FOXY PRODUCTION

02/26/2024

We are honored to post a new text by Zack Hatfield on Erin Calla Watson’s 2023 solo debut in NYC, marking the gallery’s final exhibition. Hatfield’s writing was initially slated to run in the December 2023 issue of Artforum Magazine.

Click on bio for the full text ⚡️

02/06/2024

We are thrilled to announce that works from Erin Calla Watson’s "(Untitled) n.d." series have been acquired by the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY. "(Untitled) n.d." consists of 15 appropriated and then altered images from the 1975 exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape,” a seminal exhibition in how we imagine the American landscape that was initially exhibited at the George Eastman House. Calla Watson’s series introjects supermodel Jordan Barrett phantasmally in unpopulated landscapes, creating a kind of psychic flux that writer and publisher Loring Knoblauch contends “muddies the definition of homage...updating the concerns embedded in the images with new strains of thought."

Image:

Erin Calla Watson, Route 66 Motels, 2023, gelatin silver print, 10 5/16 x 14 in. (27.71 x 35.56 cm) (image size), 18 x 20 in. (45.72 x 50.08 cm) (framed size)


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10/07/2023

Erin Calla Watson
Mobile homes, Jefferson County, 2023
Gelatin silver print
11 3/8 x 14 in. (image size)
18 x 20 in. (framed size)
Edition of 3 with 2 AP

Erin Calla Watson: (Untitled) n.d. on view through Sunday, 8 October, 2023 💥


📸 Installation photography

09/28/2023

Final week: Erin Calla Watson: (Untitled) n.d. on view through 8 October 2023 💥


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09/24/2023

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Erin Calla Watson
Untitled View (Albuquerque), 2023
Gelatin silver print
14 x 14 in. (image size)
18 x 20 in. (framed size)
Edition of 3 with 2 AP

On view in Erin Calla Watson: (Untitled) n.d. through 8 October 2023

📸 Installation photo

09/18/2023

Dear Friends,

Foxy Production will end its gallery program after 20 years on October 8, 2023. From the outset we envisaged an exhibition and production house that would interconnect art, film, and digital culture. This idea morphed into a gallery space, and it is now time for it to take on new forms.

The gallery, in five locations across New York City, enabled us to present many critically acclaimed exhibitions and to collaborate with important voices of our time. We would very much like to thank all the artists we have worked with over the years. We would also like to send a special thank you to the collectors, curators, designers, framers, gallerists, photographers, printers, shippers, staff, and writers who made it all possible.

Details of our consultancy, curatorial, and production endeavors will be announced soon.

Erin Calla Watson’s solo exhibition Untitled n.d. is on view and runs through October 8, 2023.

Yours,

Foxy Production

09/17/2023

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"For those raised on the truths of the 'New Topographics’ photographs, Calla Watson’s pictures muddy the definition of homage, in a sense updating the concerns embedded in the images with new strains of thought. It takes a measure of artistic confidence to embrace an iconic body of work and then boldly reimagine it, and the strongest of the images here deliver on that promise, mixing reverent familiarity with a fresh conceptual twist.” - Loring Knoblauch

Image:

Erin Calla Watson
Subdivision street, South Denver, Colorado, 2023
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in. (image size)
18 x 20 in. (framed size)
Edition of 3 with 2 AP

On view in Erin Calla Watson: (Untitled) n.d. through 8 October 2023

📸 Installation photo

09/14/2023

09/14/2023

New review: Loring Knoblauch weighs in on Erin Calla Watson's New York debut, check out Collector Daily or links via bio 💫

08/29/2023

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Erin Calla Watson
View north from the Prudential Building, 2023
Gelatin silver print
9 5/8 x 14 in. (24.49 x 35.56 cm) (image size)
18 x 20 in. (45.72 x 50.08 cm) (framed size)
Edition of 3 with 2 AP

The work will be on view in "(Untitled) n.d” opening Tuesday, 05 September. The exhibition consists of 15 appropriated-then-altered images from the 1975 exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape.”

08/25/2023

Last day today, Friday, of "Atlas" with Joan Heemskerk, Johnathan Payne, and Lilan Yang. We are open until 6pm.

www.foxyproduction.com

08/24/2023

Erin Calla Watson
(Untitled) n.d.

Opens Tuesday, 05 September at 6:00pm ✨

Face pareidolia: seeing Jesus in toast, the Virgin Mary on a tortilla, God in the sky. In Erin Calla Watson’s "(Untitled) n.d.,” pareidolia is shirtless, smoking a cigarette, and looking right through you. It’s that one male model, you know the one, in a “man-altered landscape.” Calla Watson captures the primal human impulse to see an object, pattern, or meaning where there isn’t one – imaging a space outside of Chronos, or measurable time, where sensory perception always beats logic. In this case, the artist undresses the historic New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape exhibition by grafting supermodel Jordan Barrett into these previously unoccupied landscapes, creating an immediate punctum.

"And the clouds are the dust of His feet (extract)"
Essay by Makayla Bailey

Link to essay and exhibition page in bio.

Image: Erin Calla Watson, "Main Street, Gull Lake, Saskatchewan," 2023, chromogenic color print, 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm) (image size), 18 x 20 in. (45.72 x 50.08 cm) (framed size).