Cig Harvey (born 1973) is a British fine art photographer known for her surreal images of nature and family. Her work has been compared to René Magritte and has been described as revealing “the mysticism in the mundane.” Harvey’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman Museum, and the Farnsworth Art Museum.
Harvey lives and works in Rockport, Maine.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 2.1 Blue Violet (THE MONACELLI P)
- 2.2 You An Orchestra You A Bomb
- 2.3 Gardening at Night
- 2.4 Cig Harvey: You Look At Me Like An Emergency by Cig Harvey (2012-03-19)
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Early life
Cig Harvey grew in the works in the county of Devon in South West England. She became enthusiastic in photography at yet to be age because of the photo portfolios that The Independent published in their Sunday editions. At age thirteen, Harvey began lively in a darkroom, which furthered her raptness in photography. She time-honored her MFA from Rockport College and in 2005 was prearranged as one of Photo District News’s 30 emerging photographers to watch.
Career
Harvey began her career as an partner professor at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University where she worked for ten years. Her first solo museum bill was held at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo in 2012 in conjunction taking into consideration the pardon of her first monograph, You Look At Me Like An Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012).
In an interview gone The Telegraph practically her second monograph, Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015), Harvey cited magical realism as a source of inspiration and said “I am unquestionably interested in finding magic in the genuine world and photography reminds me that this world is amazing.”
Harvey’s third monograph, You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017) was inspired in allowance by her near-death experience in a car accident. She began to shoot in a more documentary style after the accident, which Harvey explains as creature inspired by the “ […] idea of the gasp and awe. We gasp behind something is beautiful, and we gasp when something is terrible. I’m searching for that push/pull in each image.” The New York Times review described this series as “carefully recreating that suitability of childhood wonder, mixing saturated colors gone verdant symbols and Interesting text, allowing spectators to contemplate that prudence of the unknown, but from a place of joy rather than anxiety.”
Her recent take effect has expanded her focus on familial associations to her own experience taking into consideration motherhood and her membership with her daughter. She was featured in The New York Times in an article titled “Why Can’t Great Artists Be Mothers?” rejecting the stereotype that motherhood and artistic dedication are at odds.
In 2017, Harvey was awarded the “Excellence in Teaching Award” from CENTER and in 2018 she was named the 2018 Prix Virginia Laureate, an international photography prize awarded to one woman each year.
Harvey was in the midst of the five photographers chosen to be included in Return to Cuba: In the Footsteps of Walker Evans (2016), a feature-length documentary retracing the footsteps of photographer Walker Evans.
In 2020, Harvey was prearranged by The New York Times to participate in Still Lives, a project documenting thirteen photographers’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last update 2021-08-06