Excerpts from the Palace of Anxiety 2005
Francis Crisafio
Gestures 8: November 17, 2005 – January 8, 2006
Materials
photographs, video
Over the past few weeks Crisafio has been documenting the disposal of a family house in his family for a number of generations The...
Description
Over the past few weeks Crisafio has been documenting the disposal of a family house, in his family for a number of generations. The experience is both personal and deeply serious but capable of emotive translation. It also bears some relationship to the graphic work with which he is normally associated.
About the Artist
Francis Crisafio is a self-taught photographer. His initial artistic background began in painting and printmaking with undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Photography was a peripheral skill used to augment his work but became the main discipline he turned to in the early 1990‘s. He tends to focus on portraiture and long-term photo projects.