Los Angeles-based artist Jenny Walters, a Hot Shot during the inaugural season of the competition in Spring 2005, currently has a solo show, In Lieu of Gifts, on exhibit at The Green Lantern Gallery in Chicago. Walters is exhibiting both photographs and video, which explore the impact of major life events, and how personal identity is tugged and shaped by these events both during and after they transpire.

The Green Lantern Gallery writes,

A pervasive sense of feminine desire, vulnerability and desperation links a number of these pieces, but they are also marked by an attraction to universally theatrical gestures and scenarios that signal the complexities of relationships with oneself, others and the future. The installation explores the issues of aging, mortality and performance while presenting visual information that allows the viewer to recognize and share the inherent intimacy in failure. Constructing a sort of psychological anthropology via performance and the photo/video document, Walters recognizes that it is in our failures that we begin to see each other and ourselves and draw closer together.

The show is on view by appointment only through June 13, 2009 at The Green Lantern Gallery | 1511 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Second Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622-2009