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Photograph of a reflective surface with a woman in a coat and hat visible to the far left and trees to the right. Beyond the surface is a storefront with a table display and some display surfaces.
January 31 - May 24, 2026

Memory is a Verb

Memory Is A Verb is a collective of ten photographers whose work mines our relationship with memory, mortality, perception, and the passage of time.

Each photographer pulls from deeply personal experiences to create bodies of work that explore the aftermath of loss, the fluidity of memory, and the ways in which their medium becomes the mechanism to more fully understand the intricacies of our relationship with the past.

So many of our memories are connected to loss.  Loss of family members, home, land, and even loss of the ways in which we used to preserve memories—on film, slides, or in albums. Technology becomes obsolete, objects are thrown away, time passes and no one remains to recognize a face in a photograph. What happens then?  Who becomes the keeper of your memory, and what story would they tell?

Please join us at an opening reception for the exhibition, Saturday, February 7, 6;00-8:00. Free and open to the public. Register here.

Gallery: Litowitz Gallery
Dates: January 31 - May 24, 2026
Participating artists: Elizabeth Bailey, Annette LeMay Burke, Dena Elisabeth Eber, Sarah Hadley, Diane Hemingway, Susan Lapides, Lori Ordover, Jennifer Pritchard, Rosalie Rosenthal, and Aline Smithson
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Photograph of a hotel room with a cream colored bed horizontally across the bottom half of the image. Behind this are two seafoam green cushions with a red suitcase on the right, a bedside table with a lamp, and seafoam green curtains on the right with the window to the left above the cushions and suitcase.
Rosalie Rosenthal, Leaving , 2022, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph of a reflective surface with a woman in a coat and hat visible to the far left and trees to the right. Beyond the surface is a storefront with a table display and some display surfaces.
Lori Ordover, Self Portrait Night Sky , 2025, Photo print under Acrylic Glass
Black and white photograph of a spiraling staircase heading down from the right to the bottom left. There is a blurry image of a woman to the left part of the staircase and a window just visible in the center top.
Sarah Hadley, Leading Me Down , 2023, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph of an interior with white transparent curtains taking up most of a wall, with a bit of tan wall to the far left. There is a textured dirty cream carpet while in the center is a round, folding leaf table with two chairs on either side and a large ceramic covered bowl in the center. Projected onto the folded leaf of the table is an old photograph of that same table at an angle with an inflatable rowboat in front of it with a man reading a newspaper and a small child with an oar in front.
Annette LeMay Burke, Dining Room Dinghy , 2022, Archival Pigment Print on Silk
Photograph of a reflective surface, showing trees and sky. Behind the reflective surface is a bulbus pink flower with bits of bright green and yellow behind it.
Diane Hemingway, Lady Slipper and Trees , 2022, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph of a white flower with a black background. The flower has been enhanced to have a blocky form with swirling lines within that form.
Jennifer Pritchard, Unraveling Time, Photograph
Photograph of a narrow, short ally between a peach building on the left and a white building on the right. Going into the building on the right is a woman, blurred, using a chair to get in through the window.
Elizabeth Bailey, Entering, Vinyl Print
Black and white photograph of a figure in a dress from the waist down with their arms in front with palms up. The figure is holding another black and white portrait photo of a woman with pinned up hair, a wide white collared shirt, and a dark suit jacket.
Aline Smithson, I Don’t Know #4 , 2005/2023, Collaged Photograph, printed as an Archival Pigment Print
Photograph with a textured tan background and intense neon blue green rectangle in the center. Within that is a black circle with a handle to the center right and a Saturn like shape inside that black circle.
Susan Lapides, July 1988 frame 18 , 1988/2026, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph with an intensely red smoke filled sky with hints of intense blue behind it. Across the bottom is a scrubby desert landscape with low hills.
Dena Eber, The Land of My Country #1 , 2024, Archival Inkjet Print
Photograph of a hotel room with a cream colored bed horizontally across the bottom half of the image. Behind this are two seafoam green cushions with a red suitcase on the right, a bedside table with a lamp, and seafoam green curtains on the right with the window to the left above the cushions and suitcase.
Rosalie Rosenthal
Leaving , 2022, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph of a reflective surface with a woman in a coat and hat visible to the far left and trees to the right. Beyond the surface is a storefront with a table display and some display surfaces.
Lori Ordover
Self Portrait Night Sky , 2025, Photo print under Acrylic Glass
Black and white photograph of a spiraling staircase heading down from the right to the bottom left. There is a blurry image of a woman to the left part of the staircase and a window just visible in the center top.
Sarah Hadley
Leading Me Down , 2023, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph of an interior with white transparent curtains taking up most of a wall, with a bit of tan wall to the far left. There is a textured dirty cream carpet while in the center is a round, folding leaf table with two chairs on either side and a large ceramic covered bowl in the center. Projected onto the folded leaf of the table is an old photograph of that same table at an angle with an inflatable rowboat in front of it with a man reading a newspaper and a small child with an oar in front.
Annette LeMay Burke
Dining Room Dinghy , 2022, Archival Pigment Print on Silk
Photograph of a reflective surface, showing trees and sky. Behind the reflective surface is a bulbus pink flower with bits of bright green and yellow behind it.
Diane Hemingway
Lady Slipper and Trees , 2022, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph of a white flower with a black background. The flower has been enhanced to have a blocky form with swirling lines within that form.
Jennifer Pritchard
Unraveling Time , Photograph
Photograph of a narrow, short ally between a peach building on the left and a white building on the right. Going into the building on the right is a woman, blurred, using a chair to get in through the window.
Elizabeth Bailey
Entering , Vinyl Print
Black and white photograph of a figure in a dress from the waist down with their arms in front with palms up. The figure is holding another black and white portrait photo of a woman with pinned up hair, a wide white collared shirt, and a dark suit jacket.
Aline Smithson
I Don’t Know #4 , 2005/2023, Collaged Photograph, printed as an Archival Pigment Print
Photograph with a textured tan background and intense neon blue green rectangle in the center. Within that is a black circle with a handle to the center right and a Saturn like shape inside that black circle.
Susan Lapides
July 1988 frame 18 , 1988/2026, Archival Pigment Print
Photograph with an intensely red smoke filled sky with hints of intense blue behind it. Across the bottom is a scrubby desert landscape with low hills.
Dena Eber
The Land of My Country #1 , 2024, Archival Inkjet Print
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