Allen Frame

STOREY GALLERY presents a selection of photographs by Allen Frame depicting Richard Brintzenhofe, Darrel Ellis, and Miguel Ferrando in downtown New York during the 1980s and 1990s. Drawn from Frame’s close relationships with the artists, the photographs offer an intimate record of a shared artistic and social world.

Frame moved to New York from Mississippi in 1977 and photographed friends— a close circle of artists and writers— in his apartment, in their studios, on beaches, and throughout the streets of New York. He met Ellis in 1981 and Brintzenhofe in the late 80s. His images are at once documentary and deeply personal, recording the everyday intimacy of friendship and artistic life.

This project inaugurates STOREY GALLERY’s The Back Gallery exhibition program, which presents focused, intimate projects alongside the gallery’s wider exhibition program.

ALLEN FRAME is on view concurrently with RICHARD BRINTZENHOFE, DARREL ELLIS, MIGUEL FERRANDO.

Co-organized with Candice Madey with special thanks to Gitterman Gallery.

ALLEN FRAME is a photographer, writer, and curator based in New York, where he has had numerous solo exhibitions at Gitterman Gallery and released four books of photography, including Whereupon, 2023; Innamorato, 2023; Fever, 2021; and Detour, 2001. A winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, he is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute, also teaching at the School of Visual Arts, the International Center of Photography, and for Strudelmedialive. He has curated solo shows of the work of Darrel Ellis and Charles Henri Ford, among others, and many group exhibitions, including Luxe, Calme, Volupte, a show with 75 artists about the downtown New York 1980s art scene, co-curated with Antonio Sergio Bessa at Candice Madey Gallery in 2023; Eros Rising at Clamp Gallery in 2026; Closer to the Sun, photos by Katharina Poblotzki at NYU Deutsches Haus, 2026; and The World of Charles Henri Ford and Pavel Tchelitchew at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in Santa Fe, 2026. In 1983-84, he co-directed Sounds in the Distance, based on writing by David Wojnarowicz, and lived in London from 1985-87, directing and writing about experimental theater for Bomb and other publications. Throughout the 1990’s he toured internationally with the activist photo slide show about AIDS, Electric Blanket, a project he co-created for Visual AIDS. He grew up in Mississippi and has lived in New York City since 1977.