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Leah Sobsey

@leahsobsey

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Artist-
Professor of Photography-Graduate Director-
@uncgartschool
leahsobsey.com

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@rwfa_nyc
@traywickcontemporary
@galerie_xii

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Happy to be back in Pittsburg at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - this time with @leahsobsey for the week. @lydiarosenberg__ @carrieroy 🌸💖🌸 by @leahsobsey

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💙 Many thanks to all who came to my show at @preservationchapelhill last night. It was such a fun evening!
If you missed it, or just want to come back again, there will be a closing reception December 13th from 2-4pm with a yummy hot chocolate bar ❄️
Come celebrate and check out my collaboration with @red.canary a digitized cyanotype replica of Thoreau's cabin made with pressed plants collected by Thoreau.
The work is up through December with open hours on Friday or by appointment. DM me to schedule a look inside. Grounds are always open. Come sit a spell 💙 thank you 🤍 @red.canary @howell_caseworks @preservationchapelhill @clickphotofest @warrenhicksartist @neryslevy @hightree19 #cyanotype #thoreau #thoreauscabin #climatechange #artandscience taken in The Horace Williams House by @leahsobsey

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Join me 🌱Tonight 5-7pm 🌱 in Chapel Hill @preservationchapelhill
Always a thrill to make new work and especially excited to share this new outdoor installation- a collaboration with @red.canary - A replica of Thoreau's cabin covered with the plants he collected in and around Walden💙💙 #cyanotype #experimentalphotography #thoreau #climatechange by @leahsobsey

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If you weren’t able to come to our New York opening on Thursday, our show is up at #rickwesterfineart through the new year. Here are some snaps for those who live farther afield. ✨✨✨

The work includes pieces from our series on Emily Dickinson; a collaboration with the Brandywine Museum on the ecology of that region; as well as new ongoing work from our collaboration with the New York Botanical Garden - their old growth forest and photo archive.

All works are archival photographic prints and are made originally with the pigments of plants, leaves, stems, bark, flowers, lichen, ferns, fruits etc. And exposed outside in the sun. #anthotypes
@rwfa_nyc by @leahsobsey

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✨✨✨ Many thanks to all who came out to our show last night at Rick Wester Fine Art. It was such a fun evening!

“Looking Back, Looking Forward - Selected Works” includes new images from our project on the New York Botanical Garden old growth forest and archive.

The work is up through the new year.

#rickwesterfineart by @leahsobsey

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We made a thing with @leahsobsey 💙 back in 2019 Leah had the idea to create a replica of Thoreau’s cabin, to scale, but cover it in cyanotypes of his plant specimens in homage to Anna Atkins….and we are proud to say..here it is!!..just off Franklin Steet in Chapel Hill 💙 Please join us for the opening this Saturday! from 5-7 at The Horace Williams House, 610 East Rosemary Street. Leah also has some gorgeous pieces on display inside the house. Hope to see you there! Exhibition runs through December 31 💙 by @leahsobsey

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How about these sublime images in our 8x10 fundraising auction? Bidding is live online until October 8, Thursday! Get in there and bid! Thank you, artists, for donating these gorgeous photographs! @centerphotographicart @ann_jastrab #centerforphotographicart #8x10 #auction #photoexhibition #supportnonprofits taken in Center for Photographic Art by @leahsobsey

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Leah Sobsey: In Wildness is the Preservation of the World @leahsobsey

A PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTALLATION
October 10 – December 31, 2026

ARTIST RECEPTION:
Saturday, October 10, 5-7 PM

Preservation Chapel Hill – Horace Williams House
610 East Rosemary Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919.942.7818

The exhibit will be open for viewing on Fridays, 10 AM - 4 PM, or by appointment.

For exhibition information (after Oct 10):
https://www.preservationchapelhill.org/artexhibitions

Image: From the series: Earth’s Eye; archival pigment print on mica, 11” x 8.5”; 2026 taken in The Horace Williams House by @leahsobsey

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💫 It's a busy art week! Thursday 10/8 opening at @rwfa_nyc in NY from 6-8pm with @amandabethmarchand

And Saturday 10/10 from 5-7pm in NC at @preservationchapelhill for my solo show as part of @clickphotofest
Hope to see you there! 💫 by @leahsobsey

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💫 Join us 🥂
Understory: Misses Griffiths and the New York Botanical Garden opens at @rwfa_nyc October 8th 6pm-8pm
@nybg @amandabethmarchand

Understory is a materials-driven photographic project by Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey that investigates the intersections of botanical archives, women’s labor, plant life, climate disruption, and the enduring legacy of land stewardship.

Also on view at the gallery:

Perchance To Dream:
Royal And Noble Bedchambers
By David LEVENTI

Also on view by @leahsobsey

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💫 Save the date!
Opening reception October 10th 5-7pm. 💫 New work in progress for my upcoming solo exhibition at the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill, coincidentally built the same year Thoreau was collecting plants at Walden Pond and Anna Atkins was publishing the first book of cyanotype photographs 🤯

Thank you @hightree19 for the invitation as part of @clickphotofest. I'm making loads of new work expanding on my collaborative exhibitions at @harvardmuseum and @ncstategreggmuseum using Thoreau's important collection of pressed plants.
In addition to new work on mica, I am making more cyanotype's on glass and an outdoor installation-a replica of Thoreau's cabin made from digitized cyanotypes on fabric will be installed on the grounds. Fabric printed by the amazing @red.canary
As always thank you to science collaborators @emilymeineke and Charles Davis.
Hope to see you there 💙🤍 @clickphotofest

And if you're in TN go check out @xoimmersiveart video projection at The Frist! by @leahsobsey

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Thank you @squeeky_vi for sharing our work, we love seeing our book This Earthen Door published by @datzpress utilized by students in university and institutional collections. Our book is now sold out minus a few saved copies for special collections, universities and museums. DM us if you are interested in acquiring one for your institution. 💜 🌱 @amandabethmarchand #this_earthen_door @traywickcontemporary @rwfa_nyc @galerie_xii
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Students from Prof. Jackie Brown’s @bowdoinvisualarts class Art, Science, and the Environment connect with historic materials and contemporary books arts — Kate Furbish and her herbaria and volume 5 of Maine Flora, This Earthen Door by Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, Ellen Knudson’s Common Rocks and Other Problems paired with Parker Cleaveland’s Elementary Treastise on Mineralogy and Geology and Macy Chadwick’s Waiting for Rain. by @leahsobsey

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