November 2011
KOROSTYSHIV, UKRAINE: Oksana Parafeniuk
Korostyshiv is the most intimate place in the world for me. It’s a small city where my mother was born and spent her young years. It’s a place that I have visited every summer from the very beginning of my life. We call it our “dacha” – a cottage close to nature used for resting during warm days. Korostyshiv is situated on the Teteriv River 100 km from Kyiv. It is well known for granite extraction and processing.
This series of photographs reflects my special attitude and tremendous love for this town that is much stronger than for the city in which I live, called Boryspil. In Boryspil I am almost in the heart of city life, while in Korostyshiv things are tranquil and unspoiled by noise. By strolling several hundred meters I see the vastness of the canyons, the river, and the charming forest. My photos are about the importance of resting from everyday life.
It is in Korostyshiv where I first understood the importance of family. Every morning or evening we gathered around the old table or on the terrace and I carefully listened to stories. Every winter I remember the tale when my mother was young– one year snow fell above human height and her brother dug long tunnels right up to the school. While discovering family heirlooms, stones, old things, and photos I reflect on the connection between past, present and eternal.
BOSTON, MA: Karen Rosenkrantz
“I need my space…”
Our personal space is our oasis. We carry it with us wherever we go. As we float along, we bump into others. We push others, they push us back. In order to maintain our personal space, a battle is waged with those around us. Each touch leaves a mark… a fingerprint and in the end, we are covered by this layer of fingerprints… and like it or not, these interactions… the battlefield… becomes part of who we are. We take it with us wherever we go…
“I need my space” is a collection of oil and ink paintings and sculptures constructed with wood panels and magnets.
JOHNSON, VT: Fletcher Boote
My work explores the geography of external and internal landscapes. Through simple actions, repeated over time, I measure how these landscapes are seen and the ways in which they fluctuate. Fractions of Times loops footage, filmed in the same location over 30 days, as the basis for a cumulative composition in video and sound. In this work, the meeting of earth and sky exists as a visual reality and functions as musical notation for the singing saw.
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Artist Bios
Oksana Parafeniuk grew up and lives in Boryspil, Kyiv region, Ukraine. She is a self-taught photographer.
Karen Rosenkrantz is a 2007 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has lived in Massachusetts, Colorado, California, and New York.
Fletcher Boote (b. 1978 in New York, NY) is a multi-media artist and composer who has shown and performed internationally. Fletcher earned her M.A. in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in London in 2009, and her B.A. in Studio Art from Bard College in 2000. Exhibitions and performances include: Measure, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT (2011); The Everyday in Art Practice, Café Orwell, Brooklyn, NY (2010); ‘Aria’ by John Cage, Situation X, Studio 1.1. London (2009), The Least Event, Lisson Gallery’s Flat Time House, London (2009); and ‘Shadow of a Fence,’ Encuentro, Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas, Hemispheric Institute at National University of Columbia. Bogotá (2009). She is currently a Staff Artist at the Vermont Studio Center.