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Iris Eve Schaer, "Processing Memory"

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Stuffed Animals, Thrifted Fabric, Mica

51”x 15” x7”

2022

STATEMENT

I work intuitively, trusting my hands to create the work. My studio practice is a material playground of existentialist questioning centered around the process of making sculptural forms. I make objects that translate my personal embodied emotional experience into three-dimensional space. My art practice has been inspired by how Depression and Anxiety provoke IBS. Food often triggers memories and emotions when eating, but is then processed through the body. I create a parallel between processing food and emotion. Can the processing of food through the gut influence our emotions? How does what we eat impact our mental health and does our mental health impact our gut health? The Intestine/brain emotional psychical connection can be found in my work through the use of stuffed sausage forms folded into mazes patterns. I am interested in bringing internal anatomy to the outside, as one would wear emotion on their sleeve. I flirt with the grotesque and humor through encaustic wax, resin, fleece, and pasta.

BIO

Iris Eve Schaer is an interdisciplinary artist working between Atlanta Georgia and Tallahassee Florida. Iris holds a BFA from the University of Georgia in Sculpture and is a current MFA candidate at Florida State University. She has taught ceramics at Chastain Community Art Center and currently teaches 3D foundations courses at FSU. Iris is an intuitive maker, often focusing on the process of creating. Her work explores how emotions and the physical human body interact. She uses predominately ceramics, fibers, and metal in her practice while always exploring unconventional materials and processes.

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Stuffed Animals, Thrifted Fabric, Mica

51”x 15” x7”

2022

STATEMENT

I work intuitively, trusting my hands to create the work. My studio practice is a material playground of existentialist questioning centered around the process of making sculptural forms. I make objects that translate my personal embodied emotional experience into three-dimensional space. My art practice has been inspired by how Depression and Anxiety provoke IBS. Food often triggers memories and emotions when eating, but is then processed through the body. I create a parallel between processing food and emotion. Can the processing of food through the gut influence our emotions? How does what we eat impact our mental health and does our mental health impact our gut health? The Intestine/brain emotional psychical connection can be found in my work through the use of stuffed sausage forms folded into mazes patterns. I am interested in bringing internal anatomy to the outside, as one would wear emotion on their sleeve. I flirt with the grotesque and humor through encaustic wax, resin, fleece, and pasta.

BIO

Iris Eve Schaer is an interdisciplinary artist working between Atlanta Georgia and Tallahassee Florida. Iris holds a BFA from the University of Georgia in Sculpture and is a current MFA candidate at Florida State University. She has taught ceramics at Chastain Community Art Center and currently teaches 3D foundations courses at FSU. Iris is an intuitive maker, often focusing on the process of creating. Her work explores how emotions and the physical human body interact. She uses predominately ceramics, fibers, and metal in her practice while always exploring unconventional materials and processes.

Stuffed Animals, Thrifted Fabric, Mica

51”x 15” x7”

2022

STATEMENT

I work intuitively, trusting my hands to create the work. My studio practice is a material playground of existentialist questioning centered around the process of making sculptural forms. I make objects that translate my personal embodied emotional experience into three-dimensional space. My art practice has been inspired by how Depression and Anxiety provoke IBS. Food often triggers memories and emotions when eating, but is then processed through the body. I create a parallel between processing food and emotion. Can the processing of food through the gut influence our emotions? How does what we eat impact our mental health and does our mental health impact our gut health? The Intestine/brain emotional psychical connection can be found in my work through the use of stuffed sausage forms folded into mazes patterns. I am interested in bringing internal anatomy to the outside, as one would wear emotion on their sleeve. I flirt with the grotesque and humor through encaustic wax, resin, fleece, and pasta.

BIO

Iris Eve Schaer is an interdisciplinary artist working between Atlanta Georgia and Tallahassee Florida. Iris holds a BFA from the University of Georgia in Sculpture and is a current MFA candidate at Florida State University. She has taught ceramics at Chastain Community Art Center and currently teaches 3D foundations courses at FSU. Iris is an intuitive maker, often focusing on the process of creating. Her work explores how emotions and the physical human body interact. She uses predominately ceramics, fibers, and metal in her practice while always exploring unconventional materials and processes.

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