For more than ten years, Andrea Modica has been photographing a group of children in her rural town in upstate New York. It is here, through a young girl named Barbara and her extended family, that Modica creates her work. Transforming reality into fantasy, Modica creates narratives that seem to have no beginning or end, yet present endless scenarios.

In a fictitious town called Treadwell, Barbara and her friends pose for the photographer, who creates images with an 8 x 10" view camera. Like Faulkner's Jefferson County or Cheever's Shady Hill, Modica's Treadwell is a place where anything is possible. Through intense collaboration and trust, events unfold before our eyes, questioning our sense of reality.

Andrea Modica has received numerous grants including a 1994 Guggenheim Arts Fellowship and a 1990 Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, among many others. Her work has been published in numerous magazines including Harper's, Mother Jones and The New York Times Magazine, as well as two monographs, Treadwell (Chronicle Books, 1995) and Minor League (The Smithsonian Institution, 1993). Her work is included in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, George Eastman House in Rochester, The National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.