Naomi Shersty: Romance

January 1 - 31, 2005

Beyond a documentation of place, Romance illustrates an adult re-evaluating her adolescent experiences in the saturated and complex southeastern landscape. Through loose narrative, these photographic images serve as a re-contextualized visual journal.

Naomi Shersty's artwork includes traditional and digital photographic imagery and time-based media, all of which she often incorporates into sculptural installations and performances. Through re-enactments and re-visitations, she explores the construction of desire and identity and its relation to physical place, social environment and personal history. She has recently relocated to Florida, the locus of both her childhood and journey into womanhood, to expand her ongoing body of work. The intensity of southern environments, the sublime qualities of water and the tokens of a culture in conflict provide fruitful metaphors for the murky residue of memory and deep-rooted layers of identity.

Shersty received her MFA from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in July 2004. She is currently living in Florida.

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