Ra´ssa Venables, Red Stairs, 2005, C-Print/Diasec
RA¤SSA VENABLES - Photography
January 9 ľ March 14 2009
We cordially invite you and your friends to the opening at 7 pm on Friday, January 9.
Ra´ssa Venables was born in New Paltz, NY in 1977. She received her BFA in Photo/New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1999 and her MFA in Photography in 2002 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Her work was featured at the first contemporary photography exhibit at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. In the past four years Venables had numerous solo exhibitions at such art institutions as the Jersey City Museum, the Roswell Art Museum and in Kunstvereinen throughout Germany. She has been an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Roswell-Artist-In-Residence Program in New Mexico and the Emden Kunsthalle obtained her works. Venables currently lives in Pleasantville, NY and teaches photography at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
Hatje Cantz Publishers released a monograph titled Ra´ssa Venables.