Butterfly Blue by Roberta Fineberg, Limited Edition Color Photography of Butterflies
Butterfly Blue  by Roberta Fineberg, Limited Edition Color Photography of Butterflies
Butterfly Blue  by Roberta Fineberg, Limited Edition Color Photography of Butterflies
Butterfly Blue  by Roberta Fineberg, Limited Edition Color Photography of Butterflies
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Butterfly Blue by Roberta Fineberg, Limited Edition Color Photography of Butterflies

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From the transformative to the ephemeral, the short life - birth and death - of a butterfly is reimagined in a photo series by Roberta Fineberg. Based on a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi, the artist confronts the truism: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real’.

A contemporary color photograph of a butterfly the creator explores the natural and man-made world in which a caterpillar breaks free of its skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into an exquisite creature, a vibrant butterfly sips nectar from flower to flower. In this photograph a butterfly alights on a human hand.

Butterfly Blue, 2017 by Roberta Fineberg is a 18" x 18" archival pigment print in an edition of 5, titled, dated, signed by the artist.

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Small format: 9.5 x 9 (framed) 

Provenance: RF Archive

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Artist's Bio:

As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.

RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City.

In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group show (2018), Curate NY online group show (2013), Paris Photo: Photos, Femmes, Feminisme group show (2010). Fineberg’s photography is in private and public collections, including portraits of women writers at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris, France. She was awarded 15 laurels (2020-2023) from independent film festivals worldwide for her experimental video, You Will Never Beat New York (2020). 

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