OSCEOLA REFETOFF IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK

 

Von Lintel Gallery is excited to present Osceola Refetoff’s If These Walls Could Talk in our project room. In a nod to the last year and a half, when most of us spent more time indoors, looking out through windows, dreaming of a different reality, we are proud to present some favorites from Osceola Refetoff’s acclaimed Window Series It’s a Mess Without You.

Captured from within derelict structures in the California desert, these carefully framed vistas are akin to visual short stories. These desert communities came and left, leaving behind remnants and dreams which Refetoff interprets for us with his discerning viewfinder.

‘At once dreamlike and hyper-realistic, fragile and formidable, It’s a Mess Without You sees crisp blue skies engulf abandoned alfalfa farms. Jagged mountain tops peek through long-decayed window frames as bright orange sunlight pours over remnants of lives left behind. Partially inspired by Edward Hopper, the project finds new meaning in the age of isolation, when the window has been rendered our foremost way of experiencing the world — a shared symbol of a global crisis. Here, the window is employed not only as an architectural subject, but a narrative device to frame the stories of millennia-old lands, and the tenuous marks we inflict upon them in our wake.’ by Flossie Skelton for the British Journal of Photography 2020.

Refetoff's work is regularly featured on PBS SoCal/KCET's Emmy-winning program Artbound, and in The Guardian, The New York Times, and The New Republic, amongst many others, earning Los Angeles Press Club awards for Best Feature Photo (2019), Best Photo Series (2018, 2019, 2020), and National Photojournalist of the Year (2018). His portfolio It's a Mess Without You is the British Journal of Photography's OpenWalls Arles 2020 Outstanding Series Winner.

 

Please note the gallery’s new location at the Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. For questions and additional material pleaseemail gallery@vonlintel.com

 

 

The gallery is open for walk-ins
at its new location in Bergamot Station.

Von Lintel Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Unit A7
Santa Monica, CA 90404



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Osceola Refetoff, Its a Mess without You! - Cinco, CA

2011
Archival Pigment Print
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm), image area 18 x 18 inches
Edition of 10

$4400

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Osceola Refetoff, Window with Creosote Bush - Dunmovin, CA

2010
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size 30 x 24 inches (76 x 61 cm), image area 18 x 18 inches
Edition of 20

$2500

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Osceola Refetoff, Rain on Windshield - North of Osdick, CA

2010
Archival Pigment Print
24 x 35 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm), image Area 18 x 29 inches
Edition of 20

$2200


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Osceola Refetoff, Desert Vista - Cinco, CA

2009
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size 24 x 34 inches (61 x 85 cm), Image area 18 x 24 inches
Edition of 20

$3600

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Osceola Refetoff, Charred House on Trinity Street - Mojave, CA

2016
Archival Pigment Print
Paper size 24 x 35 inches (61 x 89 cm), image area 18 x 25 inches
Edition of 10

$3200


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Osceola Refetoff, How Green Was My Desert - Buckhorn, CA, 2019

Archival Pigment Print
Paper size 24 x 31 inches (61 x 79 cm), image area 18 x 24 inches
Edition of 10

$3200

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Osceola Refetoff, You Are My Dirty Needle - Amboy, CA, 2021

Archival Pigment Print
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm), image area 23 x 18 inches
Edition of 10

$3200

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Osceola Refetoff, Persistent Horizon - Olancha, CA, 2009

Archival Pigment Print
22 x 17 inches (55.9 x 43.2 cm), image area 18 x 12 inches
Edition of 20

$1450

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Von Lintel Gallery

2525 Michigan Avenue, Unit A7
Santa Monica, CA 90404
gallery@vonlintel.com

Gallery Hours:

Wednesday - Saturday
from 12am until 6pm