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Expanded Cyanotypes: New Directions in Cyanotype Making
Various Artists

March 16 – April 30, 2025

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The Griffin Museum of Photography is delighted to present Expanded Cyanotypes: New Directions in Cyanotype Making, a sweeping online exhibition surveying the current state of contemporary cyanotype-making. The exhibition presents a selection of over 60 artists working all over the world, each one creating unique works utilizing cyanotype as part of their processes.

Expanded Cyanotypes:
New Directions in Cyanotype Making

Aline Smithson • Alberto Sanchez • Allison Calteux • Ana Avramova-Pesheva • Annalise Neil • Adrienne Defendi • Beatriz Bellorin • Beth Herman Adler • Brett Day Windham • Carolina Baldomá • Clara Zaragoza • Claudia Hollister • Chloe Cusimano • Chloe Sailor • Colton Rothwell • Cynthia Katz • Dana Cohen • Edie Bresler • Elizabeth Stone • Emma Backer • Ebru Çiçek • Fruma Markowitz • Hannah Lamb • Heidi Kirkpatrick • Iris Grimm • Isabella Mayson • Jackie Neale • Javier Hinojosa • Jillian Abir MacMaster • Jim Cokas • Joachim Froese • Jolie Zinn • Julia Whitney Barnes • Julie Hamel • Jyoti Liggin • Kate Flake • Katherine Akey • Kaylee Peters • Karen Klinedinst • Lisa Tang Liu • Lou Sturges Wilson • Margo Duvall • Marna de Wet • Margaret Albaugh • Michelle Westmark Wingard • Morgan Ford Willingham • Natali Barbee-Bravo • Nobuko Murakami • Olga Andriyash • Paulo Accioly Lins de Barros • Rob Croll • Ramona Zordini • Sally Chapman • Shir Melech • Teri Figliuzzi • Tina Vincent • Ute Lindner • Yuchen Wang

