Artist Letha Wilson will discuss her practice, which involves merging photography and sculpture, as well as her career.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Letha was born in Hawaii, raised in Colorado, and currently works in Taghkanic and Brooklyn, New York. Letha Wilson is known for combining photography with industrial materials like concrete and steel. Wilson cuts, tears and shapes her photographs, pushing and pulling the prints into place and then encases portions of the composition in cement. Using architecture and three-dimensionality as both frame and armature, Wilson reclaims the photographic image, exploring the medium’s inability to encompass the site it represents.

Letha received her BFA from Syracuse University, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Letha attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and her artwork has been shown at many venues including Mass MoCA, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, Nasher Museum at Duke University and International Center for Photography. Letha has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Light Work, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Sharpe -Walentas Studio Program, among others. In both 2019 and 2014. Letha was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. Letha's most recent solo exhibitions were held at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine and Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Brussels, Belgium.