• Title:  Visible City 1



• Year:  2004



• Dimensions:  12" X 16"



• Archival Ink Jet on Paper

Marisa Baumgartner’s images speak of the overwhelming diminutive yet expansive sensation of self that is caused by the vastness of space, society and history. A distancing is employed to speak of something deeply personal in a universal way, placing a screen between the subject and the viewer as a psychological apparatus. These images are also largely about photography itself, an attempt at deconstructing abstraction in an art historical context and painterly manner via the camera. Embracing the new medium of the digital, they attempt to understand where photography places itself in the world today.

Ms. Baumgartner received her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in May of 2006 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from The Rhode Island School of Design in June of 2002. She has also worked for photographers Torkil Gudnason and David Seidner. In addition to exhibiting her work extensively, both domestically and internationally, Ms. Baumgartner has also been the recipient of an impressive list of awards and has been featured in noted publications as per the following:

Awards and Publications

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  2011    Note Buena Loft Residency, Cadaqués, Spain
  
  


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  2011   Arrêt Sur Image(s), Marisa Baumgartner, by Philippe Meyer, article, FACES 69 
  
  


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  2010   New York in Photographs, edited by Marla Hamburg Kennedy, published by Rizzoli, Book
  
  


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  2010  Flash<, Marisa Baumgartner at Galerie D’(A), article, Artline Magazine, October 2010
  
  


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  2006   Gross, David, “Taking Abstraction to Its Logical Extreme”,  review The New York Sun, July 13
  
  


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  2006   MFA Photography 2006, book, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
  
  


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  2006   Joint Venture, Selections from the Ramer Collection and Selected Photographs, catalogue, UC Davis, Davis, CA
  
  


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  1998  Scholastic Silver Key Portfolio Winner Golden Circle Publishing Award for work published, Literary Arts Magazine, Washington, D.C.
  
  


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  1997  Scholastic Gold Key Winner
  
  

Marisa currently resides between New York City and Salzburg, Austria.