FRASER STABLES
1973 Born Falkirk, Scotland
Currently lives and works in Northampton, MA, USA;
Co-founder and director, Atopia Projects, www.atopiaprojects.org;
Assistant Professor (Photography & Digital Media), Department of
Art, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Education
2001 Core Residency Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, USA
1998 MFA, University of Guelph, Canada
1995 H.BA Photography (First Class), Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
Forthcoming Exhibitions
2010 Le Deuil (François Chastanet, Sarah Dornner, Douglas Gordon,
Graham Gussin, Alan Johnston, Adam McEwen, Scott Myles, Gary
Rough, Seán Shanahan, Tony Scherman, Fraser Stables, and
Phoebe Unwin), Galerie IFF, Marseille, France (July 10 – Aug. 15)
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2009 No Mercy, IFF Gallery, Aix en Provence, France
2007 Solo Shoot II, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
Solo Exhibition, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, USA
2006 Solo Shoot, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
2005 Tes Starz. Galerie Weissraum, Kyoto, Japan
2004 Solo Shoot, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of
Houston, Houston, USA (catalogue)
2003 Screen Images, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, USA
2002 Sundown Apex, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, USA
Double Garage Scene, FotoFest, Houston, USA (commissioned;
publication)
2002 Sundown Apex, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, USA
Double Garage Scene, FotoFest, Houston, USA (commissioned;
publication)
2001 Two Stages, Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton, Canada (publication)
Scapes, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, USA
2000 Two Porsches, Sleeper, Edinburgh, Scotland
1998 Atopia Journal: Lines of Communication, Pekao Gallery, Toronto,
Canada (publication)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 True Lies, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
2008 Contemporary Photographs, Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
2007 Saturn Falling, The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland
Putting Figures on Paper, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
2004 Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
moblog/enter, web-based exhibition, http://www.moblog.ca, curated by
Susan Douglas
2003 Faculty 2003, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence,
USA
2002 Hard Core, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas, USA
Video: Dialogue on Narrative & Abstraction, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Real Time, TFAA, Austin, USA (publication)
2001 Wall Works, Genesis Park, Houston, USA (organized by Devin Borden
Hiram Butler Gallery)
Core 2001, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
(catalogue)
2000 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, USA
The Artist Remembered, Chenevert Green, Houston, USA
Core 2000, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
(catalogue)
The Very Thing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada (catalogue)
Still Life, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada (publication)
1999 Alfresco, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Shed, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (CD-ROM)
Cluster, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 Works For The Ideal Home, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada (publication)
As It Seems To Be, Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 Public Order, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada (catalogue)
Crossing Borders, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, USA
Selected Screenings
2004 Pixilerations, juried digital video and film festival, Providence, USA
2003 Allegories of Cinema, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of
Texas at Austin, USA
Random Acts of Fitness. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
(additional screenings at Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA; Discount
Cinema at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL)
Come Forward: Experimental Film and Video in Texas, Dallas Museum
of Art, USA
Public Art Commissions
2003-08 Infinity Development, Toronto, Canada (in collaboration with
Margaret Priest)
Selected Publications
2004 Davidson, Brett. “The Cowboy Crashing,” catalogue essay, Fraser
Stables: Solo Shoot, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of
Houston, Houston, USA (January)
Sultan, Terrie. “Interview”, Fraser Stables: Solo Shoot, Blaffer Gallery
(January)
2002 Dumbadze, Alexander. "Real Time," publication essay, Real Time, TFAA,
Austin, USA (April)
Morrison, Gavin. "Beyond a Descriptive Metaphysics," catalogue essay,
FotoFest (March)
2001 Hutchinson, Nora. “Two Stages,” publication essay, Two Stages,
Hamilton Artists Inc. (July)
Kalil, Susie. “Core 2000-2001,” catalogue essay, Core 2001, Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, USA (March)
Morrison, Gavin. "Wall Works," exhibition essay (Wall Works, Genesis
Park, Houston, USA)
2000 Gibson-Garvey, Susan. "Meeting the Object," catalogue essay, The
VeryThing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada (January)
Kalil, Susie. "2000 Core," catalogue essay, Core 2000, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, USA (March)
Marshall, Keith. "Coming into Focus," catalogue essay, Core 2000, MFA,
Houston, USA (March)
Metcalfe, Robin. "The State of Things," catalogue essay, The Very Thing
(January)
Rodney, Lee. "Still Life," catalogue essay, Still Life, Gallery 44, Toronto,
Canada (January)
1999 Coulter, Betsy. "In the Place of Passage," publication essay, Atopia,
Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada (June)
1997 Metcalfe, Robin. "Public Order," catalogue essay, Public Order, Art
Gallery of Windsor, Canada (July)
Selected Reviews and Features
2003 Poulson, Alex. “Oil be Damned: Houston Art,” feature, Dazed and
Confused, Vol. 2 Issue. 8, December
Van Siclen, Bill. "Art Scene," review, The Providence Journal,
Providence, USA, September 8
Talman, Stefan. "Faculty Exhibition," review, The Brown Daily Herald,
Providence, USA, September 8
2002 van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. "The Framing of a Fictional Film in 'Real Time',"
review, Austin American-Statesman,Austin, USA, May 2, p. 35
2000 Anspon, Catherine. “Glassell Core 2000,” review,
www.houston.sidewalk.citysearch.com, April 3
Conwell, Donna. "Fraser Stables: Two Porsches," review, The List
Edinburgh, Scotland, November 30
Cameron, Neil. "Fraser Stables: Two Porsches," Critic's Choice, The
Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 28
Stevenson Martha Townsend and Robert Zingone in conjunction with
The Very Thing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada, January 16
