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I have been working on two approaches to the nude reflected: reflected in water often with the camera underwater, and reflected in scratched, broken and partially de-silvered mirrors.
Over thirty-five years of photographing this same subject may sound limiting, but I have found it to be immensely rewarding and rich. While my interest in photographing the nude reflected in mirrors and water has not changed, my life experiences continue to shape the forms and reflections I see through the lens so the images continue to evolve.
I am not fundamentally opposed to altering the image through darkroom or computer manipulation, but it is the act of exploring with my eyes that brings the intuitive process to its full potential for me. Intuition is an integral part of the creative process for me. When I make an image that becomes a “keeper,” it is because I have made a leap from what I know to an unfamiliar place full of intrigue that my conscious mind could not have taken me. The intuitive process takes me to the edge of what I know and, more interestingly, to the edge of what I don’t know.
Ultimately, my goal has always been to explore the body, not to alter it. I want to find the camera angle from which the forms can be the most interesting they can be–whatever that is. It leads me to explore angles, space, reflections, and light. I strive to make the forms make sense visually and then trust the poetry or metaphor will follow. Sometimes it does.
Solo Exhibitions
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2016 – Y: ART Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2015 – Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2014 – Almlof Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
JRB Art at The Elms, Oklahoma City, OK
2013 - Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway
2011 - Saul Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 - Hargate Gallery, Concord, MA
2009 - Maine Art Museum, Bangor, ME
See+ Art Gallery, Bejing, China
Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2008 - Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Valdivia, Chile
Universidad de Chilie, Santiago, Chile
Centro de la Photographie, Lima, Peru
2007 - Museo Metropolitano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Mayor, Temeco, Chile
James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 – Heineman Meyers, Bethesda, MD
2005 – Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France
Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2004 – Volakis Gallery, Nappa, CA
2003 – Packard Reath Gallery, Lewes, DE
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
2002 – Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001 – Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Edward Carter Gallery, Lewes, DE
2000 – Centro de la Fotographia, Lima, Peru
Infocus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bassetti Fine Art Photographs, New Orleans, LA
Emma Molina Galerie, Monterey, Mexico
1999 – Gomez Gallery Baltimore, MD
Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France
Alan Klotz PhotoCollect, New York, NY
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
1998 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1997 – Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo de Panama
Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Infocus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Museo de Barquisimento, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Galeria del Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela
1996 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
1994 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Gallery Finfoto, Helinski, Finland
Galleria 13, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France
Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galleria e Libreria dell’Immagine, Milan, Italy
The University of Notre Dame, Indiana
1993 – Galerie du Chaeau d’eau, Toulouse, France
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
1992 – Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
Suzel Berna Gallery, Paris, France
Grauwert Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1991 – Momediano Gallerie de Arte, Madrid, Spain
New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Nye Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Blatant Image/ Silver Eye, Pittsburg, PA
1990 – Photo West Gallery, San Diego, CA
Iris Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1989 – Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1988 – The Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Booktrader’s Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Publications
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2018 – Plethora Magazine, "Issue #7: Automation", Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 – Baltimore Magazine, "The Puppet Master" by Gabriella Souza, February
