Vail Visiting Artist Laura Letinsky

Denison’s Studio Art program welcomes Vail Visiting Artist Laura Letinsky. Letinsky is a Canadian contemporary photographer, best known for her still lifes. Much of Letinsky’s work alludes to human presence, without including any actual figures.

A recent exhibition of her work includes the following artist statement: “Still life is unavoidably an engagement with and commentary upon society’s material-mindedness. Letinsky’s photographs of forgotten details such as wrapping paper, plastic containers, Styrofoam cups, cans, leftover food bits, and found trinkets remark upon these remnants of daily subsistence and pleasure. Of major influence are Dutch-Flemish and Italian still-life paintings whose exacting beauty documented shifting social attitudes resulting from exploration, colonization, economics, and ideas about seeing as a kind of truth.

Letinsky holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba, and an Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, 1991. She is currently a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.

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