In this collaborative series, two artists' disparate life journeys were the beginning point of a visual dialogue. Love raises three children, whereas Nagy embraces a childfree path. In her work, Love explores the complexities of motherhood and family life. She peels back the romanticism that surrounds motherhood as she captures her children and herself with humor (and at times irony). Nagy’s more abstract work reconfigures her surroundings by emphasizing the formal aspects of image making (shape, line, texture, and color).

During their two-month-long collaboration, the artists continually exchanged images, building an expansive repository. Gradually, a synergistic visual language started to emerge. Love began using Nagy's favored format, the square. Her work shifted by degrees from the documentary towards the intimate and surreal. Nagy responded to her images with atmospheric or geometric abstractions. Incidentally, Nagy’s photographs grew to reflect her notions about child rearing—Love's way of life remains forever uninhabited, impressionistic, and oversimplified to her.

Jena Love is an artist living in Sullivan County, NY. Documenting her family and anything intriguing, she is never without her camera. Jena looks to find interest and emotion in everyday life while calling attention to the strange and humorous moments we tend to look past.

Zsuzsanna Nagy is a Hungarian-American artist currently residing in State College, PA. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2020. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions across the US. She is currently the gallery manager and curator of Penn State's Woskob Family Gallery in downtown State College. In her photo practice, Zsuzsanna uses the camera to render the observable into an impressionistic and subjective reality. She emphasizes form over subject matter, atmosphere over information. Upending conventions of photographic representation, the images speak to an emotional and sensory experience of the world.

Jena Love - jenahlove.com
Zsuzsanna Nagy - zzphoto.myportfolio.com