Dobry works multidisciplinary across photography, video, performance and installation to engage in a practice committed to the investigation of queer experiences. Through self-reflectivity, historical research and constructed fictional narratives, they work to explore queer identity and gendered deviance within the context of the body. Interested in fragmentation and the distortion of time, Dobry specifically employs a mixture of analog and digital modes of making to place viewers in a suspended reality, referencing both the past and the present to create new queer worlds with the camera. Their cross-use of mediums reflect the ways in which queerness is a fluid and expansive realm, and is informed by surrounding environments. Exploring themes related to nightlife, community, nature, and intimacy, they are interested in the ways in which queerness can distort conventional systems of power and provide alternative modes of existance.
Jo is an artist based in Chicago, Illinois, born and raised in the Central Arkansas region. They are currently a third-year undergraduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago pursuing a BFA in Studio with Art History Thesis, emphasis in photography and video. They make photographs, videos, performances, writings, books, and installations. They are the founder of Photofroot, a photography based artist collective that exchanges books annually.