Valerie Sullivan Fuchs

These dye sub. on metal images are video stills take from Oh, the Water, III, an HD video of moving water, which explores the influence landscape and its processes have on what people produce in a specific place. The video was recorded at the Maker’s Mark Distillery lake in Loretto, Kentucky. The spring-fed lake is where the distillery gathers and stores its water before it is used in Maker’s Mark bourbon. The distillery industry came to Kentucky because of the iron free water. The video and other video stills, Still Water 1 2 & 3 were originally commissioned by Maker’s Mark Distillery for ‘The Mark of Great Art’ an exhibition of Kentucky artists’ works and was exhibited in Seattle, Washington and Madrid, Spain. 1/3 of a second (seen above-purple) is in the Transparency and Transformations, Stockholm, Sweden.

2010, (5) - 2'x 12' nylon flags with dye sublimation prints of bar codes mounted on 50' poles, Legacy Trail Public Art Project, Lexington, KY. The exhibition has been delayed.

'Winter Count' is an installation of an automobile subwoofer, cd player, and amplifier all powered by a car battery. In addition there is a separate cd player/amplifier and automobile speakers, a cake, acrylic platter, red, white, and blue lights. A winter count, as described by Barry Lopez in his book, 'Winter Count' is Native North American in origin, where losses over the year would be recorded onto a deer or buffalo hide. This installation is a memorial to all victims of violence and was inspired by the story and life of Marla Ruzicka, founder of CIVIC, an organization dedicated to help innocent victims caught in civil conflicts. Marla lost her life at the age of 26 when her car was hit by an IED while counting innocent victims in Iraq. Kelley MacRae counts up to 2082, the number of innocent victims in the Iraq war at the time of Marla's passing. Sound edited by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs. Installed at the Indiana University Southeast at Ronald S. Barr Gallery 2010. Funded by an Artist Enrichment Grant from Kentucky Foundation for Women. Many thanks to Kelley MacRae for enduring the 2 hour recording session.

In 2008, two Louisville business owners of Cloddhoppers, Kathy Reiss-Miller and Kelly McDonald, commissioned Valerie Sullivan Fuchs to create a new video projection installation in the former film projection booth of the former Vogue Theatre in St. Matthews of Louisville, KY. The result is a 42 minute video of the Kentucky landscape in the four seasons. The color bars which calibrate NTSC video colors are overlayed this video. Defining either side of the long projection space booth, are video stills (14) 3' x 5' & (2) 2' x 3'dye sublimation prints on wood, from Dual Nature, which are also overlaid in individual colors from NTSC color bars.

Untitled (ballet) 2008 2:40, is a video projection onto a dye sub. aluminum print of a ballet barre 36" x 30". This is collaboration with The Louisville Ballet and composer Steve Rouse. Valerie Sullivan Fuchs adapted Rouse's "Between Stillness" and layered it over 13 times to create the sound for this piece. Collection of Ladonna Nicolas and Larry Shapin. (select images to play video)

bride stripped bare by her bachelors 9 ½" x 6" x 4" acrylic, solar light box, solar panel, Duratrans print. There are a series of 8 boxes each with a duratrans print of a video still from 'The Stripper', 2007 a video by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs. In 2006, Fuchs rented a small plane to see and video record the mountain-top-removal coal mining described in Erik Reese's book, 'Lost Mountain'. The images in the solar-powered light boxes have images from this hour long flight over MTR sites. This series was originally commissioned by Live.Learn.Believe. public art invitational at Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY. 2007. Since then they have been in Prospects, Sun Valley Center for Art, Ketchum, Idaho-2009, with Alfredo Jaar, Lucy Raven, Sebastiao Salgado, Victoria Sambunaris, Andre Yi and On::Procession with Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2008 with Fritz Haeg, choreographer of parade and Lauren Argo.

'a horizontal line makes a stable image' is a 66 second video of 42 film clips layered 42 times of one person's life recorded over 66 years. As the energy of the arc of one's life is made visible, the sound creates a literal arc, where each note is mirrored after it is played. Sound & video by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs. This piece premiered in 'Finding Family' Montgomery Co. Arts Center, Mt. Sterling KY and traveled to 21c Museum, Louisville KY. Curated by Karen Gillenwater, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN. Artists in Finding Family: Bryce Hudson, Russell Hulsey, Louis Zoellar Bickett II, George Haviland Argo III,Elena Dorfman, Lisa DuPree, Brooke Jacobs.

'Un-Titled' premiered in Graz, Austria at the Galerie Eugen Lendl in 2005 with the 'Nowhere' exhibit curated by Julien Robson, now contemporary curator with PAFA in Philadelphia. Other venues include: Video Integration Belgrade, Serbia, VIP Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia International Installation of Video Art, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, Film & Video Fest, Non-gratta, Parnu, Estonia, New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville KY.

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. Special thanks to Chuck Swanson of Swanson Reed Contemporary for exhibiting this work in the sine::apsis experiments Signal:Noise show in Louisville, KY. Collection of Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson

The Tragedy of MacBeth, 2002 Limonade Tous Les Jours, by Charles Mee; The Second Death of Priscilla, Davis. Prague Quadrennial Honorable Mention, for The Tragedy of MacBeth with Actors Theatre of Louisville