November 2011

Desert Dwell

Min Enghauser began making photographs as a child; exploring, learning, and becoming aware through photography. For Enghauser, photographs, and the act of making them, are glimpses of timeless spirits, of pure and unbiased realities of nature and time. Enghauser’s exhbit Desert Dwell are all images from the Anza-Borrego Desert where she found that there is a coming together of the essence of the inhabitants and the spirit of place. Plant with rock, rock with sky, sky with mountain. These inhabitants speak to each other without words and at their core is the spirit of the other. Enghauser’s photographs are the instruments through which she discovers and uncovers the truth of this slowly changing landscape of unity, cohesion, beauty, mystery and fate.

Enghauser graduated with a B.F.A. in 1992 from Shepherd College in West Virginia. She has since exhibited in multiple group shows and solo shows in the DC Metro area. Enghauser has been an artist at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria since 2006.

Visit Enghauser’s website at www.minenghauser.com.

Watch the artist interview here.