Linda Troeller: Me, Myself, and Others – Closing Reception

This exhibition presents photographer Linda Troeller’s decades-long exploration of self and others.

Exhibition Opens: Tuesday, September 9
Exhibition Closes: Friday, December 19

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18, 5 to 7pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, October 9, 5:30 to 6:30pm. Doors open at 5pm.

Closing Reception: Thursday, December 18, 5 to 7pm

ACA Pabst Visitor Center & Gallery 1414 Art Center Ave, New Smyrna Beach, FL, United States

Previous ACA master artist Linda Troeller (residency #167, 2017) will have work on display at ACA’s Pabst Visitor Center & Gallery September 9th through December 19th 2025. The exhibition entitled Me, Myself and Others will showcase Troeller’s photography throughout her entire career as an artist. Her decades-long self-portraiture lets us glimpse into her past and present self. In an age of hyper-curated online presence, her work is counter-cultural and a combatively truthful documentation of the self and change. This collection of self-portraits presents like the pages of a diary, but with the grounds of speaking to taboo truths about the female body. Troeller embodies the philosophy of Susan Sontag who said, “Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.” In her self-portrait with a photo of Sontag, a middle-aged Troeller wears a glittering headdress and bright red lipstick. Glammed up yet wraith-like, the image seems to hint at the theater of the feminine that Sontag warns us about.

Although predominantly self-portraits, the exhibition also shows portraiture of Troeller by other photographers, photojournalism of the Chelsea Hotel, and documentation of Healing Water therapies around the world. Troeller’s work captures the transitioning of The Chelsea Hotel and its residents from the twentieth to the twenty-first century and reveals the life of an iconic hotel in its twilight from her perspective as a member of its artist community.

Troeller is an NYC art photographer and author. Some of her books include Living Inside the Chelsea Hotel, Healing Waters, Sex. Death. Transcendence. and Spa Journeys. She received the 2024 Vanguard Award at Nevada Women’s Film Festival for Healing Waters Film. She currently resides in New Smyrna Beach.

All events are free and open to the public. Come join us for the opening reception of Me, Myself and Others Thursday September 18, 5-7 pm.

Artist talk Thursday, October 9th, 5:30 – 6:30. Doors open at 5pm.

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