Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Sydney Craig

Ghosts Know No Borders by Sydney Craig
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Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Sydney Craig, August 2007
Your Art Here presents Ghosts Know No Borders by artist Sydney Craig for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted thru August 2007.

ARTWORK STATEMENT
As a society, we are born into a system of language that structures our beliefs, our conventions, and our culture. Arbitrary symbols and sounds construct communication and perception, and at times it is difficult to unveil a reality when it is masked by language’s manipulative nature. The media, for example, bombards the public with these symbols and sounds in a dizzying display of scrolling names of the deceased as the death toll in Iraq is announced. This piece illustrates how an individual, a reality full of meanings and experiences, can be lost under a veil of anonymity as he or she becomes another name on a list, another statistic, another body.

ARTIST BIO
As a product of Midwestern America, Sydney has grown up at the mercy of the weather and indiscernible elevation changes. She was born in 1984 in Lafayette, IN, and soon followed her family and the plastic production trends to central Indiana, where the green pastures of rural Indiana tapered into manicured lawns and suburban lifestyles. Sydney is now a senior at Indiana University and will graduate in May 2008 with a BFA in printmaking and a BA in the History of Art with a concentration in Modern Art viewed through a lens of literary theory.

CONTACT INFO
Sydney Craig – swcraig@indiana.edu

EDUCATION
Indiana University, Bloomington, Bachelor of Fine Arts – Printmaking, 2008
Indiana University, Bloomington, Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art, 2007

RESUME
Exhibitions
2007 Your Art Here Massachusetts Avenue Billboard, Indianapolis, IN
2007 Audio-Visual, Art Hospital, Bloomington, IN
2007 Juried Printmaking Area Show, Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery
2006 Ceramics, Painting, Printmaking Collaborative Show,  6th and Walnut, Bloomington, IN

Awards
2005 Printmaking Area Award
2004 Edward L. Hutton International Experiences Grant