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Valerie Sullivan Fuchs    valeriefuchs.org   Instagram:  @valeriesfuchs

Bio:

I am a new-media artist working in video, performance, imaging, installation, sound and
sculpture. I make large scale digital prints and short form videos that capture details of stillness
and quiet interactions in nature. Through this practice I explore ideas of connectivity,
entanglement, time and emulate nature’s self-sustainable energy by integrating solar power, hydroelectricity into artworks. Collections include: 21c Museum, Louisville; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Muhammad Ali International Airport; Revive Corp; SNAP Foundation. Exhibitions include: Spring/Break, NYC, NY; American Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA; Non Grata Festival, Pärnu, Estonia; Galerie Eugene Lendl, Graz, Austria; 21c Museums @ Cincinnati, OH, @Louisville, KY, @Bentonville, AR; BELEF Art Festival, Belgrade, Serbia; Speed Art Museum Louisville, KY. Awards & Grants include: Great Meadows Foundation (8); KY Arts Council, Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship; Kentucky Foundation for Women (3); Hadley Creative. Reviews include: Art Papers; Dialogue; American Theatre; MIT’s Leonardo; Louisville Courier-Journal; 21c Artist Check-In, NPR. Published writing: Louisville Eccentric Observer; Pitch Magazine; an anthology, Beauty Unlimited by Peg Brand. Residencies: Berlin Collectiv, Spain’22; Mustarinda, Finland,’19; Works On Water ’18-’19, NYC, NY. Collectives: Berlin Art Collectiv, Sine::Apsis Experiments, ENID, & Maybeitsfate. I live near a small woods with a creek in Kentucky with my husband. I have a B.Arch. University of Kentucky, KY; MFA,Time Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Statement:

My central concerns focus on the invisible exchange of energy and temporal aspects of video, place and nature with ideas of entanglement. My material engagement with transparent layers, saturated monochromatic colors, light and sunlight, shifts
viewers’ visual and temporal perceptions that slide between perceptible/imperceptible, separate/ merged, and surface/depth. I am drawn to new media for physiological effects on senses-like persistence of vision-that indicate real concrete changes in us and nature.

Each day I record images of a small woods and creek. These are ready-mades, found objects of a woods, that is an inter-dependent being that needs nothing from me, yet I feel a presence, a sentient acknowledgement and sometimes a response. I work on computers for the ease of editing and how digital media shares the same sensorial qualities found in nature: immediacy,
motion, sound, duration, and accumulated visual traces of time.