Archive 192 Exhibition at Colorado Photographic Arts Center
I am deeply honored to have two works, Oil and Land #8 and a collection of 40 MOONS prints, in Archive 192 which is on view at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, October 3 - November 15th, 2025. I will be participating in a virtual panel discussion moderated by Chloe Coleman with artists Aline Smithson and Claire A. Warden on Tuesday October 14th.
Archive 192 is a not-for-profit research archive founded in 2015 that is focused on abstractionist photography by women. The goal of this project is to create, share, educate and eventually place all the materials with an appropriate host organization, which can care for, make available and share this unique and innovative approach to photography. The archive is composed mostly of original prints, publications, artist books, audio recordings and a variety of political ephemera related to women and photography.
Since its founding, we have been collecting and building Archive 192 as an independent archive that exists to compliment, as an unconventional parallel, to museums and conventional art institutions. The archive’s name comes from reversing the name of Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291, which is considered a seminal part of the evolution and history of photography. Our philosophy is that as a community, we should always be in a process of re-evaluating our art practices and the institutions that exhibit and collect photographic work.
The goal is to create a focused collection of contemporary and historical works for research to offset the lack of representation of work by women. An additional function of the archive will be to also challenge the conventional narrative of the history of photography that has made men too prominent in the field. The archive now holds over 300 works and is growing, with work by Florence Henri, Dorothy Norman, Guerilla Girls and contemporary photographers such as Claire A. Warden. Our ambition is that museum collections can be shaped by outside forces like Archive 192 and influenced to rethink traditional lines of thought and study.
– Louie Palu and Chloe Coleman
