• ZOE CROSHER:
  • SELECTIONS FROM THE ANALOG COLLECTION
  • from The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle du Bois

  • May 1 - June 13, 2009
  • Opening Reception: Friday, May 1 (7-10PM)

  • 65GRAND is pleased to present Zoe Crosher in her second solo show with the gallery. Featuring installations of black and white and color photographs, Crosher isolates and re-images the charged noir of her source material. Crosher explores ongoing themes, such as travel and identity, with penetrating depth in this new body of work, based on the snapshots and ephemera drawn from the existent archive of Michelle du Bois.

  • By re-photographing, scanning and reorganizing du Bois' slippery self-portraits of costumed, performative sexuality into a re-contextualized archive, Crosher's work thrives in the soft spaces between fact and fiction, documentation and theatricality, and individuation and anonymity. This incarnation of the project focuses on the physicality of the actual archive, emphasizing the backs of du Bois' snapshots and the fronts of her photo albums, as re-imaged by Crosher, who investigates the language surrounding the analog and its outmoded states of production, collection and collapse. The daughter of a diplomat and airline stewardess, Crosher deftly lifts the veil between what is pictured and what a picture is.

  • Zoe Crosher earned her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2001 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work was previously on view at 65GRAND in fall of 2007, and she has shown internationally in Vancouver and Rotterdam, as well as stateside, most recently at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, with a planned exhibit at DCKT Contemporary, New York in November 2009.