Giverny: Pasadena
Drawing a historical connection between painting en plein air and the post studio exemplar, I began photographing a Monet-inspired garden at the Norton Simon Museum in 2006. At the time, I was interested in the garden’s status as both a meticulously reconstructed fantasy, and as a seminal site for creative inspiration.
The large-scale photographs that became my series Giverny: Pasadena examines a complex genealogy, tracing the development of late-Impressionist painting from its presumed inception in Monet’s garden to its eventual canonization in well-endowed cultural institutions.
No title (from the series Giverny: Pasadena), 2007
60 x 48 in. C-type print
No title (from the series Giverny: Pasadena), 2007
60 x 48 in. C-type print
No title (from the series Giverny: Pasadena), 2007
60 x 48 in. C-type print
No title (from the series Giverny: Pasadena), 2007
60 x 48 in. C-type print
No title (from the series Giverny: Pasadena), 2007
60 x 48 in. C-type print
No title (List of Trees at Carmelita, 1928. Charles Francis Saunders), 2007
8 ½ x 11 in. photocopy
Regarding Norton Simon’s Legacy, 2007
8 x 10 in. C-type print