HOW LUCKY WE WERE TO HAVE LIVED

AlterWork Studios is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photographs by studio artist DIANA ALSIP.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 10 6–9 PM
Exhibition Dates: September 10–28, 2021

‘How lucky we were to have lived’ opens on September 10 with a reception open to the public, and is on view through September 28. The exhibition features twelve new chromogenic prints, handprinted by the artist in a color darkroom. Alsip utilizes found vintage imagery, projected into contemporary domestic spaces and re-photographed. The work invites the viewer to enter a wider, shared pool of memories and to examine their place in it. 

Alsip's work engages with themes of memory, the family archive, and belonging. She is currently experimenting with found and personal family images, and a combination of both digital and analog photography processes to construct imagined futures and re-imagined pasts within a larger system of collective memory and experience.

Alsip studied visual arts at Arizona State University, earning a BFA with a concentration in photography. A current member of AlterWork Studios in Long Island City, NY, she has exhibited in Tempe, AZ, New York City, NY, and Pácora, Colombia. In 2021 she was awarded a New Work Artist Grant, and this exhibition was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.