Marc Sirinsky: Retrospective Exhibition on View in May

Emergence, a retrospective spanning the career of photographic artist Marc Sirinsky (BFA ​’97), will be shown at Colloquia Gallery in Woodstock, VA this May. Focused primarily on Sirinsky’s landscape work, the show is being mounted by Dr. Andrew Ritcheson, a leading voice in contemporary art and creative philosophy.

A major emphasis of the exhibition will be on Sirinsky’s use of unique and unconventional materials in service of his career-long quest to ​“depict the landscape as a projection of memory and emotional experience.” This show will include brand new work, in addition to many early/mid-career milestones. Several pieces come directly from the artist’s archives and have never been shown publicly.

Landscape often appears stable until memory begins to act upon it. In Emergence, American photographer Marc Sirinsky approaches landscape not as a record of place but as a surface onto which experience, emotion, and recollection are projected. The photographs begin with the external world yet arrive somewhere more interior — where recognition is shaped by personal history and perception becomes inseparable from remembering.

The images create conditions of familiarity without settling into certainty. Light, horizon, and atmosphere suggest recognizable terrain, yet the photographs resist becoming straightforward descriptions. Haze, compression, and subtle material shifts interrupt the expectation that photography should provide clear evidence of place. Instead, the work behaves more like memory itself: partial, layered, and reconstructed over time.

Marc Sirinsky: Emergence
Exhibition Dates: May 9‑June 3, 2026
Artist’s Reception: May 9 from 3 – 6 p.m.
Colloquia Gallery, 115 North Main Street, Woodstock, VA 22664