Artist Statement
I have been photographing Los Angeles over the past 15 years. I am interested in how man interacts and struggles to fit in to the urban and natural landscape.

The landscape photographs I produced in Los Angeles between 1996 and 2000,
that became my first book, Angels in Fall, (2001) often show a solitary figure
from a distance in an urban landscape. Man has shaped an environment that appears intricate and of insurmountable complexity, yet a distant view suggests his fragile role and inconsequential attempt to order the world into a secure home.

In my next book, On Edge, (2009) I wanted to show nature’s power over us. In
one photograph a tiny helicopter floats into the abyss of smoke like a gnat into a
forest fire. In another, houses slide down a hillside as though anchored to
nothing.

Lately, I have concentrated on photographing away from cities, in more remote
areas, to try to understand fundamental relationships of things in nature.

 

 

1992
Master of Fine Art (Photography), GHS Essen, Essen, Germany

awards and grants
2006
Residency Program at Lijiang Studios, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
2001
The J. Paul Getty/CalArts Commission, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000
Lannan Foundation Residency Program (Santa Fe), Galisteo, NM, USA
1996
Friends of the Villa Aurora Fellowship (Berlin)
1996
Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
1995
DAAD Fellowship, Los Angeles, USA and American Samoa, Polynesia
1995
Kodak European Panorama of Young Photography Award, Arles, France
1994
Appointed to the DGPh (German Society for Photography), Cologne, Germany
1993
Award for Female Journalism, Emma, Cologne, Germany
1992
Award of Science, Honored for the Best Masterwork, Essen, Germany
1991
Kodak Fellowship for Deutsche Landschaft, Cologne, Germany
1991
Award for Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany
1990
Award of the German Consulate, Bonn, Germany
1990
Award of the German Ministry of Science, Bonn, Germany

Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York,USA
New School, New York, New York, USA
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Whitney Museum, New York, USA
George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
LA County Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA, USA
Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
IFA, Berlin, Deutschland
FRAC, Paris, Frankreich

solo exhibitions
2014
World ?s Edge, Armory Center fort he Arts, Pasadena, CA, USA
2014
Far Out, Google, Venice, CA, USA
2013
Far Out,Diane Rosenstein Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012
Gate, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2007
Edges, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005
Bunkerscapes, Van der Grinten galerie, Cologne, Germany
2004
Terra Cognita, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Angels in Fall, van der Grinten Galerie,Cologne, Germany
2002
Bunkerscapes, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2001
Angels in Fall, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2001
Angels in Fall, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1999
Silent Summer, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1999
Angels in Fall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
1997
Tryptic, DG Gallery, Munich, Germany
1997
Angels in Fall, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1996
Angels in Fall, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts
Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992
Myth of Tahiti: More a Notion than a Place, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany
1992
Deutsche Landschaft, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany


Group exhibitions (selections)
2015
SKYWARD, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
2012
Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, GB
2012
Picturing Modernity, SF MoMa, San Fransisco, CA, USA
2012
The
Perfect Storm, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010
Sifest, Savignano, Italy
2009
Into the Sunset: Photography ?s Image of the American West,
MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2009
This side of paradise, Musée de l ?Elysée, Lausanne, CH
2008
This side of paradise, Huntington Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
2008
Real Photography Award, LP II Art Exhibition Centre, Rotterdam, Niederlande
2007
Spectacular City, NRW Kunstforum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006
Spectacular City, NAI, Rotterdam, Netherl
ands
2006
Landscape, Recent acquisitions, MOMA, Menschel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006
Land in Translation, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, USA
2005
Transatlantische Impulse, Walter Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2005
The New City: Sub/Urbia in recent photography,
2005
Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA