Look Up (New York) - Digital Photography 30'' x 20''

Marisa Atha’s photographs traverse the space between experience and memory. She captures common but often overlooked hallmarks of the urban experience: industrial staircases, undersides of bridges, banners floating above downtown sidewalks. These images recall quiet scenes that every city dweller or tourist has undoubtedly noted and tucked away while walking through urban streets or subway tunnels. Through newspaper-like graininess, saturated colors, and blurred movement coupled with bursts of clarity, Atha memorializes momentary experience, at once acknowledging the volatility and the sublimity of urbanity.

As an artist, Atha understands the ways in which the mind meshes and reforms its memories. Her photographs are manipulated to mirror the transformations that occur as an encounter turns into an intangible recollection. But Atha makes these recollections tangible again. Through her photographs, the ephemeral qualities of memory are pulled back into the physical, visible world.

Marisa Atha received a B.A. from California Polytechnic University and an M.M. from San Francisco State. She has exhibited nationally and currently runs ArtSake Studio out of San Francisco.

www.artsakestudio.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Marisa_Atha.aspx