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b. 1950
American (New York, New York)
Barbara Mensch is a Brooklyn native woman artist who received a BFA degree from Hunter College in New York City. After obtaining a scholarship to spend her first college year studying drawing at the Academia Di Belle Arte in Florence, Italy, she began her artistic career as an illustrator for Ms. Magazine.
In the early 1980s, Ms. Mensch became fascinated with photography. She worked as a photo assistant at the Knoedler Gallery in New York which was then an iconic centerpiece of the art world. Ms Mensch carefully developed her darkroom skills printing large format negatives from the many gallery artists, including works from the estates of Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall and Claude Monet.
Barbara Mensch has had more than 15 solo exhibitions of her photographic work and has been in countless group exhibitions. She not only captures stunning, unique images but also has mastered the crucially important "old school art" of printing by hand in gelatin silver.
