Cig Harvey

project description:

Cig Harvey’s The Hope Chest is a visual autobiography populated by the photographer’s central relationships over the course of more than a decade. Through quietly stately and richly allusive photographs, Cig transforms quotidian objects that reference time, childhood, and femininity into totems that mark key moments in her life.

As much a document of one woman’s emotional life as it is a catalog of psychological archetypes, The Hope Chest takes the viewer on a literal and metaphorical journey with family, friends, and lovers through fields and forests, dwellings and cities, oceans and caves. In seventy gorgeously colored photographs and seventeen written vignettes, The Hope Chest conveys the universal quest for personal identity and place in the world.

key selling points:

• Cig Harvey’s photographs—lyrical and colorful, playful and melancholy, universally symbolic and intensely personal—are accessible to a broad audience receptive to contemporary figurative photography, women’s narratives, and psychological portraiture.
• Solo exhibtions are scheduled to coincide with book publication at Cig’s galleries: Robin Rice, New York City; Robert Klein, Boston; and Joel Soroka, Aspen.
• Cig’s editorial work, commercial activity, and gallery sales are all currently coinciding to increase the exposure and popularity of Cig’s work. Her recent commission to produce an entire year’s worth of covers for Maine magazine, her instantly recognizable book covers for Katie Crouch and Anita Shreve, and work for fashion and lifestyle clients from Anthropologie to Kate Spade all indicate an accessible artist very much on the rise.
• Cig Harvey’s work is popular across the blogosphere from A Little Sussy to Lenscratch to Wedding Bee Pro, and is routinely cited by the photo trade press (her profile in Photo District News in 2008 was entitled “Rising Star”).
• Cig is also a popular photography instructor with international reach. She is supplementing her regular teaching at Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University with workshops in Norway, Santa Fe, and Maine in 2010 alone.

author bio:

Cig Harvey was born in England in 1973.

Her photographs have been exhibited widely and are in the permanent collections of major museums including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

Cig is represented by Robin Rice Gallery, New York; Robert Klein Gallery, Boston; and Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen. She is married to Doug Stradley, a filmmaker with the profile of a Roman emperor. Together they live in Boston and on the coast of Maine with their dog Scarlet Snacks.

size: 12” x 12”
pages: 144
images: 70 full-color
rights: World

Download a PDF of the info sheet for this book.