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Artist: Gregory Crewdson (Brooklyn, NY, September 26, 1962 - )
Title: Dream House from Dream House
Date: 2002
Dimensions: 25  x 40 in. (63.5  x 101.6 cm)
Medium: chromogenic print
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Katherine D. and Stephen C. Sherrill (PA 1971, and P 2005, 2007, 2010), 2014.2.1
Image Credit: © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

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Themes: MLC Portfolio: Houses and Homes

Object Information

<SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color:#878888">Gallery label for </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;color:#878888">Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color:#878888">, January 23 - July 31, 2016</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color:#878888"><BR/><BR/></SPAN>In the photographic series Dream House by Gregory Crewdson, suburbia and surrealism collide. While the moments captured in each of the frames range in character from the mundane to the forlorn, from the bizarre to the tragic, the eerie contrast between subject matter and production value—highly designed sets with precise compositions and elaborate artificial lighting—is the common thread running throughout the entire series. Casting a number of Hollywood actors in the roles of nameless suburbanites, Crewdson collaborated with a team of twenty production professionals to convert a vacant ranch house in rural Vermont into an elaborate stage set. By leaving the contents of the house untouched, exactly as arranged by its late owner at the time of her death four years earlier, the artist, who describes this set as “a kind of museum or tomb,” ultimately uses these objects to convey a sense of mundane—albeit unsettling—domesticity.<BR/><BR/>Kelley Tialiou <BR/>Charles H. Sawyer Curatorial Assistant | Librarian | Archivist</SPAN>

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/23/2016 - 7/31/2016
sad poems. [Phillips Academy Art 400], Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/15/2017 - 3/4/2018

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