Crary, Jonathon, Russell Ferguson and Holly Meyers. Uta Barth: The Long Now. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2010. Illustrated in color on pages 256-257.

About Uta Barth

Photographing exclusively in her own home, Uta Barth seeks to make viewers conscious of their own perceptual process in relationship to what they see in a gallery. “In most photographs the subject and the content are one and the same thing. My work is first and foremost about perception,” she explains. An early realization that using a camera lens changed how she saw things resulted in a visual acuity to the mundane and ephemeral. For instance, in her series “Ground” and “Field” (1992-98), Barth created images of blurry backgrounds by focusing her camera on empty foregrounds. In her recent three-part project “And to draw a bright white line with light” (2011), a ribbon of light streaming through a window ripples across a set of curtains, which Barth has drawn to manipulate the abstract forms cast through it’s openings. Barth was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012.

German, b. 1958, Berlin, Germany, based in California

Over the Influence,
How They Ran
Oliver Sears Gallery,
London ,
In Residence II
James Harris Gallery,
Tunnel of Silence
The Fruitmarket Gallery,
Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space
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