BIO

Born, Santa Barbara, California, 1979
Lives + works in San Francisco, California.

     Alanna photographs herself. Her images are cathartic responses to ideas, relationships and emotionally charged situations. Her current self-portrait projects are Cringe, where she investigates moments of intensely self-critical disgust and re-idolatry, where she recreates iconic images of her (predominantly male) art-heroes-- the likes of Bruce Nauman, David Bowie, Wolfgang Tillmans and Klaus Nomi.    

     Alanna often works in collaboration with Carolyn Radlo in both video and photography; their recent projects include a fifteen-part video installation, THE GRANDFATHERS, an animated experimental short, Rice-Relief and a photographic conversation made expressly for PaperGirl 2010, in Berlin, Germany. This July, the pair presented A Little Something Serious, an evening of their video work at the 9th Street Independent Film Center in San Francisco. For more information, visit C + A Projects.    

     Other recent collaborations inlcude creating the video elements for Seth Eisen's solo performance Blackbird, camera work and production design for Clean White Lines music videos, as well as an on-going video project with Heather Lucas, Films That My Mind Makes.

     EDUCATION:

BA, Film + Video Production, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA, 2005

     EXHIBITIONS:
     2010
photos, Papergirl, Neurotitan Galerie, Berlin, Germany
video, A Little Something Serious, C + A Projects, 9th St. Independent Film Center, San Francisco, CA
video, Blackbird: Honoring A Century of Pansy Divas, Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, San Francisco, CA
     2008
photos, Post-postcard 12, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
video, Blackbird: A Queer Vocal History, Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, San Francisco, CA
photos, San Francisco Open Studios Group Exhibit, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
photos, Art and Poetry, Evolving Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
     2007
photos, non-grafitti + shadow is you, Sudachi, San Francisco, CA
photos + drawings, Post-Postcard 11, the Lab, San Francisco, CA
photos, Gallery Artist's Holiday Show, Evolving Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
photos, Ephemeral Mailbox Museum, Morgan Lane Gallery, Austin, TX
photos, *Post-Due* Collective Show, Everyday Joe's, Ft. Colliins, CO
     2006
photos + chapbooks, Post-Postcard 10, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
photos + chapbooks, Post-Postcard 10, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
photos, SF Open Studios Group Exhibit, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
text, Free Press, Roda Sten, Gothenburgh, Sweden
text, Free Words Forever, Conflux, NYC
     2005
photos, Postcard Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
photos, Group Show, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
     2001
photos + collage, Group Show, Cafe Roma, Santa Barbara, CA
video + music, Too Young To Love, City @ Peace, Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
     2000
paintings, Group Show, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
     1999
paintings + sculpture, Group Show, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
     1998
paintings, Spring Student Art Exhibit, Art Dept. Gallery, California State Univeristy, Chico

     PUBLICATIONS:
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon, CreateSpace, Santa Cruz, CA, 2010
Schmap Guide: Seattle 9th Edition, Schmap, Inc., Carrboro, NC.
Conversations, packets of 16 phototcards, C + A Projects, San Francisco, CA, 2008
Ephemeral Mailbox Museum catalogue as part of the Ephemeral Mailbox Museum exhibit, Morgan Lane Gallery, Austin, TX, 2007
Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 + Group 4; four 20 page self-published chapbooks for Fall Open Studios, San Francisco, CA, 2006
The Harbinger, self-published zine, Santa Barbara, CA, 1996-2000