Tasha Van Zandt
Photographer
Tasha Van Zandt is a globally-minded, international photographer, director, artist, and explorer dedicated to using visual storytelling as a tool to create positive social change. Having explored, traveled and photographed over 35 countries around the globe, Tasha firmly believes that deep cultural understanding inspires the most effective storytelling and it is her goal to produce transformative imagery in order to build cultural bridges that lead to greater global understanding.
Tasha has a list of cross-media projects for some of the world’s leading brands, publications, and organizations and has been featured for numerous awards worldwide in photography, direction and filmmaking. In addition to her work in photography, Natasha co-founded and directs the non-profit Pushing Forward, a program dedicated to empowering girls through skateboarding and DIY arts. She also volunteers as an international advocacy photojournalist for several organizations, teaches multiple Art For Social Change based workshops throughout the community, and runs the non-profit Photovoice program, Viewpoint, which uses photography as a tool to empower communities worldwide.
Tasha Van Zandt
Photographer
Tasha Van Zandt is a globally-minded, international photographer, director, artist, and explorer dedicated to using visual storytelling as a tool to create positive social change. Having explored, traveled and photographed over 35 countries around the globe, Tasha firmly believes that deep cultural understanding inspires the most effective storytelling and it is her goal to produce transformative imagery in order to build cultural bridges that lead to greater global understanding.
Tasha has a list of cross-media projects for some of the world’s leading brands, publications, and organizations and has been featured for numerous awards worldwide in photography, direction and filmmaking. In addition to her work in photography, Natasha co-founded and directs the non-profit Pushing Forward, a program dedicated to empowering girls through skateboarding and DIY arts. She also volunteers as an international advocacy photojournalist for several organizations, teaches multiple Art For Social Change based workshops throughout the community, and runs the non-profit Photovoice program, Viewpoint, which uses photography as a tool to empower communities worldwide.
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TransmissionAug 31 – Dec 3, 2023Here is a radio tower standing tall, which looks like a monument soaring up with some revolutionary force. This is Paik’s Transmission Tower. Shown only at the Rockefeller Center, New York in 2002 and at the Sydney Opera House in 2004, it found its permanent home at Nam June Paik Art Center. (more…)
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MeltwaterAug 17 – Nov 30, 2023Each spring, icebergs calved from the west coast of Greenland make their way into the Labrador Sea, floating through ‘Iceberg Alley’ and eventually past the coast of Fogo Island where they drift into warmer waters as they slowly melt. (more…)
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Kara Walker: Back of Hand / Prince McVeigh and the Turner BlasphemiesSep 21 – Dec 3, 2023The Georgetown University Art Galleries are thrilled to present Kara Walker: Back of Hand in their de la Cruz Art Gallery, for the first exhibition of these new works in Washington by this internationally renowned artist. The exhibition displays a series of new works on paper by Kara Walker that examine themes such as complicity, racism, misremembered histories, and the violence that undergirds the legacy of the South. (more…)
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As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of StoriesOct 21, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories is an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes – the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia – that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia. (more…)
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Ligia Lewis: study now steadySep 30, 2023 – Feb 4, 2024This fall CARA will be hosting the first solo exhibition of artist and choreographer Ligia Lewis (b. 1983, Santo Domingo; lives and works in Berlin). Titled study now steady, the exhibition will be on view September 30, 2023 through February 4, 2024, presenting one live commission, a series of rehearsal/performances, as well as newly commissioned video work. (more…)
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Sean ScullyArtistSean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation. While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolor and pastel. (more…)
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On the Peripheryby Sinziana VelicescuSinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space. (more…)
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Alina Perez: The Turquoise RoomNov 4 – Dec 23, 2023Various Small Fires proudly presents The Turquoise Room, an exhibition of new drawings by Alina Perez. This is the artist’s first presentation with the gallery and first time to exhibit in Texas. In this body of work, Perez depicts a series of dreamlike tableaux that delicately unfolds as an inquisition into one’s relationship with the world around us. What happens when our physical surroundings begin to reflect our emotional states? We interact with places and things daily that can offer a sense of comfort or belonging, but they can also echo our fears and anxieties. (more…)
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Barbara KrugerNov 3, 2022 – Jan 28, 2024For more than 40 years, Barbara Kruger (b. 1945 in Newark, NJ) has been a consistent, critical observer of contemporary culture. Her distinct visual language uses textual statements and images taken from mass media to create memorable artworks that investigate ideas of power, identity, consumerism, and gender. (more…)
