Monika Sosnowski

 

Biography

 

 

Education

 

M.F.A., in Photography, Hunter College , NYC, 1995

 

B.F.A., Hunter College , NYC, 1991

 

 

Exhibitions

 

2005 The Arts Center Gallery, “Unrelated (Sculpture Mostly),” Saratoga Springs , NY

 

Smack Mellon, “T-Zone,” New York , NY

 

Storefront Artists Project, “Transformer,” Pittsfield , MA

 

2004 Frere Art Fair, “Unrelated”, New York , NY

 

E3 Gallery, New York , NY

 

Empty Set Gallery, “Paper Show,” Pittsfield , MA

 

Parker's Box, “Art for Air,” Brooklyn , NY

 

Star 67, “American Sandwich,” Brooklyn , NY

 

 

Solo Shows

 

Rome Gallery, “You are not a stranger here,” Brooklyn , NY

 

2002 Bennington College , Bennington , VT , July Program Visiting Artist Exhibition

 

Hudson Valley Community College , “Ghosting,” Troy , NY

 

 

Creative Process

 

My interest in photography lies in the medium’s evocative capability. I seek fleeting moments, which become a record of sorts. This record is not necessarily documentation but a notation using light passing thru time. My imagery has a transient quality, which I deliberately achieve by overexposing film in order to capture a somewhat blurred inconspicuous image. I do that in the hope that whatever I’m photographing, along with the light and time, really penetrates the film. I like to see the subtle traces of the particular moment in time registered as a blur, a certain fuzziness, a slight movement – so that what is finally captured is the mood itself.

 

I use the same approach as above when I work with old found snapshots. In this case I look for photographs with an elusive quality to begin with. I then start fragmentizing what already, after all, is a fragment of a past. Using the digital technology (scanning, Photoshop, ink jet printing) these new, “abstracted” images get infused with a meaning of their own.

 

Photographs are inherently formed by the often-indefinable juncture of light and time. The final result is a fragment of a moment as experienced and seen by the photographer. In my work I explore and analyze these essential properties so unique to the vernacular of photography. Photography functions for me as a means to observe and capture the passing gamut of what’s around me, some of it that might not even be discernable at first.

 

 

 

 

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