Originally from Buffalo New York, Adriane Little is currently living in Kalamazoo Michigan. Through photographs and video installation, Adriane Little’s work investigates trauma and ritual firstly through an interrogation of a presence and absence of the maternal body. The translation of this space is both literal and metaphor or the architecture of an ephemeral maternal space that is embedded within what she calls the matrilineal ghost. Her current work is secondly expanding from this foundation by continuing to examine how the past or matrilineal ghost intersects with the present through technology. Her work has been displayed in solo exhibition, at the Institute of CUlture in Trbovlje Slovenia, Hammes Gallery at Saint Mary's College, Peak Gallery in Toronto, Big Orbit Gallery in Buffalo New York [catalogue essay by Michelle Boulous Walker], the Carnegie Art Center in N Tonawanda New York [catalogue essay by Ewa Ziarek] and 621 Gallery in Tallahassee Florida, among others. Her work has also been included in several recent group exhibitions & film festivals, including the Thin Tissue of Likeness at SCA Contemporary Art in Albuquerque, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Beyond/In Western New York 2005 presented at CEPA Gallery as a solo exhibition [catalogue essay by Marianne Hirsch], Death Bizarre at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Insatiable Streams: 10 years of the Institute for Electronic Arts at the Beijing B.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Beijing China, Video Art in the Age of the Internet at the Chelsea Art Museum in NYC, Particulate at LumpWest Gallery is Eugene Oregon that also traveled to Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Vertical Hold at Galery One in Ellensburg Washington which traveled to Punch Gallery in Seattle Washington, 9th Dawson City International Film Festival in the Yukon, Macon Film and Video Festival, Three Rivers Film Festival, Rockport Film and Video Festical and the 21st Leeds International Film Festival, among others. Her video Friction has been included in the videoDictionary collection at The Video Art Foundation in Barcelona Spain. The videoDictionary additionally included in the Fundacio La Caixa Videolibrary also in Barcelona. The videoDictionary as been screened most recently at the Image Forum Festival 2006 in Tokyo Japan. She is a member of the Evolutionary Girls and [PAM] Perceptual Art Machine Project. She has curated several exhibitions including Plus 3 Ferris Wheels, 17 Days and several solo exhibitions. Adriane Little received an M.F.A. from the University at Buffalo. She is Assistant Professor of Photography and Intermedia in the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. Adriane Little is represented by PEAK Gallery in Toronto Canada.
