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GIL BLANK
untitled, no date
c-print mounted onto dibond in lacquer
Image:125.7 cm x186.7 cm, framed
edition 2/6
image courtesy the artist and Andrew Roth, New York
ESTIMATE: $6,500
Gil Blank is a photographer and writer. His photographs have been exhibited at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; LaMontagne Gallery, Boston; and CB Gallery, Tokyo. He is a contributing editor of photographic criticism for Art On Paper magazine, and was founding editor of Influence magazine. His writing has also been published as part of the monographs White Planet, Black Heart, by Torbjørn Rødland, and Freischwimmer, by Wolfgang Tillmans. He is currently at work on the catalog for John Baldessari’s Raised Eyebrows and Furrowed Foreheads, to be published by Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, and a collaboration with Collier Schorr for In Numbers: Serial Artist Editions, 1955 – 2008, to be published in the Autumn of 2009 by PPP Editions.
Blank and has an ongoing interest in the means by which photographic representation constructs thematic and formal meanings. The refusal of the title Untitled, no date to offer viewers clues to the work’s location—a cityscape at night—or to the date of its making, purposely obscures specificity as a way to provoke subjective interpretation and formal expansiveness.
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