Object number2014.26
Fallen No. 439
Portfolio/SeriesEdition of 7
Date2013
Artist
Tanya Marcuse
(American, born 1964)
CultureAmerican
MediumArchival pigment print
EditionEdition of 7
DimensionsImage: 37 3/4 x 48 in. (95.89 x 121.92 cm)
Sheet: 44 x 54 in. (111.76 x 137.16 cm)
Sheet: 44 x 54 in. (111.76 x 137.16 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Advisory Council for Photography
On View
Not on viewPeriod21st c
Classification(s)
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Tanya Marcuse, Recent Acquistions: Fruitless/ Fallen/ Woven" June 13 - September 11, 2016Label TextIn her series of large still-life photographs titled "Fallen," Marcuse addresses the allegorical theme of Eden. Here her vividly colored images depict fallen fruit among carefully arranged plant materials and densely packed detritus from the natural world in various states of decay. The works are created in her Hudson Valley backyard where she spends days, sometimes weeks, collecting and arranging fruit, plants, insects, animal carcasses, and other materials to create tapestry-like patterns revealing the lush colors and textures of growth and entropy. Having studied art history in college, Marcuse is inspired by a variety of historical precedents from medieval tapestries to the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Jackson Pollock. The artist states, “I try to create photographs perched between decay and new life, randomness and order, flatness and depth, the natural and the fantastical. I use the descriptive nature of photography to give the viewer a sense of materiality or physicality.”
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