10 Sep Archive 192

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ARCHIVE 192

FOUNDED BY LOUIE PALU AND CHLOE COLEMAN

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Opening Reception

Free and open to the public

Saturday, October 4, 2025

5 – 8 pm

Discover a century of experimental abstraction by women photographers through rare prints, books, and ephemera from Archive 192, revealing both artistic innovation and the cultural movements that shaped it.

October 3 – November 15, 2025

COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER

1200 LINCOLN STREET, SUITE 111, DENVER, CO 80203

Art exhibit viewing times: Tues. – Fri. (11 am – 5 pm); Sat. (noon – 4 pm)

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING:

OCTOBER 14, 18, & 19, 2025

Advancing Your Practice with Louie Palu:
On Saturday, October 18th from 1 – 3 pm, take your practice to the next level in this intimate workshop with Louie Palu, award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and founder of Archive 192. Drawing on 30+ years of experience, Louie will share strategies for working with curators, museums, and galleries, as well as tips on grants and professional practices. The workshop combines lecture, discussion, and sharing work, with a class size limited to just 10 artists. Cost is $65 for Non-Members and $55 for CPAC Members.

Louie’s work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, World Press Photo Award, and inclusion in major museum collections.

Virtual Artist Panel Discussion:
On Tuesday, October 14th at 4:00 pm (MST), Chloe Coleman will lead a panel discussion online with artists Aline Smithson, Elizabeth Stone, and Claire A. Warden. Please see recording below.

Wine & The Art of Watching:
On Sunday, October 19th at 5 pm, enjoy a unique pairing of wine and abstract photography: a tasting with Scott Mattson of Nocturne, joined by Louie Palu and Chloe Coleman of Archive 192, who will share insights on the archive. Sip, chat, and soak up the creativity.

VIRTUAL ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION

FEATURED ARTISTS

Bernice Abbott, Yura Adams, Sara Angelucci, Ruth Bernhard, Ilse Bing, Barbara Blondeau, Anne Brigman, Ellen Carey, Jennifer Garza Cuen, Jane Dickson, Odette England, Claudia Fährenkemper, Juliana Foster, Amy Friend, Guerrilla Girls, Florence Henri, Lori Hepner, Vicki Herrick, Bertha Jaques, Germaine Krull, Annie Leibovitz, Sage Lewis, Dora Maar, Rita Maas, Anne Leighton Massoni, Paula McCartney, Qiana Mestrich, Lee Miller, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Olga Morano, Barbara Morgan, Liliane De Cock Morgan, Dorothy Norman, Samahil Borbon Ojeda, Marcy Palmer, Deanna Pizzitelli, Alison Rossiter, Claudia Peña Salinas, Aline Smithson, Miki Soejima, H. Lisa Solon, Elizabeth Stone, Barbara Strigel, Penelope Umbrico, Violet Uretz, Claire A. Warden, Julie Weber, Margaret Bourke White, DM Whitman, Daniella Zalcman, Women’s Caucus for Art/New York City Chapter, and Women in the Arts Foundation.

ABOUT ARCHIVE 192

Archive 192 is a not-for-profit research archive founded in 2015 that is focused on abstractionist photography by women. The goal of this project is to create, share, educate and eventually place all the materials with an appropriate host organization, which can care for, make available and share this unique and innovative approach to photography. The archive is composed mostly of original prints, publications, artist books, audio recordings and a variety of political ephemera related to women and photography.

Since its founding, we have been collecting and building Archive 192 as an independent archive that exists to compliment, as an unconventional parallel, to museums and conventional art institutions. The archive’s name comes from reversing the name of Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291, which is considered a seminal part of the evolution and history of photography. Our philosophy is that as a community, we should always be in a process of re-evaluating our art practices and the institutions that exhibit and collect photographic work.

The goal is to create a focused collection of contemporary and historical works for research to offset the lack of representation of work by women. An additional function of the archive will be to also challenge the conventional narrative of the history of photography that has made men too prominent in the field. The archive now holds over 300 works and is growing, with work by Florence Henri, Dorothy Norman, Guerilla Girls and contemporary photographers such as Claire A. Warden. Our ambition is that museum collections can be shaped by outside forces like Archive 192 and influenced to rethink traditional lines of thought and study.

– Louie Palu and Chloe Coleman