Frank Egloff: I need you to talk to me now
Greg Heins: A Fall In The Garden & The Viewers
On view from April 30th – June 5th, 2021
Frank Egloff: I need you to talk to me now
Installation View: I need you to talk to me now
Image Credit: Julia Featheringill
Any photograph is a moment’s intention for a passing time. And we live within an amazon of intentions. Egloff proposes to extend and alter that time through another lens, with another medium, something slower.
Taking up found images, he wants to describe them again, to rethink the time and place, the intentions, to redirect each paradigm. He layers, multiplies, fractures, adds to and removes, edits. Remakes.
Art is never simply a discrete object or practice, installation or presentation, theater or theory: something objective to underwrite anyone’s subjective history. Something to look at. An entertainment. Rather, always, it is a more complicated sum of moving parts – interests and agendas – the sublime and the prosaic – proposing to engage us unavoidably with our contemporary lives.
Frank Egloff
Greg Heins: A Fall In The Garden
& The Viewers
Cosmos. Boston, 2020.
In this exhibit, Heins presents us with two bodies of work: Fall In The Garden (created during the pandemic) and The Viewers, a project completed in 2018. Fall In The Garden, a group of 28 color photographs, is installed in abundance, mirroring the planting styles in Boston’s community gardens. This last year, the concept of time has been fluid, however, the Seasons remain the same. From early Spring to Season’s Over we watch as the garden ages. The Viewers, museum goers contemplating a painting, are photographed from behind, a project pre-pandemic, the feeling of isolation, alone wondering what is behind the darkness.
From: The Viewers
I’m interested in the look of things. My photographs spring from seeing formal qualities and visual relationships, semi-expressed or inchoate in the visible world, and then wishing to transform them into a work of art. I look for something to catch my eye, to wave me over, to ask me to photograph it: the overlooked ordinary. The subsequent realization of these perceptions in print form is the mysterious and unending satisfaction of the photographic process.
The photographs respond to the successes or failures of the ones that came before them. The process is visual, not driven by a preconceived idea, not illustrating an assigned subject matter. The subject is the formal relationships within the finished print. The artistic impulse may be driven by age and loss, anger and regret, along with a desire for freedom and play, but the statement is the photographs. If the process were completely successful, photographer and viewer alike would transcend ego and identity and arrive at something else: photography.
Greed, hatred, indifference and love, in wildly unequal proportions, have given us the world in which we live. Soon – perhaps fortunately – we will be gone from it, individually and collectively. And yet... it may be that, like an echo, something will remain of our various attempts to give sense to it all. GH 2021
This is Greg Heins third exhibit with the Gallery. Heins has work in the collections of the Smith College Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Davis Museum of Wellesley College, the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.