Phoebe Rotter "That's What I Wanted"
Paper, watercolor, salt, acrylic, and glue on glass and wood/ 27" x 28" x 1.5"/2021/ $500
Artist Statement
I manipulate windows in order to navigate the entropy of grief. In moments of devastation, we’re given so little time to feel our grief; capitalism demands we barrel ahead as useful pieces rather than whole beings. My intention is to hoard and investigate the shapes of mourning as they possess the body, transmitting them into small shrines, tributes to taking time. I gather rough edges and cast pale shadows in tribute to evening journeys past the houses of strangers. I see glimpses of their lives, recognize pieces of myself reflected in these light-filled boxes, catch my outline in the glass. I use whatever is close, on-hand, and cheap, recycling the refuse of the anthropocene into its own mirror. At any time, there looms the threat of collapse; the tidal wave and the rotted wood, crumpling against each other. Softness and give, warped into fierce thunderstorms, balance the beam of mourning and rejoicing.
Artist Bio
Phoebe Rotter (she/her) is an artist currently living in so-called Albany, New York, on unceded Haudenosaunee and Mohican land. Phoebe creates intricate drawings on untrustworthy surfaces, focusing on the delicacy of line and the slipperiness of glass to investigate identity, otherness, and beauty. As a queer Jew of mixed race, Phoebe paints in and reckons with the liminal space of "passing". She fills transparent panes with carefully composed riots: self-portraiture that juxtaposes her lush, fat body against blooming florals, jagged mountain landscapes, reaching branches, punchy text, empty frames, and tumbling fruit. She completed a Master’s of Arts degree at SUNY Albany in 2021, and will continue on to the MFA program there this fall. In August, she will attend a month-long residency at Bread & Puppet Theater.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
Paper, watercolor, salt, acrylic, and glue on glass and wood/ 27" x 28" x 1.5"/2021/ $500
Artist Statement
I manipulate windows in order to navigate the entropy of grief. In moments of devastation, we’re given so little time to feel our grief; capitalism demands we barrel ahead as useful pieces rather than whole beings. My intention is to hoard and investigate the shapes of mourning as they possess the body, transmitting them into small shrines, tributes to taking time. I gather rough edges and cast pale shadows in tribute to evening journeys past the houses of strangers. I see glimpses of their lives, recognize pieces of myself reflected in these light-filled boxes, catch my outline in the glass. I use whatever is close, on-hand, and cheap, recycling the refuse of the anthropocene into its own mirror. At any time, there looms the threat of collapse; the tidal wave and the rotted wood, crumpling against each other. Softness and give, warped into fierce thunderstorms, balance the beam of mourning and rejoicing.
Artist Bio
Phoebe Rotter (she/her) is an artist currently living in so-called Albany, New York, on unceded Haudenosaunee and Mohican land. Phoebe creates intricate drawings on untrustworthy surfaces, focusing on the delicacy of line and the slipperiness of glass to investigate identity, otherness, and beauty. As a queer Jew of mixed race, Phoebe paints in and reckons with the liminal space of "passing". She fills transparent panes with carefully composed riots: self-portraiture that juxtaposes her lush, fat body against blooming florals, jagged mountain landscapes, reaching branches, punchy text, empty frames, and tumbling fruit. She completed a Master’s of Arts degree at SUNY Albany in 2021, and will continue on to the MFA program there this fall. In August, she will attend a month-long residency at Bread & Puppet Theater.
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Price does NOT include tax & shipping. Contact robert@collarworks.org for shipping options and estimate.
Paper, watercolor, salt, acrylic, and glue on glass and wood/ 27" x 28" x 1.5"/2021/ $500
Artist Statement
I manipulate windows in order to navigate the entropy of grief. In moments of devastation, we’re given so little time to feel our grief; capitalism demands we barrel ahead as useful pieces rather than whole beings. My intention is to hoard and investigate the shapes of mourning as they possess the body, transmitting them into small shrines, tributes to taking time. I gather rough edges and cast pale shadows in tribute to evening journeys past the houses of strangers. I see glimpses of their lives, recognize pieces of myself reflected in these light-filled boxes, catch my outline in the glass. I use whatever is close, on-hand, and cheap, recycling the refuse of the anthropocene into its own mirror. At any time, there looms the threat of collapse; the tidal wave and the rotted wood, crumpling against each other. Softness and give, warped into fierce thunderstorms, balance the beam of mourning and rejoicing.
Artist Bio
Phoebe Rotter (she/her) is an artist currently living in so-called Albany, New York, on unceded Haudenosaunee and Mohican land. Phoebe creates intricate drawings on untrustworthy surfaces, focusing on the delicacy of line and the slipperiness of glass to investigate identity, otherness, and beauty. As a queer Jew of mixed race, Phoebe paints in and reckons with the liminal space of "passing". She fills transparent panes with carefully composed riots: self-portraiture that juxtaposes her lush, fat body against blooming florals, jagged mountain landscapes, reaching branches, punchy text, empty frames, and tumbling fruit. She completed a Master’s of Arts degree at SUNY Albany in 2021, and will continue on to the MFA program there this fall. In August, she will attend a month-long residency at Bread & Puppet Theater.
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