1999 Lecture, Department of Photography, Edinburgh College of Art,
Edinburgh, Scotland
1996 Lecture, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Canada
Lectures
2005 Lecture, School of Art, University of Northern Illinois, DeKalb, IL.
Lecture, Department of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2004 Lecture, Fine Arts Department, Bristol Community College, Fall River,
MA.
Lecture, Department of Transmedia, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Gallery Talk in conjunction with Fraser Stables: Solo Shoot, Blaffer Gallery, the
Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX.
2003 Gallery Talk in conjunction with Faculty 03, David Winston Bell Gallery,
List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Lecture, School of Art, University of Northern Illinois, DeKalb, IL.
Lecture, Department of Art, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA.
2001 Panel Talk (with Betsy Coulter, Duncan Ganley, Trenton Doyle
Hancock, Todd Hebert, Jessica Halonen, Emily Joyce and Brad Tucker) in
conjunction with Core 2001, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX (06 April).
2000 Panel Talk (with Duncan Ganley, Todd Hebert, Jessica Halonen,
Emily Joyce, Melissa Thorne and Brad Tucker) in conjunction with Core
2000, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (17 March).
Panel Talk (with Tom Dean, Vanessa Paschakarnes, Sarah Stevenson,
Martha Townsend and Robert Zingone) in conjunction with The Very Thing,
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (16 January).
1999 Lecture, Department of Photography, Edinburgh College of Art,
Edinburgh, Scotland.
1996 Lecture, Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario, Canada.
Atopia Projects www.atopiaprojects.com
(An arts organization co-directed by Fraser Stables and Gavin Morrison.)
Project 5.99 SHOTGUN WEDDING
project 5.66 LIFTING
project 1.66 HOUSTON MIES JOHNSTON
Project #5.33 - BEAT STREULI BRUXELLES MIDI (released September 2006). This artist's book consists of a series of street portraits taken at Bruxelles Midi, the main train station in the city. A limited edition photograph was released in conjunction with the publication.
Project #4.99 - Atopia Journal: MANIFESTO: Osaka Posters (released August 2006). Set of eight posters released as a publication. Project realized in conjunction with Osaka Contemporary Art Center,
as part of the third Osaka Arts Kaleidescope (2005). Publication content commissioned and generatedin conjunction with eight Osaka-based Non Profit Organizations.
Project #4.66 - Grey Hope: The Persistence of Melancholy (released April 2006). Book exploring melancholy as an active aspect of the psyche and not an affliction requiring elevation. Guest editor Sigrid Sandström.
Project #4.33 - Atopia Journal: urg/üleistu (released April 2006). Publication realized in conjunction with students from Edinburgh College of Art, Brown University, and RISD. Students were collectively responsible for all aspects of the publication including thematic development, commissioning, and
design.
Project #3.99 - GEEP (2004). An exhibition of selected work and new work by Critical Art Ensemble; Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen & Helmut Weber; John Giglio; Andrew Jones; Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) & Katarina Matiasek; Pia Ronicke; John Sparagana; and Tercerunquinto. Exhibition explored themes of
hybridity, transmutation, and hijacked function.
Project #3.66 - Atopia Journal: Stone Pockets for we Barbarians (released August 2004). Set of five photocopied pages by selected artists (Betsy Coulter, Melanie Crader, Christy Thompson, Allison Wiese, and Lisa Young). Distributed as an unbound photocopied issue packaged in a printed envelope.
Project #3.33 - Atopia Journal, Relax and Conspire (released July 2004). Set of four photocopied pages by selected artists (Leah Beeferman, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Kelly Mark, and Trenton Doyle Hancock). Distributed as an unbound photocopied issue packaged in a printed envelope.
Project #2.99 - Atopia Journal, A jet engine on a Chevy Impala (released April 2004). Set of eight photocopied pages by students in a New Genre class at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (Andreas Abramoff, Katelin Crook, Louise Despont, Seth Erickson, Diana Fishman, Billy Gomberg, Brian Lee and Taichi Yoneya). Distributed as an unbound photocopied issue packaged in a printed envelope. The project was initiated and realized in conjunction with Subtract Studio (Zurich) and the Department of Visual Art, Brown University. The students had two intensive work sessions in which to produce a project that related to the absurd, logical and/or idealistic impulses and outcomes of
invention.
