Collaboration between Meredith Laura Lynn & Katie Hargrave

Below please find examples of the collaborative work made by myself and Meredith Laura Lynn. Within each individual project page there are more images and short statements about projects.
*I would recommend not using the navigation buttons at the bottom of each project, as they will bring you to additional projects within my website that do not include work with Meredith. Should you be interested in viewing my full body of work, navigate from the “Work” button on the upper right.

About Our Work: Our project-based collaborative practice is grounded in an inquiry of so-called public lands. We use materials such as tents, coolers, and postcards as sculptural bases that we manipulate with photographic imagery. We are drawn to historical landscape photography, environmental literature, and social media images within our studio research, often collapsing many forms and sources within one body of work.

Wealthy, predominately white tourists are encouraged to “explore” so-called public lands through US land use policy and the outdoor industry. The term “explore” is presented as neutral, without acknowledging possible negative impacts of ballooning usage on fragile landscapes rich in cultural relevance. We are wary of “exploration,” and we locate our work in that wariness, as we consider the impact of the outdoor industrial complex through the creation of multi-layered artworks and installations.

Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn are artists and educators who work collaboratively to explore the historic, cultural, and environmental impacts of so-called public land. Their work has been shown at the Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), the Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), Gadsden Museum of Art (Gadsden, AL), Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN), among others. Together they have been artists in residence at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (St. Augustine, FL) and Signal Fire (Portland, OR). Hargrave and Lynn met at the University of Iowa, where they both earned MFAs. They have been collaborating since 2018 and continue to maintain independent studio practices.