Background
Catherine Wagner was born on January 31, 1953, in San Francisco, California, United States.
(Images of classrooms as interiors, of all grade levels.)
Images of classrooms as interiors, of all grade levels.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Classroom-Photographs-Catherine-Wagner/dp/0893813389/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Catherine+Wagner&qid=1607412980&sr=8-3
1988
(Catherine Wagner: Place, History, and the Archive present...)
Catherine Wagner: Place, History, and the Archive present a 40-year survey of the photographic work of Catherine Wagner. Including examples from 19 of the artist's series, it is the first publication to survey Wagner's work from its beginnings in the mid-1970s to the present day. Her early work, which looked at architecture and its core materials, employed strategies she calls "archaeology in reverse"; this set off a career-long examination of the notion of construction in institutions as various as art museums, science labs, classrooms, the home and Disneyland.
https://www.amazon.com/Catherine-Wagner-Place-History-Archive/dp/8862085982/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Catherine+Wagner&qid=1607412980&sr=8-2
2018
Catherine Wagner was born on January 31, 1953, in San Francisco, California, United States.
Catherine Wagner earned a Bachelor of Arts (1975) and a Master of Arts (1977) from San Francisco State University. She also studied at Institute del Arte in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (1970-1971), San Francisco Art Institute (1971), and the College of Marin in Kentfield, California (1972-1973).
Catherine Wagner began her photographic career with Early California Landscapes, photographs of the rapid development of California in the mid-seventies. Wagner's early works relate to those of the New Topographers (several photographers participating in a 1975 show entitled New Topographics). For Home and Other Stories, she photographed the people's home interiors, cataloging individual domestic spaces - refrigerator shelves, bedrooms, foyers, and laundry rooms - without the homeowner in a frame. Each home was presented as a photographic triptych. The images display evidence of the occupant's identity from the perspective of an outsider. The series was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1993.
Art & Science: Investigating Matter examined both the laboratories in which scientific research takes place and the materials and instruments native to these environments, such as fruit flies, chemicals, beakers, test tubes, and flasks. The titles of the photographs, referencing specific case studies contrast with the mundane visual nature of the subject matter. These photographs were used to create her first public art piece at Comme des Garçons in Kyoto, Japan. Art & Science: Investigating Matter was followed by a series of projects creating parallels between cultural and subjective frameworks of research and the humanities.
In 2001, Catherine Wagner further explored the impact of science on culture and notions of artistic accountability. Cross Sections employed the use of medical imaging devices to photograph familiar organic materials such as corncobs, pumpkins, and shark teeth. she expanded upon this project to create an installation, Pomegranate Wall, consisting of ten 4 by 8-foot lightboxes of duplicated MRI scans of pomegranates, and the permanent public art piece at the University of California, San Francisco, Cell Wall II.
As an artist-in-residence at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Catherine Wagner constructed massive photographic panels composed of the plants and insects that inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area 300 million years ago.
Catherine Wagner is currently working on commissions for the cities of Santa Monica and Seattle, as well as an installation for the San Francisco Arts Commission's Central Subway Public Art Program.
(Catherine Wagner: Place, History, and the Archive present...)
2018(Images of classrooms as interiors, of all grade levels.)
1988She is a member of SPE.