Valerie Sullivan Fuchs

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01:02;08, 2002

8. 5" x 11" x 41", 1868 frames projection onto 1868 inkjet prints, metal projector mount, wood pedestal.

Collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson

01:02:08 is a 1868 frame loop of a digital video projection which is projected onto 1868 inkjet prints on paper stacked of the 1868 frames of the projected video. The video projection of waving grass is projected onto the stack of printed video prints in order to question the medium of the moving image and its influence on our perception of vision and time.
For this piece, I started with a desire to envision what one minute, two seconds and eight frames would look like in physical mass or form.

boys don't cry, 2009

boys don't cry is a collaboration between artist Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, choreographer David Ingram, and musician Ben Sollee. This piece features choreography by David Ingram who has collaborated with Valerie Sullivan Fuchs on several projects including work with the Ft. Wayne Ballet in Ft. Wayne, IN and the Louisville Ballet dancers in Empujon. Ben Sollee and Valerie Sullivan Fuchs have collaborated on other works, 'Western|Western', 2008, and 'I Need' which premiered at the Speed Art Museum in 2009. Special thanks to William Morrow, director of the 21c Museum, for introducing David Ingram, Ben Sollee and I & for encouraging our collaboration. In the collection of the 21c (founded by Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson). 

Western|Western! 2008,

ingle channel video 9' 

Western | Western is another collaboration with musician and songwriter Ben Sollee. Ben played his cello with a rifle bringing together two examples of well-known Western cultural forms. Recorded 2008 Shelbyville, KY. In the collection of Brook Smith (select image to play video and images)

Flood Wall is a one channel video projection project commissioned in 2015 by Connect/Disconnect through the Louisville Public Art Commission.  

Sisyphus - Transparency and Trans-formations Stockholm, Sweden  (2)

Sisyphus, 2009, is a palm sized video projection where the viewers capture the video onto their open hands. The video is of a woman who appears to climb up the viewer's hand but slides back down repeatedly. Each time she slides back down, she draws a line of chalk which appears to mix with the lines of the view's palm. This is another collaboration with choreographer David Ingram. Sisyphus has been exhibited at at the US Embassy in Stockholm Sweden and the Spring/Break Art Show, 2017 curated by Anne Spalter . In the collection of Ladonna Nicolas and Larry Shapin.

Power-Fall

2018

5” Video Loop

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Beyond the tradition of landscape paintings that simply depict the landscape, Power-Fall is a video where the landscape, itself, is an active and crucial co-creator of its own moving image by supplying the waterfall energy that powered the video recorder and recording of itself, its own image.

Acoustic Addiction, 2013

video projection onto 6' diameter satellite dish, sound by 

Douglas Lucas

Day into Night; A hike on Pine Mountain was an artwork made during a retreat with the Pine Mountain Collective of artists and writers began by Erik Reese.

on the one hand...and the other, 2014

video projection onto open hands

on the one hand ... and the other, explores the contemporary tension between using finite resources and preserving them.   The addiction to electricity while knowing how its resources destroy finite natural resources.  on the one hand ...and the other, was commissioned by the Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY.  

Recent exhibitions:  Spring/Break 2017 art show, New York, NY and The Carnegie, Covington, KY.

Apocrypha, 2005

Apocrypha was a large scale video installation, 13.5' x 10' x 34' commissioned for 'Presence', a twelve-month exhibition where eight works of art were shown in a specially constructed space by architect Nathan Fuchs at the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY. Conceived and developed by former Speed Art Museum contemporary curator Julien Robson, this exhibit encompassed an architectural intervention, a series of solo exhibits and a series of lectures. Artists included in the exhibition were Franz Gertsch, Ik-Joong Kang, Bill Henson, Mark Wallinger, Gerhard Richter, Chris Cunningham, Berni Searle, and and Valerie Sullivan Fuchs.(select image to play video and images)

Future Falls City, 2013

one channel video 8 minutes 

Future Falls City was the first video completed in Acoustic Landscape Series in 2012-2013.  

In the collection of Jodi and P.A. Howard.

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Recordings of my mother, from 1939 - 2006, describe the visual arc of her life’s visual recorded energy.

Un-Titled 2005 video

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The medium of the airplane mediates our experience of distance time and place.

This piece was commissioned by the Muhammad Ali International Airport (formally called The Louisville International Airport)

Acoustic Landscape 15, 2015

200' x 12' video projection onto a building 

This is a continuation of the Acoustic Landscape series. 

Commissioned by Artlik, curated by Scott Rogers supported by Nulu

Climb Nulu, and Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY

Power Plant

2018 one channel video projection onto solar panel, with solar power panels, vinyl print and solar battery

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

Lost Worlds, 1998

video projection onto clay vessels

Merging the contemporary media, video projection with an ancient media clay,  Lost Worlds was inspired by all of the ruins of past civilizations which eventually created ours.

Under the Sod, 2003

one channel video projection of the waving grass of the same section of sod projected onto root side of the sod

Under the Sod reflected my frustration in finding very little information on my great-great-grandmother who lived and died in Louisville, Kentucky.  This seemed to be the condition of women and their accomplishments in that era.  When I finally found the family plot, there were no markers, just a small stone lined grass area in the cemetary.

Flood, 2010-2011, New Albany Public Art Project  (1)

Flood, 2010, 50' x 10' video projection onto building. Every 37 minutes the video projection of water slowly floods the side of the building for 6 minutes, stays for 23 and recedes for 8 minutes. This is an outdoor video projection installation.  This outdoor video projection installation was commissioned for the New Albany Bicentennial Public Art Project and will be up for one year 2010-11.