland), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Untitled (Light Years, Douglas Kirkland), 2009
  • Anne Collier The Beginning/The End, 2009
    Anne Collier
    The Beginning/The End, 2009
  • Anne Collier Zoom 1978, 2009
    Anne Collier
    Zoom 1978, 2009
  • Anne Collier May/Jun 2009 (Cindy Sherman, Mark Seliger), 2009
    Anne Collier
    May/Jun 2009 (Cindy Sherman, Mark Seliger), 2009
  • Anne Collier Studio Floor #1 (Marilyn, Norman Mailer), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Studio Floor #1 (Marilyn, Norman Mailer), 2009
  • Anne Collier Studio Floor #2 (Marilyn, Norman Mailer), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Studio Floor #2 (Marilyn, Norman Mailer), 2009
  • Anne Collier Studio Floor #3 (Marilyn, Norman Mailer), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Studio Floor #3 (Marilyn, Norman Mailer), 2009
  • Anne Collier Puzzle (Hans Hofmann, Exuberance), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Puzzle (Hans Hofmann, Exuberance), 2009
  • Anne Collier Puzzle (Jackson Pollock, Convergence), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Puzzle (Jackson Pollock, Convergence), 2009
  • Anne Collier Puzzle (Roy Lichtenstein, Modular Painting with Four Panels No.5), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Puzzle (Roy Lichtenstein, Modular Painting with Four Panels No.5), 2009
  • Anne Collier First Person 1 - 4, 2009
    Anne Collier
    First Person 1 - 4, 2009
  • Anne Collier Cut, 2009
    Anne Collier
    Cut, 2009
  • Anne Collier Developing Tray #2 (Grey), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Developing Tray #2 (Grey), 2009
  • Anne Collier Open Book #1 (Crépuscules), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Open Book #1 (Crépuscules), 2009
  • Anne Collier Open Book #2 (Crépuscules), 2009
    Anne Collier
    Open Book #2 (Crépuscules), 2009
Press
  • An "I" on You

    Emily Nathan, ARTslant, January 24, 2010
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