HELEN ROUSAKIS
My Own Nature
29 MAY - 28 JUNE 2003






Untitled (C-1)
Ilfochrome photograph
28 x 41 inches






Untitled (C-2)
Ilfochrome photograph
28 x 41 inches






Untitled (C-13)
Ilfochrome photograph
28 x 41 inches






Untitled (V-21)
Ilfochrome photograph
5 x 7 inches






Untitled (V-23)
Ilfochrome photograph
7 x 5 inches






Untitled (V-26)
Ilfochrome photograph
7 x 5 inches






Untitled (V-24)
Ilfochrome photograph
5 x 7 inches






Untitled (V-2)
Ilfochrome photograph
11 x 14 inches






Untitled (V-3)
Ilfochrome photograph
11 x 14 inches






Untitled (V-7)
Ilfochrome photograph
11 x 14 inches






Untitled (V-8)
Ilfochrome photograph
11 x 14 inches






Untitled (V-9)
Ilfochrome photograph
11 x 14 inches






Untitled (V-10)
Ilfochrome photograph
11 x 14 inches






Untitled (V-13)
Ilfochrome photograph
11 x 14 inches






Untitled (C-6)
Ilfochrome photograph
16 x 20 inches






Untitled (C-12)
Ilfochrome photograph
16 x 20 inches






Untitled (C-14)
Ilfochrome photograph
16 x 20 inches






Untitled (C-15)
Ilfochrome photograph
20 x 16 inches






Untitled (C-16)
Ilfochrome photograph
20 x 16 inches










Sandra Gering Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Helen Rousakis from 29 May through 28 June 2003. The images in the exhibition are from Rousakis' extensive series titled My Own Nature.

In her photographs, Rousakis depicts ambiguous, unidentifiable forms and environments that radiate a life of their own. As the title suggests, she manipulates existing natural objects and submerges them in water to create a new "nature" of her own design. Proceeding like an avid naturalist, Rousakis documents the life in her watery environments in close-up shots that seemingly shift between a microscopic and macroscopic world. The forms in these still lifes are at once familiar and bizarre, beautiful and grotesque.

This is Rousakis' first solo exhibition. In 1999, she was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Her photographs are in numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.