THE ARTISTS

Mona Kuhn

From the "Native" Series by Mona KuhnThe work in Native started as a personal journey. Metaphorically, I was thinking of a bird that flies back into the forest, searching for its childhood nest. The images…are a creation of my abstracted wishes and dreams. As I was searching, instead of home, I found an empty past, just traces of it. Yet, my journey was filled with new friendships and discoveries.

Mona Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil of German descent. She received a B.A. degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus and went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute and The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California. Her first monograph of black-and-white work, titled Photographs, was released in 2004. This was followed three years later by Evidence, a collection of color images taken entirely in France, where Kuhn resides each summer. Her latest book, Native, is an unfolding visual story with images taken in Brazil.  For more information on Mona, visit her website: monakuhn.com

Joyce Tenneson

"Dasha" by Joyce TennesonI was exposed early on to the world of the unconscious. Spirituality and sensuality became completely interwoven in my psyche. People are the center of my work and I'll always be interested in their inner life. It's what's below the surface that continues to [excite] me.

Joyce Tenneson was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up on the grounds of a convent where her parents worked, an experience which would have a tremendous influence on her future work. She spent fifteen years as an art school instructor in Washington, DC while shooting hundreds of self-portraits. In the mid-1980s, Tenneson decided to move to New York to try her hand at assignment work.

Since then, her work has been shown in more than 200 exhibitions worldwide and it belongs to numerous museum and private collections. She is the author of thirteen books and recently won the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award. Tenneson has been named “Photographer of the Year” by the international organization Women in Photography. For more information on Joyce Tenneson, visit her website: www.joycetenneson.com
 

Jock Sturges

"Fanny 2009" by Jock SturgesI'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being. My ambition [is] that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

Jock Sturges received a B.A. in Perceptual Psychology from Marlboro College and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is exhibited and collected worldwide and he is represented by 25 galleries in 9 countries. Sturges uses a large-format camera and photographs his subjects often in the final hours of late summer days, depicting the luminescence of the human form, unclothed and unashamed. He was something of a lightening rod for controversy in the 1990s when his distinctive brand of nude photography stirred the ire of the Christian right.

For more information on Jock Sturges, please visit the following websites: The Robert Koch gallery; the PDNB Gallery, and the Levin Gallery.

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