Anonymous, Modesto, CA . 2013
The result of three years of work in the Central Valley, in which she revisits the region of Dorothea Lange’s work in California during the Great Depression… Grannan’s new work is set in the parched landscape and forgotten towns along Highway 99, including Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. In her intensely vivid color portraits, the artist works at midday when the sun is direct and the heat is unrelenting, presenting each individual, often simultaneously heroic and vulnerable, against stark, white backgrounds.
Fraenkel Gallery
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