Artist Post #9 MELISSA CATANESE

Artist Post #9 MELISSA CATANESE
Highlight an artist of interest (no repeats from previous semester) that relates to your work. Provide the following information:

- why


I really love her on camera harsh flash, ascetically I find the images fantastic. Subject matter is somewhat mundane but made more exciting with light. I feel my previous images were focused far to much on creating a even lit space. I need to take more liberty with creating an image that has variation in lighting. 


- Artist Biography 


"Melissa Catanese was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (2001) and an MFAfrom Cranbrook Academy of Art (2006). Exhibitions featuring her pictures include RaiseUp2 (at C. Emmerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; ADM Gallery, Los Angeles; and Omy Gallery, Toronto); Keep it in the Family, En Rounte, Relics, and Cul de Sac(all at Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI); and Interface (at the Cleveland Institute of Art). Her work has been published in tiny vices, From Here on Out, RaiseUp Volumes I and 2, and as the monograph Stardust."
- Quote 1


"Working with a common 35mm point-and-shoot camera, Melissa Catanese makes photographs that are not so much about the everyday objects and events in front of her lens as how using a camera structures the photographer’s interaction with those things. The uneven illumination of a harsh flash at night, for instance, aptly demonstrates the photograph as a particular type of response, the record of a reaction. Catanese makes the pictures as personal documents, and they retain a sense of casual discovery. Drawing on the vernacular of snapshots, there is something understandably familiar in her pictures of a dog with redeye or sunlight filtered through tree branches, a familiarity that underscores the curious fact that certain things continually compel us to make pictures of them."


Museum of Contemporary Photography. Web. 08 Nov. 2010. <http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/catanese_melissa.php>.




- Quote 2 


"I just want to crawl inside Melissa Catanese’s photographs and die.  "


Leon and Lazlo. Web. 08 Nov. 2010. <http://leonlazlo.tumblr.com/>.

- a link to an interview with the artist or a review
http://blog.brooklynartproject.com/2009/01/melissa-catanese-fieldwork/
- link to gallery representing artist
http://www.sashawolf.com/Exhibition_Melissa.html
- link to artist website
http://www.mcatanese.com/index.html