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Artist Statement for Liza Dey
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The child of two recreational painters, I grew up around art supplies, and my favorite rainy day activity when little was poring over all the pictures in my parents’ art books. Early on I tried my own hand at drawing and painting with their watercolors. Unfortunately, I soon realized that I had inherited absolutely none of their technical ability to make anything look like I wanted it to. It was around this time that I discovered my father’s collection of AUDUBON and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazines, and they soon joined the art books as a favorite past-time. It wasn’t long before I was asking to borrow my parent’s old brownie-style camera to try taking my own photos, and once I had gotten my own 110 Instamatic camera for my 10th birthday, I was on my way. Soon I found myself trying to capture moments that spoke to me in some special way, whether that be a horse and carriage parked along Central Park South, the sunset over my cousins’ corn field or the eerie look of the ‘haunted’ old schoolhouse across the street from my grandfather’s house. I realize now that I wanted to preserve those moments in some way for myself, and I think even then I felt the desire to share with the world – even if only my family and friends – the things I saw as memorable or special or magical in the world.
Throughout the years I have found inspiration in many areas. Growing up I spent a great deal of time hiking with my family, and, inspired by my father’s AUDUBONs and the Impressionist paintings in the art books I loved, I was first drawn to share the beauty I saw in nature. Later, after studying the history of New York, Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine taught me to see the beauty in my city surroundings, even the beauty in the ugliness of a crumbling building or the dirty face of a homeless person.
Whatever the subject matter, I’ve always been particularly drawn to the magical effects of light on a subject and the texture of a scene, and I think I’m happiest when my photography has a tactile quality to it, almost a painting-like quality. I guess there’s still a part of me that is my parents’ daughter, a frustrated painter at heart!
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