“What has kept me interested in photography for so many years is the camera's permission to explore. I also value the way a photograph can confer significance on a gesture or suggest an alternate view. Working in Photoshop is improvisational but generally, I am excavating, pulling out what is hidden in the familiar. "
An interview and feature by Daniel George is available on Lenscratch http://lenscratch.com/2023/05/barbara-strigel-if-we-were-to-talk-about-architecture/
An Interview and article by Rodrigo Cave-Sarat is available on Medium https://medium.com/full-frame/blending-the-familiar-and-the-elusive-3221500499b3?sk=4d521df73e9382f9de16817578ce5ad5
An interview is available in English and Japanese at Gallery Photographs in Tokyo link to their website through Instagram https://www.instagram.com/galleryphotographs/
An exhibition commentary by Geoffrey Koslov is available at https://koslovlarsen.gallery/artists/76-barbara-strigel/blog/
Featured artist interview Booooooom Magazine https://www.booooooom.com/2023/10/10/artist-spotlight-barbara-strigel/
Barbara Strigel is a photographer, collage artist and bookmaker living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in Philadelphia and studied photography and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. For over 20 years she taught photography, pottery and graphic design in a public high school where she also advised the literary magazine and yearbook. Since her retirement in 2013, she has been establishing her fine art practice.
Her collages, photographs and handmade books have been shown in both Canada and the United States and are held in collections at The Musuem of Fine Arts Houston, Otis College of Art and Baylor University as well as numerous corporate and private collections. She has been featured multiple times in the Blue Sky Gallery's viewing drawers and the Art Rental Sales showroom at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2022, she had work featured in a 2 person show at FotoRelevance (now Koslov Larsen) Gallery in Houston. Her work has been published in Diffusion Annual, PDN, Don't Take Pictures, Photo Ed and Book Arts Du Livre and Contemporary Collage Magazine. In 2019 and 2024 she was recognized in the Top 50 in Photo-Lucida's Critical Mass. In 2020, she was awarded an honorable mention in Klompching Gallery's annual Fresh competition. In 2022, she was recognized as a Finalist in LensCulture’s Fine Art Photography Awards.
