Fall 2024 (and Don't Forget Late Summer)

Summer is ending as my son is back to school and I am looking forward to an action-packed next few months.

My summer concluded with The Curated Fridge's Summer 2024 Altered Memories exhibition at Candela Books + Gallery during Unbound! 13 in July and August (exhibited image above). Thank you to juror Dominique Muñoz for selecting one of my images, to Yorgos Efthymiadis for creating such a fun platform for showing photographs, and to Candela Gallery for hosting.

I am thrilled to report that I am on Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 200 list again this year! I submitted the series I am currently concentrating on called Undertow. Two of the works from this series were juried into the (s)Light of Hand 2024 exhibition at The Photographer's Eye Gallery here in San Diego next month. This exhibition was juried by Michael Kirchoff from Analog Forever Magazine. Before that show opens, I am preparing for portfolio reviews through the Los Angeles Center of Photography next month. Finally, in October I will attend The Elf School of The Arts in North Carolina for a two-week artist residency. I'll update you on the work I create during my residency one it's complete.

The Curated Fridge’s Altered Memories at Candela Books + Gallery

The Curated Fridge was red for this edition!

 
 

What Once Was Dune, 2024 was exhibited as a 4 x 6 inch print on The Curated Fridge’s Altered Memories exhibition at Candela Books + Gallery during Unbound! 13 from July 5th to August 3rd, 2024.

Ten images from my Undertow project were included in the Crtical Mass

Critical Mass is an annual online program that makes connections within the photography community. Photographers at any level, from anywhere in the world, submit a portfolio of 10 images. Through a pre-screening process, the field is narrowed to a group of 200 finalists who go on to have their work viewed and voted on by over 150 esteemed international photography professionals. From the Finalist group, the TOP 50 are named and a series of awards are given.

Hope (Floating), 2022 from Undertow

Congrats to: Adrian Saker, Aimee McCrory, Alanna Airitam, Alayna Pernell, Alexa Frangos, Allison Plass, Allyson Ely, Amy Gaskin, Amy Giese, Amy Sacka, Amy Sullivan, Andrea Sarcos, Andrés Gallego, Andy Mattern, Anh-thuy Nguyen, Ania Moussawel, Anita Hamremoen, Anne Berry, Annie Claflin, Ariel Sosa, Arrayah Loynd, Astrid Reischwitz, Austin Cullen, B A Van Sise, Barbara Hazen, Barbara Jane Levine, Barbara Strigel, Beihua Guo, Bootsy Holler, Brad Carlile, Brenda Spielmann, Brian Kosoff, Bryan Birks, Carla Shapiro, Caroline Allison, Carolyn Cheng, Charles Kimmerle, Charlotta Hauksdottir, Charlotte Schmid-Maybach, Chengbin Zhang, Chris Leventis, Chris May, Christa  Blackwood, Christina Renee Rodriguez, Christos Palios, Cindy Konits, Colton Rothwell, Constance Jaeggi, Craig Ames, Daniela Balestrin, Dawn Surratt, Dean Terasaki, Debe Arlook, Debra Achen, Dennis Segers, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Diane Durant, Dirk Hardy, Donna Bassin, Douglas Stockdale, Eli Craven, Elizabeth Raymer Griffin, Emily Hamilton Laux, Erica Reade, Fatih Uysal, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho, Galina Kurlat, Gary Emrich, Georgina Reskala, Ghaleb Cabbabé, Hannah Altman, Hannah Sutherland, Heather Evans Smith, Heather Slingerland, Henri Blommers, Horatio Nguyen, Ioanna Sakellaraki, Jacques Gautreau, Jaina Cipriano, Jane Yudelman, Jann Rosen-Queralt, Jason Hendardy, Jesse Egner, Jesse Rieser, Jim Hill, Jimmy Nicholson, Jinjin Li, Jo Ann Chaus, Jonathan Jasberg, Joseph Kayne, JP Terlizzi, Judi Bommarito, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Julie Mihaly, Justin Carney, K Young, Kantaya New, Karen Klinedinst, Katie Shapiro, Kaylin Clingensmith, Kazuaki Koseki, Kazuya Urakawa, Kelda Van Patten, Kerry Mansfield, Kiliii Yuyan, Kimberly Witham, Kourtney Iman King, Kristin Schnell, Larry C. Volk, Laura Beth Reese, Lauren Grabelle, Linda Plaisted, Linda Troeller, Lisa Beard, Lisa McCord, Lisa Miller, Lisa Murray, Lisa Toboz, Lucy Bohnsack, Lynsey Weatherspoon, Maggie Shannon, Mahala Mazerov, Margo Cooper, Mari Saxon, Mariko Masumoto, Marina Black, Mark Armbruster, Mark Eshbaugh, Mark Forbes, Masumi Shiohara, Matilde Simas, Matt Eich, Matthew Arnold, Matthew Ludak, Megan Bent, Melanie Walker, Meredith Leich, Mia Komel, Michael Snyder, Michele Zousmer, Mieke Douglas, Mima Cataldo, Minah Kang, Mona Bozorgi, Morgan Ford Willingham, Morgan Lieberman, Nadide Goksun, Naohiro Maeda, Nasrah Omar, Natalia Rudychev, Natalia Petkov, Nicola Hackl-Haslinger, Nicoletta Cerasomma, Nicolo Sertorio, Nikola Olic, Nina Hamberg, Owen Davies, Paille Benoit, Pamela Landau Connolly, Parker Pfister, Quincey Spagnoletti, R. J. Kern, Rachel Portesi, Raymond Thompson Jr, Riel Sturchio, Rob Hammer, Robyn Moore, Rosalba Breazeale, Ruth Toda-Nation, Sal Taylor Kydd, Sander Vos, Sarah Ketelaars, Sarah Mei Herman, Seido Kino, Selina Roman, Sol Hill, Sophie Schwartz, Stefanos Paikos, Stephanie Hanlon, Stephanie O'Connor, Stephen Galloway, Stig Marlon Weston, Susan Anthony, Susan Borowitz, Susan Goldstein, Susan Isaacson, Susan Lapides, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Sylvie Redmond, Takeisha Jefferson, Tamara Staples, Tamara Suarez Porras, Tara Bogart, Teri Figliuzzi, Terri Warpinski, Thomas Dryden-Kelsey, Tianhu Yuan, Tira Khan, Tom Bowden, Tommy Matthews, Tommy Nease, Tony Chirinos, Vanessa Marsh, Vera Saltzman, Victoria Gewirz, Virgil Dibiase, Walter Plotnick, Will Foerster, William Betcher, William Forshee, Xiang Feitian, Xuan Hui Ng, Yvette Marie Dostatni, Zillah Bowes.

