Georgia Scherman Projects is pleased to announce Solo Shoot—a solo show by artist Fraser Stables. This exhibition features colour photographs.

In Solo Shoot Stables explores the relationship between assumed and constructed image identities. The photographs—images of a rocker in his home, taken over several years—collectively examine the subject’s identity as evidenced in relationships between the subject’s body appearance, details of his environment, and changes over time.

The series focuses on environmental details such as choices of furniture, upholstery, ornaments; body decisions such as tattoos, piercings, hair-treatment; encapsulated media-images of rock stars, cartoon characters, superheroes; the collision of children’s and adult’s possessions; and ways in which incidental items can accumulate significance and narrative implications when considered in context.

In one image, a calendar appears with dates crossed off; in another, a Batman movie poster promotes a past and unaltered release date. Skin, hair, and tattooed icons are viewed alongside the fabric of the living space. The subject changes clothes and adds tattoos, while posters, images, superheroes, rock icons, ornaments, and toys appear, move, and disappear. “Throughout these environmental portraits” Stables explains, “I am interested in the evidence of individual image-construction and the relation between generated and imported imagery, performance, and cultural signs.”

Stables was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1973. He received a BA from the Edinburgh College of Art, and an MFA from the University of Guelph in Ontario. He was an artist in residence in the Core Program (MFA, Houston). His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is currently Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media, Smith College, MA.

Toronto Photography Festival (Contact 2007)