Join us for new methodologies in photographic land studies with Dionne Lee and Kristine Potter at the Center for Creative Photography auditorium and forecourt, with artist practice talks and a collage workshop on May 14 from 5 to 7:30 p.m..
Curated by Art History MA student Faye Dowling, the event will have education and workshops by Denisse Brito (CCP) and Amanda Smith (PhD, Arts and Visual Culture Education).
“The embodied landscape” foregrounds Lee (b. 1988) and Potter (b. 1978) whose interdisciplinary field work proposes new methodologies for critical landscape practice. Engaging photography, collage, video, and bodywork, their practice considers how we navigate as individuals and communities through the real and projected environments of the US South and Southwest. Their land-based study posits new idioms through which to question and challenge the inherited moral narratives of colonial and gender-based violence as they operate in the peripheral territories of the region. In this new embodied critical practice, they assimilate new strategies for survival, understanding, and change, within our evolving social landscape.
Artist biographies
Dionne Lee (b. 1988) works in photography, collage and applied land-practice. Her 2025 work “between the falling leaf and the surface of the rock” explored ancestral belonging through a series of impermanent rock drawings and formations at the Storm King Art Centre, NY. Lee was a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and is an associate professor of art and woman’s gender, and sexuality studies at Ohio State University.
Kristine Potter (b. 1978) works in photography challenges both male and female stereotypes as they manifest in the US terrains. Potter’s “Dark Water” explored the folk rhetorics of violence against women in the rural Southern landscape and is currently working in the Mohave desert. Potters was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work is held at the V&A London, and ICP, NY.
• RSVP/questions: fayedowling@arizona.edu
