My work has always explored relationships-the timeless conflicts and yearnings of human beings. The visual stories I create are allegorical, often inspired by mythologies. I'm fascinated by co-existing realities, contradictions and the tensions they create.
—Nina Glaser
Nina Glaser had a 20-year career as an accomplished, internationally recognized fine-art photographer. She now repurposes her black-andwhite figurative photographs, combining them with colorful stained glass and other materials to create singular, highly expressive mixed media art objects. This treatment of the photographs gives them a kind of renewed life, says Glaser, "with new stories to tell."
Glaser's work has appeared in dozens of group and solo exhibitions over the past four decades, and is included in the permanent collections of UCLA's Wight Art Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Triton Museum of Art (Santa Clara, CA), Yale University (New Haven, CN) and other institutions. Her photographs have been widely published, and are the subject of two monographs: Repurposed (1998) and Outside of Time (1984). Glaser spent her formative years in Israel, and served in the Israeli army during wartime-an experience she says formed her perspective of and sense of urgency about the world and human nature. She now lives in Santa Fe, NM.