Contact: FaithMichele831@gmail.com
Faith-Michele James began working with a camera as part of her healing work as a survivor of child pornography. Her work focuses primarily on female archetypes and iconography in contemporary culture.
Recent projects include "WomanDance: Invoking the Divine Feminine," which honors the courage of modern female belly dancers in their search to re-connect with their feminine power, and “ Inside The Glass Box,” which examines how the emotional affects of fashion mannequins reflect and encourage dysfunctional psychological states in women.
Faith is also a volunteer photographer for the Heart Gallery, a national organization that uses fine art photography to create gallery-quality portraits of foster children to increase their chances of being adopted.
Faith divides her time between Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she lives in a yurt in the Sangre de Cristo mountains with her partner, two dogs and Moe, the coolest cat in the universe.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
"Inside the Glass Box" -- Solo Exhibition
The Artaud Gallery
450 Florida Street (at 17th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Reception, Oct 18, 2008, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Presented as part of "Shedding the Skin of Shame: Bearing Our Bodies' Truth," Artists Against Rape 2008GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the New York Graduate School for Psychoanalysis
16 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10011
Opening reception, Nov 1, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. -- exhibition runs through December 20, 2008
"WomanDance #3" will be shown as part of the "Woman!" exhibitionOwings-Dewey North
120 Marcy Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Opening reception, Friday, Oct 31, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. -- exhibition runs through November 22
A piece from the work-in-progress series, "Women of Myth," will be exhibited by invitation for the exhibition, "Explorations in the Garden of Good & Evil"
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
A2, Santa Fe, NM, September 2008 (solo exhibition -- WomanDance )
Corso Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July 2008 (solo exhibition -- Inside the Glass Box )
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Pippin Meikle Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, June 2008 (juried show, five images from Inside the Glass Box )
Rock Paper Scissors Gallery, San Francisco, CA, March 2008 (group show)
Morning Sun Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, March 2008 ("Women's History" group show)
Underground Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, February 2008 ("Photo New Mexico" juried group show)
AWARDS:
WInner/ Cover Photo, Environment Now "Top Achievement" Photography Award 2008
Category Winner, Santa Fe Reporter Photo Contest 2008
Honorable Mention, "19th Annual National NAVS Art for Animals," 2008
Honorable Mention, Photographer's Forum Spring International Photography Competition 2008