Sarah Shepard Gallery
Understory, In Blue
January 16 - March 1, 2025
Carrie Haddad Gallery
The Summer Show
June 21 - August 11, 2024
“Dora Somosi uses an array of photographic processes to produce images that obliterate preconceptions of what photography can be. From her arboreal cyanotypes to the “photo-collage nature-scapes” from her Fantastic Regular series, Somosi’s pictures unfailingly achieve an expansiveness typically reserved for painters. Somosi's "Fantastic Regular" series is an exploration of time where multiple views of one location merge into a single frame. Light is refracted into color forms, and growth happens on a macro scale superimposed onto a lush, photo-collaged nature-scape. This work translates a metamorphosis in nature that the human eye can perceive. Through these landscape images, the artist explores the idea of a "beautiful change in nature, especially as it relates to the body and a generational life span."
Carrie Haddad Gallery
The Summer Show
June 16 - August 6, 2023
Klompching Gallery
Paperwork
April 5 - May 27, 2023
“For the project, By Her Side, Dora Somosi has been visiting the homes/studios of influential historical female artists and thinkers. She creates a photographic blueprint, of a tree that was witness—through its proximity—to the chosen women’s legacy. The selected women all have deep relationships to nature and the landscape. They use their expertise or pioneering spirit for education and/or environmental appreciation. Visiting the sites where these women lived and worked stemmed from hikes with the artist’s daughter. It is a performative act that calls upon instinctive photographing to both connect and memorialize.”
Klompching Gallery
Land Revisited
March 9 – April 30, 2022
“For Dora Somosi, the pandemic ushered in a need to reflect the world back in a new way. She utilizes the 19th Century Cyanotype process to good effect. In her renderings of tree canopies, she likens the blue tones and color space to all that it conjures—blue of moodiness, blue of reverie, blue of midnight, blue of remembering, blue of veins and so on. The labor-intensive process acts as a metaphor for the slowing-down of society during a time ravaged by illness and vulnurability. These stunning, monochromatic photographs enable the viewer to escape, to imagine, to contemplate.”
The Shen Gallery
She Was a Little Bit Blue
October 2022
