REAL SPACES | ROBIN CROOKALL
December 8th — January 30th, 2020
Dresser
Glicée Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag Paper
Mounted on 6mm sintra
Print size: 33in x 23in
Edition: 1/1
2016 (printed on 2020)
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Penumbra Foundation is pleased to present a selection of images from the work Real Spaces by artist Robin Crookall.
Real Spaces reimagines the interstices of domestic and urban spaces with nods to the history of photography. Contrasting photographic imposters with contrived images, this series consists of models that portray similar subjects explored by renowned artists such as Gordon Matta-Clark, Lee Friedlander and Robert Adams.
The task of building a model to emulate an existing image, and then photographing it becomes absurdly humorous, as it attempts to mock reality. Juxtaposed to these reproductions are artificial pictures, structured to emulate the artists own drawings. By contrasting replicas of previously photographed places with concocted ones, Crookall is subverting attention and unraveling truths.
These photographs examine the dynamics of space, property, and the illusion of environmental possession and permanence. The artist deconstructed her own perception of ownership and recreated specific places, in order to make them her own. These imitations specifically facilitate a narrative of (re)construction.
Presented in this series of photographs are records of time and location, imagined or real, that invites the viewer to question the quality of our own perception and ownership of reality.
Lamp Shade
Glicée Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag Paper
Mounted on 6mm sintra
Print size: 14in x 9in
Edition: 1/1
2020
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Split
Glicée Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag Paper
Mounted on 6mm sintra
Print size: 15in x 22in
Edition: 1/1
2017
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About the artist:
Robin Crookall came from Washington State to New York to pursue her Masters in Fine Arts. In 2016 she received her MFA, from New York University. There she continued to fine tune her sculpture and photography skills to create uncanny images of small scale architectural models. Crookall is a recipient of the 2020 Penumbra Workspace Program and a recipient of a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in photography from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2017, she participated in a group show at Seattle’s Soil Art Gallery, exhibited at Art Basel in Miami, and completed a two person show at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. Robin was interviewed in July 2016 by local artist and writer, Wenxin Zhang, for an online Chinese photography magazine, IndieFoto. Previously in 2013 she completed a solo show at Seattle’s 4Culture Gallery and her post bacc at University of Montana. She is currently living and creating in Brooklyn.
Other works from the same series:
MIrror and Table
Gelatin Silver Print
Image: 15” x 22”
Paper: 22” x 24”
Edition of 5
2018
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All images © Robin Crookall