Serena Buschi, "Nested Stories Yellow"
2024
Chenille wire, sari silk, copper wire
ARTIST STATEMENT
The influences that inform my work are both cultural and dialectic. The basis of all my work stems from how identity is formed and fused into what seems to be a tightly woven construct. The processes of collaging fragments, weaving, pinning, and draping have mirrored how my identity is constructed. Further, this process allows me to understand the larger context, where the identity of society, politics, and ecology are interrelated and the power relationships therein.
My work often includes three overarching frameworks: grid, waveform, and weight. The grid I see as a universal underlying structure, where everything is interrelated and housed. Waveform is another, where I use wave patterns as a metaphor for our interconnectivity that pertains to socio-political and socio-ecological relationships that are both personal and collective. I weave, crochet, embroider, and use sound to mend these relationships with healing intentions. The weight often present in my work I think of as generational, where trauma has carryover. It encompasses the physicality of weight variations speaking to the body's physical mass and mental restrictions and the desire to be free of them.
Materially, I choose fiber to reference a way of knowing, based on a comfort connected to my familiarity with cloth and the lasting impression cloth has had in my life. Sari silk speaks of my memory and my identity and more specifically to the array of unashamed vibrancy of the saris worn by the women in my life. I use fiber and printmaking to collage, weave, and embroider with varying substrates. I repurpose and restructure these to create nets, objects, paper quilts, and fiber paintings to recognize our collective unity and the relationships we have with each other.
ARTIST BIO
Serena Buschi lives and works in Bedford, New York where she creates mixed media fiber installations that express the current socio-political environment as well as larger contexts that explore her interest in physical and metaphysical concepts. Being a product of an assimilated mixture of Southeast Asian Indian and Italian descent, her process of pinning and draping materials together mirrors her understanding of self and extrapolates to where we are within the moment.
Buschi earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston Massachusetts, and a MA from Teachers College, Columbia University New York. She has been an Art Educator teaching the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts program in Dobbs Ferry, NY for the past 24 years.
Solo shows include the Flatiron Prow Art Space in Manhattan. Her work has been featured in themotion picture Anesthesia in 2016. During her tenure at Teachers College, Columbia Universityshe has curated the Macy Art Gallery. Her work is in numerous private collections.
2024
Chenille wire, sari silk, copper wire
ARTIST STATEMENT
The influences that inform my work are both cultural and dialectic. The basis of all my work stems from how identity is formed and fused into what seems to be a tightly woven construct. The processes of collaging fragments, weaving, pinning, and draping have mirrored how my identity is constructed. Further, this process allows me to understand the larger context, where the identity of society, politics, and ecology are interrelated and the power relationships therein.
My work often includes three overarching frameworks: grid, waveform, and weight. The grid I see as a universal underlying structure, where everything is interrelated and housed. Waveform is another, where I use wave patterns as a metaphor for our interconnectivity that pertains to socio-political and socio-ecological relationships that are both personal and collective. I weave, crochet, embroider, and use sound to mend these relationships with healing intentions. The weight often present in my work I think of as generational, where trauma has carryover. It encompasses the physicality of weight variations speaking to the body's physical mass and mental restrictions and the desire to be free of them.
Materially, I choose fiber to reference a way of knowing, based on a comfort connected to my familiarity with cloth and the lasting impression cloth has had in my life. Sari silk speaks of my memory and my identity and more specifically to the array of unashamed vibrancy of the saris worn by the women in my life. I use fiber and printmaking to collage, weave, and embroider with varying substrates. I repurpose and restructure these to create nets, objects, paper quilts, and fiber paintings to recognize our collective unity and the relationships we have with each other.
ARTIST BIO
Serena Buschi lives and works in Bedford, New York where she creates mixed media fiber installations that express the current socio-political environment as well as larger contexts that explore her interest in physical and metaphysical concepts. Being a product of an assimilated mixture of Southeast Asian Indian and Italian descent, her process of pinning and draping materials together mirrors her understanding of self and extrapolates to where we are within the moment.
Buschi earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston Massachusetts, and a MA from Teachers College, Columbia University New York. She has been an Art Educator teaching the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts program in Dobbs Ferry, NY for the past 24 years.
Solo shows include the Flatiron Prow Art Space in Manhattan. Her work has been featured in themotion picture Anesthesia in 2016. During her tenure at Teachers College, Columbia Universityshe has curated the Macy Art Gallery. Her work is in numerous private collections.
2024
Chenille wire, sari silk, copper wire
ARTIST STATEMENT
The influences that inform my work are both cultural and dialectic. The basis of all my work stems from how identity is formed and fused into what seems to be a tightly woven construct. The processes of collaging fragments, weaving, pinning, and draping have mirrored how my identity is constructed. Further, this process allows me to understand the larger context, where the identity of society, politics, and ecology are interrelated and the power relationships therein.
My work often includes three overarching frameworks: grid, waveform, and weight. The grid I see as a universal underlying structure, where everything is interrelated and housed. Waveform is another, where I use wave patterns as a metaphor for our interconnectivity that pertains to socio-political and socio-ecological relationships that are both personal and collective. I weave, crochet, embroider, and use sound to mend these relationships with healing intentions. The weight often present in my work I think of as generational, where trauma has carryover. It encompasses the physicality of weight variations speaking to the body's physical mass and mental restrictions and the desire to be free of them.
Materially, I choose fiber to reference a way of knowing, based on a comfort connected to my familiarity with cloth and the lasting impression cloth has had in my life. Sari silk speaks of my memory and my identity and more specifically to the array of unashamed vibrancy of the saris worn by the women in my life. I use fiber and printmaking to collage, weave, and embroider with varying substrates. I repurpose and restructure these to create nets, objects, paper quilts, and fiber paintings to recognize our collective unity and the relationships we have with each other.
ARTIST BIO
Serena Buschi lives and works in Bedford, New York where she creates mixed media fiber installations that express the current socio-political environment as well as larger contexts that explore her interest in physical and metaphysical concepts. Being a product of an assimilated mixture of Southeast Asian Indian and Italian descent, her process of pinning and draping materials together mirrors her understanding of self and extrapolates to where we are within the moment.
Buschi earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston Massachusetts, and a MA from Teachers College, Columbia University New York. She has been an Art Educator teaching the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts program in Dobbs Ferry, NY for the past 24 years.
Solo shows include the Flatiron Prow Art Space in Manhattan. Her work has been featured in themotion picture Anesthesia in 2016. During her tenure at Teachers College, Columbia Universityshe has curated the Macy Art Gallery. Her work is in numerous private collections.