Lydia See "I Don't Know What to do with my Hands"
2019-2021/ dimensions variable digital prints/ gouache (unique prints $75 each)
Artist Statement
I work in the studio and with community examining agency and representation within the context of material culture. With photography, fiber, sculpture, performance, archival processes and gestures of craft, I reinterpret materials to draw connections between memory, ephemerality and technology. Recently I have been examining the context of housing injustice in America, and the insidious structures which have enforced and upheld the imbalance of power, such as de jure segregation. I’m looking at the impact of development and patterns of displacement, and appropriating the materials of construction and housing, and institutional and cultural messaging, to connect the threads between. As an ethnic Ashkenazi Jew and as a neurodivergent person, I’m particularly interested in these concepts as they have historically been upheld, and as they may be interrogated and dismantled. These works examine the role that the press, advertising, and semiotics play in displacement and diaspora. What white noise fills our peripheral vision, how many banners and billboards do we pass, what cultural influence is driving us to make decisions on where we find ourselves, who we want to be, and how we want to live?
Artist Bio
Lydia see (she/they/y’all) is an artist, educator, and curator of art and archives living and working in Sylva, NC, on the ancestral lands of the ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) and S’atsoyaha (Yuchi). As a serial collaborator, an artist who makes in studio and with publics, and founder of Engaging Collections, a residency and publication at the intersections of art + representation in libraries, archives, and special collections, lydia is a firm believer in art as a catalyst for social justice + civic engagement. Recent initiatives include a year-long residency with the special collections at Pack Memorial Library in Asheville, NC, Connecting Legacies: A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain College Archive curated at Asheville Art Museum, a trio of site-specific exhibitions on housing and displacement cumulatively entitled Open Floor Plan, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the All for NC Fellowship from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
2019-2021/ dimensions variable digital prints/ gouache (unique prints $75 each)
Artist Statement
I work in the studio and with community examining agency and representation within the context of material culture. With photography, fiber, sculpture, performance, archival processes and gestures of craft, I reinterpret materials to draw connections between memory, ephemerality and technology. Recently I have been examining the context of housing injustice in America, and the insidious structures which have enforced and upheld the imbalance of power, such as de jure segregation. I’m looking at the impact of development and patterns of displacement, and appropriating the materials of construction and housing, and institutional and cultural messaging, to connect the threads between. As an ethnic Ashkenazi Jew and as a neurodivergent person, I’m particularly interested in these concepts as they have historically been upheld, and as they may be interrogated and dismantled. These works examine the role that the press, advertising, and semiotics play in displacement and diaspora. What white noise fills our peripheral vision, how many banners and billboards do we pass, what cultural influence is driving us to make decisions on where we find ourselves, who we want to be, and how we want to live?
Artist Bio
Lydia see (she/they/y’all) is an artist, educator, and curator of art and archives living and working in Sylva, NC, on the ancestral lands of the ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) and S’atsoyaha (Yuchi). As a serial collaborator, an artist who makes in studio and with publics, and founder of Engaging Collections, a residency and publication at the intersections of art + representation in libraries, archives, and special collections, lydia is a firm believer in art as a catalyst for social justice + civic engagement. Recent initiatives include a year-long residency with the special collections at Pack Memorial Library in Asheville, NC, Connecting Legacies: A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain College Archive curated at Asheville Art Museum, a trio of site-specific exhibitions on housing and displacement cumulatively entitled Open Floor Plan, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the All for NC Fellowship from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
2019-2021/ dimensions variable digital prints/ gouache (unique prints $75 each)
Artist Statement
I work in the studio and with community examining agency and representation within the context of material culture. With photography, fiber, sculpture, performance, archival processes and gestures of craft, I reinterpret materials to draw connections between memory, ephemerality and technology. Recently I have been examining the context of housing injustice in America, and the insidious structures which have enforced and upheld the imbalance of power, such as de jure segregation. I’m looking at the impact of development and patterns of displacement, and appropriating the materials of construction and housing, and institutional and cultural messaging, to connect the threads between. As an ethnic Ashkenazi Jew and as a neurodivergent person, I’m particularly interested in these concepts as they have historically been upheld, and as they may be interrogated and dismantled. These works examine the role that the press, advertising, and semiotics play in displacement and diaspora. What white noise fills our peripheral vision, how many banners and billboards do we pass, what cultural influence is driving us to make decisions on where we find ourselves, who we want to be, and how we want to live?
Artist Bio
Lydia see (she/they/y’all) is an artist, educator, and curator of art and archives living and working in Sylva, NC, on the ancestral lands of the ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) and S’atsoyaha (Yuchi). As a serial collaborator, an artist who makes in studio and with publics, and founder of Engaging Collections, a residency and publication at the intersections of art + representation in libraries, archives, and special collections, lydia is a firm believer in art as a catalyst for social justice + civic engagement. Recent initiatives include a year-long residency with the special collections at Pack Memorial Library in Asheville, NC, Connecting Legacies: A First Look at the Dreier Black Mountain College Archive curated at Asheville Art Museum, a trio of site-specific exhibitions on housing and displacement cumulatively entitled Open Floor Plan, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the All for NC Fellowship from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
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