"Meet the Artist" with Deb Todd Wheeler

On Thursday, December 12, we welcome Deb Todd Wheeler to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Over the past several years, Deb Todd Wheeler’s artwork has pulled her out of the depths of grief, after the tragic and sudden deaths of her son Lucas and brother Rob. She finds herself returning to Lucas’ bedroom, watching the light pass over his books, his bed, his old sneakers, and all the other residual matter of his brief life, hoping for something to open in the return. In this talk, she will share the photographic nature of her expanded practice, and the fraught delight that accompanies her struggle for something beyond illumination. Although many of her public offerings are protected by a no photography rule, her studio practice engages with untethered time and analog processes -the spare mechanics of pinhole and contact printing- finding a forced stillness that hosts unresolvable yet beautiful collisions with the past. Wheeler will have Book of Walks available for sale throughout the evening.

Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.

Deb Todd Wheeler is a multi-disciplinary artist in the Boston area who creates photographic experiences and spaces of radical generosity for emotional transformation and reclamation. Her projects take the form of interactive installations, objects, and participatory happenings, creating provisional communities through gathering, grief work, and holding commemorative space. In a recent project, she guided hundreds of participants (individually, over many years) on a geo-located audio-walk in the partially remediated landscape of Lost Pond, which you can read about in her recently released Book of Walks.

She is on the MFAV graduate faculty at Clark University, a Deep Listening facilitator, and a founding member of the LENNYcollective, which provides unusual opportunities for amateur musicians of all ages and levels. Her artwork is represented by Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston.

Banner image: Deb Todd Wheeler.

Host or Publisher The Center for Photography at Woodstock