February 16, 2010
1pm
Carlisle, MA 2008
Copyright Barbara Bosworth
Born in Novelty, Ohio in 1953, Barbara Bosworth recounts the deep forest surrounding her family’s home as the earliest influence on her photography. Working like a naturalist, collecting specimens of flora and fauna, tracing mountains and rivers, Bosworth takes careful measure of the world with her lens. Rather than a simple accumulation of facts, however, her photographs describe a world richer than the sum of its parts. Bosworth seeks the fluid, transient aspects of the landscape that are less easily categorized, carefully unfolding a personal and spiritual connection to the world around us. Photographing exclusively with a large-format view camera, Bosworth speaks with a singular passion and sentiment for the American landscape.
"Barbara Bosworth's photographs are graced with an uncommon elegance and intimacy," "The expansive sweep and clarity of her prints open the landscape before us with a deceptive agility, but it is in their richness of experience and sensation that they are so compelling."
-- Toby Jurovics, Princeton University Art Museum
Bosworth received her MFA at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited at Cleveland Art Museum, O'Sullivan Art Center, Regis College, Princeton Art Museum, Huntington Gallery, Boston, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nassauischer Kuntstverein, Wiesbaden Germany, Candace Perich Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, among others. She is the recipient of the Buhl Foundation Grant, a John Simon Guggehheim Foundation Fellowship, a New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Bernheim Foundation Fellowship, and a Friends of Photography Ruttenberg Fellowship.
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