© Jackie Neale, Bullet the Blue Sky: Flag 3 Senseless, cyanotype of ammunition and AR-15 imprints on a distressed Valley Forge American Flag, 2020 | United States, Greater Philadelphia
© Ramona Zordini, Who I Am, Tricolor Cyanotype, 9 level of paper collage, Pearl insert, 2025 | Brescia, Italy
© Julie Hamel, Squirrel (with handmade brush), cyanotype painted with a handmade brush made from the squirrel’s fur, paper dyed with acorn tannins, 2019 | Peterborough, United States
© Yuchen Wang, Four Shadows I, cyanotype print on ‘Father and Son’ Comic Book, Sound Installation, Inkjet Print on Handmade Kozo Paper & Matte Paper, 2024 | Providence, RI, USA
© Hari Priya Vangaru, Blue Mind, cyanotype on wood along with stones from the Hudson, 2024 | New York, USA
© Chloe Sailor, Present Looking Past (Acadia), cyanotype, solarfast, and watercolor on quilted yupo and cotton
© Katie Raudenbush, Untitled (i am her, she is me), cyanotype on textile, cloth napkin, quilt batting, embroidery | New York, USA
© Anna Stevenson, Frayed, cyanotype on silk and watercolor paper.
© Heidi Kirkpatrick, Mother in cyanohoop from the Family Service Series, kiln fired custom ceramic decal on vintage Pfaltzgraff dinner plate, 2019 | Portland, Oregon, USA
© Clara Zaragoza, Los Ojos, cyanotype collage, 2023 | Buenos Aires, Argentina
© Allison Calteux, Ellison Women, cyanotype on heirloom doilies, 2023 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
© Emma Backer, Untitled, cyanotype of paper doilley
© Paulo Accioly Lins de Barros, O que me lembro do interior, braided cyanotype, 2025
© Morgan Ford Willingham, Untitled (Minerva), cyanotype with hand embroidery on found textiles, 2023 | Waco, Texas, USA
© Fruma Markowitz, Gossip In The Mellah, 2024 | Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
˙ © Alberto Sanchez, TIRANDO PALOMAS, light drawing on canvas, 2025 | Bloomington, Indiana, USA
© Jim Cokas, Ascending (Did She Dream?), cyanotype on muslin with thread, 2024
© Edie Bresler, Anonymous 1843, unique cyanotype with embroidery and colored pencil, 2024 | Somerville, MA, USA
© Colton Rothwell, Orion, cyanotype, canvas, thread, acrylic wash
© Marna de Wet, Fragments, cyanotype and thread on paper, 2023
© Ana Avramova-Pesheva, Side by side, cyanotype collage, Fabriano utica paper and tracing paper
© Nobuko Murakami, In the skin of the sea, cyanotype and cyanotype pieces on wood panel, 2025 | Paris, France
© Margo Duvall, Long Distance, cyanotype and found silver gelatin print
© Jyoti Liggin, I Don’t Want to Touch The Ground, quilt of untoned cyanotype, cyanotype toned with coffee and tannic acid, commercially printed cotton fabric and batting, 2025 | Oakland, California, United States of America
© Aline Smithson, Fugue State Revisited #24, Corrupted Analog Scan with Cyanotype Overlay
© Tina Vincent
© Lisa Tang Liu, “Me” in Red White and Blue, cyanotype and ink on vellum paper, 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA
© Kate Flake, I have begun to distrust my body, cyanotype on cotton, cotton batting, polyfil, cotton and polyester thread, wooden desk, 2024 | Madison, USA
© Hannah Lamb, Accretion, cyanotype and hand stitch on cotton, 2024
© Ute Lindner, Pentimenti (Lions’ Palace), photomontage, caynotype on fabric, 21 feet x 38,7 feet (640cm x 1180 cm), St. Maria Church, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, 2012-2022
© Elizabeth Stone, Fracture, Installation of 43 camera-less cyanotype prints on notebook paper, 2022
© Rob Croll, Remembered Landscape, cyanotype on cotton
© Dana Cohen, Closet Doors, Closet Doors, cyanotype on 24 mylar panels in repurposed bifold doors
© Carola Baldomá, Untitled, cyanotype on japanese paper (Okamoto: Mitsumata + Zellsoff), 2024
© Joachim Froese, Wollemi Giants, Untitled #1; 56 cyanotype prints, toned in green tea & 56 waxed digital negatives; individual prints: 20 x 25 cm, overall size: 140 x 200 cm unframed each | Brisbane, Australia
© Beatriz Bellorin, Touched by Time from the series [Re] collect, A Botanical Album, installation of 45 4” x 6” and 4 8.5” x 11”, 2024 | Houston, United States
© Cynthia Katz, Standing at Ease, cyanotype on paper, 2025 | Concord, Massachusetts, USA
© Brett Day Windham, Doherty Triptych, Coffee-toned cyanotypes with watercolor, gouache and pen, on hot press watercolor paper, each panel 16 x 20 inches
© Adrienne Defendi, Healing Trees, installation of cyanotype and soil on Rives BRK paper | Palo Alto, California, USA
© Katherine Akey, Weed Out Your Memory, cyanotype toned with coffee, cotton thread, linen, cotton batting, 2024 | San Francisco California, USA
© Teri Figliuzzi, Enchant, cyanotype, printed, woven and stitched, 2023, New York City, USA
© Karen Klinedinst, All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun, cyanotypes on paper and gold leaf on recycled solar panel, 2024 | Baltimore, Maryland, USA
© Claudia Hollister, Enchanted Evening, cyanotype collage backed in stonehenge paper on hardboard, 2024 | Portland, Oregon, USA
© Shir Melech, Cosmos, 2023 | Tel Aviv, Israel
© Michelle Westmark Wingard, ReRooted (Northern white-cedar or Thuja occidentalis), cyanotype on fabric
© Julia Whitney Barnes, Planting Utopia (Shaker Interior), 15.5 feet wide, Watercolor, acrylic and cyanotype on stretched canvas with custom wood frame
© Natali Bravo-Barbee, Flores de Femicidio/Femicide Florals, 327 cyanotype paper flowers on watercolor paper, 13 cyanotype plaques on watercolor paper, glue, string, embellishments, 2019-2021 | New York, USA
© Beth Herman Adler, We Are All Vessels, Cyanotypes of ancient vessels on used cardboard food boxes embellished with gold paint and white charcoal. Installation includes over 100 transformed boxes, 2023
© Annalise Neil, Transformation Through Inquiry, cyanotype, watercolor and cotton string on cotton sateen mounted to panel, 2023 | La Mesa, California, USA
© Javier Hinojosa, ENSAMBLE XXXV, wood box, Cyanotype on Japanese paper, containers with sands from the Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, Fossil, 2024
© Iris Grimm, LOR(e), cyanotypes inset onto handmade box with removable velvet drawer, petri dishes with hand applied pva, 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA
© Ebru Çiçek, El Azar, cyanotype on glass | Rome, Italy
© Carlotta Valente, Moon, cyanotype on glass with silver backing, 2024 | Rome, Italy
© Kaylee Peters, Hold It Close, cyanotype on recycled box, 2024 | Dayton, Ohio, USA
© Lou Sturges Wilson, Trinkets of a Teenage Girl, Cyanotype on Eggshell
©Olga Andriyash, The body remembers everything, cyanotype of x-ray print, fabric, embroidery, 2024
© Margaret Albaugh, Nurture, cyanotype and embroidery on fabric, 2024
© Isabella Mayson, A Look Inside, 2025
© Clair Case, NebulaIn Bloom, 2022

© Sally Chapman, Living in the Bubble #6, cyanotype and embroidery | Massachusetts, USA
© Chloe Cusimano, Pushing Verticality, 2024 | Los Angeles, CA, USA
© Jolie Zinn, Brazilian Surf, 2024, cyanotype on fabric & naturally pomegranate-dyed jacket
© Andrea Cote, Herb Woman, cyanotype on repurposed cotton sheet, 2024 | Hampton Bays, USA
© Jillian Abir MacMaster, Holy Shroud, 2024
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