Plumb’s work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago; Beijing Natural Cultural Center, China; Ruttenberg/Belagravia Collection, Chicago; and Fidelity Investments, Boston.  Her photographs are part of the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Chicago Project at Catherine Edelman Gallery and are featured online with Photo-Eye’s Photographer’s Showcase.  Plumb’s work has been widely published, and recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Notebaert Nature Museum Chicago; group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Jen Bekman Gallery, New York; Santa Monica Art Studio, California; Humble Arts Foundation, New York; Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center; and the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington D.C.

Plumb resides in Chicago with her husband and two daughters.

Artist Statement:
I began this project looking at ‘fake nature’, wondering what substitutions for nature can satisfy people.  Looking deeper I began photographing live/real animals and how they can be a link for us to a world far from the reality and pace of contemporary life, as well as provide an intangible link to a deeper world of instinct and rawness.

This series of photographs examines the essence of our connection, as well as our fragmentation from the natural.  I am interested in the increasing disconnection that exists between humans and the natural world.  The work explores simulation, consumption, destruction, and reconstruction as well as notions of endurance and the reality of loss.