Masha Tsimring

Buildings

Digital collage of Soviet-era apartment buildings

"Using layering and collage to translate the palimpsest of my immigrant brain into a visual landscape, I am taking my own memories, photographs taken by my ancestors, and processing these through analog and digital tracings/layerings/rerememberings.

As a lighting designer, I consider the entire dimensional space the body exists in - both the body of the performer and that of the spectator. I aim to bring this awareness to my solo artwork as well, immersing the viewer through at least one sensory element at a time. I think of my pieces as still frames along a timeline, and can imagine the versions that they become before and after the moment of me processing them. I dream of people being able to experience the work in all of its stages of existence."

– Masha Tsimring

About the artist

Masha Tsimring

Masha Tsimring is a NYC-based lighting designer for live performance. She comes from Russia, by way of California, Boston, California, New Haven, and California. She is coastally indecisive, an Aquarius. She speaks English, Russian, and a smattering of French. Tsimring is especially interested in collaborating on work that transcends the boundaries of any particular genre, and finds meaning in abstraction. Always looking for kind people doing strange things. In addition to design, her interests include progress towards pay equity and a more ethical model of making in the American theater. She is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, IATSE Local 829.

Tsimring's work has taken her to theaters across the US and internationally to Russia, Chile, China, Germany, Ecuador, Canada, the Netherlands, and Bolivia. Homes for New York projects include Playwrights Horizons, The Kitchen, Atlantic Theatre Co., Clubbed Thumb, PlayCo, Invisible Dog, Page73, and Bushwick Starr. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.