Tabitha Soren left a career in television in 1999 to start another as a photo-based artist. Her work visualizes psychological states; the internal weather that storms though each of us. Her pictures are metaphors for the difficult twists and turns of everyday living. Soren’s work speaks to the twists of fate in life that can unhinge us. Whether it’s disquieting images of people in mid-fight or flight in the Running series or in the tribute to panic attacks in her oceanscape series Panic Beach, Soren is most interested in what human beings can survive – and what they can’t. Her images function like invitations to the viewers’ emotional memory. Surface Tension continues delving into the human psyche by foregrounding the anxiety we navigate in the struggle to adapt to technological domination.
Public collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of Art, Transformer Station, Pier 24 Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She studied at Stanford University and the California College of Arts, but learned most of what she knows through trial by fire. Her first monograph, FANTASY LIFE, was published by Aperture Books in April 2017. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.