CURATORS

Allen Frame

Guest Curatorial Program (2019)

A MECCA BLUR

Allen Frame is represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York where he has had solo exhibitions in 2005, 2009, and 2013.  His 2013 exhibition Dialogue with Bolaño was presented at the Museum of the Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico, in 2014.  Detour, a compilation of his photographs over a decade, was published by Kehrer Verlag  Heidelberg in 2001.  He co-founded the contemporary art center Delta Axis in Memphis in 1992, and in 1990, he co-created  Electric Blanket, an epic slide show about AIDS, which toured throughout the U.S. and to Norway, the U.K., Germany, Hungary, Japan, and Russia.  He has been the curator of exhibitions at Art in General, including Darrel Ellis in 1996 and In This Place in 2004; at PS122 Gallery, including Bearings: the Female Figure in 2006; and at the Camera Club of New York, including Linda Salerno: A Selection of Experimental Photographs from the Black Mirror Series and Anatomy, Persona, and the Moment: 70’s Experimental Photographs of Luigi Di Sarro.  He currently serves as the President of the Board of the Camera Club of New York, and he is an Executive Producer of Joshua Sanchez’s feature film Four, released in 2013. He has been the recipient of grants from the Penny McCall Foundation, the Peter Reed Foundation, Creative Time, Art Matters, CECArtslink and others.  He teaches photography at Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, and the International Center of Photography. He graduated from Harvard University in 1974.