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West Coast Style

by John Daquino
Katy Grannan at Salon 94 Freemans April 1st, 2011 - May 14th, 2011
Posted 5/8/11

Salon 94 Freemans is the perfect setting in which to view Katy Grannan’s latest series of photographs, Boulevard. Located down a dark and narrow graffiti-filled dead end in the lower east side, the gallery, much like the people photographed by Grannan, exists on the fringes – an environment that makes the already hyper-realistic portraits of eccentric city dwellers all the more three dimensional. In her new body of work, Grannan breaks from her usual modus operandi by taking to the streets photographing anonymous passersby in the Tenderloin District of San F... [more]

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Katy Grannan’s Abject Subjects Go Free

by Parker Tilghman
Katy Grannan at Fraenkel Gallery January 6th, 2011 - February 19th, 2011
Posted 2/1/11

Using the radiant afternoon sun and her acute technical prowess, photographer Katy Grannan has transformed the nondescript white walls of buildings in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco and on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles into makeshift studios. In this series of portraits, Boulevard, Grannan moves in a sharp new direction, dancing the line between traditional, documentary-based street photography and the finely crafted, staged setups of Postmodernist image-making. As Charles Baudelaire wrote in “The Painter of Mo... [more]

They Knew What They Wanted From What Was Available

by Chris Fitzpatrick
Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lutz Bacher, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Bechtle, E.J. Bellocq, Alighiero e Boetti, Miriam Bohm, Los Carpinteros, Vija Celmins, Gregory Crewdson, Jim Dine, Lee Friedlander, Maureen Gallace, Katy Grannan, Charlie Harper, Peter Hujar, Jordan Kantor, Matt Keegan, Henri Matisse, Barry McGee, Tom McKinley, Richard McLean, Richard Misrach, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, Mitzi Pederson, Trevor Plagen, Robert Rauschenberg, Linda Ridgway, Will Rogan, Ed Ruscha, Iran do Espirito Santo, Sara VanDerBeek, Garth Weiser, Henry Wesset, Rachel Whiteread, William Wiley, Garry Winogrand, Steve Wolfe at Fraenkel Gallery July 1st, 2010 - August 21st, 2010
Posted 7/12/10

“They Knew What They Wanted” invokes something in-between a hit-man’s overture and a ‘50s girl-group’s jukebox breakup. But instead the phrase serves as the title of an exhibition that spans four commercial galleries in San Francisco: Altman Siegel, John Berggruen, Fraenkel, and Ratio 3. Each gallery asked a different artist from their roster to select the works from the backrooms, storage shelves, and flat files of all four spaces, yet the results are posited as a single exhibition... [more]