PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM | NYC | 2019
Irene Mamiye (Manhattan)
“Irene Mamiye's large, visually complex and layered works draw from photography, sculpture, video and new media. Her work is completely created from imagery found online - digital archives and across social media - and utilizes software programs as physical tools to explore the "changing relationship between artistic process and output." Digital software tools become her brushes to distort and fragment as do the algorithms themselves within her making of images. During her residency, Irene will expand her practice through delving into the alternative processes and workshops offered at Penumbra. as a way to "look back" and situate her practice within a historical context of photography and materials.”
–Yamini Nayar (Artist. Member of the 2019 Jury).
Image © Irene Mamiye.
“[…] I seek out iconic works of art and painterly gestures, human mark-making, and universal visual symbols such as flowers and natural forms that are constellated, shifted and decontextualized but remain identifiable through the indexical grain of photography.[…]”
Irene Mamiye (b. Marseille, France) has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Selected group exhibitions include: Ebb and Flow at Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art, New York (2013); The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography at the Aperture Foundation, New York (2013); Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2014); Photography is Magic curated by Charlotte Cotton at the Aperture Foundation, New York (2016); Text Messages at Lanoue Gallery, Boston (2018); # curated by Markus Linnenbrink at Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York (2018). Her most recent solo exhibition, Irene Mamiye: Homage was held at Lanoue Gallery, Boston in 2018. Irene received her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media in 2014 from the School of Visual Arts and was a MORPHOS Artist in Residence (2018) and a Transart Academy fellow (2019).
