2020 News

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, several major art shows I was to have were canceled or postponed. But that said, I still was included in several wonderful shows. Below are some of the highlights. 

I so enjoyed being in the wonderful exhibit Beyond the Surface: The Photograph as Object alongside ten stellar photographers, including Diane Meyer, JP Terlizzi and Marina Font. Thank you to curator Aline Smithson and the photography staff at Cal Poly for a beautiful show. Besides speaking at the opening, the photographers offered portfolio reviews to students in the photography department at the school, which was a new learning experience for me. 

“The exhibition, Beyond the Surface, features a variety of interventions and investigations that include collage, sewing, cutting, weaving and embroidery, all interrogating the material qualities of the physical photograph as an attempt to recover the magic of the photography.”  – Aline Smithson

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I was honored to have a one-person show at Studio Channel Islands, along with four other women with 23 images from my Grieving In Japan series. Although delayed for several months due to the pandemic, There and Back Again eventually opened in the summer. During the show, I participated in a Zoom panel discussion on how art-making can be a respite for grief. Thank you gallery director Peter Tyas for creating and curating this show.

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The wonderful Alexa Dilworth juried my image into the  26th Annual Member’s Show at the Griffin Museum of Art. I was also honored to present my series, Grieving In Japan, at a presentation on Zoom for a few of the artists in the show.

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This past summer I was notified that my series, Grieving In Japan, was selected as a top Critical Mass Finalist 2020. Thank you to Photolucida and the many jurors for this honor. 

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Thank you so much Meg Griffith and Frances Jacubek for including me among the 100 women invited to participate in A Yellow Rose Project, a project to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote. My work was included in one of the many exhibits representing this project at Texas Christian University’s Mary Couts Burnett Library. Thank you Kaylee Appleton for installing this show. 

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