Theresa Ganz
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Theresa Ganz STATEMENT “Slabs” is part of an ongoing visual investigation of landscape, nature, architecture and ornament. I use photographic images not to document the world, but as source material for invented landscapes. While the traditional landscape tends to suggest vastness and the conquering vision of man over nature or conversely nature’s awesome greatness and the smallness of man, I gravitate to a more myopic and ambiguous view. The viewer is never afforded enough distance to gaze out, but is instead confronted with detailed and often For this particular body of work, I shot the source material at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The “caves” are Hindu, Jain and Buddhist temples carved, not built, from the living rock. Rather than photograph the temples themselves, I was drawn to the blend of manmade and natural marks on the rock walls that remain around the temples. In the resulting pieces there is tension between the realism of the photographic elements and the fabricated space of the collage. Scale and focus shift throughout the composition. BIO Theresa Ganz was born in New York City in 1980. She earned her BA from Vassar College in Film and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in Photography. She works in photo-based collage and installation. Her work has shown nationally and internationally at, among others, The Datz Museum of Art in Korea, the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, The Bell Gallery at Brown University and The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin and at various commercial spaces in New York and San Francisco. Her work has also been featured in print publications including Mousse Magazine and Magazine Gitz. She is a founding member and director at Regina Rex in Brooklyn. She currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island where she is faculty at Brown University. ARTIST CONTACT [click to email] IMAGES
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