Associate Professor of Photography Tanya Marcuse Featured in MSN
A photo series by Associate Professor of Photography Tanya Marcuse is on display in an exhibition now showing at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) in Kingston, New York. Photo by Jonah Romm
Associate Professor of Photography Tanya Marcuse’s series, “Woven: An Ecological Tapestry” was featured in an article on MSN. The photo series, made between 2015 and 2020, features carefully composed, large-format images of animals decomposing amidst soil, flowers, and the elements. Eight images from “Woven” are at the heart of an exhibition now showing at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) in Kingston, New York through January 2027. “Beauty and ruin occupy the same picture,” writes Peter Dench for MSN. “Marcuse describes ‘Woven’ as an attempt to hold together ‘beauty and terror, reverence, and grief.’”
“Marcuse’s photographs are meticulously staged over weeks or months,” Dench continues. “She gathers, composes, paints, burns and transplants natural materials. The photograph is the last stage of a long process. Her flowers wither, spiders build webs and organic matter blooms then decays. The camera then records the final spectacle.”
Marcuse’s work is held in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery of Art. The CPW exhibition includes one large-format photograph, 15 smaller prints, and an 11 minute film made in collaboration with filmmaker Ben Stechshulte. In addition to her exhibition at CPW, Marcuse’s photo series “Book of Miracles” is running at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York.
The Photography Program at Bard College offers instruction in the medium while providing a historical and aesthetic framework for student development within the context of a broad-based liberal arts education.
Post Date: 10-20-2026
“Marcuse’s photographs are meticulously staged over weeks or months,” Dench continues. “She gathers, composes, paints, burns and transplants natural materials. The photograph is the last stage of a long process. Her flowers wither, spiders build webs and organic matter blooms then decays. The camera then records the final spectacle.”
Marcuse’s work is held in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery of Art. The CPW exhibition includes one large-format photograph, 15 smaller prints, and an 11 minute film made in collaboration with filmmaker Ben Stechshulte. In addition to her exhibition at CPW, Marcuse’s photo series “Book of Miracles” is running at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York.
The Photography Program at Bard College offers instruction in the medium while providing a historical and aesthetic framework for student development within the context of a broad-based liberal arts education.
Post Date: 10-20-2026