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6/3/2006

Tracey Moffatt

Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Love and Adventures

Love and Adventures, Tracey Moffatt’s first exhibition at the Steven Kasher Gallery, features both photographic works and video. Adventure Series is an eye-popping collection of 10 large-scale pieces that play with pop-culture staples such as comic strips, television and B-movies. Each work in the series incorporates three “frames" that depict an open-ended story. Moffatt says, “I love early-1970’s modern adventure stories in comics and movies, especially low- budget American and Australian television dramas. In these productions ‘adventure’ meant jumping into a speedboat or a small plane to catch a ‘poacher’ and the stories were always set in exotic locations." Moffatt’s twenty minute video entitled Love also explores Hollywood conventions and turning a critical eye on relationships between men and women. Moffatt writes: “Love is a rollercoaster montage of some of my favorite Hollywood melodramas depicting love scenes, which in the end turn out to be not so romantic." These love scenes are drawn from recognizable films spanning several eras.

Tracey Moffatt
b. 1960

Tracey Moffatt is highly regarded for her formal and stylistic experimentation in film, photography and video her work draws on history of cinema, art and photography as well as popular culture and her own childhood memories and fantasies.

Born in Brisbane Australia in 1960, Tracey Moffatt studied visual communications at the Queensland college of Art, from which she graduated in 1982. Since her first solo exhibition in Sydney in 1989, she has exhibited extensively all over the world. In the 1980’s and early 90’s she worked as a director on documentaries and music videos for television. She first gained significant critical acclaim for her film work when the short film Night Cries was selected for official competion at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature film, bedevil, was also selected for Cannes in 1993. A major exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 1997/9 consolidated her international reputation. She is now based in New York and returns frequently to the north of Australia where she works and lives on the beach.

Whether filmic or photographic, each of Tracey Moffatt’s images is carefully constructed. None of them presents itself as a “reproduction of reality"; on the contrary, they are produced by meticulous artistry in the studio or in artificial decors, after a preparatory phase of drawing and the creation of a veritable storyboard, as well as a casting process and a technical study…Tracey Moffatt’s work appears as a surprising mix of the indeterminate and the brutally precise, the timeless and the contemporary. The result is a taut, sometimes disturbing body of work.

Image: Adventure Series #9, 2004, Fujiflex 57 x 50 inches

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 Street 2nd Floor New York, NY 10011
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm

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