Cadence Giersbach Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1966 -

Cadence Giersbach explores the mythic quality of place. Using a process that integrates photography, drawing and painting she creates images that hover between the familiar and the strange, the representational and the abstract, the real and imagined.

Giersbach has completed four permanent public art commissions, including a large mosaic for the New York City subway station. She also makes paintings, drawings and temporary site specific paintings that have been shown at galleries and museums in the US, Mexico and Europe. Venues have included Roebling Hall, Deitch Projects, Wave Hill, White Columns, Museo Rufino Tamayo, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has been the recipient of awards including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (NYFA). She was educated at Vassar College (BA), Rutgers University (MFA), and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.


I make work that deal with ideas of pictorial space and location. I am especially concerned with the way romanticism contrasts with the reality of contemporary experience.

In earlier works my process began with drawing and photographing interiors, cities and landscapes. These drawings and photos were digitally manipulated to distort spatial relationships and create hybrid locations where abstraction and realism merge, and the distinction between nature and artifice was blurred. The resulting images became the basis for artwork in painting and mosaics. Large-scale wall paintings and mosaics are installed in architectural locations in ways that accentuate the play between real architectural space and invented pictorial space.