Spring Art Exhibitions
Testing small duotone and tri-color cyanotype prints on watercolor paper as I prep for upcoming shows.
This season has been one of quiet expansion — in the studio, in community, and in the structure supporting my work.
I’m honored to share that I was selected as one of the artists in AMP It Up!, the Artist Membership Program at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Designed to support creative careers and strengthen our local arts community, the program culminates in a month-long exhibition:
Revelry at 33: Artist Membership Program Members 2026
April 5–25
Opening Reception: April 10, 5–8pm (Arts Night Out at Hawley)
For this exhibition, I will be showing a new series of pieces titled What Was Held.
The work began with a question about memory — not as something fixed, but as something shaped by light, repetition, and time. I’ve been working in black and white, layering silhouettes and botanical forms, experimenting with exposure and negative space. Some pieces move through film; others through digital processes; some incorporate alternative techniques where sunlight and chemistry become collaborators.
In the studio, it has looked like test strips pinned to the wall. Negatives drying near the window. Contact sheets marked with pencil. Long pauses between exposures. The slow unfolding of something I couldn’t rush.
At the heart of this work is an interest in transition — in the space between what is remembered and what is released. What Was Held is less about a single story and more about the residue of experience: what lingers, what shifts, what softens over time.
In addition to the Revelry exhibition, I’m participating in Enough: A Collaboration at Waterway Arts, opening April 3 (5–8pm). For this show, artists were paired with writers; I created a photographic response to Tegan Mixer’s story Wisdom Fish. Responding to language through image invited a different kind of listening — allowing the emotional undercurrents of the text to shape light, composition, and gesture.
This feels like a meaningful season of visibility and connection — one that extends beyond the studio walls.
I also recently completed the Elevate Accelerator Program at The Sphere, funded by the TD Charitable Foundation and Liberty Bank Foundation. The program supports established entrepreneurs in building sustainable growth and stronger infrastructure. As someone balancing a portrait practice and a fine art practice, this experience has helped me shift from simply operating day to day toward building something more intentional and enduring.
Art and business are often spoken about separately. For me, they are in conversation. The same attention I bring to light and material in the studio is the attention I’m learning to bring to structure, systems, and long-term vision.
If you’re local, I would love to see you in April — whether at the Revelry exhibition in Northampton or at Waterway Arts in Turners Falls. If you’re farther away, I’ll be sharing behind-the-scenes process, installation views, and reflections in the coming weeks.
Thank you for being part of this unfolding.
