Andrea Modica

Andrea Modica (born 1960, in Brooklyn, NY) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. Modica is known for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera. ^[1]

Biography

Andrea Modica earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Art History from State University of New York College (SUNY) at Purchase, Purchase, NY in 1982, and earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1985. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in many collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,^[2] the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.^[3] Modica has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Arts Fellowship in 1994 and a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant in 1990.^[4] Modica has been published in Newsweek, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and other magazines as well as two monographs, Minor Leagues (1993) and Treadwell (1995). Modica taught photography at the State University of New York – Oneonta for thirteen years, as well as holding positions at Princeton University, Parsons School of Design, the State University of New York College at Purchase, and currently is a professor of photography at Drexel University.

Treadwell

Modica's most known work is Treadwell. From 1986 to 2001, she photographed a young girl named Barbara and her family in upstate New York. She follows the family from farmhouse to farmhouse in the town of Treadwell. ^[5] The work portrays rural life while keeping a dreamlike quality. She photographed the family with an 8x10 view camera. Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996.^[6] She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes. The work from the later period of Barbara's life was published by Nazraeli Press in 2004.

Fountain

For nine years, Modica documented the Baker Family in Fountain, Colorado. The family runs a small slaughterhouse. She photographs the inner workings of the farm and the intimate family moments. ^[7]

Monographs

• "Treadwell". Chronicle Books. (1996) (ISBN 0811811182)
• "Barbara". Nazraeli Press. (2004) (ISBN 1590050878)
• "Human Being". Nazraeli Press. (2001) (ISBN 1590050061)
• "Minor League" Photographers at Work Series. Smithsonian. (1993) (ISBN 156098290X)
• “Fountain”. Stinehour Editions. (2008)
• “L’Amico del Cuore”. Nazraeli Press. (2014) (ISBN 978-1-59005-405-5)
• “As We Wait”. Grafiche dell’Artiere. (2015) (ISBN 978-8887569537)

References

External links

• AndreaModica.com
• Gallery 339
• ArtNet
• Drexel University Faculty
• Edelman Gallery
• Maine Media Workshops
• Edwynn Houk Gallery