Lisa Oppenheim

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition with new gallery artist Lisa Oppenheim. For Oppenheim’s first presentation with the gallery, the artist will show Landscape Portraits a new series of works that takes inspiration from the fabric of nature, specifically from the wood grain of trees. Using very thin slices of wood as negatives applied directly to a photosensitive surface, Oppenheim creates portraits of the internal landscapes of various kinds of trees. In this way Landscape Portraits, continues Oppenheim's investigation of the relationship between image, process and material, while also engaging the traditional art historical categories of landscape and portraiture. Oppenheim will also show a new group of Jacquard Weave works created at the Textiel Lab in Tilburg, the Netherlands, with a traditional jacquard loom, based on photos of textiles from the vast collection of Seth Siegelaub. Using binary logic to produce visual imagery, the process relates ideas of the concurrent development of early computing and photography, principals continually explored throughout Oppenheim’s work.

Lisa Oppenheim is currently included in the group exhibition Photo Poetics at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Recently, she has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (2015), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2014), Grazer Kunstverein (2014) and notable group exhibitions including Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles (2015), AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2014), and New Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (2013). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Milwaukee Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, among others.