NAME: Jonnie Andersen
BIRTH PLACE: Superior, Nebraska
BIRTH DATE: 4.2.76
BIOGRAPHY
Jonnie Andersen, born in Superior, Nebraska earned a BFA from the University of Nebraska in 1999 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2004. After interning for Martin Parr in London in fall of '04, she returned to Las Vegas to photograph as she had from 1999 to 2002. During these seven years spent in Vegas, she worked for the Bellagio, Paris Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, the Bunkhouse Saloon, and Glamour Shots, seeking a Vegas that only a local could photograph. Her projects include: 'Blank Space,' a photo series of the spaces inhabited by employees underneath the megaresorts, 'Vegascape,' urban and suburban landscapes, 'Postcards to Myself,' a series of postcards about what it means to inhabit the city, 'Model Home,' a series of images made in and around the homes designed to capture who we are as Americans and what we long for, and 'The Little Chapel of Esoteric Cosmetology,' a series of portraits of the ladies who work some of the most desperate streets in America.
