Three Image Makers: Paul Cava, Janet Russek, David Scheinbaum

Paul Cava is a photographer, printmaker and painter. He distinguishes himself by showing works of deep sensitivity and a unique sensual character. His monograph, Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass, combines Cava’s work with the poems of Walt Whitman and has been widely acclaimed.

Janet Russek has been working in photography in New Mexico since the 1970’s. Russek’s works have been widely published in books, including her most recent effort, Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side (Radius Books), made in collaboration with David Scheinbaum, and The Tenuous Stem(Radius Books), a retrospective. Her current work deals with colloquial phrases superimposed over classic sculptures photographed in museums.

David Scheinbaum has been working in photography in New Mexico for over thirty years. His work has been published in numerous books, including Remnants: Photographs of the Lower East Side, made in collaboration with his wife Janet Russek. Scheinbaum’s portraits of hip-hop artists resulted in a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, and is collated in HIP HOP: Photographs of An Urban Hymn (Damiani). His most recent body of work involves photographs of ornamental objects that stereotype African Americans as a way of demonstrating past, and perhaps present, attitudes.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.