Laura J. Padgett

Laura J. Padgett (* 1958 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American artist who works primarily in the media of photography and film .

Life

Laura J. Padgett was born in Cambridge in 1958. From 1976 to 1980 she studied painting at the Pratt Institute of Art and Design , Brooklyn , New York . In 1981 she moved to Europe. From 1983 to 1985 she studied photography and film with Peter Kubelka and Herbert Schwöbel at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 1994 she also completed a master's degree in art history at the Goethe University in Frankfurt . Since 1992 she has been teaching at universities in Germany, the USA and Jordan. She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

In her photographic work, Padgett often arranges individual shots into a series of several images that refer to one another and are related to text fragments. Some of the works have references to the classic still life with a strong emphasis on the details of the objects; in other pictures the view of the architectural element of rooms and views predominates. What they have in common is the visualization of structures and layers of contexts of meaning behind the surfaces of the obvious. The whole range of different techniques of the medium is used: classic analog b / w and color photography, digital and computer-processed recordings up to film stills. Since 2018 she has been represented by Galerie-Peter-Sillem in Frankfurt am Main.

Between 2010 and 2012 Padgett accompanied the renovation of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt . The book Raum über Zeit (2012) brings together the photographs taken . A selection of the photographs from the "Raum über Zeit" series can be seen in the DZ Bank art collection. In 2014 she realized a long-term photography project for the “Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography” in Amsterdam. The publication Confined Space was published in 2016, summarizing photographs that were taken over a period of four years during several trips through Lebanon . In 2017 she received the Marielies Hess Art Prize. The associated solo exhibition Somehow Real was on view in the Museum Giersch of the Goethe University. There she showed her found footage film Solitaire, among other things .

Laura J Padgett, Red Yellow and Blue, 2013/2015, from the series "Confined Space"

Teaching

1990–92 lecturer in art theory / photography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main
1994–99 lecturer in photography at the Bauhaus University, Weimar .
2001 lecturer at the Academy for Fine Arts at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2003–07 lecturer in photography and film theory at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main
2005 lecturer for analog and digital film editing at the University of Paderborn
since 2010 lecturer in art history and photography at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden
2015 Rankin Visiting Scholar at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2016 lecturer for film at the University of Paderborn
2017 Flying Faculty in Photography and Art History at the German Jordanian University
2018 Flying Faculty in Photography and Art History at the German Jordanian University
2019/2020 lecturer for film at Goethe University

Awards and grants

1978 Ford Foundation Prize in Painting
1996–97 scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems
2001–02 studio grant in London funded by the Hessian Culture Foundation
2004 Residency in Burgdorf, Switzerland
2008 Dover Arts Development Photography Residency, Dover, UK
2013 Artists' Contacts Residency in Lebanon from the Institute for Foreign Relations , Stuttgart
2017 Art Prize of the Marielies Hess Foundation

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1998 systematic renewal , dirty windows, Berlin
1999 common occurrences , KunstRaum - Klaus Hinrichs, Trier
1999 marginalia , Goethe Institute, Warsaw
1999 at enlightened Moment , The Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, Weimar
1999 Photo / Text Work , KunstRaum - Klaus Hinrichs, Trier
2001 morning glories , exhibition hall Schulstrasse 1A, Frankfurt am Main
2003 improbabilities , Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2003 conversation pieces , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
2004 temporary locations , Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
2005 inside-out , Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2006 slow motion , Odakule Art Gallery, Istanbul
2008 Holding onto things , Galerie Seitz und Partner, Berlin
2008 seeing things , The Pharos Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus
2011 frames of reference , Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt
2012 standard setting , Neuer Kunstverein Gießen
2014 MONUMENT , artist flag festival, Eppingen

2015 Confined Space , Heussenstamm Foundation, Frankfurt am Main

2016 Many Told Tales , Galerie Straihammer and Seidenschwann, Vienna

2016 Confined Space , Onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf

2017 Somehow Real , Museum Giersch of the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

2019 Open Equations , Galerie-Peter-Sillem, Frankfurt am Main

Bibliography (selection)

Laura J. Padgett: Open Equations , published on the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie-Peter-Sillem 07.09.-19.10.2019
Laura J. Padgett: Confined Space , Anja Katharina Rautenstrauch, Galerie Rautenstrauch and Anke Ehle-Barthel, Ed. Books & Hefte Verlag, Leipzig. ISBN 978-3-9814530-5-8
MADE FOR AROLSEN - Journey to Innocent , Bad Arolsen, 2016, Birgit Kümmel and Eva Claudia Scholtz, ed. ISBN 978-3-930930-38-8
Laura J. Padgett: Space over Time , Heidelberg / Berlin: Kehrer, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86828-278-8
as painted, artist in the 21st century , Bielefeld: Kerber, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86678-467-3
Laura Padgett: Seeing Things , Nicosia: Pharos Foundation, 2008. ISBN 978-9963-9199-4-9
Laura Padgett: Telltales, Photographs , Frankfurt am Main, 1994. (Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Forum der Frankfurter Sparkasse from June 6 to July 1, 1994.)
Laura Padgett: Conversation Pieces , Frankfurt am Main / Basel: Stroemfeld, 2003. (Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at the Städel Museum.) ISBN 3-87877-823-6
Peter Zumthor: Architecture Thinking , 3rd extended edition with twenty photographs of the Atelierhaus Zumthor, taken in July 2005, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2010/2012 (2nd edition 2006) ISBN 978-3-0346-0555-7

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Padgett, Laura J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cambridge, Massachusetts

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