Beth Ganz | Overview
June 27 - August 4, 2023
The subject of Beth Ganz's work is sixty-four sacred mountains of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, of which nineteen are the subject of this exhibition. Using the bird's eye view provided by satellite images, she focuses on soaring topographies that reach heavenwards. Ganz renders her digital sources through handmade processes including copperplate photogravures as well ink and brush drawing. Hovering above Mount Kailash, Mount Olympus, or Mount Damavand, she offers views that are otherwise inaccessible. Planthouse is pleased to present Beth Ganz’s Overview this summer.
About the Artist:
BETH GANZ is a multidisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in New York City. Her work focuses on the intersection of landscape, digital technology, and abstraction. “Axis Mundi”, her re- cent project, was featured in the exhibition, Photography in Ink: A Look at Contemporary Copperplate Photogravure, at the Penumbra Foundation, New York. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Atlas Project at Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, Up Close and Far Away, Grids and Toiles: Beth Ganz at Wave Hill House, and Geothermal Topographies at Reeves Contemporary. Her work is represented in many public and private collections, including the 9-11 Memorial Museum, the Library of Congress, New York Historical Society, US Department of State Art Bank, and the New York Public Library Prints Collection. She teaches workshops on photogravure and intaglio and is a grantee of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Ganz graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking with honors.
