Photo by Lorin Klaris
ARTIST STATEMENT
Revealing the unseen inspires me. Through my photographs, I aim to subtly shift the viewer's perception to help clarify the fractured nature of our world. While much of my work contains recognizable images, it may be unclear how viewers arrive at what they see and perceive. This perceptual puzzle preoccupies me. I am not concerned with displaying reality, documenting fact, or narrating fiction. I create fresh ways of seeing by building a new photographic architecture from the foundations of disparate images. My studio work involves layering images or augmenting them with drawing and additional paper sources to exploit the tension between the plane of the photographic print and the depth of its imagery. I want to render more pliable expressive boundaries for conveying lived experience. My process covers and uncovers what the viewer sees, revealing new perspectives and making room for deeper exploration.
BRIEF BIO
Sandi Haber Fifield (b. Youngstown, Ohio) received her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States including: The Art Institute of Chicago; The De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Philadelphia Museum; The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; and The St. Louis Museum. Haber Fifield’s photographs are the subject of four monographs: The Certainty of Nothing; After the Threshold; Between Planting and Picking; and Walking through the World. Additional publications that include Haber Fifield’s work are Defining Eye, Women Photographers of the 20th Century; Fabrications by Anne Hoy; and The Photography of Invention by Merry Foresta, among others. Her work is included in numerous major public collections (listed below) and she is represented by Yancey Richardson, New York and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston. She lives and works in Shelter Island, New York.
COLLECTIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
The George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
The Parrish Museum, Water Mill, NY
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. PA
Selected Corporate Collections: Fidelity, Capitol One, Stanford Hospital
