digital photographs collaged with relief prints and altered New York City maps crown structure. Quotations from Leaves of Grass; 6.5×9.75×0.5”

“A photo essay commemorating Walt Whitman’s bicentennial, honoring the skilled workers who build and maintain our cities.”

ARTIST BIO: Claire Marcus has a special interest in landscape’s power to evoke narrative and memory. Her award winning book and paper works are exhibited internationally, and held in public and private collections. Claire holds an MFA in painting and BA in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with painter Rackstraw Downes and photographer Rudy Burckhardt. Born and raised in Cincinnati/New York City, she lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.