Artist Statement
February 2008
How cities evolve and develop in ways that are not coherent or logical is of particular interest to me (as a former urban planner) and was the inspiration for two recent and related series of my photographs. Cross Lands explores urban and suburban environments where multiple uses -- buildings, condominiums, highways, billboards, strip malls etc. -- overlap and sit side-by-side, resulting in strange spatial compositions and bizarre hybrids of uses and structures. The series White Nights explores locations intensely illuminated at night, such as stadiums and golf driving ranges, focusing on the unintended overflow of this light. In both series I’m drawn to photograph places that seem unguided by traditional issues of planning or architecture and seem to have formed by accident. The unnatural and unreal state in these cityscapes and landscapes is accentuating by the synthetic qualities of available artificial light at dusk and night. My work,
as a result, reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, and comfort and fear.
David S. Allee was born in New York City in 1969 and is a former urban planner. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1991, and his MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2001, where he studied with Joel Sternfeld, Robert Polidori, and Vera Lutter. His photographs have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries, including solo exhibitions at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in Chelsea in 2006, Princeton University in 2005 and the Knoxville Museum of Art in 2004. His work has also been included in group shows at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Tampa Museum of Art, and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. His photographs have appeared widely in publications and journals and were recently featured in the book City Art, with essays by Adam Gopnik and Eleanor Heartney. Mr. Allee’s photographs are in the collection of major institutions, such as the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Library of Congress, the Knoxville Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as well as numerous private collections. Mr. Allee lives and works in New York City.
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