“Owl,” Washington DC, February 2022. From the series “Lights Off.” Life Framer’s 2024 editors picks for the category of “Animal Kingdom.”
“Owl” is a LIfe Framer’s 2024 editors’ picks for Animal Kingdom Series.
Current: “Lights Out” is on exhibit at HOMME DC from March 10 through April 5, 2023. "Lights Out,” is a photographic exploration of Washington DC’s winter lantern public art exhibits in the year 2022. The exhibits, which include the Kennedy Center and the National Zoo, were photographed during the day with black and white film, as juxtaposition to their more intentional viewing and shooting of during the night, lit up from within and in color, even intended for social media posting. Photographing these lanterns in this manner releases them from their more intended replication and marketing, allowing for the taking on a divergent kind of aesthetic. A limited number of images were also printed on translucent paper and matched with a lightboard, thereby presenting them as being lit from within. By lighting lantern images that have their “light off,” the image is returned to its more closely original intended exhibiting, but at the same times allows for a departure that is slightly off from how we might see these lanterns in person or as a photograph.
Limited apparel from “Lights Out” is also available here.
Past: “Do You Wish for Tomorrow: Postcards from 2021” was a solo exhibit for HOMME DC for March 12-29, 2022 at 52 O Street NW, Washington DC, 20001. Through postcards featuring black and white film images, this series is an exploratory look at memory and time of the inaugural landscape following the breach of the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, the societal currents coursing through America in the wake of a pandemic, and the commodification of political discourse. All images from the show are now posted on this website.
I participated in the Second Annual Latela Curatorial Women in the Arts Exhibition, Monday, October 11 - Friday, December 31, 2021. My work included three images from my forthcoming series, “Do You Wish for Tomorrow: Postcards from 2021,” which were available for purchase through the flat file collection online and in-person at Latela Curatorial’s location of 716 Monroe Street NE #27, Washington DC 20017.
My photographic work was debuted in the first ever Latela Curatorial X ARTSY’s "Women in the Arts" online exhibition, featured in East City Art. In this initiative, the work of 102 (!!) women artists working across multiple media from DC, MD & VA were featured in a 6-week virtual exhibition during October 12 to November 22, 2020. Artworks were exhibited by themes or "viewing rooms" and accompanied by six full weeks of online programming, complete with artist talks, studio visits, etc including with yours truly. I was honored to have a chance to speak about my process as a photographic artist.
To learn more about this exhibit and the work of DC area women artists, visit Latela Curatorial.