Thank you to the prescreening panel: Arianna Rinaldo, Brittani Taylor, C. Meier, Camilla Marrese,Conor Moynihan, Danny Sanchez, Donna Garcia, Draženka Jalšić, Elizabeth Avedon, Federico Estol, Gail Fletcher, George Nobechi, Lia J. Latty, Zsolt Batori,

Up Next: (s)Light of Hand, 2024, juried by Michael Kirchoff

The Photographer’s Eye Gallery

326 E Grand Ave
Escondido, CA 92025
United States

Show Dates: September 14th – October 19th, 2024
Opening Reception: September 14th, 2024 4:00pm-7:00pm

Fly Away, 2024

Pigment print, sand, salt, and acrylic paint on cradled wood panel

5 x 7 x .75 inches

Torn Apart (Dangling Shell), 2024

Pigment print, sand, salt, and acrylic paint on cradled wood panel

7 x 10 x .75 inches

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

Last Drops of Summer Update: Exhibitions and Awards

The beginning of this summer brought atypical overcast and rainy weather to San Diego but my artwork still saw the light of day before the summer heat arrived.

EXHIBITIONS:

My image, “I See Us”, from my Covidity 2020 series was juried by Aline Smithson into the online exhibition Revisiting the Family Album: Stories That Bind Us at The Center for Fine Art Photography which runs until December 31, 2023.

I See Us

Additionally, an image from the Undertow project is included in the Los Angeles Center of Photography’s Personal Territory: Annual Members Exhibition. Thank you to Andi Campognone for jurying my work into the show.

Submerged Hope, 2023

AWARDS for Minor Imperfections

It is an honor to be named a finalist in the Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition 165. It is always nice to see my name alongside many other talented lens-based artists. I would like to thank Àsìkò, Louise Fedotov-Clements, Siqi Li, Dr Michael Pritchard, and Raquel Villar-Pérez for considering my work to be included in this exhibition.

I have always revered Critical Mass and am thrilled to be named among the Top 200 in 2023 and be among many of my peers on that list. Many thanks to the pre-screening team: Allison Stewart, Brittani Taylor, Draženka Jalšić Ernečić, Elizabeth Avedon, Federico Estol, Helen Trompeteler, Julian Lucas, Lia J. Latty, Molly Roberts, Peter M. Krask, Polly Gaillard, Sarah Leen, and Tiffany Jones.

Enjoy your last drops of summer before fall. I’ve already started drinking pumpkin spice cold brews. Next stop - apple cider donuts and pumpkin pie.

I hope you are all well. Please drop me a line and let me know how you are doing.

Annie

It's Been A Busy 2022...

2022 brought many opportunities and I am so grateful for them all. Here are a few:

Third Place, Untitled 2022

Don’t Look at Me (in Blue), 2021

This November, my image, Don’t Look at Me (in Blue) from the Minor Imperfections project placed third in the Untitled, 2022 American Photographic Artists, San Diego annual show. Exhibited locally at Bread & Salt, the jurors, Katherine Ware, Julie Grahame and Allison Retina Stewart compiled a beautiful selection of photographs.

I See Us, 2020 from Covidity, 2020 (The Three of Us)

Returning my work to my alma mater in my hometown of Boston this fall was such a thrill. I was honored to have I See Us from the Covididty 2020 (The Three of Us) included in the Massachusetts College of Art + Design’s (RE)CONNECT exhibition at The Thompson Gallery. The two photographs comprising I See Us were presented alongside so many other talented MassArt alum.

I had the pleasure of presenting two collages from the Minor Imperfections project in the (S)Light of Hand show at The Photographer’s Eye Gallery in Escondido in September. This exhibit was juried by Christina Z. Anderson and displayed so many gorgeous uses of alternative photographic processes.

Terrifying, 2022 from the Minor Imperfections Project

Monstrous, 2022 from the Minor Imperfections project

The Griffin Photography Atelier 35 Exhibition (March - April 2022)

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March 15th - April 10th at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

Artist Talk with Julie Hamel, Heather Walsh and Lawrence Manning, March 30th RSVP

Two collages from the ongoing Minor Imperfections project are currently on view in the Boston area alongside 16 other incredible image-makers. This group exhibition displays a selection of work from each artist that was created during this six-month-long critique course. I am honored to display my artwork next to this fine group of people.

The opening reception brought old friends and new to Shore Road for a triple opening. Also on view in the Griffin Gallery is Stephen Albair’s Silent Scenes and in the Atelier Gallery is Philip Sager’s Veiled Actualities.

Standing in front of the Atelier banner outside the Griffin Museum of Photography