Background
VanDerBeek grew up in Baltimore. Her father, Stan VanDerBeek, was an experimental filmmaker. She moved to New York in 1994 to attend her father"s alma mater, Cooper Union.
VanDerBeek grew up in Baltimore. Her father, Stan VanDerBeek, was an experimental filmmaker. She moved to New York in 1994 to attend her father"s alma mater, Cooper Union.
She is known for photographing sculptures and three-dimensional still-life assemblages of her own making, some of which she destroys after the photos have been taken, as well as for creating images of classical figures and architectural details and their relationship to space. After graduating, she worked in commercial photography in London for three years. The gallery closed in 2009.