Meghann Riepenhoff & Richard Misrach, Duet

"Negatives were bizarre, awesome, magical sheets of cellulose. I had...a negative print of a self-portrait I had made in the mirror of my Motel 6 room sometime in the 1980s — I pinned the 14 x 11 inch print to my studio wall for years. I always found it compelling, but that weird color cast got in the way. With the invention of digital, and the easy removal of the cast, the possibilities just took off."

- Richard Misrach

An Atlanta native, Meghann Riepenhoffearned her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia, Athens, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2018, Jackson Fine Art mounted her first solo exhibition in the south. That exhibition, titled Imprint, drew from Littoral Drift, Ecotone, and Muybridge Tides and featured both an exhibition-spanning Chronograph (a dynamic photobook in which a page was turned for each day of the show, exposing a new image) and an evolving Tidal Chart occupying one full room of the gallery space.  For many of the works featured, Riepenhoff returned to Georgia to make photographs in landscapes where she spent the first half of her life — Georgia red clay stained prints made at the Chattahoochee River or in North Georgia lakes; rain drops from summer storms marked prints from Hilton Head Island’s shoreline.