P.S. OR POSTSCRIPTUM
October 2nd - September 19th 2026
Casey Joiner, Matthew Finley, Sidney Pettice
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2nd 6-9 pm
“This exhibition, entitled P.S. or Postscriptum, features works by photographers Matthew Finley and Casey Joiner and takes its name from the postscript written at the end of a letter. Through their two photographic series, An Impossibly Normal Life and Housekeeping, artists Finley and Joiner are rewriting the memory, or manipulating and building on the moments ‘after.’ Within their bodies of work on view, Joiner and Finley explore the making of a personal archive. Not only are they navigating and recounting a personal history, but they are also utilizing world- and narrative-building to explore both what once was and what may only have been. Casey Joiner’s series Housekeeping was created as a means to navigate the grief of her father. At the same time, the photographs act as brief memories--or glimpses and moments that contend with their relationship, and the person he was as well as the person she became through her memories with him. Matthew Finley’s body of work, An Impossibly Normal Life, was created in response to learning about his uncle,
who passed soon after he was born but who he learned may have also been gay. In this collection of altered found photographs, Finley builds his uncle’s life story with love, legacy, and feeling. Both artists made their bodies of work with ritualistic practices: slow walks, deep searching, and close looking. Through this exploration of the blurriness and malleability of memory, as well as an attempt to archive and retrace moments through the veil. P.S. of Postscriptum invites viewers to step into these brief moments in personal and intimate history.
This exhibition is a collaboration between Fall Line Press (Atlanta, GA) and Cleo the Project Space (Savannah, GA). Fall Line Press is an independent photobook publisher that works closely with photographers to publish their projects like Casey Joiner’s Housekeeping and Matthew Finley’s An Impossibly Normal Life into bound, long-lasting ephemera.”
-Sidney Pettice, Guest Curator
Casey Joiner is a photographer in New Orleans, LA. Her work is loosely rooted in the documentary tradition, matter-of-fact in its sentimentality. Her photographs speak in the abstract of memory, imagination, identity and perpetual care with a formalist conviction, democratic vernacular and a magical realist attitude. She makes images informed by her affection for places full of peculiar nonsense and deep struggle, slow things, and growing up in the Deep South.
Matthew Finley uses his photography to express himself and connect to the world around him. With a variety of photography processes, he explores intimate emotions through gesture and line to communicate his experience. Growing up queer in an unaccepting environment, Finley felt apart from the world around him. Now, as an adult, the studio is a safe space to create where he can be vulnerable and express his true self. Creating and exhibiting his work is a way to forge relationships with viewers and help those who see themselves reflected in it to feel less alone.
Based in Los Angeles, Finley’s work has shown in solo and group shows in multiple galleries across the U.S. Most recently, his work was on the walls of the esteemed Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles with the likes of Herb Ritts and Herbert List. Other works have circled the globe as part of the FOTOFILMIC 17 traveling show and he has pieces in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. His images have also appeared in publications including Oxford American, Shots Magazine, and online outlets such as Lenscratch, among others. In 2024 Finley was awarded CENTER Santa Fe’s Personal Award as well as the Center for Photographic Art’s LGBTQ+ Artist Grant for his project An Impossibly Normal Life
Sidney Pettice is a curator and writer from North Carolina, who received her B.A. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her M.A. in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Beginning with a focus on Ancient African Art History during her time at UNCG, Pettice began to expand on her education and scholarship to include the African Diaspora, studying both the ancient and the contemporary. Now, she continues to center the expansion and further documentation of Black history, culture, and vernacular through extensive writings and research on Black American artists, writers, and cultural critics while also highlighting the Diaspora as a whole. Her practice and focus are exemplary through her curated exhibitions and written scholarship published by Art and Criticism Magazine, Burnaway, and Southern Arts and Politics Magazine, Scalawag. She has continued her research focus by conducting archive-based research and organizational projects as Studio Assistant for conceptual and performance artist Lorraine O’Grady (b. 1943). She has also conducted a small archival research project at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, GA, where she produced scholarship on artist Selma Burke (1900-1995) for their institutional record. Pettice has recently worked as Curator of African Collections and African Diasporic Art at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, GA, and is now getting her PhD in History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.