Members List
All members names are listed alphabetically. To learn more about each member click on their name below. Please scroll down.
Bami Adedoyin, Brooklyn, NY
Mohd Fuad Arif, Malaysia
Megan Bisbee, Alfred, NY
Missy Carr, Washington, DC
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Kristin Carroll, Boston, MA
Tony Conrad, Buffalo, NY
Lara Davis, Providence, RI
Cindy DeFelice, Brockport, NY
Ghen Dennis, Buffalo, NY
Leigh Ann Francis, New Brunswick, NJ
Chifumi Fujisawa, Mosumoto, Japan
Amy Goldberg, Rochester, NY
Bethany Goldpaugh Brown, Kingston, NY
Virva Hepolampi, Helsinki, Finland
James Holland, Southbury, CT and Rochester, NY
Kelly Jacobson, Kansas City, MO
Akil Kirlew, Brooklyn, NY
Caroline Koebel, Buffalo, NY
Jennifer Little, Rochester, NY
Edna Madera, Rochester, NY
Darin Martin, Oakland, CA
Tammy McGovern, Buffalo, NY
Colleen Vera Melisz, Buffalo/Rochester, NY
Toni Mosley, Auckland, New Zealand
Tomoya Murazumi, Kanazawa City, Japan
Akane Nakamori, Kanazawa City, Japan
Stephanie Nolasco, New York, NY
Natasha Pachano, Costa Rica
Warren Peace, Jersey City, NJ
Anjanel Dawn Pinet, Rochester, NY
Mima Simic, Croatia
Joan E. Stoltman, Buffalo, NY
Diane Teramana, Kingston, NY
Angela Tessier Kanazawa City, Japan
Andy Tetzlaff, Kanazawa City, Japan
Matthew Underwood, Boston, MA
Adam Weekley, Buffalo, NY
wolfgrrrl sometimes billijo, Rochester, NY
Walter Wright, Lowell, MA
Ami Yamasaki, Kanazawa City, Japan
Ojima Yukari, Kanazawa City, Japan
Karen Y. Zhang, Beijing, China |
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Susan Heggestad
What I find most satisfying is constantly re-using my work - cutting it up, printing or drawing over it, casting flat works into objects. Evolving from a personal language of symbols, my prints begin with collagraph, monotype, and lithography; my objects employ cast paper, fabric and lighting. I use windows to evoke the spaces we inhabit. Hands and arms reference the body in space. Texture conjures the physical present; light reveals spaces, and speaks of that which is intangible. These elements, which I am constantly reconfiguring, reflect an effort to communicate ideas about the metaphysical within the sensual dimension of experience. Ideas of the spiritual, the origin of human kind, our relationship to the rest of creation, and about an existence beyond this one... the fragments, the allusion to a whole, are where the rich potential for truth lies. I feel that it is the continual process of stringing these fragments into a whole, rather than the end product, that holds the truth of our existence. Every human culture has an account of the cosmos, its creation and maintenance, cycles of creation and destruction, and the origin of themselves and other beings. There are notions of an "other world", different in some way from this one, concepts of soul and spirit, things unseen as well as seen, and an eschatology of what happens at and after death. I see my explorations in mixed media as a parallel to these historical accounts. My work deals with these issues of existence, or more specifically, grapples with the ways in which our understanding and communication of these ideas have been shaped. I've appropriated the term "poetic knowledge" - for the kind of knowledge one receives from ideas that lack exact reference but nevertheless have a compelling force of truth - to talk about the inspiration for my work. What drives my work is the mystery of it all. It isn't in the myriad "answers" to these universal questions, but in the visually astounding ways that these questions continually pose themselves.
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