VENABLES, Raissa

About US-American photographer Raissa VENABLES (b. 1977, in New York)

From 1993 to 1997, Raissa VENABLES attended the Arts Student’s League in New York City, concentrating on the Anatomy for Life Drawing. In 1999 she received a BFA in Photography and Ceramic Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. She received a master's degree in photography at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and a MFA in Photography in 2002. Her photographs deal with planar relationship, passage of time, motion, and perceptual fields, blurring the realm of the real world with the imagined one. Her work is influenced by Early Renaissance Flemish painters like Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Robert Campin, particularly with their usage of colour and lighting.

Photo books by as well with works by Raissa VENABLES

• 'Raïssa Venables' (2006); 'Realismus: das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit = Realism: the adventure of reality' (2010); 'Real: Photographs from the Collection of the DZ Bank' (2010)
  

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