Wendel Wirth is an Idaho-based photographer known for her landscape photographs with a minimalist palette. Her large-scale color photographs taken from a single vantage point explore atmospheric nuance in swiftly changing environments. Choosing to shoot in atmospheric conditions, Wirth creates monochromatic images that distort the viewer’s perspective of the landscape. Wirth’s purpose is for the viewer to look inward at how the image moves them. “My intent is that the complexities and pensive nature of the photographs are universal, and yet, intimately personal.” Wendel received her Masters of Fine Art, graduating magna cum laude, from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Denison University. Wirth is a 2015 Idaho Visual Arts Fellow, and her work was included in Boise Art Museum’s 2013 Idaho Triennial earning a merit award. She has studied photography at Parsons School of Design, Maine Photographic Workshops (now Maine Media) and with the Friends of Photography. She has had the fortune of studying under Ruth Bernhard, Ralph Gibson and Hosoe Eikoh.
b. 1966, New York, NY
2019
This Is the Place, Gillman Contemporary, Ketchum, Idaho
Twelfth Anniversary Group Exhibition, Gillman Contemporary, Ketchum, Idaho
2018
Emergence, Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
Perspectives, Gillman Contemporary, Ketchum, Idaho
2020
London International Creative Competition | Honorable Mention |Photography - Professional
2017
Felix Schoeller Photo Award, Shortlisted, Free Choice/Conceptual