Blue Violet

About Cig Harvey

Cig Harvey is an artist who uses images and language to explore sensory experience and elevate the everyday. Rich in implied narrative deeply rooted in the natural world her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel. Her work has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times BBC Vogue The Wall Street Journal Vice The Sunday Times The Independent Marie Claire Italia and New York. She is the author of three previous monographs You Look At Me Like An Emergency Gardening at Night and You an Orchestra You a Bomb. In 2017 Cig was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER an international organization that honors supports and provides opportunities for gifted and committed photographers. In 2018 she was named the Prix Virginia Laureate an international photography award based in Paris and in 2019 a mid-career retrospective of her work appeared at the Ogunquit Museum of Art. Jacoba Urist is a journalist living in New York. She writes regularly about art and architecture for The Atlantic New York Magazine Smithsonian Magazine Galerie and The New York Times among other publications. She has covered the art market in New York and Los Angeles for The Art Newspaper and is a contributing editor for Cultured.