The Zoom Ages: MEd Virtual Exhibition
The Zoom Ages: MEd Virtual Exhibition is a collaborative exhibition celebrating the studio art practices of the Graduate students of Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s AECAP department.
We are art educators and artists. Our art making is impossible to separate from our teaching practice. Artmaking and pedagogy are part of the internal dialogue of any artist/educator. This exhibition seeks to celebrate our roles as artists and educators, highlighting our personal art practices and pedagogy.
The Zoom Ages: MEd Virtual Exhibition features the work of the following artists:
Cecilia Secaira
Jill Remer
Scott Schultheis
Isabel Alff
Ali Ruffner
Avery Rogusky
Madison Blyler
Erin Smiley
There will be a celebratory Zoom reception/artist discussion for MEd students and faculty on October 26, 2020 at 6pm.
For information or questions about this exhibition, please email Ali Ruffner (ali.ruffner@temple.edu) or Avery Rogusky (avery.rogusky@temple.edu).
"Home", 2020, Polaroid transfer, 12 x 15"
"Jersey", 2020, Polaroid transfer, 12" x 15"
"Gammy", 2019, Polaroid transfer, 12" x 15"
"Gulls", 2020, Photo Print, 12" x 18"
"Boulders", 2019, Photo print, 12" x 18"
Jill Remer
she/her
Tyler, MEd
I tend to work primarily in photography, mostly because I enjoy the stillness it brings to a moment, to my life perhaps, and the feelings of memory it induces. Sometimes I go back and stare at the images I took and remember the noise, or the temperature that day, but none of those senses are really available and it's all nostalgia. Somehow, a photo is able to evoke a feeling of the event taking place.
This "nostalgia" that people feel towards a photo can be fascinating. It can make people unable to stop looking at the picture, over and over, just trying to see what is happening or remember or even understand the moment. I find that so interesting and unable to be recreated in most mediums. In this respect, photography grants you time, remembrance, and curiosity. These are the sentiments I hope to echo in my work.
"Ear and Q Tip," 2020, Mixed Media Painting and Performance, 7.5 ft. Ear Suit Height.
"Ear and Q Tip," 2020, Mixed Media Painting and Performance, 7.5ft Ear Suit Height.
"Ear and Q Tip," 2020, Mixed Media Painting and Performance, 7.5 ft. Ear Suit Height.
This performative work focuses on the normal, routine, but complicated experience of identifying with our body parts, and the way that we feel that we are, and are not, our bodies. This particular series arises from reflecting on a relative's hearing disability and my own relationship to my ears - from childhood memories to ongoing physical 'routines' and activities.
"untitled", 2020. Oil on canvas, 16" x 20"
"untitled", 2020, Oil on canvas, 9" x 12"
"untitled", 2020, Oil on canvas, 22" x 28"
"Back Alley Light", 2020, Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"
Isabel Alff
she/her
Tyler, MEd Art Education
Instagram: @issibell
My work explores quiet moments that are expressive through the emotional quality of light. I am interested in subtle gestures of the human body that hold strength.
"Walks With Mom", 2020, Acrylic and gouache, 8" x 10".
"Together Under The Moon", 2020, Acrylic and Gouache, 8" x 10".
"Saturday Self Impression", 2020, Gouache, 11" x 8.5".
"An Ode To Nurses", 2020, Watercolor Pencil, 11" x 8.5".
"Detail of A Nantucket Memory", 2020, Oil Paint, 30" x 40".
Avery Rogusky
she/her
Tyler, MEd Art Education
Instagram: @avery_rogo
Website: averyrogusky.wixsite.com/artist
My art over the duration of 2020 has been a tool to deal with the cataclysmic events that have happened. I have had no intention of doing anything but to try to understand how I feel and to express my gratitudes for the aspects of life that do bring positivity in my world. Art has been a means for me to decompress from tedious hours of screen time as well as redirect my darkest feelings so I may refocus and channel them into positive feelings.
"View at a distance," 2020, Printed Cotton, 60" x 30".
"View at a distance," detail.
"A reflection on context," 2020, magazine collage and paper, 5.5" x 3.5" x .75" (closed), 5.5" x 30.5" x .75" (open).
"Intercede," 2020, board and paper, 4.5" x 5.75" x .75" (closed), 4.5" x 29.5" x .75" (open).
"Intercede," detail open.
Madison Blyler
she/her
Tyler, MEd Art Education
Instagram: @missmadis_n
Over the past couple of months, I've used my art practice to reflect and journal around the ever-changing social and political climate in our country. Fragmentation and breakage through collage has allowed me to question some of my own beliefs while investigating my own experiences.
"Yellow S&P carousel," 2019, soda-fired ceramic, 5"x 4.5"x 3.5"
"Discovered: 1/27/16, Interpreted: 2/20/16," 2016, soda-fired ceramic, 20"x 22"x 9"
"Copper mug," 2018, 5.5"x 5"x 3"
"Discovered: 10/28/15, Interpreted 2/25/16," 2016, soda-fired ceramic, 20"x 18"x 22"
"Discovered: 2/7/16, Interpreted: 3/23/16," 2016, soda-fired ceramic
Cecilia Secaira
she/her
Tyler, MEd Art Education
Website: cargocollective.com/clangceramics915898540
My work is constantly informed and inspired by personal relationships and the natural world as well as the ideas of meditation and child-like wonder. I make objects in the hopes that they cause someone to stop for even just 30 seconds and look, truly look, and try to understand the thing before them. I strive for even my functional pieces (though it is always a priority for them to feel good in the user's hand and perform well) to be beautiful and interesting... and weird. I want them to be irresistible and charming, to make something that piques curiosity, that begs to be touched.
“Reporting Live From The Other Side Of America,” 2020, acrylic on reclaimed police barricades.
“Black Folk Used 2 Live Here: A Street Memorial,” 2020, outdoor installation in Francisville.
“Black Folk Used 2 Live Here: A Street Memorial,” 2020, outdoor installation in Francisville.
“Black Folk Used 2 Live Here: A Street Memorial,” 2020, outdoor installation in Francisville.
Ali Ruffner. 2020, short stop motion film.
The city is restored by surprising heroes.
Ali Ruffner is a queer North Philadelphia artist and cultural worker whose projects are dedicated to a culture of revolution. Ali works across installation, performance, video, sculpture, photography, movement, street art, and fashion. Ali loves everything about Philly and about people. Everything she makes is for this place. Their art is for radically imagining worlds where we can really, really care about each other. Ali believes that everything is worthy of being considered. Behind the scenes of her extensive catalog of work involves cutting twice and measuring never, gathering collaborators, sawing couches, Sunday night trash hunts, pom-poms and popsicle sticks.
"Fibers of a Cosmos," 2020, Shibori cotton, felted wool, mixed fibers, 20 x 24"
"Fibers of a Cosmos," 2020, Shibori cotton, felted wool, mixed fibers, 20 x 24"
"Fibers of a Cosmos," 2020, Shibori cotton, felted wool, mixed fibers, 20 x 24"
"Fibers of a Cosmos”
Cosmos-n. the universe seen as a well ordered whole / a system of thought
I think through my hands and the think spills out. It reflects the galaxy inside me; messy, colliding, roiling, rolling, relaxing, blooming, birthing.
My cosmic matter is forever moving.
Sometimes, amidst the chaos, I stop to admire the the stars and planets and fragments of star dust that compose my galaxy- I am grateful for these happenings and moments that give me the materials to create the human I am and endeavor to be.