Felicia D. Megginson has developed a series of new work set at Wave Hill. In her photographs, the artist places herself in nature through a technique that employs 35mm camera to construct evocative double-exposure images. Her face, feet, or hands are photographed sequentially in the surroundings to expose both the place and the person. In this series, she explores the “ancestral pull” of the forest. “These images allow me to make a connection with a time when my ancestors viewed the natural world as a place that was both sacred and profane, a place that was filled with life, death, and regenerative energy,” says Felicia. Although the pictures come from her personal experience, they speak to the larger issue of representing African-American women in today’s visual culture, in a fresh and vital way.

Megginson earned her B.A. at the University of Virginia and M.A. at New York University. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca, NY, The Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY and she received a Nadine Blackwook Nature Photography Fellowship in Moose Lake Township, MN. She received the New Works Photography Award from En Foco, Bronx, NY. Her work has been exhibited as SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Leica Gallery, New York, NY; and The Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY, among others.