Malerie Marder

Malerie Marder (1971) is an American photographer and artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Career

Her work centers on vivid color and black-and-white nude photographs, and has gained attention in the first decade of the new century because of its disquieting personal, sexual, and psychological aspects.^[1] The artist examines human intimacy by photographing friends and family undressed.^[2]

Marder's video work, At Rest, was first shown at Salon 94 in 2003. The artist edited videotape shot over two years into nearly 13 minutes of friends and family, always naked, in various states of repose: couples asleep in bed, a child resting on a plump pillow, a woman relaxing in the bathtub. Composer Jonathan Bepler produced the soundtrack.

The artist first gained recognition coinciding with the completion of her MFA from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and in 1999 was included in the exhibition Another Girl, Another Planet alongside 12 other photographers, including Katy Grannan, Justine Kurland, Dana Hoey, and Sarah Jones.

Publication

• Carnal Knowledge. Violette Editions, 2011. ISBN 978-1-900828-31-4. Edited and produced by Robert Violette. Edition of 25 copies. With text contributions by Charlotte Cotton, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia,^[3] James Ellroy, James Frey, AM Homes, and Bruce Wagner.

Collections

Marder's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

References

External links

• Official website
• London gallery website with a selection of images
• British newspaper article with images