Andrea Modica Explained

Andrea Modica
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York, United States
Field:Photography
Awards:Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Research Grant

Andrea Modica (born 1960) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. She is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera. Modica is the author of many monographs, including Treadwell (1996) and Barbara (2002).

Early life and education

Modica was born in Brooklyn, New York. She 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.

Work

Modica's most known work is Treadwell.[1] From 1986 to 2001, she staged and photographed a young girl named Barbara and her family in upstate New York with an 8x10 view camera, following the family from farmhouse to farmhouse in and around the town of Treadwell, New York.[2] Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996.[3] [4] She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes.[5] The work from the later period of Barbara's life was published by Nazraeli Press in 2004. Nazraeli Press also published Human Being, a series of 19th century human skulls that were unearthed at a mental hospital in Pueblo, Colorado.

As We Wait is a collection of previously unpublished portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and horses curated by Larry Fink in 2015 by Grafiche dell'Artiere, who also published January 1, portraits of Philadelphia Mummers in 2018.

Even before starting the series Best Friends, Modica had been photographing students at a high school in Connecticut, and she noticed that a friend was often present in the background of the photoshoots. She started photographing friends together in other high schools in Philadelphia and Modena, Italy.[6]

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

Real Indians combines first-person narratives by 37 Native American people with black and white photographic portraits of each person by Modica.[8]

For Minor League, Modica photographed in Oneonta, New York and the New York Yankees' spring-training camp in Florida for a project on young ballplayers in 1993. She photographed the young athletes' anxieties, focusing on the minor league players who were hoping to go up.[9]

Modica photographed and filmed horses in post-operative anesthetic states in Theatrum Equorum published by TIS books in 2022.[10]

Teaching

Modica taught photography at the State University of New York – Oneonta for thirteen years, and has also taught at Princeton University, Parsons School of Design, the State University of New York College at Purchase, and Colorado College.[11] She is currently a professor of photography at Drexel University.[12]

Publications

Awards

Collections

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

1 print (as of 1 July 2022)[17]

12 prints (as of 1 July 2022)[18]

3 prints (as of 1 July 2022)[19]

4 prints (as of 1 July 2022)[21]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andrea Modica. 31 January 2018. International Center of Photography.
  2. Web site: Hulin . Rachael . 11 June 2008 . Words and Pictures: Treadwell . PhotoShelter Blog.
  3. Web site: 2004 . Andrea Modica - Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141018004001/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2004-03-04_andrea-modica/all . 2014-10-18 . 2014-05-09 . Edwynn Houk Gallery.
  4. Book: Modica . Andrea . Treadwell . Proulx . Annie . Chronicle Books . 1996 . 978-0-8118-1118-7 . San Francisco, CA . 32855514.
  5. Web site: 2006 . Andrea Modica: From Treadwell to Fountain . 30 June 2022 . Catherine Edelman Gallery.
  6. Web site: 2014 . Andrea Modica . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170214004711/http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/andrea-modica/#1 . 2017-02-14 . 2017-02-13 . Blue Sky Gallery.
  7. Web site: 2008 . Andrea Modica - Fountain . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150310003845/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2008-01-15_andrea-modica/ . 2015-03-10 . 2014-05-09 . Edwynn Houk Gallery.
  8. Book: Real Indians: portraits of contemporary Native Americans and America's tribal colleges. Andrea. Modica. Sherman. Alexie. Rebecca. Carroll. Suzette. Brewer. 9 March 2019. Melcher Media. 53288865 . Open WorldCat.
  9. News: Derek Jeter, a Yankee Before the Pinstripes. Jon. Kelly. 19 September 2014. The New York Times.
  10. Web site: Theatrum Equorum / Andrea Modica . 2023-05-23 . TIS books . en.
  11. Web site: Andrea Modica: Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200829080720/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/andrea-modica-barbara-treadwell-1986-2001 . 29 August 2020 . Edwynn Houk Gallery.
  12. Web site: Gutierrez . Allyssa . 4 February 2019 . Photographer Andrea Modica to speak, share expertise with students . 9 March 2019 . The Daily Nebraskan.
  13. Web site: Andrea Modica . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081211013913/http://www.edelmangallery.com/modica-bio.htm . 11 December 2008 . Catherine Edelman Gallery.
  14. Web site: 2022-07-01. Andrea Modica. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  15. Web site: Environmental Art Grant . 2023-05-23 . Anonymous Was A Woman . en-US.
  16. Web site: Knight Foundation Awards 2022 Arts + Tech Fellowship to Five Visionary Artists . 2023-05-23 . Knight Foundation . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2022-07-01. Andrea Modica - MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
  18. Web site: 2022-07-01. Search The Collection: 12 results for Andrea Modica. www.metmuseum.org.
  19. Web site: 2022-07-01. Andrea Modica. whitney.org.
  20. Web site: 2022-07-01. Andrea Modica - Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu.
  21. Web site: 2022-07-01. Modica, Andrea. SFMOMA.

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