This exhibition currently on view at Staley Wise Gallery in New york presents Deborah Turbeville’s photographs from her Comme des Garçons photo shoot for Italian VOGUE in 1981. This period was an important one for Deborah Turbeville. She completed three major projects: Comme des Garçons, Women in the Wood, and The Glass House. In subsequent years, she reworked this material using multiple printing methods, different papers and sizes, bleaching and darkening.
The show is comprised of her black and white and color photographs. This distinct, intensely personal vision projects a sense of isolation, romanticism, and ambivalence that is haunting and disturbing. Turbeville here creates a charged atmosphere of mystery, ambiguity, and drama by combining elements of architecture, décor, and fashion with her sense of composition, often presenting women in groups, with no interaction between them.
Deborah Turbeville, Comme des Garçons
May 4 to June 10, 2017
Staley Wise Gallery
100 Crosby St #305
New York, NY 10012
USA
