STATEMENT I am interested in Americans’ relationship with nature, their desire to commune with it, and the disconnection between an imagined nature and an authentic one. My interests lie in human footprint on the landscape. What has been built? What does it look like? How does it interact with the natural landscape? I am interested in the here and now of the landscape. I am attracted to the tension between nature and the artifice and how that anxiety plays itself out in the landscape. My pictures tell the incomplete and evolving story of what America looks like, using a photographic language that becomes, as John Szarkowski’s writing on William Eggleston suggests, a concrete kind of fiction. Finally I want to acknowledge the humor and beauty in the subtleties of my photographic explorations. I did this project to find a sense of place, and to explore the country that I know and understand. As the Waldo Frank quote states: in seeking America we create her. With these pictures I have created my own America, beautiful and strange. BIOGRAPHY Manya Fox is a Los Angeles based artist. She received her BA in photography from Bard College and her MFA in photography from UCLA. In the past year she has been in numerous group shows including Humble Arts Foundation’s ‘31 under 31: Young Women in Art Photography’ in Brooklyn, New York and ‘Some Young Los Angeles Artists’ at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art in Culver City, California. She has also been in several publications. All of her work focuses on issues surrounding the American experience. manyafox.com			MANYA FOX Ice Martini Glass, Chena, Alaska, 2007 C-print Paper: 16 x 20 inches Image: 16 x 20 inches Signed and numbered Edition of 5 $425.00 / purchase print