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Randall Slavin
Sandy Leddin, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Lindsey Wixson, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 48 x 72 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $10,000
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Randall Slavin
Leila Spilman, 2015 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Alina Puscau, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Alejandra Guilmant, 2016
Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Jarah Mariano, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Genevieve Morton, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Masha Rudenko, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Marisa Papen, 2015 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Katelyn Pascavis, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin Jessica White, 2015 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 40 x 30 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Emmanuelle Chriqui, 2015 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 72 x 48 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $10,000
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Randall Slavin Emily Ratajkowski, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 48 x 72 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $10,000
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Randall Slavin
Elizabeth Elam, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 72 x 48 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $10,000
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Randall Slavin
Diana Georgie, 2015 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 40 x 30 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Sierra Swartz, 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Stephanie Corneliussen, 2012 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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Randall Slavin
Brandi Quinones, 2015 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 30 x 40 in. Edition / 5 + 2 AP $6,500
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KM Fine Arts is pleased to present ACHROMATIC, a solo exhibition of new work by LA based photographer Randall Slavin at KM FINE ARTS | Los Angeles from April 14th – May 17th, 2016. A public opening reception with the artist will be held on Thursday April14th, from 7-9PM. ACHROMATIC will feature 18 large-scale photographs from Slavin’s newest series of work focusing on the female nude from an innovative perspective. While his extensive experience as a celebrity portrait photographer has enabled him to cultivate a group of subjects including models and actresses, this newest body of work aims to shift the focus off of the relative celebrity of the subjects and onto the composition, process, and aesthetics of the work. Slavin’s ability to sway between traditional portraiture and provocative nude photography is not new to the art world. Robert Mapplethorpe and Helmut Newton may be the best examples we have of a photographer’s ability to mediate between these two extremes. For example, Mapplethorpe’s most famous imagery may be intensely erotic, but his subdued celebrity portraiture played a critical role in the development of his oeuvre. Art history’s fascination with the female nude has not gone undocumented; from the first fully nude depictions of Aphrodite in ancient Greece to Willem de Kooning’s obsession with his semi-abstracted Women, the Western world has no shortage of the subject. For this exhibition, Slavin makes no attempt reconfigure or deconstruct the iconic theme, but rather offer a new way to experience it. Influenced by Lucien Clergue’s mastery of lighting and composition and Allison Van Pelt’s paintings of prize fighters, Slavin developed a technique that reduces the clarity of the photographs; he has stepped away from the voyeuristic nature of nude photography and into a realm of suggested imagery. He explains: “I have always been inspired by the idea of the things we think we see... how we as humans fill in the blanks with our own imagination. How in 1960 moviegoers were certain they had seen the goriest murder ever filmed in Hitchcock’s classic PSYCHO when in reality they had seen nothing. They felt it. They imagined it. I liked this idea when it comes to photography. How we spectators fill the image with our own life story.” The resulting image is akin to looking through a fogged window. The bodies of his enlisted models and actresses are obscured just enough to exist within the margin between eroticism and modesty. The boundaries of an elbow, breast, or forehead dissolve flawlessly with the white on white backgrounds of the work. They are sensuously contorted and even appear to be in motion, yet they retain a degree of quiet elegance. About the Artist Randall Slavin is a prestigious celebrity portrait photographer born and raised in Hollywood, CA. His photography debuted in New York Times Magazine, and has since been seen in every major title from GQ and Esquire to Rolling Stone. He has exhibited in Paris, and has participated in a solo show at Annenburg Space for Photography. In 2011, he received the Hollywood Style Award for Photographer of the Year and currently splits his time in LA and New York. L.A.: 814 North La Cienega | Los Angeles, CA 90069 Chicago: 43 East Oak Street | Suite B | Chicago, IL 60611 kmfinearts.com
About KM Fine Arts With prominent locations in Chicago on Oak Street and West Hollywood in Los Angeles, KM Fine Arts, directed by curator Ana Hollinger, has been critically acclaimed for its museum-quality exhibitions since 2006. The gallery specializes in American and European artists of early modernism, postwar, and contemporary art—including the movements of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. The gallery program includes works by Georg Baselitz, Norman Bluhm, Fernando Botero, James Brooks, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Michael Goldberg, Hans Hofmann, Robert Indiana, Wolf Kahn, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, along with contemporary Erik Brunetti, Ramsey Dau, Carole Feuerman, Eric Fischl, Kim Gottlieb-Walker, Gary Lang, Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, Victor Matthews, Geoff Moore, Ruth Pastine, Judith Supine, Bernie Taupin, Francine Turk, Carinthia West, and others.
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