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GINA RYMARCSUK works in photography and electronic media. Her research is deeply rooted in the study of optical mechanisms, the physics of light and often immersed in the formulaic and procedural study of the photographic process. She investigates the nature of visual illusion, feats of architecture, avian anatomy, aircraft structure and the organization, translation, preservation and degradation of data. This work is a mapping system of travel, mechanism, infrastructure and a hero, charted, examined and accounted for. It is an attempt to locate the dislocated through a systemic process of analysis and synthesis while navigating the space between analog and digital technologies. She graduated with a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from the University of Washington. She has shown her work internationally including exhibitions in Chicago, Seattle, Australia, Hungary, Italy and Scotland. She has been artist in residence in numerous programs including Burren College of Art, Kala Art Institute, Women’s Studio Workshop and Oregon College of Art and Craft.


SOURCES
Hilla and Bernd Becher
Hans Bellmer
Marcel Duchamp
Harold Edgerton
Max Ernst
Andreas Gursky
Howard Hughes
Bruce Lee
Eadweard Muybridge
Takashi Murakami
Katsushige Nakahashi
Yoshitomo Nara
Man Ray
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Do Ho Suh
Nikola Tesla


BOOKS

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division, by Deborah Curtis
The Nature of Visual Illusion, by Mark B. Fineman
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living, by Bruce Lee
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte
Visual Explanations, by Edward R. Tufte
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte