#NeverForget: Collective Trauma in the Age of Social Media
A Solo Exhibition by Regan Henley
January 19, 2024 - February 11, 2024
Eye Lounge is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, “#NeverForget: Collective Trauma in the Age of Social Media”, a solo exhibition by Regan Henley featuring work in collaboration with J.M. Watkins
The exhibition focuses on the psychological concept of collective trauma in the American consciousness, and how events like mass shootings, police brutality and natural disasters are woven in the fabric of the culture. The work aims to provide a validating reflection of the ongoing traumas in our world, but also draw a critical eye to the type of news coverage and discussion of these distressing events that often flattens them, and exacerbates their traumatic impact.
Henley’s work will be on display from January 19th-February 11th, 2024. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Due to the subject matter viewer discretion is advised.
Opening Reception
Date: January 19th
Time: 6-9pm
First Friday Reception
Date: February 2nd
Time: 6-9pm
Gallery Hours
Fridays: 6 PM- 9 PM
Saturdays: , 1 PM- 5 PM
Sundays: 11 AM - 3 PM
Artist Bio
Regan Henley is an American multimedia artist from Phoenix, Arizona. She works in multiple art mediums including photo, video, interactive digital art, and sculpture. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in New York and obtained her undergraduate degree in Intermedia Art at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
She has exhibited her work all over the United States as well as internationally in Germany and Canada. Her work has been featured in Average Arts Magazine, Null Set Magazine, The Daily Orange, and The Family Reviews. She has presented her work at the Museum of Science and Technology in central New York, The Shemer Art Center in Arizona, and Ontario College of Art University in Toronto. She was a 2018 artist-in-residence for the international Feminist Art Collective on Toronto Island, and a 2019 artist-in-residence at the Ayatana Mortem program in Ottawa, a research residency for artists studying issues of death and dying.
In October of 2016 she debuted her first solo show C@tharsis, exploring the use of digital technologies as emotional aides in the mourning and grieving process. Her work investigates intersections of emotional intimacy and art as therapy in conjunction with new digital technologies and internet culture. Much of her current work centers around cultural perceptions of death and dying in the digital era, as well as evolving forms of grieving rituals perpetuated online and through new forms of media.
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