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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 The Disappearing Prairie (part 1), September 2004, The Homeland series, 2004-06. Archival pigment print, 12x144"  The Disappearing Prairie (part 2), January 2005, The Homeland series, 2004-06. Archival pigment print, 12x144"  Pillars for Toll Road (part 2), March 2005, The Homeland series, 2004-06. Archival pigment print, 12x144" |
Divya Murthy Born: Resides: Houston, TX Heritage: South Asian American Selected Exhibitions: En Foco at Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL, 2007 En Foco at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, NY, 2007 Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2006 Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 2006 Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, 2005 Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2000 Education: MFA, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 2006 BFA, University of Houston, TX, 2000 Awards: En Foco’s New Works Photography Awards #10 (2006) Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography, 2006 Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, First Place, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2006 Publications: Nueva Luz, Volume 11#3 Artist’s Statement: “I am a first generation, immigrant, Indian woman and an American; I am working out the multiplicitous idea of what it means to be American; I am a photographer who works with a large format camera, dealing with the landscape in a pictorialist mode, making use of and adding to the field and form pioneered and dominated by white, male image makers. My work mimics this tradition, as I examine America’s constant need to urbanize and develop land. At the same time, I subvert the convention of male authorship, as I document and examine a land that maintains and holds me as familiar resident. I record images of my neighborhood with a large format camera and weave them together digitally, then return to chosen sites every few months at various times, weather conditions and days of the week, and re-photograph these suburban and urban spaces. Hopefully, my audience can see my landscapes as not only part of my homeland but also as amorphous in location and easy to imagine in other regions of the nation, if not in other countries.“ |
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