Contemporary Work

While collecting photographs from the 1920s through the 1940s, I found myself increasingly drawn to contemporary artists whose practices carried what I can only describe as a surreal thread: a refusal of photographic neutrality and an insistence on vision as psychic, political, and embodied. Most importantly, the works challenged the way I see and perceive “reality”. Almost without exception, these artists were women. Over time, this was no longer coincidence but recognition. I came to understand these works not as echoes of surrealism, but as its continuation: adaptive, insurgent, and alive.

Often, I got to know the artists and many have become close friends.