Gregory Crewdson Explores the Dark Side of Suburbia in New ‘Dream House’ Prints

Summary

• Gregory Crewdson is releasing six prints from his Dream House series with Avant Arte
• The photographs feature a star-studded cast and explore themes like isolation and suburban unease
• The archival pigment prints will be available as a time-limited edition starting June 30 for 48 hours

American photographer Gregory Crewdson is teaming up with London-based Avant Arte to release six limited-edition prints, revisiting Dream House, one of his most cinematic and unsettling bodies of work.

The series, originally commissioned by The New York Times in 2002, exemplifies some of Crewdson’s most defining artistic traits: his meticulous eye, fascination with suburban mediocrity, and ability to pinpoint darker, melancholic tensions bubbling beneath its surface.

Shot in an abandoned Vermont home, the photographs are chilling. They propose a nightmarish, distinctly American kind of reverie. Created with the scale, detail, and ensemble of a Hollywood film, the series sees the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tilda Swinton, Gwyneth Paltrow, William H. Macy, and Julianne Moore cast as a lonesome, fearful bunch, each playing second to the setting as its main character.

Captured at odd hours of the day, enhanced with artificial lighting, color treatment, and special effects, his landscapes are of our world, but not quite, creating another suspended somewhere between dream and reality. “My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough,” the artist once said. “I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.”

For the collectors looking to cop a piece of Dream House, each unframed archival pigment print measures 35 x 50 cm and is printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White 310gsm paper. The time-limited edition will launch on June 30 at 12 PM EDT for 48 hours only and arrives signed and numbered by the artist. Head to Avant Arte’s website to learn more.