Wenda Habenicht grew up in Boulder, Colorado and graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin before moving to New York City to earn her MFA at Columbia University. She then moved to Brooklyn and while there, Wenda created numerous large-scale, outdoor, architecturally and/or anthropomorphically derived sculpture which were exhibited in the United States and Canada. After moving to Upstate New York and taking a twenty-two year hiatus from making art, Wenda started taking photographs in 2012 and began developing her series of digital photographic diptychs. Several years later, she returned to building sculpture and creating works on paper.
About my photographic diptychs
For the past thirteen years, I have been working on a series of photographic diptychs – two equal size images that I digitally place side-by-side to create one unique photograph. Diptychs are often recognized by a space or center line separating two frames. I eliminate that separation to allow my photographs to merge and flow into each other. I juxtapose unexpected images to create a work that transforms the subjects into a new context or scenario. I think of my single photo images as found objects to be used to construct and build my diptychs. It’s not one image by itself but the relationship with another that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts.
















