N.O.L.A.

Angela Martin Berry is a photographer and mixed media artist who currently lives and works in New Orleans, LA. In July of 2010 she became a member of T-Lot, a new studio and project space for emerging artists in the St. Claude Arts District.

Statement:
My first exposure to art work came at the age of two, several hours after putting on my first pair of glasses. After two years of blurred vision and hours of clarity, my parents took me to the North Carolina Museum of Art, where I was supposedly quite and awestruck. My artistic process and work is driven by this feeling. I capture or create instances that draw out this experience of seeing in a different way, while being overwhelmed and enthralled by an environments presence.

Having spent significant periods of time in the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, my work is strongly influenced by the natural world. I am constantly drawn to photograph what is green, living, and wild in conflict or in harmony with its own containment. While the photographic frame itself provides this, I am often driven to specify the way in which an image is contained, whether through sculptural, structural, or visual methods. My work is deeply rooted in photography, because of the medium’s ability to explore and share different ways of rendering vision. By using the camera’s inherent qualities of selection (re-contextualizing) and compression (two-dimensionality) I explore these simultaneous and fluid states of being, with the intention of challenging one’s preconceived, abstract notions of identity and physicality to morph further under the direct and active experience of looking.

Website/ Blog: art.sewanee.edu/aberry

Studio Address: T LOT 1940 St. Claude Ave