Tina Hejtmanek creates drawings with natural materials and powder, working with geometrical forms. She is also a landscape photographer. She combines her background in painting and the cinematic aesthetic to produce fragmented photos of the natural world. Her work features partial sunsets, blurred landscapes, and fractured clouds that are simultaneously suggestive of a certain place and an abstract experience. Her photographs describe a notion of place in both a documentary and psychological sense. The images are tenuous records of road trips, landscapes, remote destinations, details of nature, light, and color. She uses traditional photographic methods, film, and C-prints to create images that convey a lyrical contemplation of travel, landscape, and location. The resulting photographs distill the natural world into painterly explorations of mark, hue, light, and form, and examine the peripheries of impermanence. Hejtmanek was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, and lives and works in Marfa, Texas.

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