“Back East,” was an exhibition of works at Current Space by Erin Stellmon and Rahne Alexander, two Baltimore-based artists whose origin stories begin on the West Coast of the United States: Alexander in California and Stellmon in Oregon. “Back East” emerges from a series of conversations between the artists about their independent decisions to find home in Baltimore, breaking ties with myths deeply held by both family and nation about the promises of westward expansion. 

The photographs in this gallery were taken in Lloyd Center Mall with the ancestral headboard that came west on the Oregon Trail in 1850

“Back East,” was an exhibition of works by Erin Stellmon and Rahne Alexander at Current Space in Baltimore, MD. These two Baltimore-based artists whose origin stories begin on the West Coast of the United States: Alexander in California and Stellmon in Oregon. “Back East” emerges from a series of conversations between the artists about their independent decisions to find home in Baltimore, breaking ties with myths deeply held by both family and nation about the promises of westward expansion. Installation photos by Vivian Marie Doering