Wendy Johnson Costa is an artist living in the northwest corner of Connecticut. She is a fierce advocate for the Earth, and uses her infrared photography to bring attention to its beauty and fragile state. She presents nature as a force to be revered, while at the same time hints at signs of nature falling prey to our accelerating climate crisis.
Photographs join the State of Connecticut Art Collection
I am honored and humbled to announce that the Connecticut Office of the Arts has purchased five of my large-scale infrared photographs of Litchfield County landscapes through the Art for Public Spaces program.
They are on display on the fourth floor of the Litchfield Judicial District Courthouse in Torrington. You can see more of my work on the Connecticut Office of the Arts Artists’ Collection website:
At the COA site, you can click on each of my individual photographs to obtain detailed background information about the image.
Exhibit News!
Beauty in Breaking Exhibit
through June 20, 2026
The Washington Art Association is pleased to present Beauty in Breaking, a juried group exhibition exploring the transformative potential found in rupture, fracture, and change.
We all encounter moments of strain—points where pressure, time, or circumstance cause something to fracture. Some breaks are deliberate, others arrive without warning. What follows is often the more compelling story: how we respond. Fractures may be displayed proudly as evidence of endurance, or carefully mended until their seams nearly disappear.
Art reveals the quiet poetry of this process. Even when a work is considered complete, it continues to change. Surfaces fade, materials shift, edges soften, and time leaves its subtle marks. These transformations remind us that the artist is not the final authority over the work, but one participant in its ongoing life.
In this sense, breaking is not failure but transformation—an opening that allows a work to evolve beyond its original intention.
The exhibition features a diverse group of artists working across media, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media
Curated by Nathaniel Cardonsky, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Saun Ellis.
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One Never Knows
Hudson, New York
2017
Digital Infrared Photograph
Mary Lou Alberetti. Suzanne Ashley. Isis Bartels. Katie Bassett. Loren Birtha. Lesley Neilson Bowman. Sara Bowman. Lisa Brody. Becky Butler. Wendy Costa. Robert DeMatteo. Alistair Dunn. Patty K. Fogle. Joe Gitterman. Claire Goodman. Sarah Griswold. Alexandra Herst. Richard Heys. Judy Jackson. Jay Kaplan. Victoria Kingsley. Jennifer Kusaila. Kenny Litwack. Carroll MacDonald. Matin Malikzada. Deana Tierney May. Nancy Mich. Katherine Moran. Francis Patnaude. Rich Pomerantz. Bonnie Riedinger. Lulu Roche. Carla Rogozniski. Holly Russell. Roberta Shea. Mary Terrazzi. Riley Weaver. Peter Wiehl.
Chevrolet New Milford
Digital Infrared Photograph
Wendy Costa
“One Never Knows” has been accepted into the Portals Exhibition at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT.
Curator: Ann Jastrab
Opening Reception Friday, June 5, from 4-7 pm.
Exhibition continues through June 27.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-5 pm
PhotoPlace Gallery
3 Park St
Middlebury, VT 05753
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