Terry Frishman
Floating Ophelia, 2021
Archival pigments on Hahnemuhle photo rag
14 x 12 x 3/4" (framed)

Artist Statement
Walking our city streets, I discover fantastical figures and landscapes emerging from the random textures of trees, walls and sidewalks. These found abstract images-visual narrative poems-rise from the surfaces or objects themselves.

In Floating Ophelia, a street-corner puddle becomes a stage. The image toggles between documentary fact ("this is a puddle on a corner") and an illusory scene ("this is a floating figure in a lyrical space").

I frame accidental compositions, without any manipulation. Optional clues-title, source, and elements-are meant to spark ideas and shift perspective while keeping the work grounded in the real.

Each abstract photograph becomes a metaphor for the overlooked. My work explores visibility, recognizability, and the relationship between seeing and knowing-how perspective and imagination can broaden not only what we notice, but what we understand as reality.

Artist Bio
Terry Frishman captures abstract photographs of "found art" in our city streets and parks, discovering beauty and meaning in the random, everyday, overlooked world around us. Often painterly, these images evoke stories and poetry out of man-made and natural materials.

Her photographs have been shown in galleries from Barcelona to Art Basel Week in Miami, Fl. They are held in small private collections in the United States and internationally in Barcelona, Dresden, Mexico City and Paris.

Terry is on the New York Board of Directors for the American Society of Media Photographers, and has been active in The American Photography Archives Group and Professional Women Photographers.

She received a BA in Art History from Smith College, an MBA from Columbia University. Terry recently moved to Philadelphia with her husband, to be near their children.

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