– The OD Review, "v2.18 / Connie Imboden’s Infirm Delight"
2016 – BmoreArt, "Conversations" Episode #15: Connie Imboden, Interview with Liz Donadio
– The Baltimore Sun, October 14, Interview with Tim Smith
2015 – >>Love is…<< inFocus galerie catalogue
– Little Patuxent Review, COVER Feature, Issue 17-Winter 2015
– The Stone Mag: unveiling the secrets of transmutation, 2015 n. 0
2014 – The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas NORMAL Magazine, No. 4, Autumn 2014
2013 – FOTO, "Connie Imboden, Reflections of Man" October 2013
2010 – Georgia Review, “Danse Macabre” Front and back cover and inside portfolio
2008 – Focus Magazine, “Fire and Water” 1/8/08
– RS Magazine “Connie Imboden” June 2008
2007 - Foto Mundo, “La Oscuradad Divina” June 2007
2006 – Baltimore Sun, Wednesday April 12, Arts & Society
2005 – Inked Magazine, cover, Spring Premiere Issue
2003 – Baltimore Sun, Sunday November 2, Arts & Society
– Baltimore City Paper, December 3
– Towson Times, December 3, Life Times
2002 – Ag, Volume 29, November, “Running Deeper: The Metamorphesis of
Connie Imboden”, A.D. Coleman
– Photovision: Art & Technique
– Foto & Video, February
2001 – Zoom, July, “Connie Imboden”, David Crosby
–Photographic, July, “Connie Imboden: Troubled Waters”, Jay Jorgensen
2000 – B&W Magazine, June Issue #7
1999 – Baltimore Magazine, September
–Baltimore Sunday Sun, September, Arts and Society
–Photo Metro, Volume 17, Issue 155
1998 – The Photo Review, Fall, Volume 21, Issue #4
–Master Breasts, Aperture Publishing
1997 – Leg, Donna Karan Inc
1995 – Women Artists, The National Museum of Women in the Arts
–Zoom Magazine, Italy
–Photodom Magazine, January “Connie Imboden: Out of Darkness”
–La Matiere L’ombre La Fiction, Jean Claude Lemagny, Bibliotheque
Nationale, France
1994 – Valokuva Finnish Photography, November, Helinski, Finland
–Tradition and the Unpredictable, Catalog for show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
–Photographies Magazine, January, Milan, Italy
1993 – ViewCamera, September/October
1992 – Photovision, “Archeology of the Body”, #23, Sevilla, Spain
–La Foltgrafia, “Reflejos en el Agua”, Issue #23, Barcelona, Spain
–Vis a Vis, Issue #10, Paris, France
–Photonews, “Imboden: Ein Speiegel Nach Innen”, April, Hamburg,
Germany
1991 – Fotopractica, January, Milan, Italy
–Fotografisk Tidskrift, May, Stockholm, Sweden
–Photoblatter, “Connie Imboden: Korper im Wasser”, August,
Frankfurt, Germany
–Camera and Darkroom, August, Beverly Hills, CA
–Idea Magazine, “New Wave Nude Photos”, January, Tokyo, Japan
1990 – Popular Photography, “They Still Shoot Nudes, Don’t They?”,
October, New York, NY
–Insight Magazine, February, Bristol, RI
1989 – Photo Metro Magazine, January
–Photo Design Magazine, February
1988 – Swimmers, Aperture, June
–Exploring Black and White Photography, Brown Publishers
–Photo Review, Winter, “Deep Waters – The Photographs of Connie
Imboden”
–Photo Review, Spring, “The Delaware Portfolio”
1987 – Photo Review, Summer
Selected Lectures
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2016 – Y: ART Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2015 – Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2014 – Almlof Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
JRB Art at The Elms, Oklahoma City, OK
2013 Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway
2013 DASAR National Academy of Science, Washington DC
2012 Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, China
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Maine Art Museum, Bangor ME
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE
2008 Centro de la Photographie, Lima Peru
2007 James Gallery Pittsburgh PA
2005 Esther Woerdehoff Galerie Paris France
Prior to 2004:
Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacsonville, FL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Museumof Photographic Arts, San Diego CA
George Mason Univrsity, VA
Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington DE
University of Finland, Helsinki Finland
Les Rencontres d'Arles Arles, France
Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Museum Collections
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
The Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
The National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
The Bibliotheque Lyonnaise, Lyon, France
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Galerie du Chateau d'eau, Toulouse, France
Galleria e libreria dell'immagine, Milan, Italy
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
L'oeil Quiperios, Quimper, France
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Peréz Art Museum Miami, FL
Martina says:
I love this underwater is very stagger.