DAWN WATSON resides in Hastings, NY and is a longtime resident of the Hudson Valley. Nature serves as her muse, her subject of concern, a source of solace and healing. After a career as a professional dancer/choreographer based in New York City, Watson shifted her artistic practice to photography. Years of moving intuitively through space as a dancer developed a heightened sense of physicality which informs her process of manipulation and intervention with the photographic print. Exploring themes of perception, adaptation, and transformation her work inverts form and content as a response to our changing environment in this era of the Anthropocene.

Watson’s solo exhibitions include the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Los Angeles Center for Photography and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. Her photos have been seen in juried exhibitions in the United States and Europe at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Center for Fine Art Photography, Davis-Orton Gallery, Foto Forum, Ph21 Gallery, Photographic Center NW, Tilt Gallery, SXSE Gallery and Tang Teaching Museum. Features online and in print include all About Photo, Diffusion X Magazine, Elizabeth Avedon Journal, Griffin Museum of Photography blog, Lenscratch, Shots Magazine, SXSE Magazine, The Hand and What Will You Remember. This September 2022 Watson is participating in an exhibit in Paris, France, at the Salon des Beaux Arts Fine Arts Show. The artist’s work, held in private collections, also graces the walls here in the Lodge’s permanent collection, enhancing the guest experience. Discover the treasure of her ethereal photography here in Tree Restaurant, in the spa’s lounges, and in our hallways.