PHOTOGRAPHS
Lambri, Luisa
Italy / U.S. (1969 - )
Untitled (The Miller House, #03)
2002
Lambda print mounted to acrylic
37 11/16 x 46 11/16 in. (95.7 x 118.6 cm) image size; 46 1/2 x 55 11/16 in. (118.1 x 141.4 cm) sheet size; 48 1/2 x 57 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (123.2 x 146.4 x 3.8 cm) frame size
Gift of Burt and Jane Berman
FA 2008.194

Luisa Lambri has traveled the world photographing architectural interiors. She has investigated many iconic Modernist buildings, recording their physical properties and reflecting on the psychological and social effects of these spaces on their inhabitants. Imbued with quiet emotion and a deep understanding of architectural space, Lambri’s photographs are deadpan, poetic, and at times monochromatic to the point of being almost abstract.

Luisa Lambri was born in Como, Italy and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Lambri has participated in two Venice Biennales; in 1999, at the 48th Biennale, she was awarded the Golden Lion. She has been an artist-in-residence at institutions in the United States and internationally, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2008–2009; Colecção Teixeira de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, 2003; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 2002; and International Artists' Studio Programme in Sweden, Stockholm, 2000–2001. Her work is part of collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City. -- Guidebook copy for The Ghost of Architecture, July 13 to September 29, 2013.