audreypenven: about

audrey penven

[bio]
I take photographs. Sometimes I manipulate them physically, before or after processing. Sometimes they are the result of a conceptual game involving arbitrary rules. Sometimes I use old techniques like the collodion wet plate process. Though I occasionally work in digital, my heart remains with film. I enjoy the unplanned effects of working with art in the physical world. Fragments of time turned into objects. They take up space, accumulate damage, have their own history. Imperfection is beautiful.

[exhibitions and projects]
> artist residency with monochrom, March - April 2008, Vienna, Austria
> "Dance Dance Immolation" with Interpretive Arson, August - September 2007, Burning Man
> "The Evolution of Atrophy" @ MISSION17, July - August 2007, San Francisco, CA (co-curator)
> "Eclecticism" @ TANGO ] May 2007, Oakland, CA
> "Overhung 3, Well Hung" @ Boontling Gallery, March 2007, Oakland, CA
> "The Art of Tea" @ Cricket Engine, May 2006, Oakland, CA

[education]
> B.A. in Visual Arts, Rutgers University, 2005, concentration: photography, minor: philosophy
> Introduction to Studio Lighting, Rayko Photo Center, 2006
> Wet Plate Photography workshop, Rayko Photo Center, 2007