The Agony and Ecstasy of Tanya Marcuse’s Labyrinths
Hyperallergic
Stacy J. Platt
March 13, 2024
HEMPHILL is pleased to share that Tanya Marcuse's exhibition, Laws of Nature, has been reviewed by Stacy J. Platt for Hyperallergic. The exhibition is on view at the Denver Botanical Gardens through March 31, 2024.
DENVER — “Til we be roten, kan we nat be rype?”
This utterance from the Reeve in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400) is most often re-translated as “Until we are rotten, we cannot be ripe.” The quote is apt to Tanya Marcuse’s photography, as seen in Laws of Nature, on display at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Inspired by various imaginings of what the untended paradise of Eden became in a Postlapsarian world, the exhibition consists of a video and 11 photographs, eight of which are mural-sized, eye-popping prints of immersive breadth and detail.
Tanya Marcuse: Laws of Nature
Denver Botanic Gardens
November 19, 2023 - March 31, 2024
HEMPHILL is pleased to share the exhibition, Tanya Marcuse: Laws of Nature at the Denver Botanic Gardens, on view from November 19, 2023 through March 31, 2024.
Tanya Marcuse’s large-scale photographs evoke awe and wonder for the natural world.
Here Now: Contemporary Photographers of the Hudson Valley
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
August 12 - September 24, 2023
HEMPHILL is pleased to share Tanya Marcuse's inclusion in Here Now: Contemporary Photographers of the Hudson Valley at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. The exhibition is on view through September 24, 2023.
An exhibition of acclaimed Hudson Valley photo-based contemporary artists who each employ various approaches and techniques to relay stories — primarily of differing cultural backgrounds, identity issues, and a relationship to nature. Their works vary in terms of aesthetics — ranging from highly refined formalism, to capturing candid moments of current societal mores. The collective works present a compelling and insightful reflection into this present moment.
Women Reframe American Landscape
Susie Barstow & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY
May 6 - October 29, 2023
HEMPHILL is pleased to share Tanya Marcuse's Inclusion in Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstoe & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices at The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, NY.
Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/ Contemporary Practices is a two-part exhibition and accompanying publication illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women. The project will reinsert the accomplished 19th-century American artist Susie Barstow (1836-1923) into the history of the Hudson River School of landscape painting and present work by contemporary artists who expand and challenge how we think about “land” and “landscape” today.
WOVEN: Tanya Marcuse Interview and Photographs
Truth in Photography
HEMPHILL is pleased to share an interview with Tanya Marcuse conducted by Truth in Photography. Please find an excerpt below.
Truth in Photography: When you're making photographs, what are you trying to do? What's your goal? What do you look for?
Marcuse: In my recent projects giving the viewer an immersive sense of wonder is paramount. My goal is for the pieces to work as allover compositions from afar, but also as luscious still-lives when drawn in close. I want to invite a viewer into the world in the photograph where they can have their own passage between belief and doubt –a seduction side by side with skepticism about that relationship between the constructed and the natural. However fabled, the scene is still real and factual, presented across the picture plane –like a platter– to the viewer.
Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale
International Center of Photography
January 28 - May 2, 2022
Image makers of every kind, from fine artists to advertisers, have explored the strange magic that happens when the photograph becomes an uncanny double for the world it depicts. Works by Jeff Wall, Ace Lehner, Laura Letinsky, Kija Lucas, Aspen Mays, Tanya Marcuse, and others share the walls with anonymous posters, magazine spreads, and book covers.
As Galleries Return to Normal, One Group Show Thinks Big
For OPEN on K, Hemphill in Washington D.C. asked artists to bring their biggest ideas.
Hyperallergic
By Kriston Capps
November 11, 2021.
For Open on K, Hemphill asked artists to bring their biggest ideas. That’s a promising gallery provocation for this moment of return to not-quite-normalcy. Rush Baker appears to have found urgent inspiration in the Black Lives Matter protests for racial justice in the summer of 2020, but his paintings also point indirectly to the inchoate rage of the January 6 insurrection, with which the United States has yet to reckon. Many other artists — and many of the rest of us — spent months looking inward. Stepping back into the gallery after so many months of not seeing or showing or socializing marks an important moment, one in which we may see what’s changed.