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Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Elisheva Biernoff: Smashed Up House After the Storm, an exhibition of 13 recent works tracing the artist’s expanding approach. Biernoff makes delicate paintings that meticulously recreate found, anonymous photographs—astonishingly faithful renderings on thin sheets of wood that match the intimate scale and detail of the originals.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Elisheva Biernoff paints images of found snapshots to scale. Some are uncomfortably intimate; people caught in poses meant for the eyes of a select few. Others are mundane; bad family photos obscured by flashbulb glare. The show's titular image is a rendering of an awkwardly framed home captured post disaster, every blade of grass moving in a long ago breeze, a photo-chemical mishap reproduced in unimaginable detail. Removed from their original context as keepsakes, yet meticulously copied, Biernoff’s paintings feel like a universal memory fading into a distant past.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
Fraenkel Gallery
Since 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 350 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other media, expanding the conversation around photography and contemporary art.
Since 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 350 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other media, expanding the conversation around photography and contemporary art.