Uta Barth was born on 1958 and is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place.
17 Facts About Uta Barth
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Uta Barth's work is as much about vision and perception as it is about the failure to see, the faith humans place in the mechanics of perception, and the precarious nature of perceptual habits.
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Uta Barth was 12 years old and did not know English when she arrived in the United States.
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Later, Uta Barth's received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis in 1982 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985.
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Uta Barth was a visiting Graduate Faculty member at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, from 2000 to 2012 and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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In 1989 Uta Barth's work was black and white, multi-paneled photographic and painted images mounted on wood that addressed the psychodynamics of vision, using optic patterns, repetitious visual metaphors for the eye, and diagrams related to light and human vision.
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Uta Barth begins playing with the communication of space with in the work through landscape and abstracted text, and plays with the idea of how the perception of the works occurs within the human body viewing it.
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Uta Barth was thinking about stock photography while making this body of work, picturing backdrops for family photos and portrait photography from the 1960s and 1970s.
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In 1995 Uta Barth began transitioning from her Grounds series into a new body of work known as Fields.
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Uta Barth took her photographic approach in Grounds and turned it on its side, thinking about the site-specific relationship between the photograph and the physical space where it was made.
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Fields produces the "illusion of filmic space and time" and Uta Barth has said that she created this body of work in a similar way film producers scout locations for the perfect place to shoot a scene in a film.
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In 1998 Uta Barth begins another series of Untitled works, including Untitled and Untitled.
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Uta Barth begins spacing her panels of images on the wall in intervals to show gaps in time between shooting the photographs.
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In nowhere near the camera records a repeated view out of Uta Barth's living room window over multiple months.
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Uta Barth made hundreds of images that contain moments of framing, records the ebb and flow of light and captures the change of the seasons.
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Uta Barth has participated in multiple group shows nationally and international.
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Uta Barth's work has been featured in many exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah; SITE, Santa Fe; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul.