Justin Craun: Onlooker
Justin Craun: Onlooker
Justin Craun: Onlooker
Justin Craun: Onlooker
Justin Craun: Onlooker
Justin Craun: Onlooker
Justin Craun: Onlooker
JUSTIN CRAUN
Middle Rose, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Place, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Capricorn, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
60 x 57 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Onlooker, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Standing in the Huge Singing and the Alien World, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
60 x 72 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Down Even, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Aurora, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
31 x 27 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Symbol, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
37 x 30 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
In Albion, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Link Rot, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
50 x 84 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
I Love Your Shoes!, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
72 x 84 inches
JUSTIN CRAUN
Crest, 2012
Oil, gesso, acrylic on canvas
40 x 32 inches
Justin Craun
Onlooker
August 28 through September 29, 2012
Artist Reception, Thursday September 6, 6 to 8 pm
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present Onlooker, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Justin Craun. Culling images of women from style blogs, Craun details posed bodies and high-end clothing to structure larger abstract/ figure compositions. Jagged surfaces and hypnotic color shatter the decorum of the fashion that permeates these blogs in favor of a more unnerving experience.
Craun’s paintings parallel cyberspace’s amorphous landscape. Traditional figure/ground relationships fold into nonhierarchical painterly gestures. The carefully constructed identities of the women in the source photographs become unfixed and fluid. Balance is mysteriously achieved. Here these disparate elements converge to create an impossible reality.
About the artist
Justin Craun (b. 1982) lives and works in Brooklyn. He has had one-person exhibitions at Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis; One in the Other, London; and Fredericks & Freiser. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and Europe and will be included in the upcoming “Body Language” at the Saatchi Gallery, London.