Meg Ojala has lived in Minnesota most of her life and has taught photography at St. Olaf College for the past 20 years. She earned her BA at the University of Minnesota and her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Meg has shown her work regionally and nationally in group and solo exhibitions and has received grants from the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and St. Olaf College. In 2002 she was one of ten artists commissioned by the McKnight Foundation to document “Twin Cities Treasures”, open spaces that will be the focus of conservation and protection efforts. Literature of all kinds, including poetry and nature writing influence her work. She lives in Dundas, Minnesota.
"I have been observing and photographing a little island on the Cannon River near my studio in Dundas, Minnesota. A constant interest, through all of the seasonal transformations I witness, is constructing the spatial illusion in the ground glass and investigating the ambiguities of closeness and distance, gravity and weightlessness. I am interested in the simultaneous perception of abstract marks and realistic representation, comprehensible pictorial space and bewilderment. I am intrigued by the paradox I am faced with in this work. I would like the images to embody the quality of an unselfconscious, unmediated, fleeting experience in a carefully constructed photograph. Haiku is analogous to what I am after because it evokes the intense experience of a fleeting instant in the natural world, presented in a highly compressed and structured form."
Special Order
Ojala’s photographs are made using a medium format camera. The negatives are then scanned and the photographs are printed with an inkjet printer on 100% acid-free archival cotton inkjet paper.
Ojala’s unframed photographs are available in three sizes:
20 x 20” $650.
32 x 32” $1000.
36 x 36” $1200.
Each edition is limited to 10 photographs. Please call for availability.
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