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www.alphabet-city.org
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arts.muohio.edu/Curriculum/event_descriptions/
CCHiestandFall06.php#Reisman
www.spenational.org/conference/conf2006/
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www.laurencemillergallery.com/weissexhibition.htm
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/grad/index.jsp?sid0=2&sid1=35&page_id=174
Susana Reisman's work reflects her undergraduate studies in Economics and often confronts issues of mass production, including plastic packaging and complete collections on eBay. Her other interests include the relationship between the image and the object as well as the archive. In her series entitled photo-sculptures, Reisman photographs an object's surface, in this case rust, and then makes a long and narrow print (1 inch wide by 80 feet in length) that is reconstructed into an entirely new three-dimensional object. Displayed along with a photographic print in a lightbox, the photo-sculptures begin a new life as organic objects and question the photograph-as-object/ object-as-photograph relationship much like a philosophical mobius strip.
Reisman holds a BA from Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) and earned her MFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY) in 2005. Reisman has shown at university galleries such as Miami University (Oxford, OH) and University of Rochester (Rochester, NY), and has been included in this year's Alphabet City publication from MIT Press.
In 2004/05, I created a series of photo-sculptures in which I re-configured the framework and conditions in which we normally perceive the photographic image. Here the photograph is no longer a flat representation or a 'window onto the world' but rather a three-dimensional sculpture. Viewers are confronted with the materiality of the photographic image as it becomes the object's skin, or a delicate and impermanent surface wrapping around space. These photo-sculptures can be displayed as stand-alone objects. Alternately, I have also photographed them. When displayed together the result is a dialogue and tension between the photograph as object and the photograph as representation, one that raises the difficult question of the nature or essence of the photographic image itself.
Jeff Weiss is one of the co-founders of the PRC and served on its Board from 1981 to 1984. Before the PRC officially was launched, he would drive down from his cabin in the woods of Vermont once a week to brainstorm with A. D. Coleman and Chris Enos in her loft, assisting with various tasks and putting together an offset lithography press for a future PRC publication.
A graduate of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Weiss works with a variety of mediums and has taught at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Goddard College (Plainfield, VT), Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY), and the School of Visual Arts, (New York, NY). A two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient, his work has been exhibited at the Lawrence Miller Gallery (New York, NY) and the Burnett Miller Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), among others. Weiss' work includes an ongoing, 30-year project on 60 acres of land in Vermont as well as a project making photographs from memory using digital technologies. Currently, he teaches at Parsons/The New School University (New York, NY).
