Dynamic Stasis

Rebekah Tolley
In the Video Lounge
Friday, December 5th - December 28th, 2008

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Rebekah Tolley's interdisciplinary practice is based on her understanding of printmaking, digital techniques, photography, sculpture and installation. She explores the mysteries of the inner human body—its manipulation and imperfections—as a visual language. Her work focuses on mutation through repetition and distortion in a manner that is neither exploitative nor violent.

Tolley's printed imagery forms the foundation for her animations, for which she creates alternative screening structures on which to project, such as a sculpted plaster surface. As in printmaking, Tolley sees this process as printing with light onto another surface, so that the consideration of the surface becomes as important as the animation itself. The viewer experiences the work on a life-size, confrontational scale. The slowly paced, evolving imagery has a meditative effect which the viewer can approach and experience for any length of time. Tolley earned an M.F.A. in printmaking from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.