Photography Program, Fisher Center
Tanya Marcuse in Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn
An artist talk on Woven: In Process, on view through November 20 in the Fisher Center Weiss Atrium and LUMA Lobby
October 18, 2016
Photography Program, Fisher Center
October 18, 2016
Woven: In Process is Marcuse's latest body of work. The 5×10 foot photographs sometimes take weeks to compose, and during this process of composition, of collecting, arranging, burning, painting, and transplanting, there is change. Influenced both by the Dutch vanitas tradition and the allover graphic compositions of Jackson Pollock, she intends the photographs to be expereienced as exquisitely detailed still lives when viewed from up close, but to hold together as an immersive, more abstract composition from further away. In these elaborately artificial tableaus, the inexorable movements of nature are shown forth and growth and decay, beauty and terror, life and death are woven together.
This event is free and open to the public.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 12 to 5 p.m., and will extend until curtain call on performance evenings at the Fisher Center. During regular gallery hours, visitors may enter through the Fisher Center parking lot entrance.