Artist Statement
In my work I investigate notions of wildness and containment within the context of our contemporary world. I question the uneasy relationship between geologic force and human intervention, photographing in settings that shift between the fertile and the barren, the geologic and the built.
Process Statement
I use a 4x5 view camera and a Mamiya 7. My photographs are digital C-prints.
Marion Belanger has been photographing the cultural landscape for almost two decades. She has been a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Scandinavian Fellowship, Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships, and has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Arts and Everglades National Park. The artist earned a M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art where she was the recipient of both the John Ferguson Weir Award and the Schickle-Collingwood Prize, and a B.F.A. from the College of Art & Design at Alfred University. Her photographs are included in many permanent collections including the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Yale University of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and the International Center of Photography. She was the 2007 Photographer Laureate of Tampa, FL. She is the author of Everglades: Outside and Within, published by The Center for American Places at Columbia College, and the forthcoming Rift/Fault, by Radius Books. The artist teaches in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University and is a Visiting Critic at the Hartford Art School. She resides in Guilford, Connecticut.
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