HERE & THERE: ALUMNI INVITATIONAL @ The Galleries at Moore 6/5 - 8/23/2021
Curated by Gabrielle Lavin Suzenski

“After a year of postponement, our long-awaited alumni invitational exhibition will open on June 5. Here & There highlights the work of six alumni whose artistic practices explore themes of "place." Through painting, photography, sculpture, and community engagement, the exhibition presents a variety of ways to understand how artists question, embrace, and interact with their surroundings.”

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"Thin as Our Skin: Triptic, vegan leather, hair,Baby'Skull cap france 1852, 62" x30" x 1/4 ", 2020

Artist Statement: Working multiple disciplines hands on, I enjoy overlapping traditional media with experimental materials. Swift intuition congeals action with technologies or with the living world by sifting through the detritus of my childhood spent in the woodlands.

My camera is a sketchbook, a daily journaling of glimpses, barely audible sighs, which are not articulate to consciousness. Journaling dreams, emotive thought, daily routine, meditations set time with a daily routine. Pull a weed, gather petals, chop a red onion are all worthy of focus.

Tenuousness fragility, vulnerability, transience, transformation, unknowing, ineffable, incompleteness echo thru paths. Epigenetics triggers intuitive knowledge of generations; joy vigorously and ethically, as the heliotrope of the plant, guides the works evolution. One cannot swim in the same river twice. The deep artifacts of youth subsume connecting us to rhetorical poetic images of civilizations past. An Indira's web of activity sparks neurological paths not taken. Trauma slow to loosen from pasha slackens. The Bardo releases its waters.

Objectifying events of daily life reveal the multitude of meanings as never ending, never stagnating. Our vulnerability within this changing landscape is singular, yet, inexorability connected to all that have gone before us in numinous pursuit. Bodies fall to a dance of grace in the end.