Adrienne Moumin

Born in Brooklyn, NY; Works between New York NY and Silver Spring, MD

BIO

Combining black and white photography and collage, Adrienne’s unique perspective uses urban architecture to create abstract shapes. In her "Architextures" hand-cut-and-assembled series, her collages are anything but static, with texture and layering emphasizing their handmade quality. The complex, layered nature of Adrienne’s practice subtly blends fragmented photographs into geometric forms.

Adrienne Moumin is a visual artist based in New York, NY and Silver Spring, MD. Moumin works in hand-printed B&W photography and handmade photo collage. During the past 20 years, her work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions in New York, Washington, DC, and other cities. Moumin was awarded 2023, 2021 and 2016 grants by the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County (MD) and the Maryland State Arts Council (2021), for the creation of numerous large-scale photo collages. Moumin was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1961, and received her BA in Documentary Visual Studies and Society in 1999 from SUNY Empire State College in Manhattan.

You’ll love Adrienne if: your life is set to the tune of a Gershwin soundtrack

" have been a collage artist since childhood, and a B&W film photographer for over twenty years. About 15 years ago, I began combining the two art forms, which grew into my ongoing Architextures series of handmade gelatin silver photo collages. My process is experimental in nature, as I allow the images themselves to guide my choices of what to cut out, and how to arrange the pieces. I strive to convey the feeling of the original scene, as well as a sense of drama, in each collage."