Jim Clark, Troy: What interests me is the realm beyond origin: The myth of creation where the idea and the real become something in between. How does something natural, manmade and/or ordinary achieve the supernatural? Using ordinary found objects for both surface and image I tries to answer this question. The Stool series derives from this quest of finding an image that was at once ordinary in passing and then transgressed when captured pictorially. The stools become a pun and a parody of my passivity, activity and community with others. The are-like all of my work-about relationships: material and metaphorical. They are a new growth from an old life study. And to grow with them I must recreate them. Through this endeavor they gain character, personality and an organic quality beyond their origin.
Courtney Erhardt, Albany: I am drawn to fragments... those inexhaustible moments in a drawing, in a conversation, in a thought, on a book binding, with a touch or pull of flesh. Scraps of experiences are pieced together to form a new relationship, a new language, a new collective... a genuine, honest, guts and warts look at the situation, the memory, the touch, the moment. This is how I live and create- bits of fragments and scraps of wholes trying to make the incomprehensible somehow digestible, palpable... tangible.
Jonathan Lee Marcus: I am is a multimedia performance and installation artist and strive to increase the amount of questions that exist by focusing on liminality in time and consciousness. My work has been performed and exhibited at a variety of places in the United States, Canada, and France. I teach computer programming for audio/video performance and interactive installation at Parsons School of Design.
Nick Reinert, Troy: Eureka! It’s a term few use, but most have experienced. It’s that moment when something clicks, understanding develops, smiles occur, the lightbulb appears above your head. Light sources appear in my work to physically brighten a space while the idea of light acts as a source of comfort and warmth, a curious notion, or a specific element of a composition. Symbols and recognizable images are highlighted to create meaning and to entice spectators to create their own stories while viewing my work. Much like a DJ spins records and combines separate and unique sounds to create a new composition, I too collect and reference items from the past while looking toward a new future. Personal questions and intuition have encouraged these collages to become small narratives and functional objects. Music is an important part of my process which can also add to the eureka element. With many layers of meaning in play, certain images and shapes combine with sounds to create a wonderful feeling of intimacy and serendipity. It is this exciting eureka moment that I strive for in my work.
Jack Turner, Troy: I study interaction design on and off the web. My video work focuses on providing alternate means of experiencing time especially the very recent past. Our perception of the recent determines how widely or narrowly we define the present and how present we are in the moment.
Sara e Worden, Troy: I create a visceral distortion of the corporeal experience through choice of material, costumery and movement. My most recent stitches and video installation tap into reserves of primordial lore, natural history, and the disintegrating industrial habitat which coexist within the surrounding landscape of the Hudson Valley. My interests — sewing, plants, geography, economic relations, and dance — are the tangible ingredients in this body of work. Each piece is an incorporation of the new and the old, the realized and the unrealized.
