In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha and guest, photographer, Adam Katseff, have a conversation about influence, the tricky part of trying to identify oneself as an artist, and the importance of acknowledging your own successes. Sasha and Adam talk about the process of creating his exquisite landscape series’, The Dark Landscapes and Rivers and Falls, and its connection to both early western landscape photography in the U.S, and abstract expressionist painting. In our introduction, Sasha and Michael talk about why Sasha is in her closet and how New Jersey is one step from the great beyond. Visit https://www.adamkatseff.com to see Adam's work. Adam Katseff was born in North Andover, Massachusetts and currently lives in Brookline, MA. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art before going on to receive his MFA from Stanford University. He has been the recipient of the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award as well as the Anita Squires Fowler Award, and his work has been shown around the country, including at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, Hearst Galleries, and the Michael and Noemi Neidorff Gallery at Trinity University. In May 2015, Katseff won the INFOCUS Sidney Zuber Photography Award; as part of the win, his work was displayed at the Phoenix Art Museum for two months. In 2015 Katseff was also included in a major survey exhibition of photography, architecture and contemporary art dedicated to the Sierra Nevada region, mounted by the Nevada Museum of Art. The featured work was from his ‘Dark Landscape’ series and was acquired by the museum following the exhibition. Katseff’s work has received press from a number of notable publications, including The New Yorker and Collector Daily. Katseff had his inaugural show with Sasha Wolf Gallery, In The Course of Time, in October 2014, enjoyed a number of successful art fairs with the gallery, including AIPAD and a solo booth at Art on Paper in March 2015 and had his second solo exhibition, Rivers and Falls, in April 2015. He’s also represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and had a solo show at Koch in September 2017. Please subscribe and rate the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

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