Connie Imboden
Endless Transformations
The Alchemy of Connie Imboden
American University MUSEUM, Washington DC
Exhibition
NEW EXHIBIT: Endless Transformations: The Alchemy of Connie Imboden
Exhibition Dates: September 7, 2024 - December 8th 2024
Location: AU Museum at the Katzen - 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016-8031
Immerse yourself in the psychological force and haunting beauty of Connie Imboden’s photography. Working in mirrored studio environments and choreographing complex underwater shoots, Imboden uses the camera lens to create layered and fragmented visions of the human body that evoke historical painting, global mythologies, and concepts from Jungian analysis.
Over 50 black-and-white and color photographs are included in the exhibition. While her images invite Queer and feminist readings, the Baltimore-based artist is first and foremost inspired by art’s ongoing role of offering connection and catharsis in the midst of human struggles.
ABOUT
Connie Imboden’s photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The National Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Bibliotheque Nationales in Paris, France, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany and many other public and private collections throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas Throughout the years, Imboden has shown her photographs in an extensive range of group and solo shows at galleries and museums within the United States, South America, Europe, and China In 1993, Connie Imboden won the Silver Medal in Switzerland’s “Schonste Bucher Aus Aller Welt (Most Beautiful Book in the World)” Award for her first book of images entitled “Out of Darkness” Her most recent book, “Reflections, 25 Years of Photography”, features photos from 1983 to 2009 charting Imboden’s artistic journey and offering new insights into her work and vision She taught photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where her experience as a photographer began, as well as many workshops around the world Imboden is also the president of the board of governors of the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund The Baker Fund focuses its grant-making exclusively non Arts and Culture and, 2008, initiated the Baker Artists Awards, an innovative online process offering significant prizes to emerging and established artists of any discipline.
