Valerie Sullivan Fuchs

www.valeriefuchs.com

FLOOD - video proposal for New Albany Public Art Project 2010

"Flood is a large scale video projection of the Ohio River water which slowly floods the wall of the new YMCA building. The video projection will ebb and flow as it rises up on the side of the building and then it will recede only to recur again.

The history of the New Albany has been shaped and molded by the rising and falling of the Ohio River and owes its location to the Falls of the Ohio. As falling water has influenced this community so does the video projection as it gradually rises and falls against the structure.

Flood seeks to recognize and honor the strength of the community of New

Albany. The YMCA wall will withstand this fleeting projection of water just as this strong community has risen to the challenge of restoring itself every time after a flood."

Valerie Sullivan Fuchs is an artist who works with video, video installation and sculpture. She has a M.F.A. in the Time Arts area at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 and a B. Arch from the University of Kentucky

Recent events in 2009 include: Speed Art Museum: ReMix & Artist Dialogues, Louisville, KY; Great Rivers Arts, H2O; Film on Water, Bellows Falls , Vermont, (Aug-Oct) Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Prospects, Sun Valley, Idaho (Oct-Dec.) 21c Museum, Kentucky Short Film and Video Festival, Louisville, KY (Sept. 15)

Recent shows include: Film and Video Festival, Parnu Estonia; Galerie Eugene Lendl, Graz, Austria; Art Festival, Belgrade, Serbia; Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; and Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, CA.

Grants include: Sony Corporation, Al Smith Fellowship from Kentucky Arts Council, and Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Fuch’s video artwork received an international award at the Prague Quadrennial for Louisville’s Actor Theatre’s Macbeth.

Reviews include: Art Papers, Dialogue, American Theater, Louisville Magazine, Courier Journal, LEO Weekly, and MIT"s electronic journal Leonardo.

Published writing: Pitch 2006, LEO Weekly, 2007, and Revisiting Beauty, an anthology, edited by Peg Brand, IUS Press 2009.

Previous work samples: