Headspace

Krowswork is very pleased to present Headspace, an inaugural solo exhibition by Oakland-based artist Sasha Kelley. Headspace is a collection of visual documents depicting relationships within black life, centered in the Bay Area. Operating simultaneously within and outside of her own "headspace," Kelley sees what she sees plainly while making palpable and poetic the invisible but deeply felt web of meaning, signs, and the weight of individual existence that connects this landscape of people and place. Her historical references are disparate, as she manages to present a complex body of work that invokes the casual but piercing intimacy of photographers like Nan Goldin, the wary, neutral, honest outsider view of the work of Robert Frank, and the filmic political narratives of Carrie Mae Weems. Kelley's photography adds a new and impressive language to and turns a surprisingly fresh eye on the medium of photography.

- Jasmine Moorhead, Krowswork, 2013