Tanyth Berkeley, artist and art
Born 1969, Birth Hollywood, CA, USA.
The artist lives and works in New York.
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Tanyth Berkeley’s portraits of women redefine traditional perception of beauty, capturing the essence of femininity with unabashed glamour, sensuality, and celebration. Berkeley finds her extraordinary subjects, which range from transgender she-males to frumpy housewives and wallflower adolescents, in the most ordinary of places: in the subway, on the street, walking through the park. And it’s exactly this ‘normalcy’ that makes them so special…The Saatchi Gallery
THE MUSE, THE FUGITIVE, AND THE FREQUENCY
After Tanyth Berkeley approaches strangers on the subway to make an appointment for a photograph, the resulting portraits are striking evidence of the artist’s newfound friendships with compelling young women…
Tanyth Berkeley was born in Hollywood, California, and currently lives and works in New York. She received her MFA in photography from Columbia University in 2004 and holds a BA from CCNY in photography and creative writing. Her work will be included in “New Photography” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York september 2007.
The women in Tanyth Berkeley’s portraits all have strikingly eccentric looks, persuading us that beauty’s where you find it…
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