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Artist Valerie Sullivan Fuchs speaks about her video projection installation, "Flood," that she created as a part of the New Albany Public Art Project: Bicentennial Series. "Flood" was projected onto the exterior of the YMCA in New Albany from May 2010 until July 2011.
Learn more at: napublicart.org
About the project, Fuchs writes: "Flood is a large-scale video projection of the Ohio River water, which slowly floods the wall of the YMCA building. The video projection ebbs and flows as it rises up the side of the building and then recedes, only to recur again. The history of New Albany has been shaped and molded by the Ohio River and the city owes its location to the Falls of the Ohio. 'Flood' seeks to recognize and honor the strength of the community. 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.
This project has special meaning for me as my grandfather was a life-long Riverboat Captain. As one of the few who knew how to 'chute the falls' (going over the falls during high water), he took many stranded people to safety during the 1937 flood. After a week of helping others, the Army Corp of Engineers finally allowed him to go home to his wife and baby who were stranded on the second floor of their home in Louisville."
Fuchs is an artist who works with video, video installation and sculpture. She has an MFA in the Time Arts area at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998) and a B.Arch from the University of Kentucky. Her video artwork received an international award at the Prague Quadrennial for Louisville's Actor Theatre's Macbeth. Her projects include: Speed Art Museum¬, ReMix & Artist Dialogues, Louisville; Great Rivers Arts, H2O; Film on Water, Bellows Falls, Vermont; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Prospects, Idaho; 21c Museum, Kentucky Short Film and Video Festival, Louisville; Film and Video Festival, Parnu Estonia; Galerie Eugene Lendl, Graz, Austria; Art Festival, Belgrade, Serbia; Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville; and Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, CA.
Artist Valerie Sullivan Fuchs speaks about her video projection installation, "Flood," that she created as a part of the New Albany Public Art Project: Bicentennial Series. "Flood" was projected onto the exterior of the YMCA in New Albany from May 2010 until July 2011.
Learn more at: napublicart.org
About the project, Fuchs writes: "Flood is a large-scale video projection of the Ohio River water, which slowly floods the wall of the YMCA building. The video projection ebbs and flows as it rises up the side of the building and then recedes, only to recur again. The history of New Albany has been shaped and molded by the Ohio River and the city owes its location to the Falls of the Ohio. 'Flood' seeks to recognize and honor the strength of the community. 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.
This project has special meaning for me as my grandfather was a life-long Riverboat Captain. As one of the few who knew how to 'chute the falls' (going over the falls during high water), he took many stranded people to safety during the 1937 flood. After a week of helping others, the Army Corp of Engineers finally allowed him to go home to his wife and baby who were stranded on the second floor of their home in Louisville."
Fuchs is an artist who works with video, video installation and sculpture. She has an MFA in the Time Arts area at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998) and a B.Arch from the University of Kentucky. Her video artwork received an international award at the Prague Quadrennial for Louisville's Actor Theatre's Macbeth. Her projects include: Speed Art Museum¬, ReMix & Artist Dialogues, Louisville; Great Rivers Arts, H2O; Film on Water, Bellows Falls, Vermont; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Prospects, Idaho; 21c Museum, Kentucky Short Film and Video Festival, Louisville; Film and Video Festival, Parnu Estonia; Galerie Eugene Lendl, Graz, Austria; Art Festival, Belgrade, Serbia; Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville; and Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, CA.
