Grace Weston

Venus & The Pill

Archival pigment photographic print

“A young mother manages three offspring, all while keeping up her appearance and avoiding any more pregnancies. As an artist, I create staged miniature scenes with props, sets, and characters that I find, alter, or fabricate from scratch to light and photograph. These images are from a series entitled ‘Reclaiming the Muse,’ reinterpreting historic artworks, stories, and mythologies.”

— Grace Weston

About the artist

Grace Weston

American

Grace Weston creates narrative photography in her studio with miniature staged vignettes that address psychological themes. Among her many honors, most recently Weston made the Top 50 in Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2023, and from that was awarded the additional prize of a solo show for 2024 at the Southeast Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina. Weston was honored with the solo exhibition in All About Photo’s Showroom for the month of November 2023. She won both First Place Overall Portfolio category as well as Gold Winner in the Fine Art Portfolio category in the 2021 Tokyo International Foto Awards. She has earned fellowships from both the Oregon Arts Commission and Artist Trust (Washington State), nominations for Portland Art Museum’s Contemporary Northwest Art Awards (Oregon), and numerous grants during her career spanning more than 25 years. In 2012, she had her first European solo exhibition at Paci Contemporary in Brescia, Italy. An extensive exhibition of her work was shown at the Center for Photography in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2021. She has exhibited widely in the US, as well as Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and Japan. In 2009, she was a finalist in PhotoEspana’s Descubrimientos exhibition in Madrid, and named one of the “Nine to Watch” in the Whatcom Museum Photography Biennial (Washington) in 2008.