Bushwick Open Studios

This year, I was asked to participate in a group show at Silver Projects at the Bushwick Open Studios. I love the Silver Projects space, and I love their mission statement. It was an honor to be a part of their inaugural exhibition.

Then, a few days later, I saw this pop up on the internet:

10 Artists to Watch from the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios

Thank you, Silver Projects, and thank you, hyperallergic.com!

PDN's 30 2013

It is a great honor to have been selected for PDN's 30 2013!

Check it out here!

Everglades by Dale Hawkins

Dear William Henry Jackson,

Dear William Henry Jackson,

I am writing to you from the future. Or, perhaps I am writing to you, who are in the past. Either way, you have been dead for some time now, and it seems that we will not be crossing paths in this lifetime.

I, however, find you a very attractive man. I usually do not have a particular attraction towards photographers, but you are one of my exceptions. Plus, you are clearly a man who can both ride a horse, and shoot a gun - two essential traits every real man should have. If you come into the future, we can build us a cabin with our own hands in the middle of some thick, dense earth, way down some dirt road or up on a mountain, and have a vegetable garden and you and I can shoot things dead and we can cook them. It will be heaven. We can take lots of pictures and when we get sick of having too many prints around we can make them into paper airplanes and set them to flight, although I will probably fight to keep a few of yours because I love your work so. I know you like painting, so you can paint a whole bunch, and I can sit outside in the sun and bang on my guitar until I get good at it. We will dance on the grass in our bare feet every day. And I will happily cut that grass every few weeks with a large machete.

I hope you get this message, hop on that horse with that very large weapon of yours and come and rescue me from all of these modern day city boys.

Thank you very much.

Love,

Lisa

I don't quite know what it is, but there is just something so satisfying about a glass negative where absolutely nothing is tack sharp except for the particles of dirt, bugs, and organic matter that has been amberized in the collodion.

This month, I received a grant from the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation for my American Folk series. It is an honor to have received this grant.

The foundation was created by Harold Chenven in memory of his wife, Ruth Chenven, a silversmith and jewelry designer. The foundation is presently run by a small group of their family and friends.

So, I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to Ruth and Harold Chenven for giving me support to move forward with this project.



Marmet, WV. November 2011.

i am secretly in love with everyone i photograph.