AlterWork Studios is pleased to present the work of local artist Nancy Gesimondo in the form of a solo exhibition.

“Reflections” debuts with an opening reception on Friday, June 4, 2021 from 6-9PM. The exhibit will be on view everyday from 12-9PM until June 18, 2021.

The photography-based assemblages in this series are influenced by the tradition of pioneering feminist artists, such as Anne Brigman, Judy Chicago and Ana Mendieta who also photographed their bodies in nature. 

Landscape is presented in these images to convey a deeply rooted connection to, and reverence for the natural world. These reflections draw upon themes associated with mythic images of the priestess that embody divine female power. In ancient wisdom traditions, the priestess officiated sacred rituals. Their spiritual authority came from their inner wisdom, which was deeply grounded in the natural world. The titles of each of these reflections are verbs that ground us in the “doing”, and in this active sense reconnect us to the physical world and emphasize our corporeal nature. 

The vintage ocular shaped frames create a lens into a timeless space reminiscent of how intimately we are embedded in the physical world. Natural elements included in some of the pieces bridge the space between the camera’s eye and our own inner eye. 

“I’ve swung far from the straight and narrow path of straight photography…I’ve done some hocus-pocus that would make the shadow of Daguerre haunt me for a heretic. Do not say that Nature being beautiful, and photography being able to reproduce its beauty, therefore photography is Art. This is unsound. Nature is often beautiful, of course, but never artistic “per se”, for there can be no art, without the intervention of the artist in the making of the picture.” 
~ Anne Brigman