ANGELA STRASSHEIM
Left Behind

March 24- April 30, 2005

Marvelli Gallery is pleased to present “Left Behind”, the first solo exhibition of American photographer Angela Strassheim. The exhibition will feature eighteen large scale color photographs.

Photographs of Strassheim’s born again Christian family are juxtaposed with images of domestic narratives, inspired by childhood and adult life experiences. The result is an unsettling world involving complacency, control, and belief. Her images vacillate between what is immediately revealed on the surface and the unsettling nature of what is discovered upon further inspection. The combination of the visually seductive surface with the seemingly banal subject matter elicits an involved interpretation of the many layers within the images. These narratives and portraits retain an element of mystery that asks the viewer to question the acts that lead up to or follow each scenario.

Drawing from her experience as a forensic photographer, Angela Strassheim has developed a style remarkably original in its obsessively careful compositions and lighting, in its uncanny sharpness. Apparently simple scenes acquire a suspended atmosphere, in which religion, suburban life and personal memories converge.

Left Behind refers not only to the “unsaved” spoken about by her born again Christian family but also the memory and evidence people create that outlives them. It is both, being left behind and leaving, either of our own free will or having life taken away.

Angela Strassheim received her MFA in photography from Yale University in 2003. She received a Forensic & Biomedical Photography Certification from the Forensic Imaging Bureau. This will be her first solo exhibition.

For further information or images of the works included in the show, please contact Marcello Marvelli or Sara Davidson at 212-627 3363 or info@marvelligallery.com.

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