Salon #41 – Morten Andersen and Fred Cray

16 May 2019: 10×10 hosted a salon with Morten Andersen and Fred Cray at MM. LaFleur.

At fifteen, Morten Andersen (b. 1965, Akershus, Norway) began photographing friends in punk-rock bands and making fanzines. Later, in the 1980s, he worked for the music press and also in a newspaper darkroom. Morten moved to New York, studying at ICP in 1990 – his teachers included Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Joan Liftin, and Ken Schles – and he interned with Gilles Peress. His first solo exhibition was in Oslo (1992) – since then he’s had many international solo- and group-shows. Morten has published twenty-three books. He lives and works in Oslo.

Fred Cray is a Brooklyn-based American multimedia artist, whose first solo show of his photographs, in 2000, were described by The New York Times as “lush, gaudy, and ethereal Technicolor spirit photographs”. Fred’s works are in the collections of many institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, New York Public Library, and the George Eastman Museum. He has received grants and fellowships from The Guggenheim, The Pollock Krasner, and Peter S. Reed Foundations. His ‘unique photographs project’, from which many of his books originate, numbers more than 43,000 images, most of which have been left around the world for people to find.

The presenters sold and signed their books.

A big thank you to Sarah Hassan and the entire MM.LaFleur team.

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