Kari Orvik

Instagram: @kariorviktintypes

Website: http://www.kariorvik.com

Bio: Kari Orvik is a photo-based artist and educator. Her work has shown at the SFO Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, Hosfelt Gallery, SF Camerawork, and is in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum. She was an artist in residence at Recology SF, Rayko Photo Center, and a graduate fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She has taught photography at Bay Area schools including Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute, City College of SF, UC Berkeley, and operates a tintype portrait studio in San Francisco's Outer Mission.

Statement: The backdrop of loss, transition, and remembrance are always present in my work. Across multiple photographic formats, I explore our changing urban and natural environments through the lens of what we hold onto, what we let go of, and where we place value - acknowledging what is present and what is simultaneously absent, sometimes through the photographic properties of positive and negative. The First Two Weeks includes images I was compelled to take within the first bewildering weeks after my son was born, as I tried to make sense of the simultaneous presences and absences in my life.