Susan Copich’s Staged Stories, a 49 piece traveling show made up of two photography projects and a film short.

Ohio-raised, New York-based photographer Susan Copich has since 2010 been making highly staged and carefully crafted self-portraits that reflect on the dark sides of contemporary American femininity, domesticity, motherhood, and the artist’s inner psychological dramas in ways that that are both alarming and amusing, over-the-top and relatable. This exhibition is a trilogy created over 9 years and brings together the series Domestic Bliss and then he forgot my name alongside a short film titled The Cupcake.

As Copich herself says about these works, “I dwell in the dark thoughts and recesses of my mind to create character and subject and navigate both my own personal imperatives as woman, artist, mother, and wife, as well as those—personal, social, and cultural—that are imposed by others. My work is my commentary on how a family can live a public life that is far from their private life, even within the family; how secrets are kept, coddled and nurtured.”