Gretchen Haien Photography

Join us at One To One Studios for a send-off celebration of new works by photographer Gretchen Haien before this show travels for exhibition at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs.

In these two bodies of work, Gretchen Haien invites us to try a new way of seeing and seeking answers to larger life questions. “Interior Frontiers" uses the frame or photographic edge to abstract a would-be interior or street scene, reordering shapes from reality into a new perception for the viewer. These studies earned her the "Emerging Artist to Watch in Photography" by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
“Sea Zen” takes us on a stroll along the water’s edge, noting a solitary rock or a beached one-person dinghy. Framed to be viewed as if through a ship’s porthole, the lone observer wonders whether this is a view of serenity and solitude or loneliness and isolation.
Gretchen Haien was recently awarded the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award in Photography, and has been teaching photography at Millsaps College and Belhaven College in Jackson, MS before joining Belhaven fulltime in 2007.