AS IT IS
a group exhibition
February 14 - March 21, 2026

Featuring
Rose Marie Cromwell
Janet Delaney
Christine Elfman
Mona Kuhn
Klea McKenna
Brea Souders
Giorgia Valli

ROSE MARIE CROMWELL
Rose Marie Cromwell (b. 1983, Sacramento, CA; based in Miami, FL) is a photographer and artist whose work examines the effects of globalization on local communities and the delicate intersection between the political and the spiritual. Her first monograph, El Libro Supremo de la Suerte (TIS Books, 2018), received the Light Work Photo Book Prize and was named one of the “25 Best Photobooks of 2018” by TIME Magazine. In 2021, she published two additional books: Eclipse (TIS Books) and A More Fluid Atmosphere (Pomegranate Press). Cromwell’s first solo museum exhibition was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, in 2024. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco and at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant, a Getty Reportage Grant, and was an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work. Cromwell’s work is included in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

JANET DELANEY
Janet Delaney (b. 1952; Compton, California) is a photographer based in Berkeley, California. Her work uses research, interviews, and photography to record the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco. She is currently completing SoMA Now, a record of San Francisco’s rapid transformation into an international center of technology and all of the consequences these new riches have wrought. Both honest and poetic, her approach straddles the line between documentary and fine art. Delaney is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. She has received numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts grants. Her photographs are in collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the Pilara Foundation, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Smithsonian Museum, among others. She has shown her photographs nationally and internationally. Delaney received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. She has taught widely and held a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley for 15 years. 

CHRISTINE ELFMAN
Christine Elfman received her MFA from California College of the Arts and BFA from Cornell University. Her interest in ephemerality has been influenced by family photographs and her work with historic collections at the George Eastman House, University of Rochester Rare Books Library, and the Berkeley Art Museum. She has worked with and taught experimental photographic processes for over 15 years, beginning with the wet-plate collodion and albumen printing processes as an intern for France Scully Osterman in Rochester, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at Penumbra Foundation (New York), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco) and Somarts (San Francisco). Awards include a Light Work Grant in Photography, Penumbra Workspace Residency, Saltonstall Foundation Residency, and San Francisco Artist Award. Her work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, Der Greif, Loupe Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, SF Weekly, and other publications. Elfman has taught art at Bowdoin College, Cornell University, San Francisco Art Institute, and lives in Upstate New York.

MONA KUHN
Mona Kuhn is a photographer and lens-based media artist. Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse.  Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, Kuhn's practice is focused on the mysteries of the physical and metaphysical presence of the figure.  Kuhn looks at the figure and representation as a platform for our complex emotions, desires, and fears. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art. For the past two decades, the Los Angeles-based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, subject, and purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide, and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent.  In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute.  She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.  Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19).  In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents was published by Stanley/Barker Editions in 2018.  In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a stunning career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication, Kings Road is published by Steidl with a multi-dimensional debut exhibition at The Arts, Design & Architecture Museum in 2022. Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan.  Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver, Canada, Australian Centre for Photography, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.  Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.

KLEA MCKENNA
Klea McKenna (b. 1980, Freestone, CA) is a visual artist who writes and makes films and is known for cameraless photography and her innovative use of light-sensitive materials. She is a 2023 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Photography. Her work is held in several public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; United States Embassy Collection; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She studied art at UCLA, UCSC, and California College of the Arts. Klea is the daughter of renegade ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison and psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and their young children.

BREA SOUDERS
Brea Souders is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work bridges studio-based practices and observational photography. She combines photographs, text, painting, and other materials to make work about authenticity, belonging, and otherness within technological landscapes. While she values control in her images, she also embraces chance and the unknowable, observing that “illumination isn’t guaranteed.” Souders has exhibited her work internationally, including exhibitions at Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, France; PhMuseum, Bologna, Italy; and Peckham 24, London, UK, as well as Baxter St at CCNY, The Hole, and the Abrons Arts Center in New York. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Arts Club Fellowship, and a Baxter St at CCNY Residency. Essays and reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, i-D, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Yorker. She is the author of the books Another Online Pervert (MACK, 2023) and Brea Souders: Eleven Years (Saint Lucy Books, 2021).

GIORGIA VALLI
Giorgia Valli was born in Bergamo in 1985. She graduated from IED Milan in 2008. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In 2016, she exhibited for the first time in the USA at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, publishing her first photo book with Nazraeli Press. Later, she became part of the collections of several American museums, such as LACMA, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She currently lives and works in Italy.

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