Bio
Alanna's narratives are founded on ethereality and metacognition. Her immediate affinity for symbols that are universally regarded as “spiritual” has grown into a collection in which key through lines can be drawn between most combinations of images. Such themes include partnership as a reflection of self, blinding sun bursts, the full color spectrum, dreams, flight, and contradicting philosophies. She also believes strongly in the role of text in enhancing artistic cohesion, using poetic lines to help herself realize which existential themes she's been considering and why the photos relate to them.
Composing aesthetics for musicians and conducting interviews are beloved subgenres of Alanna’s practice as well.
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Education
2017 - 2021
SUNY New Paltz
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Minor in Art Studio
Spring 2020
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand (partially remote)
b. 1999
NY
Exhibitions
2024
July Exhibit with Meredith Dobbs, Roots Cafe / Brooklyn, NY
2022
Congruence solo show, Conscious Fork / Warwick, NY
2021
Craft x Craft group show, The Drowned Lands / Warwick, NY
Under 30 group show, Art Society of Kingston / Kingston, NY
2021 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch / online
Sonder group show, PhotoXCollective / online
2019
Imperatively Light joint show with artist Melissa Spiegel,
Milkweed / Sugar Loaf, NY
2018
Primavera
Caffe a la Mode / Warwick, NY (with Barbara Sklar Studios)
2016
20 Day Dream
Warwick, NY (with Barbara Sklar Studios)
2014
Awake, My Soul
Tuscan Cafe / Warwick, NY (with Barbara Sklar Studios)
Highlights
Nitehawk Shorts Festival 2024: Music Driven
30 artists under 30 in the Hudson Valley, Times Union
Moonsoaked, Cumulus Photo x Fifth Wheel Press
Hazey, Fifth Wheel Press
. . .and all was illuminated, Celebrate845
2022 Calendar collaboration, Fifth Wheel Press
Roots, Clemetine Magazine Issue 01
Touch, Clementine Magazine Issue 02
Relevant Work Experience
Spring 2022
Gallery Coordinator - Conscious Fork
Warwick, NY
Summer 2023
Product Photographer - Silver and Gold Emporium
Waldwick, NJ
Quiet air about you, yes,
but—
Blooming with cool tones blues and greens
in lightnings of thought,
growing in the greenhouse of a soul
only a dozen lives away from nirvana:
the divine conclusion to the color palette,
the last stop on the railroad of rainbowisms.
That left some bug in your eye,
inclined to document magic and magic only.
Your Canon is a butterfly net of the real,
catch, catch! the wings and antennae of the world.
Image and poem by Matt Moment
