ARTIST STATEMENT
A life-affirming personal trauma inspired me to examine my life and look at the world differently. Facing premature mortality, I began exploring concepts of time, seeking answers to what exists at the haunting boundaries of consciousness just beyond awareness. It is a place between reality and dreams where I can unravel the infinite in me by puzzling the fragmented pieces of my life. I realize unconscious discoveries of myself in or revelations through the images of memories long buried, blurring the lines between what is seen, what is not, and what is just beyond.
BIO
Pritchard is a photographic artist and storyteller based in Laguna Beach, California. Her experience includes years as an innovative, creative fashion executive leading global brands - telling rich and compelling stories to engage and excite consumers. A skilled business leader in delivering results in complex situations and markets, her passion and highly collaborative nature galvanized teams to accomplish their goals.
In 2015, her father's death inspired her to tell her own stories.
Geographies have played an essential part in her perspective, whether the New England of her birth, her Mid-Atlantic upbringing, Southern schooling, or internationally through her roles in Global Brand Leadership. In Pritchard, understanding places and their rich stories engendered a deep appreciation of the unique and the common. A natural curiosity combined with a paradox-filled childhood inspired explorations of life and loss, memory, and dreams across a diverse photographic and literary toolbox.
Pritchard was chosen as an Emerging Artist in 2017 by APA National, and in 2022 she was honored for Reverberations in the Critical Mass Top 200. Her work is an ongoing part of the collections at On Center Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her collection The Offing is included in the traveling exhibition Memory is a Verb, a group of 11 women photographers exploring Time and Transience, opening in January 2023 at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California.
CV
Honors
Critical Mass Top 200, Photolucida, August 2022
Juried Competition, Third Place, LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 2018
Emerging Artist, APA National, Los Angeles, CA, August 2017
Exhibitions
Los Alamos, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July 2019
Group Exhibitions
The Offing, Memory is a Verb, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA , winter 2023-24, dates TBA
The Offing, Memory is a Verb, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Fall 2023, dates TBA
The Offing, Memory is a Verb, Dallas Center of Photography, Dallas, TX, April 15 - May 13, 2023
Members Juried Show, Center for Fine Art Photography, Carmel, CA, April 2023
The Offing, Memory is a Verb, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, January 28 - May 14, 2023
25th Juried Photo Exhibition, Photographic Center NW, Seattle, WA, April 2022
Member’s Juried Show, Center for Fine Art Photography, Carmel, CA, April 2021
A Digital Art Salon, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA, March 2021
Camera Karma, Art of the Lens, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, August 2020
Leaping into Summer, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, May 2020
Virtual Connections, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, April 2020
Los Angeles Open, Tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 2018
California Open, Tag Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, August 2018
Queer Identity, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July 2018
Water, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, May 2018
The Crow Show, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA, February 2018
The Decisive Moment, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT January 2018
And So It Continues, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, October 2017
The Quiet Landscape, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, October 2017
And So It Begins, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July 2017
Narrative Photography, Blackbox Gallery, Portland OR, July 2017
Honoring Trees, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, July 2017
Singular POV, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, June 2017
The Color of Light, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT March 2017
Press
Lenscratch, Los Angeles, CA, March 2022
SD Voyager, San Diego, CA, August 2018
Work Experience
Global Brand Leadership and Creative Services for Fortune 500 Companies
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Randolph Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA, 1981