Tanya Marcuse is an American artist most known for her large-scale photographs investigating the imperiled natural world in elaborately constructed tableau. She studied Art History and Studio Art at Oberlin and earned her MFA from Yale. Tanya’s photographs are in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the George Eastman Museum. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter S. Reed Grant and two MacDowell Fellowships. Tanya’s books include Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies, (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Books, 2019) and Ink (Fall Line Press (2021). Tanya is a student of martial arts and boxing as a method of cultivating mental and physical concentration and discipline. She is based in the Hudson Valley, NY and teaches Photography at Bard College.

Steven Siegel has been making large scale, sited sculpture since the 1980’s. He has installed dozens of pieces throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia. His current work reflects an expansion of his studio practice into photography and film, first with the monumental Biography (2008-2013) followed by two award winning shorts, and most recently with No Wall…., which is a giant collage, book and movie. A consistent theme is our species’ place in both the landscape and deep time. Siegel has won awards from the NEA, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, and Gunk Foundation among others. His work has been shown at many museums and Marlborough Galleries, among other places. He is currently in the proposal stage for projects in New York City and Switzerland.

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