Valerie Sullivan Fuchs

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 is currently on view at the US Embassy in Stockholm Sweden. In the collection of Ladonna Nicolas and Larry Shapin. (select image to play video and images)

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 for the New Albany Bicentennial Public Art Project and will be up for one year 2010-11. (select image to play video)

'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 International Contemporary Art Foundation (founded by Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson). (select image to play video and images)

'Apocrypha', 2005, 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)

Western|Western! 2008, 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)

'oh, the water'III, 2009, is a video collaboration with artist Valerie Sullivan Fuchs and musician/songwriter Abigail Washburn. 'oh, the water' was originally commissioned by the Maker's Mark Distillery in Loretto, KY for the 'Mark of Great Art Exhibition' a juried show of Kentucky artists which traveled to Madrid, Spain and Seattle, Washington. 'oh, the water', explores the influence landscape and its processes have on what people produce in a specific place. Industry can also influence and create identity for the people who live in a specific landscape. The video was recorded at the Maker's Mark Distillery lake in Loretto, KY. 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 created by the landscape. This piece features 'Captain' written by Abigail Washburn and performed by Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet (Ben Sollee, Bela Fleck and Casey Dreissen). (select image to play video and images)

zero to sixty, 2006, is a five channel video installation for (5) - 60' plasma screens, commissioned by the Greater Louisville International Airport in 2007, addresses how we perceive and experience the landscape of a place through different media of travel like the medium of the automobile or the airplane. The first video is a 42 minute recording of the rural Kentucky landscape from an automobile (my 1999 blackberry Saturn 4-door sedan). This 42 minute video was digitally altered to appear to speed up from 60 miles per hour to 500 miles per hour, the speed of the airplane over the five plasma screens across from the moving sidewalks of the airport so that the last video is only 5 minutes long. This is the last video in the series of 5, of what the Kentucky landscape would look like at the speed of 500 mph. (This piece was relocated from the moving sidewalks and is now across from the airport bar...)(select image to play video and images)

Electrified, 2010, is a post card installation which consists of 40 found post cards modified to document and recount the fictional story of how Central Park New York City, NY and Central Park, Louisville, KY were both once strip mines. These stories are documented in post card form and printed in two books available on Lulu.com. This work was inspired by Erik Reese's 'Lost Mountain'.