David Benjamin Sherry

Oct 7–Nov 26, 2016

The exhibition continues Sherry’s exploration of psychologically resonant color photography.

FraenkelLAB
Oct 7–Nov 26, 2016
Press release
Artist: David Benjamin Sherry

From October 7 – November 26, 2016, FraenkelLAB is pleased to present recent work by Los Angeles-based artist David Benjamin Sherry. This exhibition, the artist’s first in San Francisco, will feature 11 large-scale color photographs made over the last nine years. David Benjamin Sherry’s work maneuvers freely through photography’s historical genres of landscape, self-portraiture, and still life. The exhibition at FraenkelLAB is comprised of work in all three genres and draws from four distinct bodies of work: Paradise Fire, Climate Vortex Sutra, Wonderful Land, Earth Changes, and Birth in the Futureverse.

Sunrise on Mesquite Flat Dunes, Death Valley, California, 2013
Traditional color darkroom photograph, 52 x 40 inches

In an era of ubiquitous digital manipulation, David Benjamin Sherry is a dedicated analog photographer pushing color photography into new territory. Sherry works with a large-format 8×10-inch or 4×5-inch camera, and many of the artist’s photographs depict iconic landscapes of the West, made in national parks such as Zion Canyon, Yosemite, Death Valley, and Point Reyes National Seashore.

Winter Storm, Zion Canyon, Utah, 2013
Traditional color darkroom photograph, 40 x 50 inches

Although his choice of camera and subject matter may initially call to mind photographers such as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Minor White, Sherry’s unorthodox approach to the medium challenges the tradition of the straight male gaze.

Canyon de Chelle, Chinle, Arizona, 2013
Traditional color darkroom photograph, 52 x 40 inches

FraenkelLAB, spearheaded by Frish Brandt and Jeffrey Fraenkel, is Fraenkel Gallery’s new venue for adventurous artwork in any medium.

Works on View

Color image of white walled gallery exhibiting large scale color photographs
Color image of white walled gallery exhibiting large scale color photographs
Color photograph of a bald nude figure covered in colorful dots in front of white wall also covered in colorful dots
Color image of white walled gallery exhibiting large scale color photographs
Color photograph of waterfall in an orange hue
Color image of white walled gallery exhibiting large scale color photographs
Color photograph of a green figure in a green mossy swamp
Color image of white walled gallery exhibiting large scale color photographs
Color photograph of fruit still life with fruits painted in primary colors in front of male genitals poking through white background
Black and white photograph of mountain side with rock climbers
Color image of white walled gallery exhibiting large scale color and black and white photographs
Color photograph of ocean horizon hued in blue
Color image of large scale color photograph on white gallery wall
Color photograph of mountainous valley during sunrise hued in red
Color photograph of nude figure painted fully in pink holding a smoke flare with cloudy sky behind the firgure
Color image of white walled gallery exhibiting large scale color photographs

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About the Artist

David Benjamin Sherry was born in 1981 in Woodstock, New York, and he received his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2007. Sherry’s work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, New York; MOMA PS1, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; the Aspen Art Museum; The Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. His photographs also have been the subject of three monographs: Its Time (2009), Quantum Light (2012) and Earth Changes (2015). Sherry’s work is included in the collection of LACMA; the Charles Saatchi Collection, London; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; among other museums.