{"id":2183,"date":"2014-11-04T21:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T02:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:09:12","slug":"theresa-ganz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/theresa-ganz","title":{"rendered":"Theresa Ganz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"theresa-ganz-heart-of-the-cave\"
\nHeart of the Cave<\/em> (in progress)
\n129″x74″; pigment prints, collage; 2014<\/p>\n

Theresa Ganz
\nProvidence, Rhode Island, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

“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.\u00a0While the traditional landscape tends to suggest vastness and the conquering vision of man over nature or conversely nature\u2019s 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
\nimpenetrable surfaces. By removing photographic elements from their original context by cutting them out, I am able to isolate motifs and place them in an aestheticized context that often refers to ornament and architecture. In drawing from the decorative arts to create fine art, I seek to blur the lines between the beautiful and\u00a0the sublime, the worldly and the spiritual. My work has one foot in the 19th century with an interest in Romanticism and the relationship of the individual to the natural world, and the other in 21st when the position of the photograph as a representation of truth has been permanently undermined by the digital revolution.<\/p>\n

For this particular body of work, I shot the source material at the Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. The \u201ccaves\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0and 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<\/em> and Magazine Gitz<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

[click to email<\/a>]
\nwww.theresaganz.com<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"theresa-ganz-cave-of-the-heart\"
\nCave of the Heart<\/em>
\n67″x46″ each; pigment prints, collage; 2014<\/p>\n

\"theresa-ganz-slab-3\"
\nSlab 3<\/em>
\n54″x45″; pigment prints, collage; 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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