Jill Frank
August 8 - 30, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Frank chronicles incidents and memories that have escaped the camera's lens. Her recent work makes use of collaboration and collective memory to enact performances based on events from personal narratives as well as historical and literary sources. For many of these works, Frank collaborates with a group of students from the western suburbs of Chicago, who theatrically interpret stories from the Bible or scenes from the lives of saints. According to the artist, these reenactments, which she photographs using a large-format camera, "speak to the failure and success of photographic representation."
Michael Weinstein, Newcity Art, 2009.
Jill Frank at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2009.
Jill Frank, Mother & Child #1, 2009, Color photograph, 30 x 37 inches, Edition of 5.
Jill Frank, Shiva, 2009, Color photograph, 30 x 37 inches, Edition of 5.
JIll Frank, For Ye Shall Be as an Oak, 2008, Color photograph, 44 x 54 inches, Edition of 5.
Jill Frank, Sistine Chapel, 2007, Color photograph, 44 x 54 inches, Edition of 5.
Photograph © Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Nathan Keay)
Photograph © Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Nathan Keay)
Photograph © Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Nathan Keay)
Jill Frank, Electrocuted, 2006, 2008, Color photograph, 20 x 24 inches, Edition of 5.
Jill Frank, Bloody Nose, 2001, 2008, Color photograph, 20 x 24 inches, Edition of 5.
Jill Frank, Water, 2004, 2008, Color photograph, 20 x 24 inches, Edition of 5.
