EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Cadence Giersbach
Cadence Giersbach makes paintings and sculptures inspired by the garden and the natural world beyond. A native New Yorker, she earned a BA from Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY), an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME). Giersbach’s work has been featured in solo shows at Satchel Projects (New York, NY), Roebling Hall (Brooklyn, NY) Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts (New York, NY) and Deitch Projects (New York, NY). Group shows include PS122 (New York, NY), White Columns (New York, NY), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City, MX), Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), Galerie Faurschou (Copenhagen, DK), Kunsthalle Nürnberg (Nürnberg, DE). She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting and attended residencies at PS122 Studio Program, MacDowell, and Cité Internationale des Arts. Giersbach’s work has been commissioned by Arts for Transit, MTA (Brooklyn, NY), Percent for Art (Queens, NY); the Palladium Co. (West Palm Beach, FL) and is in the public collections of the Albright-Knox (Buffalo, NY), Harvard Business School (Boston, MA) and the RISD Museum, (Providence, RI). The work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, ArtNet Magazine, The Village Voice, and Art Forum Online, among others. Giersbach splits her time between New York, NY, and Sullivan County, NY.
