Chrissy Lush is a photographer based in New York City who fuses figurative contours with elements of landscape that render jarring subtleties with subliminal ruptures. Lush started out with photographs of empty, suburban home interiors that show either a piece of overturned furniture or a cracked mirror within an otherwise orderly setting. By juxtaposing the idea of secrecy with conflict, the artist transgresses flexibly through different genres.

Lush’s most recent untitled series of projections takes the viewers into the forest of Haukijärvi, Finland. Untouched by development these images show flattened trees, dense foliage and boulders that have eroded and grown over time. The lyrical naturalism, within each piece, is punctuated by a figurative form that moves as a shadow throughout the vista of the rendered environment.

In 2010 Chrissy Lush received her MFA in photography from Parsons The New School of Design. Her work has since appeared in group shows throughout New York City as well as San Diego, California and Middlebury, Vermont but most recently in Electron Salon hosted by Lacada in Los Angeles. In 2010 the artist was a semi-finalist for W The Art Project and received a first place award for her use of abstraction from the Professional Women Photographers 35th Anniversary. In 2014 Chrissy Lush won a residency to the Arteles Creative Residency Program in Finland that will be followed by a residency in 2015 at Side Street Studios in Cape Town, South Africa. The artist’s has published some of her photographs in the catalogue for Uncanny: Surreal Photography Show from 2011 and in the 2010 Winter issue of Imprints Magazine.