Barbara Hirsch Lember
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Peach in Wood Bowl,
hand painted infrared photo, 16" x 20"
Pear, hand painted infrared photo, 16" x 20"
Blue Mussel, hand painted infrared photo, 16" x 20"
Gunonia Velute, hand painted infrared photo, 16" x 20"
A graduate of Philadelphia’s Museum College of Art, Barbara Lember’s photographic work has been featured in a number of group and solo exhibitions, in Philadelphia and New York. Since 1983, her photographs have also appeared in a number of juried and invitational exhibitions, including, the Abington Art Center, Abington, PA; The Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ; Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA; The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, PA; and 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York City. She has won numerous awards, including a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship. Her work is in numerous public, private and corporate collections. Included among these are the Woodmere Art Museum, Vanguard Corporation, Nomura Securities International, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University Medical Center.
Lember’s expressive, evocative hand-colored and black and white images include people, landscapes and still lifes. Among her children’s books are A Book of Fruit and The Shell Book, both published by Houghton Mifflin and If You Find a Rock written by Peggy Christian and illustrated by Lember, published by Harcourt Brace.
Lember also has had a successful career as a modern dance teacher and performer. A student of Martha Graham, she taught at Bryn Mawr College and performed with a number of regional dance companies, including the Terez Nelson Dance Company and Gruppe Motion Berlin. In addition to her photographic work, Barbara currently teaches Pilates and modern dance.
“My years as a performer, teacher and choreographer have enhanced and enriched my photography,” Lember says. “Use of space, form, texture, energy and emotion are all components of both art forms.”
Barbara resides in Elkins Park, PA with her husband, Steven. They have two married daughters (Jessica and Amanda) and two grandchildren (Aydin and Annika).
Rock in Hand, hand painted infrared photo, 16" x 20"
Book published in 2000 by Harcourt Children's Books
