Gregory Krum
Currently residing in Brooklyn, NY

website: www.gregorykrum.com

Work Statement
Here are some ideas about the work:

It is in response…that is, in combat. Photographs that explore territories or concepts of control, organization, and security, states of sensitive, deep affection, inference, isolation, complexity, importance, insecurity, vulnerability, bliss, abyss, jouissance…in direct relationship to comfort and rational things, dualism, and our tendency to understand.

It is hopeful and painfully critical. The work wishes to slow down.

The work is at odds with irony.

The work is not a stand-in for language, it is not documentary, however everything existed and nothing is made up, it is not objective, it does not wish to be an essay.

The work wants you to like it. And I think it is a little bit romantic, and perhaps embarrassed.

The prints are about 30� square.

The work seems to wonder: is a gesture of affection at least as important as a scholarly theory.

Bio
I was born in Portland, Oregon and studied Biology, Sculpture and Design there. I have a Masters in Photography from NYU/ICP. I now live in New York.

I began to photograph around 1993 after going to an art school in Italy and studying with the photographer Mark Stienmetz who I like, but who didn’t really believe in me.

Here are some more things about me, in rough chronological order:

I have washed dishes at a truck stop, I have sold sweaters, I have gone to school, I have made coffee, I have checked people’s bags, I have moved away from everyone I know, I have gone to more school, I have arranged for 38,000 people from 82 countries to travel to Beijing, I have fallen in love, I have driven across the country, I have been to my father’s funeral, I have bought millions of dollars of contemporary design, I have been on a plane once every two or three months for the past six years, I have designed an amazing store for the government, I have curated an art show.