Theresa Ganz
As traditional photography feels too passive for artist Theresa Ganz, she instead manipulates her photos to create hand-cut photographic collages. In order to explore themes of romanticism, artificial nature, and man's relationship to the environment, Ganz prints photos of plants and landscapes, adding a hand element by painting on them and carefully cutting away the background. Inspired by her interest in the history of landscape painting and landscape photography, along with the vast, seemingly endless nature of the landscape, Ganz aims to create pieces that immerse viewers within the environement rather than remove them as merely distant spectators. Ganz work strives to depict a stylized model of nature, thus allowing these organic compositions to come into contact with the sublime.
Ganz’s has shown her work in several solo exhibitions at galleries including the Evans Contemporary in Peterborough, Canada, Bell Gallery at Brown University in Rhode Island, Steven Wolf Fine Art in San Francisco, and Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco. Additionally, her work has been included in countless group shows nationally at galleries such as the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, Open Aperture Gallery in Newport, Rhode Island, Aqua Art Fair in Miami, Museum of …
As traditional photography feels too passive for artist Theresa Ganz, she instead manipulates her photos to create hand-cut photographic collages. In order to explore themes of romanticism, artificial nature, and man's relationship to the environment, Ganz prints photos of plants and landscapes, adding a hand element by painting on them and carefully cutting away the background. Inspired by her interest in the history of landscape painting and landscape photography, along with the vast, seemingly endless nature of the landscape, Ganz aims to create pieces that immerse viewers within the environement rather than remove them as merely distant spectators. Ganz work strives to depict a stylized model of nature, thus allowing these organic compositions to come into contact with the sublime.
Ganz’s has shown her work in several solo exhibitions at galleries including the Evans Contemporary in Peterborough, Canada, Bell Gallery at Brown University in Rhode Island, Steven Wolf Fine Art in San Francisco, and Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco. Additionally, her work has been included in countless group shows nationally at galleries such as the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, Open Aperture Gallery in Newport, Rhode Island, Aqua Art Fair in Miami, Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, and internationally at the Datz Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea. In 2015 she was awarded the ArtSlant Prize, Humanities Research Fund Award, and MJR Projects in Residence.
