Christine Holtz

medium: photography

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Law Office 2002 Photography	Lobby 2002 Photography	Curvewall 2002 Photography
Computer Lab 2002 Photography	Office Space 2002 Photography	Stairs 2002 Photography
Hallway 2002 Photography	Reception Area 2002 Photography	Hallway Doors 2002 Photography
Classroom 2002 Photography

Contact information
Artist resides in: Platteville, WI
Email Address: ceh5153@netscape.net

Artist statement
In our postindustrial world, esoteric concepts of time and space have been subjugated by a desire for what is familiar and comfortable, resulting in an vast environment of pedestrian spaces. Ubiquitous architecture and contrived landscaping have standardized the everyday landscape. Living in a world created for our convenience and comfort as consumers has almost imperceptibly changed our collective awareness of space. As our nation changes from a manufacturing to a service economy, simulation and replication learned from the assembly line have been applied to architecture, mass media and culture. While our awareness is slow, these changes are rapid. A sense of community based on an common location or shared culture has been relegated to the back of the American consciousness, superseded by a curated hyper-reality that exists somewhere between our daily interaction with mass produced architecture and the flood of televised and mainstream imagery.

My photographic representation of these visually ordinary spaces reflects the externalization and impermanence of the infrastructure of everyday life. The tradition of landscape photography allows the photograph to appear as a truthful document. My role as an artist is to apply the conventions of photography creating a sense of objectivity, which to transforms this rapidly evolving environment into an artifact for contemplation.

Using the common language of ubiquitous space to create conceptual landscapes, my photographs explore this purposeful construction of our experiences through a seemingly objective representation of physical space. The relationship between art and observer becomes a metaphor for the relationship of people in their everyday environments.

Biography
Christine Holtz studied studio arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned her B.F.A. in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Holtz completed her MFA in imaging arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology in the spring of 2002.

Holtz's photography has been exhibited and collected nationally. Recent highlights include:

March 2002: Holtz presented her photographic work, entitled "Meeting Places," in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of the panel presentation "The Next Landscape" at The Society for Photographic Education's national
conference.

January 2003: Solo exhibition of large-scale
photographs at Gallery Katz in Boston, Massachusetts.

Holtz is currently an assistant professor of communication technology at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.