Dan Estabrook
Spouse : Megan Boone
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| Dan Estabrook | |
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| Born | Boston, MA USA |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
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| 🌐 Website | http://danestabrook.com/ |
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Dan Estabrook is an American photographer, sculptor, painter, and production designer. A reputable artist who has been active since the 1990s, he found fame as a pop-culture figure. He is originally from Boston and grew up deeply influenced by the city’s rich culture and tradition. He was a teenager when he first realized his passion for photography through the underground magazines of the punk-rock and skateboarding cultures of the 1980s. After earning a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, he enrolled at the University of Illinois and obtained an MFA degree from there. He has hosted exhibitions all over the country and Europe and has won a number of awards. In 2009, a documentary on him and his art was released for Anthropy Arts’ Photographers Series. Currently, the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago represents him.[citation needed] For more than fifteen years, Estabrook has worked with historical photographic techniques to explore intimate issues about love, sex and death.
Education
- 1990 - BA, magna cum laude, Harvard University, Boston, MA[1]
- 1993 - MFA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL[1]
- As an undergraduate at Harvard, he began studying alternative photographic processes with Christopher James. In 1993, after receiving an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dan continued working and teaching in Illinois, Boston, and Florida, eventually settling in Brooklyn, New York.[2]
Works
In Night & Day, Estabrook presents images which obscure the division between the conscious and dream states, as figures emerge and disappear into fading backgrounds, body parts levitate and dreams sprout visibly from a woman's pursed lips. In Estabrook's sleep state, one loses control, exposing secrets and flaws only realized upon waking.[2]
In Nine Symptoms, Estabrook tackles the emotions he has experienced falling in love. With pieces titled "Shortness of Breath," "Heart Rate Increase," "Fever" and "Loss of Appetite," Estabrook evokes old medical photographs to directly confront the passion, obsession, apprehension and excitement brought on by love, as well as its loss. By employing the techniques and metaphors used by nineteenth-century practitioners, Estabrook is able to comment on the timelessness of his concerns and the enduring fascination with love, sex, and death.[2]
Exhibitions
- 2005 “Dan Estabrook: Sleep and Nine Symptoms,” Catherine Edelman Gallery,
- 2005 “Wetlab: The New Nexus Between Art and Science,” The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
- 2004 “Alchemy,” Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, NC
- 2004 “From Penland,” Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC
- 2003 “Pathetica and Other Stories,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
- 2002 “The Antiquarian Avant-Garde,” Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
- 2002 “Pathetica,” Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
- 2002 "The Camera Obscured IV: Mixed Media Photography,” Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2001 “Sun Works: Contemporary Alternative Photography,” Art Institute of Boston, MA
- 2001 “Re-Thought, Re-Seen: 21st-Century Photographers Using 19th Century Processes,” UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
- 2000 "First Photographs,” Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
- 2000 “The Exquisite Corpse,” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1999 “Dan Estabrook,”Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY
- 1999 “Inherent Vice,” Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, N
- 1998 “The Camera Obscured II: Mixed Media Photography,” Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1998 “UIUC/Glasgow Exchange Exhibition,” I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1997 “Time Zero: Artists and Polaroids,” ESP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1997 “Glorious Gardens,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
- 1996 “Interior Views,” Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX [solo]
- 1996 "Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1995 “Dysfunctional,” Blue Note Gallery, London, England
- 1995 “A New Direction,” Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 1994 I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL [solo]
- 1993 “Minimal,” Gallery X, Los Angeles, CA
Quotes
Just one hundred years ago, science could still claim palmistry, phrenology, and physiognomy among its disciplines, and even today we tend to believe that written on the body are the keys to decipher the secret language of the everyday. There is science, too, in photography -- mixing salt and silver to represent the otherwise unseen details of the natural world. By processes physical and chemical, it is even possible to distill one's breath, capture time, and give a material life to the immaterial. It is this alchemy that moves me. Using and emulating nineteenth-century printing techniques, and making visible the very physical materials of which photographs are made, I attempt to have seemingly anonymous photographs become highly personal objects. In these images, a single repeated shape, a formation of flowers, or the patterns of dust and decay are almost legible texts, inscribed on the skin of paper, tin, and glass"
-- Dan Estabrook, 1998[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dan Estabrook Biography – Dan Estabrook on artnet". artnet.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Dan Estabrook". edelmangallery. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
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