Join us at WinCam Gallery on July 24th, 5.30pm - 7pm, for an artist reception with Anastasia Sierra to celebrate her solo exhibition, Bittersweet. Sierra's intimate project explores the emotional complexity of motherhood through colorful staged portrait photogrphy.
About Bittersweet -
Bittersweet is an ongoing body of work about the conflicting emotions of motherhood, where love and joy live next to the feelings of frustration, guilt and exhaustion.
I collaborate with my young son to recreate moments of tenderness and tension. Together, we make a colorful and mysterious world of our own, using light and shadow as a metaphor, with our lives bright and colorful on the outside and piles of laundry, dirty dishes and some of the darker feelings obscured by the shadows.
I make these images to remember his chubby thighs and what it's like to touch his skin and feel the weight of his body while I can still carry him. I photograph our love and nightmares, with a superstitious hope that my fears won't materialize if I spell them out in my photographs.
About Anastasia Sierra -
I am a portrait and fine art photographer based in Cambridge, MA.
My work explores the themes of motherhood, womanhood, and the body from a feminist perspective. Inspired by dreams and the unseen, I construct photographs that portray internal tensions - the conflicting emotions of motherhood, the push and pull between the need for connection, and the desire for independence.
I use photography to gain a better understanding of my own experiences, and find a deeper connection with people and places I photograph, employing light and color to create vivid images that inhabit the space between the real and the imaginary.
My work has been exhibited in the US and internationally, most recent exhibitions include Kathryn Schulz Gallery in Cambridge, MA, the Photographic Resource Center, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Vermont Center of Photography, and Soho Gallery in New York.
I have a BA in Linguistics and am currently attending the Photography MFA program at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, expected to graduate in 2026.
The Griffin @ WinCam (Winchester Community Access and Media) is located at 32 Swanton Street in Winchester, Mass. Gallery hours are Monday thru Friday 11am - 7pm, and all other hours by appointment. For more information, contact the museum at 781.729.1158 or WinCam at 781-721-2050