Tanya Marcuse
Fallen Nº 63
archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle, Photo Rag, 320 gsm
36" x 44"
Ed. 7
Tanya Marcuse makes large-scale photographs investigating the imperiled natural world in elaborately constructed tableaux. Marcuse began making photographs as an early college student at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She went on to study Art History and Studio Art at Oberlin and earned her MFA from Yale. In 2005, she embarked on a three part, 15 year project – Fruitless | Fallen | Woven –moving from iconic, serial photographs of trees in Fruitless to immersive, allegorical works in Fallen and Woven. Fueled by the Biblical narrative of the fall from Eden, these related projects use increasingly fantastical imagery and more elaborate methods of construction to explore cycles of growth and decay and the dynamic tension between the passage of time and the photographic medium. In her most recent project Book of Miracles she moves into an ever more fantastical direction.
Tanya Marcuse’s books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies, (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Press, 2019), Ink (Fall Line Press (2021) and Portent (Nazraeli Press, 2024)
Tanya Marcuse’s photographs are in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the George Eastman Museum. Tanya Marcuse is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter S. Reed Grant and two MacDowell Fellowships. Tanya is a student of martial arts and boxing as a method of cultivating mental and physical concentration and discipline. She is based in the Hudson Valley, NY and teaches Photography at Bard College.