Spring 2024
Spring 2024
Exhibitions and Portfolio Reviews
Hello, and happy spring! It is getting warmer (and hopefully drier soon) here in San Diego and I have some great local news to share with you.
On View Now:
I Can’t Go Out Like This, 2021
Trauma; Artists’ Reflections On Healing and Resilience will be on view at Grossmont College's Hyde Art Gallery in El Cajon, CA.
I am so excited to co-curate this exhibition alongside Ted Meyer. Here is some of what the exhibit will offer:
The Hyde Art Gallery is thrilled to reopen for our second exhibition of the Spring semester, Trauma: Artists' Reflections on Healing and Resilience. This emotionally impactful collection, co-curated by artists Annie Claflin and Ted Meyer, delves into personal narratives that examine both visible and invisible wounds to communicate, educate and reveal that art is not only a tool for expressing pain but also a vehicle for healing. The participating artists contemplate varied subjects such as war, cancer, sexual assault, and mental health. Artistic media like painting, fiber, and video integrate stories of harrowing life events in an exhibition that ultimately conveys solidarity. Alone, these artists communicate their physical and psychological pain through glitter, fabric, wood, imagery, and audio, while collectively inviting the audience into their healing processes.
The intersection of trauma and artistic practice can be a profound exploration into the depths of human experience and expression. Trauma, whether emotional, psychological, or physical, can etch indelible marks on an individual's psyche, shaping their worldview, perceptions, and modes of self-expression. For individuals who have endured trauma, art becomes a vessel for processing and reconciling with their past experiences. It serves as a medium through which they can articulate the inexpressible, confront their demons, and reclaim agency over their narrative. This creative process, inherently introspective and cathartic, offers artists a space of refuge where they can transform pain into beauty, chaos into order, and despair into hope.
Participating artists: Alexandra Carter, Annie Claflin, Ayin Es, Jada Fabrizio, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Patricia Fortlage, Siobhan Hebron, Daniel Leighton, Linda Litteral, Krista Machovina, Ted Meyer, Mhairi Morrison, Dylan Mortimer, Rosalyn Myles, Kathy Nida, Alice Marie Perreault, Dominic Quagliozzi, Jane Szabo, Susan Trachman, Christiana Updegraff, Melissa Watkins, & Julie Weiman
A big exhibition of small works in April
Tagged and Bagged Crab Claw, 2024
Pigment print, salt, sand, acrylic paint, epoxy resin and varnish on cradled wood panel
8 x 10 x 1.5 inches
Size Matters closing reception: April 27th, 2024, 6 - 8 pm
I am also happy to announce that I will be participating in the Medium Festival of Photography through their portfolio reviews and the annual Size Matters exhibition. Juror Crista Dix from the Griffin Museum of Photography chose a new piece from the Undertow series, Tattered and Bagged Crab Claw, to be included in this exhibit of small works. Thank you to Crista, Medium Photo, and the Athenaeum Art Center for putting together this exhibition. I will be showing other work from Undertow during Medium's portfolio reviews in April.
Bagged and Tattered Crab Claw, 2024, Burned archival pigment print, salt, sand, epoxy resin, acrylic paint, UV spray and varnish on cradled wood pane, 8 x 10 inches
Waving Farewell
Floating Hope, 2022
Archival pigment print
24 x 36 inches
I am sad to see this one go. Online for just a few more days, until March 14th: Personal Territory, Los Angeles Center of Photography's Ninth Annual Member's Exhibition, juried by Andi Campognone, Director and Curator of the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA.
LACP’s annual Members Exhibition delves in to our personal perspectives of–and relationships with–lands, cities or uncharted terrains: imagined topographies and tangible locations.
It's been an honor to show work alongside these talented artists:
Elizabeth Bailey, Sheri Behr, Douglas Caldwell, Tracy Chandler, Gina Cholick, Annie Claflin, Stephanie Cochinos, Dora Duan, Richard Dweck, Fran Forman, Laurie Freitag, Kymberli Ghee, Joan Haseltine, Douglas Hill, Jim Hill, Claudia Hoag, Mark Indig, Seyedeh sareh Jalali, Michael Kirchoff, Peter Krask, Alison Lake, Denise Laurinaitis, Lisa Levine, Kerry Mansfield, Natalie McGuire, Diane Meyer, Louise Russell, Alina Saranti, Richard Stanley, Stephanie Sydney, Joshua Tann, Emerson Xia, Torrance York, Ellen Zimmerman
Gone Too Soon
Grace Kook-Anderson, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, was the guest juror and put together a fantastic exhibit; Acts of Healing and Repair, The Bellingham National 2023 Juried Art Exhibition. I am ecstatic that Black Hole was chosen to hang among so many other fantastic works spanning the visual arts, from video, painting, and sculpture to textile and glass, and that all reflect the exhibition’s theme of healing and repair.
Black Hole, 2022, Archival pigment print, 13 x 17 inches, Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Acts of Healing and Repair at The Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA