Archive 192 at CPAC Denver
The Archive 192 exhibition has traveled from Baltimore to Denver where it will open to the public October 4th! The exhibition features a century of experimental abstraction by women, including silver gelatin prints by me and many others including rare prints, books, and ephemera, revealing both artistic innovation and the cultural movements that shaped it.
ARCHIVE 192
FOUNDED BY LOUIE PALU AND CHLOE COLEMAN
October 3 – November 15, 2025
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Opening Reception
Free and open to the public
Saturday, October 4, 2025
5 – 8 pm
COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER
1200 LINCOLN STREET, SUITE 111, DENVER, CO 80203
Art exhibit viewing times: Tues. – Fri. (11 am – 5 pm); Sat. (noon – 4 pm)
FEATURED ARTISTS
Bernice Abbott, Yura Adams, Sara Angelucci, Ruth Bernhard, Ilse Bing, Barbara Blondeau, Anne Brigman, Ellen Carey, Jennifer Garza Cuen, Jane Dickson, Odette England, Claudia Fährenkemper, Juliana Foster, Amy Friend, Guerrilla Girls, Florence Henri, Lori Hepner, Vicki Herrick, Bertha Jaques, Germaine Krull, Annie Leibovitz, Sage Lewis, Dora Maar, Rita Maas, Anne Leighton Massoni, Paula McCartney, Qiana Mestrich, Lee Miller, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Olga Morano, Barbara Morgan, Liliane De Cock Morgan, Dorothy Norman, Samahil Borbon Ojeda, Marcy Palmer, Deanna Pizzitelli, Alison Rossiter, Claudia Peña Salinas, Aline Smithson, Miki Soejima, H. Lisa Solon, Elizabeth Stone, Barbara Strigel, Penelope Umbrico, Violet Uretz, Claire A. Warden, Julie Weber, Margaret Bourke White, DM Whitman, Daniella Zalcman, Women’s Caucus for Art/New York City Chapter, and Women in the Arts Foundation.
ABOUT ARCHIVE 192
Archive 192 is a not-for-profit research archive founded in 2015 that is focused on abstractionist photography by women. The goal of this project is to create, share, educate and eventually place all the materials with an appropriate host organization, which can care for, make available and share this unique and innovative approach to photography. The archive is composed mostly of original prints, publications, artist books, audio recordings and a variety of political ephemera related to women and photography.
Since its founding, we have been collecting and building Archive 192 as an independent archive that exists to compliment, as an unconventional parallel, to museums and conventional art institutions. The archive’s name comes from reversing the name of Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291, which is considered a seminal part of the evolution and history of photography. Our philosophy is that as a community, we should always be in a process of re-evaluating our art practices and the institutions that exhibit and collect photographic work.
The goal is to create a focused collection of contemporary and historical works for research to offset the lack of representation of work by women. An additional function of the archive will be to also challenge the conventional narrative of the history of photography that has made men too prominent in the field. The archive now holds over 300 works and is growing, with work by Florence Henri, Dorothy Norman, Guerilla Girls and contemporary photographers such as Claire A. Warden. Our ambition is that museum collections can be shaped by outside forces like Archive 192 and influenced to rethink traditional lines of thought and study.
– Louie Palu and Chloe Coleman
