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Tanya Marcuse

Tanya Marcuse

Associate Professor of Photography 

Tanya 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 won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship after graduating. She earned her MFA from Yale. Her photographs are in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the George Eastman Museum. In 2002, she received a Guggenheim fellowship to pursue her project Undergarments and Armor.

“I try to open students up to the remarkable expressive possibilities of photography –-and push them in a way that will help them to push themselves.”

Tanya Marcuse


Tanya 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 won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship after graduating. She earned her MFA from Yale. Her photographs are in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the George Eastman Museum. In 2002, she received a Guggenheim fellowship to pursue her project Undergarments and Armor.

In 2005, she embarked on a three part, fourteen year project, Fruitless | Fallen | Woven, moving from iconic, serial photographs of trees in Fruitless to lush, immersive, allegorical works in Fallen and Woven. The photographs in Woven are as large as 5 x 13 feet. 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.

Tanya is a student of martial arts and boxing as a method of cultivating mental and physical concentration and discipline.

Tanya’s books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies, (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven  (Radius Press, 2019) and Ink (Fall Line Press (2021).

Selected Publications

  • Ink
  • Fruitless, Fallen, Woven
  • Wax & Bodies
  • Undergarments and Armour

Links

www.tanyamarcuse.com
www.saulgallery.com/artists/tanya-marcuse/fallen

Portfolio Samples

Portfolio Samples

Woven Nº 1, 62 x 124" 2015
Woven Nº 31, 62 x 124" 2018
Fallen Nº 89, 36 x 44", 2010
Fallen Nº 306, 44 x 54", 2013
Fruitless Nº 1, 54 x 44" 2005
Fruitless Nº 172, 2005, 54 x 44"
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