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Michael Weinstein review from show in Chicago
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Tip of the Week
11/06/03
Variety of subject, surface and technique, all packed together into dense and active compositions, is the hallmark of Fred Cray’s luminous color photo-works that take off from ordinary snapshot and travel photography, and soar into the heavens of abstraction and symbolism. The images in Cray’s latest series feature his signature strip of frames exposed several times in different places running across a blurred and often layered background photograph of a human subject making a significant gesture. Reading Cray’s postmodern conceptual art involves responding to the background image first then honing in on the wildly exuberant and dizzying strip. In “compilation #2”, a man in a business suit on a city street holds a pistol to the side of his head; the strip that bisects his body at the diaphragm contains a darting array of image fragments that reference finance, sex, and the seconds ticking away on the display of a countdown.
