Grace
Photographs by Scott Offen
On view: August 26th - December 2nd 2025
Exhibition Reception and book signing: Thursday, September 25th, 6pm-8pm
Grace is a collaborative photographic series by Scott Offen and his partner Grace that reimagines authorship, gender, aging, and representation through staged scenes in the New England landscape, positioning the aging female body as a site of power, mystery, and authorship.
Join us in celebrating Offen’s work with an exhibition reception and book signing event. Meet the artist, explore the work, and purchase a signed copy of the monograph. All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you there.
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About the work: “Grace is an ongoing collaborative project between my partner, Grace, and myself. The work examines the dynamics of authorship, gender, aging, and representation through a sustained photographic practice. Our images are constructed through a deliberate and reciprocal process in which Grace acts as an equal collaborator and co-author. Together, we create scenes that operate at the intersection of the real, the symbolic, and the psychological.
The natural landscape, primarily the rural environment of New England, functions in the series as more than a backdrop, but as a character— contributing to the narrative structure of the work and complicating the boundaries between figure and ground, interior and exterior, human and nonhuman. In these spaces, Grace enacts a range of roles—often solitary, ambiguous, and archetypal—that unsettle fixed ideas of femininity, visibility, and domesticity.
Our collaborative process is grounded in duration and repetition. Over time, we have developed a shared visual language that resists the traditional model of the male photographer and female muse. Instead, the work foregrounds co-presence, agency, and transformation. The resulting images explore how the aging female body, so often rendered invisible in both art history and popular culture, can be repositioned as a site of power, mystery, and authorship.
The series draws on elements of mythology, psychoanalysis, and landscape theory, while remaining rooted in the material conditions of our shared life. Indoors, traces of Grace’s presence—the imprint of a body, an object, a shadow—suggest absence as a form of narrative. Outdoors, she moves through spaces shaped by light, season, and terrain, inviting viewers to consider how identity is formed in relation to the natural world.
Grace is both a visual inquiry and a model for collaborative authorship, framed by an ongoing commitment to experimentation, embodiment, and place.” -Scott Offen
About the artist: Scott Offen is an East Coast photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and prominently featured online. Working collaboratively with his wife, he creates images that immerse viewers in fairytale forest where logic and responsibility vanish. It is an uncanny world shaped by the rural landscapes of New England. Offen uses a range of photographic formats from 8x10 to digital. His first monograph, Grace, was published by L’Artiere in 2025, accompanied by a book signing at AIPAD in New York City. Following the release Grace, he presented his first solo exhibition in Chelsea, New York City, at The Curator Lab. His work has recently been reviewed by Forbes, L’Œil de la Photographie, Sky Arte, Collater.al, Monochrome Masters, The Eye of Photography, What Will You Remember, Fotofilmic, Nowhere Diary and other publications. Scott holds both a BFA and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he received the Graduate Thesis Award in 2024.