September 10–17, 1998
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Gregory Crewdson
To shoot the 30x40-inch color photographs now on view at UArts' Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Brooklyn artist Gregory Crewdson created tableaux and dioramas as large as 8 feet tall. His meticulous, hyper-real arrangements of everyday suburban paraphernalia—miniature cookie-cutter homes, ladders and sheds, even robins and their eggs—beg the viewer to question the definition of reality. But there's also something preternatural in his works, like his 1995 and 1996 color photographs depicting rotting body parts in bucolic wooded settings. Recently, he has moved from the inanimate to working with live specimens: for his latest series he choreographed an entire neighborhood in a small town in Maine. Crewdson and New York author Darcey Steinke will give a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 17, 5:30 p.m., in UArts' CBS Auditorium.
Sept. 11-Oct. 24, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, 333 S. Broad St., 875-1116.
