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| Ingrid Shults |
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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.
After leaving the regimented world of dance at 18, she “discovered people” and began humanitarian work in addition to studying drawing and painting. She has worked with NGO’s abroad (Volunteers For Peace) in Austria and Hungary, as well as Victim Witness (Northern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault). She has also worked in the food service industry, as server, a coffee roaster, a baker, and a chef for a vegetarian restaurant. All of these environments have fed her art. “Academia has helped me to develop the skills for expression and focus on specific audiences/voices as an artist, but the content and concepts of my work are generated from the layers of life experiences I have had.”
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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.
In connection to the ephemeral media that comprise the work, it is my intention to leave my work vulnerable to the elements. I question the role of the artist and of art in contemporary society. I question my role as an image-maker and a communicator. I also question what it means “to consume”, a phrase most associated with food. Yet it is possible to visually, spiritually, literally, emotionally, sexually, and environmentally consume something we desire. Likewise, the aforementioned elements have the potential to consume us. It is my interest as a visual communicator to bring this discourse into my work as an artist.
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2006 variable dimensions |
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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. |
Scroll
2006 Wonder bread, thread, and wax 25 x 25x8 cm. |
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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. |
Well Read Bread I
2006 Wonder bread, thread, and wax 25x25x8cm. |
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Wel Read Bread II
2006 |
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At the Tip of My Tongue
2006 Sugar and water cast in flour 60 x60 x 8 cm |
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Linger
2006 Sugar and water cast in flour 60 x60 x8 cm. |
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Drip
2006 Flour monotype, sugar, water on paper 32 x 22 cm |
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Installation view
2005 Flour and bread Variable dimensions |
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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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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
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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