Working across mediums including sculpture, photography, site-sensitive installation, and drawing, the common thread through The Build Up is the transformation of visible structures and the investigation of infrastructure. With source materials including found objects, walls, the studio space, and new home construction, each artist is drawn to the built environment with a curiosity about how things are made and how to surpass functionality. There is a sense of attachment to breaking down and reshaping personal objects in order to create a new relationships to them, as well as a studied approach to the labor of literally building walls, first with stones, then with pencil. Some of the work translates photographic imagery to sculptural object, or referent to drawing, as a way to discuss the possibilities of dimensionality in a print. Site-sensitive installation responds to the gallery's unique history, by transferring images directly onto the walls and floorboards of the exhibition space. The artists bring the process of building into the studio and the exhibition space to address this primary human motive.
In her recent work, Leigh Van Duzer transforms photographic prints into three-dimensional sculptures that engage the viewer in a corporeal manner. Her interest in the conceptual and material flexibility of images has expanded into re-forming architectural structures in site-sensitive installations. Van Duzer received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, and her BA from Hampshire College in 2001. She has been awarded the Daisy Soros Prize to attend the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Austria. She has also received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Hambidge Center.
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