In 2016, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist Marianne Wiggins suffered a sudden stroke and moved in with her daughter, Lara Porzak, an artist herself. Marianne’s book, Properties of Thirst, was unfinished. In the preceding months, Lara cared for her mother and helped her finish her mother’s book, all the while filming a new documentary short.
This September, Telluride Arts HQ Gallery is featuring an exhibition, Properties of Thirst: Tintypes by Lara Porzak. The Art Walk opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 1st, 5-8pm at Telluride Arts HQ Gallery at 220 W Colorado Avenue. Live music by Anneke Dean, wine, and small bites will be available at the Art Walk reception. New work by Blackbird and the Snow Fine Jewelry will also be on display.
Additionally, Sunday, September 4th, Telluride Arts and Between the Covers Bookstore will host a reading and reception with Marianne Wiggins for her new novel, Properties of Thirst, at Telluride Arts HQ Gallery amidst Lara’s photography exhibition. Start time TBD.
Lara Porzak is an American, fine-art photographer living and working in Los Angeles. She exclusively works with analog methods. In an article for Fresh Style Magazine, Annalise Devries writes, “Lara commits herself to the particular photographic aesthetic you cannot preview on the back of a digital camera. Using old techniques—from the Leonardo pin-hole camera to the century-old daguerreotype to the 1960s Diana—she captures raw emotions, even spiritual sensibilities in grainy shades of gray.” Lara has exhibited in prestigious galleries across the United States and Europe. Her photographs have notably joined the J. Paul Getty Museum collections.
Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels, including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California.
To see more of Lara’s work, visit laraporzakphotography.com. For more information about Marianne’s book, visit simonandschuster.com.
