Jennifer Garza-Cuen
Pink Parts and Other Gorgeous Nothings
Photography
Artist Statement
Fold / envelop / lick and seal / a pale tint of red / non-existent // cover / enclose / words of injuries translated / A821 // to be involved in / within and without / entrances and exits / of a color intermediate between red and white // Mn2+/ holding moderately radical socio-political views / arrivals of departures / hysteria / to be moved emotionally / tickled / cut / to perforate / pink justice // pick / pierce / puncture / wound // a surgeon’s knife / circularly diagonal rectangles / layered / terra cotta / covers / sheets / paper on paper / a containing structure // light / bluish red hues // +1 Ag+ / concealing and revealing / intimacies / body and mind / violent exhaustion / thin and flat / rosy / ultra violet / halides of silver in four-flap arrangements // rolls of flesh / exposed scrolls / light-stained / undeveloped // 255, 192, 203 / fragments of fixed impermanence / mute tellers of providence // AgX / compound chemical / within and without / across the contours of open wounds / between red and white / in the absence of something // a color / folded / enveloped / sealed and licked
Artist bio
Jennifer Garza-Cuen is an artist / educator from the Pacific Northwest. She received her MFA in photography and MA in the History of Art and Visual Culture with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her BA summa cum laude in comparative literature was completed at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Garza-Cuen is the recipient of numerous awards including: the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Photography, Photo Lucida’s Robert Rauschenberg Residency Award, Light Work A-I-R, and the British Journal of Photography & 1854 Media’s Female in Focus Award.
She has received fellowships to attend residencies at the Arctic Circle, Ucross, Oxbow, Hambidge, Brush Creek, and the Vermont Studio Center. Public collections include: the RISD Museum, MOMA, Light Work, the Do Good Fund, the Art Museum of South Texas, New Mexico History Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in contemporary photographic journals such as Dear Dave, Contact Sheet, Musée, Papiers Paris, Blink, PDN, NR Magazine UK, Der Greif Germany, The Photo Review, and Conveyor as well as on-line journals such as: i-D, Feature Shoot, Aint-Bad, Fubiz, iGNANT, Dazed, and Juxtapoz. Garza-Cuen’s monograph, Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg, in collaboration with Odette England was published by Radius Books 2021 and received a Rauschenberg Foundation Publication Grant. She is the Editor of These Americans 2023 and Behind the Hedges 2026, published by Schilt Publishing..
jgarzacuen@gmail.com
