Panopticon Gallery is proud to present the Boston premiere of Grace, a photographic series by Scott Offen, curated by Alexa Cushing. The exhibition runs from August 26 to December 2, 2025, coinciding with the U.S. book launch of Offen’s first monograph, published by L'Artiere Edizioni. A book signing will take place during the closing reception on September 25, as part of the book tour following Offen’s signing at the ICP Photobook Fair earlier that month.

Spanning seven years of collaboration, Grace is a semi-fictional portrait of a woman—performed and co-conceived by Offen’s wife, Grace. Shot in the forests and interiors of New England, the photographs portray her as tomboy, naturalist, athlete, and recluse, slipping between embodiment and absence. These are intimate, carefully composed images—dreamlike vignettes steeped in ambiguity, solitude, and ritual.

Working with view cameras, Offen creates a slow, meditative process that mirrors the interior world of the photographs themselves. As Laura McPhee writes in the book’s foreword, “Grace operates freely, clearly seen and empowered... She occupies her own unique and compelling alternate universe where she and Scott create narratives the viewer is impelled to interpret.” Rather than presenting Grace as a muse, Grace is built on a shared visual language that honors collaboration, performance, and self-invention. The work invites viewers into a liminal realm just beyond the ordinary—where the human spirit communes with wildness, and the passage of time becomes porous.