Maya Frodeman Gallery West is pleased to present River, a solo exhibition with local photographer Kristina Loggia, on view at the gallery's new Wilson location from September 26th through November 10, 2024. An artist reception will be held Thursday, September 26th from 5-7 pm at Maya Frodeman Gallery West. Loggia will be in attendance. All are welcome to attend.
On this series, Loggia writes, "River is a project I made during the coronavirus pandemic. I left New York City on March 15th, 2020, thinking I would be in Wyoming for two weeks. However, as isolation continued for nearly a year, I ended up staying much longer. In Jackson, I was able to take walks while always keeping a distance from others. I often walked by the Snake River near Emily’s Pond and as I did, I became captivated by the people I observed, and my sense that they seemed to be looking for the same things I was: a connection to the landscape of the place and the landscape of the new social reality in which we found ourselves, a connection that felt more and more and more elusive as the pandemic wore on. The images in this series, taken with a medium format camera, capture the unease I felt and saw around me. A woman sits by a pond seeming to be in a meditative position, yet she seems preoccupied with her phone. A group of young people keep their distance forming a human triangle. A man swims downstream and seems almost lost in the river's current. All these images are expressions of the tension not only between people and space but also in the spaces between people."
Born and raised in New York City, Loggia graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Initially following her family's tradition in acting, she studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory in both New York City and Los Angeles. A lecture by Ed Asner about the war in El Salvador ignited a childhood dream of becoming a war photographer. This inspiration led her to El Salvador with the Witness to Peace Program, where she discovered her passion for capturing truth through the lens of a camera. In 2001, Loggia embarked on a significant project, "Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections." Collaborating with writer EllynAnne Giesel, Loggia photographed women with personal connections to aprons. Comprising 46 environmental portraits and accompanying stories, the series has become nationally recognized as a nostalgic and thought-provoking traveling exhibition, exhibited at the Women’s Museum, Dallas TX, the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA, and the Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, among others. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and news networks, including Time Magazine, The New Yorker, SPIN, Detour, ESPN, Fortune, Telegraph UK, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The New York Times, among others. Her work has been shown across the United States in galleries and museums and is a part of several prominent private collections.
