Representative work by Uta Barth
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Artist

Uta Barth

b. 1958, Berlin, Germany · German-American · Based in Los Angeles, California

  • MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (1985)
  • BA, University of California, Davis (1982)
  • Photography

Uta Barth produces atmospheric, deliberately blurred photographs that subvert traditional subject-object hierarchies to investigate the phenomenological mechanics of vision. Capturing domestic light refractions and atmospheric voids, her work foregrounds the act of perception itself.

Photography

Gallery Representation

Major Works

  • 1994–97Ground
  • 1995–96Field
  • 1999nowhere near
  • 2000...and of time
  • 2002white blind (bright red)
  • 2007Sundial
  • 2010sUntitled (light drawings)
  • 2011Compositions of Light on White
  • 2017In the Light and Shadow of Morandi
  • 1990s onwardPeripheral Vision series

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