Twenty-one photographs by Janna Ireland, assistant professor of art and art history at Occidental College, celebrate the Hollyhock House’s centennial anniversary in a solo exhibition that opened Jan. 16.
The centennial exhibition, Janna Ireland: Even By Proxy, runs through Sept. 27. Even By Proxy features new perspectives on the history of the Hollyhock House, which was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is Los Angeles’ only UNESCO World Heritage Site. During the show’s opening reception, Ireland received Woodbury University’s 2024 Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award, presented annually to a photographer who challenges the way audiences look at physical space.
Ireland’s work is also currently on display at the Princeton School of Architecture. The second solo exhibition, Frontier Spirit: Paul R. Williams in California and Nevada, opened Jan. 16 and runs through Feb. 28.
Ireland began teaching at Occidental in Fall 2022 as one of the College’s first two Mellon Faculty Diversity Initiative Post-Doctoral Fellows. This program allows the College to identify and recruit promising scholars whose work focuses on issues of race and/or social justice and whose expertise and experiences will contribute to diversifying Occidental’s faculty.
Ireland’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of several prestigious institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, the California African American Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
