“Fraenkel Gallery Presents highlights six films from San Francisco’s Fraenkel Film Festival, each selected by artists from across the gallery’s program—Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Martine Gutierrez, Wardell Milan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Carrie Mae Weems—whose love for cinema inspires their practice. The selections reflect these affinities in surprising ways: Gutierrez’s selection of Princess Mononoke parallels her ongoing exploration of transformation, hybridity, and constructed identity, themes she stages through performance and self-imaging. Weems’s choice of No Country for Old Men points to her sustained engagement with power, violence, and the shaping of American mythologies. Rooted in the belief that cinema is best experienced collectively, the series features artists in-person at their respective screenings at Metrograph, introducing the selections and sharing the connections that shape their work. Altogether, the event foregrounds the theater as an extension of the artist’s studio—a space for inspiration, exchange, and the live encounter with art and film.” —Christian Whitworth, Director, Fraenkel Gallery
Work by the featured artists is on view in a concurrent pop-up residency, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, at Ortuzar in New York, from May 9-21. Introductions by featured artists in person for select screenings
