Special Pop-UP Exhibition: February 24 - 26 on the Parthenon’s Upper Level

SEE YOU ME is an exhibition of large format photographs, super 8 footage and mixed media sculpture debuting at the Parthenon that explores the creative relationship and ongoing body of work between photographer Emily Dorio and artist Karen Elson.

“As commercial artists, so much of our work is for someone else - our body, soul and lens - to sell an idea, a product, a time in a place. This work, is the work that is between and what remains for us. This collection of images is our commune and coven to explore our unaided original voices and visions. Karen - the most perfect muse - a chameleon of all things earth and beyond - shape shifts from intimate portraits to otherworldly creature. SEE YOU ME borrows religious themes to propose the idea of TRINITY OF CREATIVE SELF as a mode of creative process, divisions and ultimate beauty in a content driven field.”

- EMILY DORIO

“The relationship between the muse and the artist can often be complex as there is always a give and take often at the detriment to the muse but between Emily and myself the creative process has always felt equal. Our shoots have always felt like a true collaboration. As women, creatives and mothers we have so much in common including the challenges that go with all three. See You Me is the trinity of the relationships that go into the female creative self.”

- KAREN ELSON

Emily Dorio is a commercial photographer based in Nashville Tennessee. Karen Elson is an English model and singer-songwriter.