Two works accepted into The Woodmere Annual: 80th Juried Exhibition

I am delighted to have two works accepted into The Woodmere Annual: 80th Juried Exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

Jurors Michelle Angela Ortiz and José Ortiz-Pagán invited artists to submit works of visual art that reflect the theme of migration.

The exhibition includes the work of 35 artists selected from 345 artists who submitted work, and runs from June 4 through August 28, 2022. There is an opening reception on Saturday June 4 from 12pm-3pm.

Thoughts on Migration: My mother once recounted the story of how, soon after marrying my dad, she had to travel alone on a troop train in the mid 1940’s from Sacramento, CA to Buffalo, NY where she would take up a married life far removed geographically and spiritually from the world she grew up in. This kind of irrevocable movement, for love, had me look more closely at old photos, discovering stories with new information about my family, which I incorporated with my own photographs into a series, Sacramentos: Family Moments.

I found out that my mother’s honeymoon, which I thought was wholly in Santa Barbara, included a stay in Hollywood. I was surprised to learn that the quiet, reserved paternal grandfather I knew had once worn spiffy hats and shoes and smoked a cigar; how had he changed from a bon vivant law school student to the old man I knew?

I feel that our very personal stories live in the body of universal family histories that include the mysterious, perhaps never to be known reasons why ancestors made changes in residences and relationships.