DANA LIXENBERG

Lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and New York, NY (US)

Dana Lixenberg has the ability to capture her subjects in profound moments of temporal being; in doing so, she engages in analytical scrutiny without imposing judgement. The artist’s subtle and sophisticated feel for color and her sensitivity for capturing the finest indications and details of human expression are striking in each of her portraits. This is evidenced in her extensive project Imperial Courts, 1993-2015, which traces the changing shape of a small, underserved community in Watts, Los Angeles, CA (US) through a combination of video, a web documentary, audio recordings, and a series of 393 black and white photographs made with a large format camera. Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005) shows a collection of landscapes and portraits of the small town’s homeless population, and The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008) documents an Inupiaq community on an eroding island of the coast of Alaska. Furthermore, her editorial practice has been further shaped by her extensive work with The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vibe and Newsweek. The power of her work arises in the intimacy and the absence of social stereotyping.

Selected collections: ABN Amro Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); Amsterdam City Archives, Amsterdam (NL); Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt am Main (DE); THE EKARD COLLECTION; FNAC, Paris (FR); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Lisser Art Museum, Lisse (NL); Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE); De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (NL); Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL); Rabo Art Collection (NL); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL), among many private collections.

Courtesy GRIMM