5 December 2025 – 1 March 2026

opening reception: 5 December 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Marginal Utility / 2C Books is pleased to present Deadeye, an exhibition of photographic works by Philadelphia-based artist Ditta Baron Hoeber.

Deadeye is the tile of a black and white photograph that I made many years ago. It’s also the title of a poem. The poem is in a book that uses the photograph for its cover. The book is newly published and there are copies of it among the books at 2C. So it seemed to make sense to have Deadeye be part of the exhibit at 2C.

The sequence of four color photographs, Skirt, was the first thing I thought to add to the exhibit. I have always liked the four, liked their colors. After that it was a matter of finding pieces that worked together. I think they work together formally but each of them is singular — not all part of a project or a series.

Each of them is personal. The thread that runs through the group of images isn’t obvious or maybe not quite apparent. It isn’t entirely apparent to me. I’m thinking about it.

BIO:

An artist and poet, Ditta Baron Hoeber’s book, Without You is just out from Black Spring Press Group. Her poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, Burningword Literary Review, Noon: journal of the short poem, Juxtaprose, Pank, Contemporary American Voices, among others and the American Journal of Poetry which nominated her work for a Pushcart Prize.

Her photographs, drawings and book works have been acquired by several collections including those at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania Library, the Museum of Modern Modern Art/ Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Library, Oberlin College Art Library, Swarthmore College Library and Chelsea College of Art & Design in London.

Her work has recently been shown at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, at 57 West 57 Gallery, New York, NY and Margot Samel @ Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow, UK.