Letha Wilson is a mixed media artist who was born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado and lives in Brooklyn.  Her outdoors excursions among the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural landscape and its photographic image at the root of her artistic interests. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University, and an MFA from Hunter College. Letha's artwork has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, White Box, Fredrieke Taylor Gallery, BravinLee Programs and the Aldrich Museum of  Contemporary Art, among others.  Letha recently completed residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2011 Letha will have a solo exhibition at Vox Populi in Philadelphia.

My artwork uses landscape photography as a starting point for construction and interruption. In my work the ability for a photograph to transport the viewer is both called upon, and questioned; sculptural intervention attempts to compensate for the photograph’s failure to encompass the physical site it represents. I am interested in the American Wilderness and issues of environmental conservation as well as modern architecture and design. My interest in the relationship between interior architecture and the natural world has also led to recent work that juxtaposes reclaimed drywall into outdoors and site-specific installations. A broad range of techniques and materials are used – photography, collage, sculpture, installation, video – in work that strikes a balance between abstraction and representation, landscape and architecture. For more images and information visit www.lethaprojects.com