Chrissy Lush, Arrival, 2025

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LAS Contemporary is pleased to announce a solo presentation of photographic works by Chrissy Lush at The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD. Lush’s practice examines the quiet tensions embedded within human connection, focusing on moments where intimacy and vulnerability surface within familiar domestic and suburban environments.

Working within carefully constructed scenes, Lush employs the language of staged photography to explore the collision between interior experience and outward performance. Her images set in bedrooms, kitchens, backyards, driveways, and cemeteries attend to the psychological space between individuals and their surroundings. Figures inhabit spaces charged with expectation and restraint, from the heavy stillness of a gravesite to the sudden disruption of a suburban driveway. Lush makes visible the subtle negotiations of control and emotional safety through the “slip” in the performance, those private moments when a public persona falters and an unintended honesty emerges. By leaving these gestures ambiguous, she heightens the tension between what is revealed and what remains withheld.

In a cultural moment shaped by the exhaustion of constant self-regulation, Lush’s work engages the emotional afterimages that linger beneath controlled appearances. This presentation underscores the continuity of her visual concerns, positioning her as a distinctive voice within contemporary lens-based practice attuned to the unseen forces that shape our relationships to space and ourselves.

About the Artist: Chrissy Lush (MFA, Parsons School of Design) is an American visual artist originally from New York and now based in Nashville. Her work has been recognized by institutions such as the Royal Photographic Society and Aesthetica. Her monograph Hold Me Tight (2022) was described by critic Barry Schwabsky as a poignant exploration of the "factitiousness of recollection," highlighting the nuanced dialogue between her younger and present selves. A Critical Mass finalist and recipient of the Passepartout Photo Prize, her work is held in private collections throughout the United States.