Project #2.66 - Inset (2004). An exhibition of commissioned and selected work by Alec Finlay, Jens Haaning, Kelly Mark, N55, Deborah Stratman and Jonathan Monk. Inset developed a forum for a variety of extended art practices that engage with existing frameworks and structures (institutional, social, cultural, etc). The exhibition presented several projects that were generated through public solicitation, often using publishing as a means of dissemination or distribution. Inset generated works that involved the audience, the city, the gallery, and the community.
- Inset exhibition:
Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA (January 17–March 14 2004). (Gallery talks by Atopia, Alex Finlay, Kelly Mark and N55; associated lectures and discussions at Rice University by Atopia, Kelly Mark, John Sparagana and Deborah Stratman.)
- Inset publication: Atopia Journal, Inset (released January 2004). The contents of this 'dispersed
publication' are placed in different magazines and web-sites. The journal includes commissioned texts by Brett Davidson, Lars Bang Larsen and Nana Last as well as text projects and interviews realized in conjunction with each artist.
Project#2.33 - The Art Atom, book on the artwork of British artist Charles Avery. Published by Atopia Projects. Released October 2003. Includes commissioned essays by Brian Dillon, Mathew Kneale, and Tom Morton.
Project#1.99 - Atopia Journal, What have you done for me lately? (released December 2002). Four photocopied pages by invited artists/writers. The pages are mailed, unfolded, in an envelope which is printed with the issue title and contributors' names. Contributors: Margrét Blöndal (artist, based in
Reykjavik, Iceland), Adam Dant (artist, based in London, UK), Brett Davidson (writer, based in Zurich, Switzerland), and John Sparagana (artist, based in Chicago).
Project #1.66 - Alan Johnston, MFA,H Wall Drawing (March 2002). Commissioned wall drawing by Alan Johnston in the Mies Van der Rohe extension to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Realized in conjunction with the Core Curatorial Program, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A
publication was produced which included an essay by Gavin Morrison.
Project #1.33 - Commissioned artwork by Scottish artist Scott Sherry. A site-specific photograph and text intervention within the Scottish fishing industry's trade magazine Fishing News (07 July 2000). In the newspaper context, the work existed between advertisement and poetic reverie.
Project #0.99 - Made Space (2000). A traveling/evolving exhibition of contemporary British drawing in which the work related to the description, construction, and/or affecting of physical and psychological space. Artists: Charles Avery, Claude Heath, Margarita Gluzberg, Alan Johnston, and
Margaret Priest.
- Made Space publication: Atopia Journal, Made Space (released August 2000). Contents: curatorial essay by Gavin Morrison and Fraser Stables; Charles Avery interviewed by Simon Groom; Margarita Gluzberg interviewed by Milly Thompson; essay on Claude Heath by Chris Noraika; Alan Johnston
interviewed by David Connearn; and Margaret Priest interviewed by Lee Rodney. Publication fully illustrated with images from installed exhibition in Pekao Gallery, Toronto.
- Made Space exhibition venues:
Pekao Gallery, Toronto, Canada (April 07-28, 2000) (artist talks by Charles Avery and Alan Johnston; organized in conjunction with University of Guelph and Ontario College of Art and Design) Changing Room Gallery, Stirling, Scotland (Aug 12 - Sept 24, 2000) (artist talks by Margarita Gluzberg, Claude Heath and Margaret Priest; organized in conjunction with the Changing Room
Gallery) Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (Nov 11 - Dec 16, 2000) (panel discussion featuring: Margarita Gluzberg, Claude Heath, Alan Johnston, Margaret Priest, Gavin Morrison, Fraser Stables, David Connearn, and Eelco Hooftman; organized in conjunction with Talbot Rice Gallery)
Project #0.66 - Atopia Journal, Place/Non-Place (released February, 2000). This issue focused on the expanded field of the place-less. Contents: an essay by Claire Bishop on the photography of Sarah Jones; Atopia interview with Christina Ritchie; Project Row Houses review by Betsy Coulter; philosophical musing by Tom Heatley; artist page by Scott Sherry; essay on the contradictions of
governed space by Hamish Morrison; artist pages by Donald Urquhart; essay on Grizedale Sculpture Forest by Jenny Brownrigg; commissioned fictional passport stamps from Morning Star Press; artist pages by Charles Avery; poem by Jean Morisset; artist page by Duncan Ganley; Lee Rodney interview with Vanessa Beecroft; essay on border culture/politics by Susan Douglas; artist pages by
Micah Lexier; and Atopia interview with Dalziel + Scullion.
Project #0.33 - Atopia Journal, Lines of Communication (pilot issue; released January, 1999). This issue explored the meetings and connections between a diversity of modes and mediums of understanding in visual art, poetry, and contemporary music. Contents: artist page by Louis Jacobs; poetry by Andrew Szatmari; Gavin Morrison essay on contemporary and experimental sound works
and music; essay by Fraser Stables exploring the nature of the unfolding of space/time through experience.
