ARTIST INFO
AMANDA MARCHAND
Brooklyn, NY
PHOTOGRAPHY | Artist books and cameraless photography
Penland Affiliation | Penland Winter Residency 2022, 2023
Artist Information | Studio artist; education: MFA San Francisco Art Institute (CA), BA Queen’s University (Ontario); residencies: Penland Winter Residency (NC), Mother’s Milk (KS), Datz Museum of Art (Korea), The Hermitage Artist Retreat (FL), Studios at Mass MOCA (MA), The Bakery Photo Collective (ME); exhibitions: Foto Relevance (TX), Traywick Contemporary (CA), Bolinas Art Gallery (CA), Arts Commission Gallery (CA), Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Rick Wester Fine Art (NY), Lishui Art Museum (China), Center for Photographic Art (CA), Institute for Contemporary Art at MECA (ME), Speedwell Gallery (ME), Gallerie Joseph (France)
Artist Bio | Amanda Marchand is an award-winning, Canadian-New York-based photographer. Her work uses an experimental approach to photography to explore the natural world and our changing climate.
Her photographs and books are among the collections of The Getty Research Institute, San Jose Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, Stanford University Library, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Recent honors include: The 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards, 2023; The 2022 Silver List (Silver Eye Center for Photography and Carnegie Mellon); Medium Photo’s Second Sight Award 2021; Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass Top 50, 2021; the 2019 International LensCulture Art Awards, 3rd Place Winner; and Klompching Gallery’s FRESH 2019, Honorable Mention
Technical Info | This book consists of eight 5×7” giclee-printed lumen photographs. The book’s unique design opens up onto one large 13×19″ image on the verso, “Field.” The abstract images were made with the lumen printing process, placing black & white photo papers in the sun to draw out latent color in the paper. These abstract images of birds, ferns, and flowers are on the North American endangered list. Each original photogram in the series was made by placing a Field Guide (of birds/ferns/flowers) that belonged to the artist’s late mother on the photo paper and exposing it in the sun. The book houses one unique “fugitive” (unfixed) lumen print in the book’s pocket, that will continue to evolve over time as you expose it to light.
