BIOGRAPHY

Martina Nitsche was born in Hamburg , Germany.

In the late 80s, she moved to San Francisco , where she started studying photography. She was exploring the bounderies of photography and using photography as an art form. Through the camera, she observed and challenged the questions on the America society, and female identity.

In 1993 her passion for photography drew her to New York, where she assisted photographers and pursued her own projects. From 1993-1996, she did her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York with the chairman grant from SVA. Here she met Lerry Fink in 1992 and Harry Bower, who became her mentor.

Martina Nitsche exhibitits internationally and domestically, her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including New York, Tokyo, London and the Rowland Kutschera Gallery, Berlin.

Martina Nitsche's first job out of college was working for the Smithsonian Institute, photographing events such as dignitary dinners and the showing of the AIDS quilt. Documentary photography didn't run out to be her style. " You had to be cruel and push people aside to get the shot, " she says. "That is just not my personality."

The native of Hamburg went to Harvard in 1996 and moved to New York for to earn a master in photography from the School of Visual Arts. Martina, gained a style that combines photography with painting to produce radical abstracts from the color processing chemicals themselves, using a palette of deep reds, vibrant hot pink and vivid yellow.

Martina has a studio in Berlin and her work has been exhibited from Tokyo to Madrid. Her collections are in New York, London, Berlin, und Hamburg.

Some of the prints in this exhibition explore a cellular level, developing Rothko-like ameobic images and landscapes. She uses canvas, watercolor, paper, acrylic, or smooth cibachromes as her medium to create an added dimension. She frequently uses herself as a a model with arresting, focused images that embody both humanity and geometry.
"The work is about a woman finding her place, her fellings of consciousness and feelings that she's not aware of," she says.