EXHIBITS, TALKS & INTERACTIVE EVENTS

PAC’s PEACE PARTICIPANT
Current 2023-2024 Cohort as a Teaching Artist working with Educators on Student-Focused Art Projects

Stay tuned for details on Spring 2023 Projects

Patchogue Arts Council’s (PAC), PEACE (Partners in Education, Arts, & Community Empowerment) project empowers educators and cultural partners in Suffolk County middle and high schools to make more effective use of the arts for underrepresented students through College, Career, and Civic Readiness (CCCR) and Culturally Responsive-Sustaining education (CR-S).

I am honored and excited to be a part of this 5-year project which was awarded to PAC through a highly competitive grant with the US Department of Education.

MoCA L.I.GHTS FESTIVAL 2023

LIVE INTERACTIVE PROJECTION LIGHT PAINTING

October 6 & 7, 2023

Museum of Contemporary Arts (MoCA)

Patchogue Arts Council Gallery

Thank you to all who attended! I have so many amazing images and videos to share and still yet to go through and process. Until I get those posted, enjoy the above video experiment created with the MoCA crew after the public interactive event.

More images & video work coming soon!

PORT TALKS VIDEO PODCAST
with Alina Wilczynski
LIGHT PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHER

APRIL 27, 2023

Port Jefferson, NY

STUDIO PRACTICUM
SPRING 2023 FACULTY SURVEY EXHIBIT
OPENING RECEPTION LIGHT PAINTING DEMONSTRATION

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Memorial Gallery
SUNY Farmingdale State College
Farmingdale, NY

SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
ART-TECH EXHIBITION

APRIL 12 – JUNE 3, 2022

Gannett Gallery
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Utica, NY

Video Installation

THE BREATHING PROJECT
2021 EXHBIT NYC

The Breathing Project was a global forward-looking, multidisciplinary artistic engagement that paired artists, musicians, and poets with healthcare and frontline workers, students, and the elderly who were impacted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Artworks honored stories, tragic or inspiring, to foster a global culture of understanding and shared experiences.

Video Installation / International Call for Artists

WORLD RIDE WOMEN’S MOUNTAIN BIKING VIRTUAL FILM FESTIVAL

SCREENED ENTRY: 2020

Honorable Mention / Finalist

PAST EXHIBIT HIGHLIGHTS

Group Show Highlights:

UUFSB Stony Brook (NY)
Westbeth Gallery (NYC)
Leslie Lohman Gallery (NYC)
GMHC AIDS Dance-A-Thon Art Exhibition Space at the Passenger Ship Terminal (NYC)

Subculture Gallery (NYC)

Exhibiting Artist/Member (1996-1999)

Monsoon Images (NYC)

Limited Representation (2001-2010)

Getty Images

Limited Licensing of images (2007-2010)

PAST TALKS, PRESENTATIONS & PANEL DISCUSSION HIGHLIGHTS

Producer of “Women on a Mission: Lesbian Pioneers, Mavericks & Mavens in a Mastermind Session about Leadership”

Presented at New World Stages, NYC (300+ attendees) while part of the inaugural LGBT Committee of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce (2009)

Participant on a Soloprenier Panel Discussion Event hosted by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce (2009)

Panelist at the Q-Me Con NYC Queer Women’s Media Makers Summit (2008)

Montclair State University Alumni Speaker Series

BURNING PRIDE NYC

The New York Public Library
in partnership with The LGBT Community Center (NYC)

Featured Photographer/Artist exhibit titled “Burning Pride” in gallery spaces on two floors and several common spaces throughout the upper floors of The LGBT Center (2006)

Suspended from the apex of the third-story, semi-circle skylight that brings flooding light from the top floors to the ground floor atrium of the NYC of the LGBT Center’s, the colors of pride in the form of a Tibetan prayer flag graced sumi-e black ink paintings on rice paper as part of the Center’s Pride Month art installation sponsored by New York Public Library.

The three-part installation spanned past to present work, with glimpses of portrait studies of lesbian gender identity, society’s uneasiness with androgenous women, erotic role-play based on gender stereotypes and fetishism. Hung from rusty window guards hack-sawed from her fourth-floor Brooklyn loft studio, images are transferred onto metal, fabric, hand-made papers and found materials.

A second set of images were transferred onto gold-leaf Chinese paper offerings set on fire and extinguished in varying degrees of disappearance. “Traditionally burned at the anniversary of a loved ones passing to ensure prosperity for the deceased in the spirit realm, the ritualistic burning of these papers and the images on them represent the death of my ‘coming out’ years by looking back at the vestiges of that experience — stream-of-consciousness writings and photography from that time. I can recognize that each completed piece is a closed and sealed time capsule of painful questioning, hurts and losses, as well as a burning sense of pride and transcendence. In burning these pieces, I am honoring the life-affirming process of discovering, finding comfort with and expressing my personal truths of sexuality and gender identity. In the tradition of the papers, I am sending prosperity of experience to those who are at the beginning of their bumpy journey of discovery and pride.”

These sumi-e ink paintings were part of a study of wabi-sabi, a philosophy of art-making based on the universal principle that “everything is either devolving towards or evolving from nothingness.” The string of prayer flags that introduce the sumi-e paintings served to carry my thoughts of compassion, fearlessness, fulfillment and prosperity to the wind.

VOLUNTEER BOARD POSITIONS

Co-founding Board Member of OP/LYNX, the Women’s Network of Out Professionals (The Nation’s Leading Gay & Lesbian Business Network)

Our initiatives were aimed at ‘lynk-ing’ community partners and lesbian-owned small businesses throughout the NYC area. Events included business panels and presentations, networking socials and cultural events and were hosted at museums & galleries, theaters, restaurants and corporate spaces including Asia Society & Museum, American Folk Art Museum and MoMA.

LGBT Executive Committee Member & Marketing Chair of The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce

Because of my work with OP/LYNX, I was invited to lead similar initiatives for the MCC.