Stephanie Dowda DeMer
A garden. A lens. A path. Each provides a map to meaning—planted, observed, traversed—and a way of seeing that connects us to what is here and what has transpired. Small Suns is a metaphysical guide for living and losing, a visual perplexing inviting us to seek what is illuminated in gravitational actions and feel the world on various planes.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stephanie Dowda DeMer (she/her) is an American photographer and experimental media artist. Her work excavates invisibility and creates space for reflection through phenomena, communion, and kinship. Dowda DeMer uses the materiality of photography to address grief, climate catastrophe, and power. In 2019, Dowda DeMer was named the inaugural Iowa Idea Fellow in Photography at The University of Iowa. She has taught photography at ASU and VCU. DeMer holds an MFA in Photo + Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a Hambidge Fellow, Idea Capital grantee, and her work has been published in Dialogue, Bad at Sports, MuseA, ArtsATL, BurnAway, among others. She has shown at White Space Gallery-Atlanta, SITE Goat Farm, curator of Open Air Media Festival, Grizzly Grizzly-Philadelphia, MART-Dublin and others. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Photo + Video at Wesleyan College. She is based in Atlanta, GA.