Jen Zahigian

"Wonder #2" Type C Metallic Print

2018

Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a driving force in her life. She loves to photograph America's worn-out, offbeat, and forgotten corners. Working with color Jen takes ordinary scenes just a bit beyond our everyday view. Many of her photographs depict California highway establishments and signage, revealing an appreciation for their dated aesthetic and patina of rust and neglect. "Holiday Inn...

Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a driving force in her life. She loves to photograph America's worn-out, offbeat, and forgotten corners. Working with color Jen takes ordinary scenes just a bit beyond our everyday view. Many of her photographs depict California highway establishments and signage, revealing an appreciation for their dated aesthetic and patina of rust and neglect. "Safari Inn" a limited edition of 50 type c...

Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a...

Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a...

Leaving Town (Sidewinder) - 2005 80x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 346...

Blue Sky Palm Trees (Sidewinder) - 2005 80x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 3026. Not mounted. Exhibitions for this piece: 2008 Sidewinder / 29 Palms, CA, c.art-Galerie, Dornbirn, Austria (S), Sidewinder, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany (S), Sidewinder, Galerie Thierry Librati, Paris, France (S), Sidewinder, Städtische Galerie am Mozartplatz, Salzburg, Austria (S) ("Frenzy", Poster Image Salzburger Festspiele // 2007 Sidewinder, Scalo Guye, Los Angeles, USA (S), the gallery is now located in Zurich // 2006 Sidewinder, Artwalk Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, curated by Frans Oomen (G) publications of this piece: STRANGER THAN PARADISE published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006 (monograph) // movie: 2005 SIDEWINDER - Director / Artist / Camera / Editing - starring JD Rudometkin, Stefanie Schneider, music by JD Rudometkin
 "private history turned into an intimate mythology of elemental fantasies where reality is perceived through a veil of psychedelic memories and unconscious projections. such is a collection of passions and dreams, an uncanny diary of ephemeral narratives and mental intensities in Stefanie Schneider’s painterly photographs where subjectivity of an ontological doubt uses a poetics of pastische as a vehicle for an intertextual journey towards the truth and the authenticity of primary emotions. here time is immersed in a nostalgic suspense of oneiric dimension, a sort of ambiguous coma of silence and comfort, and open space embraces a psychotic landscape of solitude and accidental pleasure. fetishized surface of extreme feelings gives a stage for an unsolicited promise of unconditional love and unlimited freedom, a promise framed by sensual tension between fulfillment and expectation." Adam Budak, Kusthaus Graz, 2005 Sidewinder
 There’s blood on the dress that hangs in the Airstream trailer outside 29 palms. With the pistol in her sweat palm touching his temple. Tell me what god’s gonna do for me and you know Stevie’s saying while Brother John Baptiste looks there across to where her cat seems weak and fed. All the good that comes to me from my believing man, I wanna hear about it said to me like that. Just the way you breathed it like you did 10 minutes ago when I was wrapped so well around your head. Silence then. A baby screams his mother out in the desert night...

A Wish (Circle of Magic) from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2009 57x70cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print based on a Polaroid Certificate and signature label. Art...

The End (Sidewinder) - 2005 80x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 3447. ...