Bryan Steiff // Wind

Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1974, Steiff developed a love of art and media based images, and from an early age, he explored both two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums.

Bryan attended The Ohio State University and received a BFA in photography in 1999. He received his MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2006. While enrolled Columbia’s intensive Masters program he was a curatorial assistant in the Museum of Contemporary Photography as well as assistant to the photography department visiting artist program. In addition he taught as a darkroom instructor in the University of Chicago’s prestigious Laboratory School.

Since completing his master’s coursework in 2004, Bryan has been an adjunct professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago. He has received a Part-time Faculty Development grant from Columbia College and was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago Laboratory School in the spring of 2012. His work has been collected, published, and exhibited throughout the Midwest and East Coast.

Wind

Wind examines the burgeoning infrastructure for producing energy from wind in the United States. A dramatic surge in construction of massive wind farms, small commercial applications and emerging residential use of energy generating wind turbines, is creating changes in the landscape in profound ways. The turbines inevitably ask us to re-address our visual experience of the landscape. From the high-density installations that engage the landscape like a gigantic sculptural intervention, to the smaller business and occasional residential installations that speak of practicality and environmental concerns. These dramatic symbols of renewable resources and green technology vividly evidence the hand of man on the landscape in a way not seen since the massive post World War II infrastructure development.

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