Terri Loewenthal
Psychscape 774 (Alpine Peak, ID), 2020

archival pigment print
45”H x 35”W

ARTwork statement:

My work draws upon the history of landscape photography, reimagining the genre in a psychedelic light. Each image is a single-exposure, in-camera composition that utilizes special optics I developed to compress vast spaces into complex, evocative environments. My technique shifts colors into oversaturated hues and overlaps multiple vantage points, offering the viewer a revelatory experience of the landscape. I’ve always been envious of painters’ ability to shift reality in whichever direction they choose. With this work, I wanted to do something similar: create a world that is familiar yet also wild, otherworldly – presenting landscape not as it may appear visually, but how it could be experienced emotively and through the imagination.

ARTIST BIO:

Terri Loewenthal is an Oakland-based artist. She has exhibited at diverse venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA), and Booth Western Art Museum (Cartersville, GA). Her work is included in many collections, public and private, including the City and County of San Francisco, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Fidelity Investments, Facebook, and Instagram. She is also founder of The Chetwood, a residency program that provides housing for artists visiting the Bay Area, allowing them to create lasting community with supportive peer networks outside of typical art-making structures. Loewenthal is a frequent collaborator with many Bay Area arts organizations including Creative Growth (Oakland, CA), and she has been an active musician for over a decade; her bands Call and Response, Rubies, and Shock have performed extensively nationally and internationally. Terri has a bachelor of arts degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and is originally from Washington, DC, and South Florida.