ARTmonday: Lauren Semivan

I love these black and white photos by Lauren Semivan that mix girls and nature in collage-like compositions. Semivan earned her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is represented in NYC by Bonni Benrubi Gallery, where I bought my first photographs many years ago when I started collecting photography, and it was located in a little second floor space on a side street on the Upper East Side. (I just learned this minute in researching Semivan, that Bonni died last year; she was much too young.)

In her artist’s statement, Semivan says that her photography is informed by “the written word, painting, drawing, sculpture, and the raw material of human experience.” All images are made using an early 20th century 8×10″ view camera, and large format negatives are scanned and printed without digital manipulation.

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July 1, 2013

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Labyrinth, 2010

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June 27, 2013

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Clover #2

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Ink, 2013

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Low Tide, 2012

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May, 2011

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Mirror, 2010

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Wind #2, 2012

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Branches, 2011

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Echo, 2013

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Landscape with Alison, 2009

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Observatory

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 Wishbones, 2011

Photos courtesy of  Bonni Benrubi Gallery

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