LINDA BRISKIN  FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER: CV

Linda Briskin has ever-shifting photographic enthusiasms, what she calls ‘photoglossia’. Light, lines, shadows, and the play of figure-ground; the juxtaposition of objects and reflections; the ambiguities in what we choose to see; the permeability between the remembered and the imagined; and alternative digital colourscapes which remind us that landscape is invented through our gaze. She is intrigued by the capacity of photography to capture movement, and to create alternative realities. In many of her photographs, photo-collage is used to construct unique and painterly images layered with nuance and narrative which both embrace and displace the original images. Her focus is on imagining and inventing images rather than capturing them. Such an approach is fictive rather than representational. 

** Photoglossia is a play on the term heteroglossia which speaks to a diversity of voices, styles of discourse, or points of view in a literary work.

Briskin lives in Toronto and has been taking photographs for years. In 2018, she participated in the juried showThe New Feminist Gaze at the Simeon Den Gallery in California. FootPrints, a solo window installation will be mounted at Cutler & Gross (Toronto) in August-September. She participated in two groups shows in Toronto’s Contact Photography Festival in May 2018: Spectra at Gallery 1313 <http://www.spectracontactphotography.com/> and Luminous, a group show of women photographers at the Heliconian Club <http://heliconianclub.org/>.

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