Parsley Steinweiss
Parsley Steinweiss was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from SUNY Purchase. She has appeared in a number of exhibitions in New York and LA, and most recently at the Broadway Gallery and the New York Slideluck Potshow XIII. She has also been featured in the Humble Arts Foundation’s The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography. This year she was a winner of the 2009 Hey Hot Shot! competition at Jen Bekman Gallery and of the juried competition for the 2009 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography, juried by Andy Adams of Flak Photo. She currently lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
As a general theme I am interested in patterns of growth and I have always found it natural to look at things from a close perspective. I realize that by cropping my subjects closely I am not only becoming intimate with them, I am also abstracting them. By this treatment, familiar subjects become unrecognizable and require new investigation. The shape-shifting ambiguity made possible by the photographic lens resonates with my general sense of a world unseen by the naked eye, a world of possibilities.
Over the past months I have been stacking things and taking photographs of the various collections. The photographs catalog documents that surround me: books, papers, magazines, journals, sketchpads and photographs. Each stack represents something different – a passage of time, a collection, a history. The result is a series of lines, each representing a moment, a sedimentary record of growth.