Digital photography, no longer a fringe medium of fine art, has found a purveyor who understands its full expressive potential. Marisa Atha is photography’s cosmopolitan troubadour, capturing the people and places that she experiences along her pathway. Paris, San Francisco and New York are among the vibrant cities that have become backdrops for Atha’s fascinating tableaus. Each image is manipulated to achieve a range of effects, capturing the spirit of a locale with her distinctive flair for color and composition. Her use of color is especially interesting, employing expressive Fauvist sensibilities or using a limited palette to achieve subtle dramatic qualities within the composition.
The artistic journey begins with sharing her experience and in turn, her worldview. "I am an artist because I want to use myself to reflect my world, my knowledge, my perspective and my life. I am an artist not only because I want to do all of this, but because I want to share all of this with you." Atha lives and works in Sacramento, California.
I am a seeker of cultures, art forms, languages, music and general samplings of the plentiful social traditions and interactions within grasp—these pursuits make up the cooperative influences of my art. My most gratifying artistic experience is the basic human connection that occurs: artists simply have the ability to make the intangible tangible…a thought, a feeling, a happening…the brain muddies and mingles much of life’s processes and miracles, and the artist simply waves a butterfly net, and wraps up the catch of the day to present back to the world.
