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Glens Falls, NY – Opening August 22, 2026 at The Hyde Collection, Tanya Marcuse’s Book of Miracles is a three-part photographic collection that revels within the interaction between photographic course of and portray traditions from European Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism. Conceptually grounded in a richly illustrated manuscript printed in Germany in 1552 referred to as the Augsburg Book of Miracles, Marcuse’s collection combines studio and discipline images. The work is devastating and darkish, but additionally reverent and timeless—with its wealthy magnificence underscoring the duality between realism and fiction, or documentation and artifice, of the photographic medium.
The Hyde’s solo presentation consists of 19 images and two movies from the collection, together with a number of 10-foot-wide apocalyptic panorama images, a part of the Book of Miracles suite referred to as Kingdom. In Kingdom, Marcuse makes use of parts she collects from the panorama then meticulously arranges, typically over months, on a specifically designed wood body. Once full, she images the tableau from a scaffold in her outside studio—typically utilizing flame, paint, or glitter to activate the composition.
Portent, the second suite within the Book of Miracles, consists of mysterious, fantastical-yet-real scenes that Marcuse has staged in swamps, rivers, and orchards. Without utilizing any digital results or synthetic intelligence, she reveals the miraculous that lies inside plain sight. The final a part of the collection, Emblem, consists of miniature, altar-like vignettes of natural world—quiet, meditative research of the dialogue between decay and renewal.
Marcuse began the mission throughout the lockdown in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The project unfolded against the backdrop of wildfires, extreme temperatures, and political and social upheaval,” says Marcuse, “and reflects the increasing strangeness and instability of our world. Through this project, I began to think more deeply about photography’s ability to probe the unknown—to use the visible, material world as a way of approaching what is invisible and beyond our comprehension, where the known meets the unknowable.” Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Derin Tanyol describes Marcuse’s work as “devastating and solemn, with an emotional depth that offers viewers a reminder of the absorptive power of prolonged looking.” Like the historic Augsburg Book of Miracles itself, Marcuse’s collection visualizes moments and situations that defy the legal guidelines of nature, narrating catastrophic however sublimely lovely phenomena in a quickly destabilizing world.
In 2025, The Hyde exhibited a single large-scale {photograph} from Marcuse’s collection Woven as a part of its museum-wide exploration on the theme of nonetheless life by girls artists. Marcuse’s mission Woven (2015–2020) in addition to a brand new mission Deer (2023–2026) can be on view on the Center for Photography at Woodstock in Kingston, NY, in Marcuse’s exhibition Woven: An Ecological Tapestry, opening October 2.
Tanya Marcuse will give a lecture on the Museum on Thursday, October 15, at 6 pm as a part of The Hyde’s month-to-month “Art After Hours” collection. Her exhibition Book of Miracles can be on view at The Hyde by January 10, 2027.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tanya Marcuse (American, b. 1964) earned her MFA from Yale University. Her work is in public collections together with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Denver Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She has exhibited internationally at venues such because the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York; Galerie Miranda, Paris; Julie Saul Projects; the Museum on the Fashion Institute of Technology; the International Center of Photography in New York; and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
Marcuse is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two MacDowell Fellowships, a 2025 NYFA award, and lots of different awards. Her printed books embrace Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Wax Bodies (Nazraeli Press, 2012), Fruitless | Fallen | Woven (Radius Books, 2019), Ink (Fall Line Press, 2021), Portent (Nazraeli Press, 2024), and Deer (Roman Nvmerals, 2026).
Marcuse is predicated in New York’s Hudson Valley and is an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard College.
Support for this exhibition is generously offered by Presenting Sponsors the Hoopes Family Foundation and the Charles R. Wood Foundation, and Community Sponsors Keena PEO Services.
Additional exhibition assist offered by Leslie Fraser Gold & Irene Kamau, and Grasshopper Gardens.
ABOUT THE HYDE COLLECTION
The Hyde is likely one of the Northeast’s distinctive tremendous artwork museums with distinguished European and American artwork collections. The core assortment, acquired by Museum founders Charlotte and Louis Hyde, consists of works by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, Tintoretto, El Greco, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, and Pablo Picasso and American artists Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, and Anna Hyatt Huntington. Throughout the years, the Museum has expanded significantly to embrace a contemporary museum complicated that includes an auditorium, classroom, 5 galleries, and a state-of-the-art storage facility along with the historic residence as soon as inhabited by the Hydes. The Museum’s Modern and Contemporary artwork assortment options work by artists together with Josef Albers, Dorothy Dehner, Sam Gilliam, Adolph Gottlieb, Grace Hartigan, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson, Robert Rauschenberg, Bridget Riley, and Paul Anthony Smith. Today, The Hyde presents important nationwide and worldwide exhibitions and a packed schedule of occasions that assist guests expertise artwork in new methods. Learn more at www.hydecollection.org
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Image: Tanya Marcuse (American, b. 1964), No 11 (Part I Kingdom) Book of Miracles, UV pigment on Dibond, 62 x 124 inches, Courtesy of the artist.
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