Cadence Giersbach is an American painter, known for her work that deals with notions of space and location, created through a process that incorporates photography, drawing and painting. Giersbach has completed four permanent public art commissions, including a large mosaic for the New York City subway station. She also makes paintings, drawings and temporary site specific paintings that have been shown at galleries and museums in the US, Mexico and Europe. Venues have included Roebling Hall, Deitch Projects, Wave Hill, White Columns, Museo Rufino Tamayo, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has been the recipient of awards including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (NYFA). She was educated at Vassar College (B.A.), Rutgers University (M.F.A.) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Cadence Giersbach
Studios
Firth
Cadence Giersbach worked in the Firth studio.
Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…