PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM | New York City | 2023
Sophie Schwartz
– (2023 Jury)
Image © Sophie Schwartz. Courtesy of the artist.
“My photographs exist within the moments behind the scenes for a play that might never go on. At the core of my practice are interpersonal relationships and the dance of making images with other people. I am fascinated by the way photographs can capture how people can see one another within the frame and beyond it. My work reveals the tension between the performance and the authentic, the past and the present, and the photographer and the model. […] ”
Sophie Schwartz is a Cleveland born artist living in between New Haven and New York. Their work explores grief, memory, and queer connection, working primarily with a large format view camera. They graduated from the Modern Culture + Media program at Brown University. Their work has been featured in publications including Vogue, BOOOOOOOM, WÜL Magazine, and Architectural Digest. They were the recipient of the Harvey Geiger Travel Fellowship from Yale University and were selected as a finalist for the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, Critical Mass, and the Palm Photo Prize. Currently, they are an MFA candidate at Yale School of Art.
SPONSORS
This program is supported by Henry Nias Foundation, Joy of Giving Something, Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, The Ruth Foundation for the Arts, and Roz Leibowitz.
Thanks to the following artists for their support to Penumbra Foundation and in particular to the 2023 Penumbra Workspace Program:
Cynthia Johnston, Dawn Kim, Donavon Smallwood, Dylan Hausthor, Emiliano Zuñiga, J Carrier, Jenia Fridlyand, Kate Ovaska, Ruth Lauer-Manenti, and Tim Carpenter.