{"id":587,"date":"2012-02-09T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lti-lightside.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:55:40","slug":"brea-souders-interview-in-uprise-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Brea Souders interview in Uprise Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
Brea Souders is our 2011 WIP-LTI\/Lightside $1000.00 Kodak Materials Grant recipient. The following interview with her is re-posted from the Uprise Art<\/em> blog. Uprise Art\u00a0essentially seems to be an art share and\/or art ownership club <\/em>that’s kind of hard to describe … but I’ll give it a shot:<\/h5>\n

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First, you become a member by paying a fee of $50.00. Now, with that fee, you get to request a piece of art (presumably, one you’d like to eventually own) be delivered and installed in your home. And for as long you decide to keep it there and continue to pay the $50.00 per month fee, the accumulated total spent all goes towards its initial sale price. So it’s like getting lay-away that you get to take home anyway … or something like that. Crazy, right?<\/h5>\n

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I’m sure there’s probably more to it … but for that, I give you the link:<\/h5>\n

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https:\/\/www.upriseart.com\/<\/a><\/h5>\n

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February 9, 2012<\/h5>\n

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<\/em>Brea Souders:<\/strong> Untitled 7, <\/em>2010<\/p>\n

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A Q&A with Uprise artist Brea Souders<\/a>:<\/h5>\n

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Where are you from and where do you currently reside?<\/strong>
I grew up in Frederick, Maryland, lived in Baltimore for some time, and now live in New York City.<\/h5>\n

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You recently won the 2011 Women in Photography LTI-Lightside Grant; what project will that grant support?<\/strong>
I\u2019m working with various objects in my parents\u2019 home that I grew up with and that have significant meaning in my life – A terrarium full of African violets, giant fossil and shell collections, plaster casts, art and physics books, microscopic slides, and family pictures. The project incorporates collage elements and paint also.<\/h5>\n

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Which of your works include you in the image?<\/strong>
Many of my works include bits and pieces of me – such as Sunburn in Naples, Shell, Frame, Falling Seeds, Under My Thumb<\/em> and Seine With Fingers<\/em>.<\/h5>\n

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Do you consider these works self-portraits?<\/strong>
I don\u2019t consider them portraits so much as one element within a larger scene.<\/h5>\n

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Your photographs are very beautifully composed, can you tell us a little about your process?<\/strong>
I am interested in the idea of one thing activating another. There is often a fragility and sense of time passing in my images \u2013 seeds are blowing, a snail slithers through a constructed environment, a sunburn eventually fades, picked flowers begin to dry under the hot sun, etc. Or sometimes my own fingers, body or shadow moves into the picture plane, temporarily, like a flutter (as in Seine With Fingers<\/em>, Under My Thumb<\/em> and Shell<\/em>). In French Bed and Moon<\/em> I was trying to fix two separate moments in time together forever. Butter Plate and Moth<\/em> was created by coating a piece of glass with butter and placing it in my studio to see what it would attract (there were all sorts of moths, spiders, gnats, and dragonflies in my studio in France). At its heart, my work is based in exploration and discovery. I make sure to allow plenty of time for experimentation and accept that there will be failure along the pathway to success.<\/h5>\n

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What was your inspiration behind the work Untitled 7<\/em>?<\/strong>
It was inspired by a tender and surprising dream of the Marquis de Sade. The woman in the photograph represents his mother.<\/h5>\n

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Who are some of your favorite artists?<\/strong>
Looking over at my bookshelf, I see monographs by Youssef Nabil, Francesca Woodman, Philip Guston, Jan Saudek, Paul Outerbridge and Yves Klein. Just a few artists that I admire. I\u2019m also inspired by many Medieval paintings and carvings.<\/h5>\n

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Brea Souders is our 2011 WIP-LTI\/Lightside $1000.00 Kodak Materials Grant recipient. The following interview with her is re-posted from the Uprise Art blog. Uprise Art\u00a0essentially seems to be an art share and\/or art ownership club that’s kind of hard to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,63],"tags":[110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lti-lightside.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}