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| Ingrid Shults | |
Artist Ingrid Shults is an Arizona native, but a recent transplant in Indiana. She began her studies in the arts as a dancer and photographer, learning spatial relations on both a compositional and kinesthetic level. This training has been fundamental to the development of her current work. She is a process-based artist with an emphasis on body art. She earned her BFA at Northern Arizona University in Studio Arts with an emphasis in painting and is currently an MFA candidate at Purdue University. |
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| About the Artist | |
As an artist, I am interested in creating a dialogue through time-based media as well as objects. I seek to create work that has the ability to have an affect on the viewer, simultaneously, allowing the viewer and/or the environment to have an affect on the work. This desire has led me to explore consumable media. I have an interest in the specific technical qualities of the materials as well as the inherent social meanings each material carries with it. Through wax, bread, flour, and sugar, I explore the fragility, strength, and beauty of the body whose form is continuously contingent upon collapse. Elements of the surrounding environment, humidity and temperature, have a changing effect on the work itself. Inclusive of this environment are the viewers’ interaction within the space. In consistency with the human and the natural world, persuasion and manipulation on the art is permissive and encouraged. |
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| This image of the installation shows the laboratory of dilution. Each Sample is a candy cast, with one in water, one is mineral spirits, and another on a 1:1 salt water solution. |
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| Exploring common definitions of "body", as well as understandings of "consumption". To consume a book as a body, and to read a body like a book. |
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Well Read Bread I
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At the Tip of My Tongue
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| As part of a group, site-specific installation, I began my engagement with space and consumable materials at the historic Jaques Building in West Lafayette, Indiana. There is a presence in every room that permeates our encountering of the Jaques Building. I am responding on an aesthetic and conceptual level to the history and vitality of the lives that once filled these walls throughout the many lifetimes this space has wrapped itself around. As a structure that has never moved, this space has morphed from Cotillion hall to homeless shelter,.... Catholic church to dance studio without ever leaving it's foundation. There is a spiritual, socio-political as well as a visceral engagement with the space. The remnants and history of the bodies that once filled this space are still present and have an effect on your presence in the space, just as you leave an imprint on the room in your passing...
These concerns have led me to using consumable materials, with a specific focus on bread as the medium of communication. Bread has a lengthy history as a social, political, and religious tool of control, revolution, and communion. It is the quintessential medium that unlike most communicaes, is digestible. The role that bread has played throughout this building's specific history has been redefined by each 'new posessor of space'. This includes the current art installation, with you engaging and defining a new set of values and perceptions. I urge you to define the role of bread as you encounter this space. The bread may remain a symbol or an aesthetic best left undisturbed. It may also mean sustenance, requiring you to feed a basic need. This installation forces you, the viewer, to decipher the value of art and the role of the artist specific to the history of this building. I urge you further with these specific questions as you move through this space:
If a gift is offered, will you take it?
What is required from you if you accept?
What if the gift is to be eaten?
What levels of trust and intimacy are established when you eat the gift?
What does this sustenance mean to you?
If you eat my art, what does this mean to me?
If you are hungry and you eat my art, is it more valuable?
If you eat my art, who is the artist?
Is it mine to begin with?
What is left as art once the bread has been eaten?
Is it destroyed?
Or created?
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| Education and biography | |
| Education 2005-present MFA candidate Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Teaching Assistantship; Sole Instructor of 2 sections Drawing 113 2002-2005 BFA Northern Az. University Flagstaff, Arizona Exhibition 2006 July-Aug. Body Consumable, Solo Show, TAF Lafayette, IN. March-April NeoStrata, Group Show, TAF Lafayette, IN. Dec.-Feb. Women Artists of Indiana, group show Greater Lafayette Art Museum Lafayette, IN. 2005 December Body Consumable (ongoing installation) Flagstaff, Az. December Of Mind and Place, Group Show Purdue University, IN November Upwards Somewhere Lafayette, IN Site-Specific Group Installation October Allotropy, Group Show Indianapolis, IN June Art One Gallery Selected Works Scottsdale, Arizona May This Could Be Huge, Wall Drawings Beasley Gallery, NAU Flagstaff, Arizona February Mountain Oasis, Solo Show Flagstaff, Arizona January Art One Gallery Selected Works Scottsdale, Arizona 2004 December Northern Az. University, BFA Exhibition Flagstaff, Arizona November Decolonize Your Mind , Studio 111 Flagstaff, Arizona March Aristocraft Studio Flagstaff, Arizona February NAU Vagina Monologues Installation Flagstaff, Arizona January Art One Gallery Selected Works Flagstaff, Arizona 2003 December Mountain Oasis, Solo Show Flagstaff, Arizona Permanent Installations Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, Arizona Dept. of Humanities, Art, and Religion Malee’s Thai Cuisine. Scottsdale, Arizona Professional Practices Spurse Wetlands, A collaborative workshop. 2006 Indianapolis, IN. Southern Graphics Conference, 2006 Madison, WI. Publication The Noise Cover Art. Geisha. No. 6.1 Nov 03 The Noise Looking Through the Eye of Revolutionary Russia. No. 6.7 May 04 Work Experience Teaching Assistantship Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Artisan Baker Macy’s Flagstaff, Arizona Photographer NAU Humanities Dept Flagstaff, Arizona Tutor America Reads/Americorp Flagstaff, Arizona Server Malee’s Thai Cuisine Scottsdale, Arizona Volunteer Victim Witness Flagstaff, Arizona Volunteers For Peace Vienna, Austria Additional 2006 Penland School of Arts Summer residency scholarship North Carolina 2005 Art Forum Director NAU Flagstaff, Arizona 2004 Painting Guild President NAU Flagstaff, Arizona |
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