Between Seeing and Being Seen with Sky Maggiore and Frances Bukovsky
Between Seeing and Being Seen with Sky Maggiore and Frances Bukovsky
Wednesday, January 31st, at 7 pm EST on Zoom
Join Sky Maggiore and Frances Bukovsky for an investigative conversation that explores the connections between embodiment and place and between seeing and being seen. Both artists, originally from rural New York, collaborated previously on two pieces for Sky's photographic-based installation ways to endure.
Through the use of light, steel, emulsion, glass, and healing welted skin, Sky used experimental photographic processes, artist collaborations, and unique installations as a form of inquiry. ways to endure explores how layers of societal boundaries dictate the desire to be both seen and hidden and what happens if one’s existence transcends these boundaries. Where does safety lie?
Join us for a dynamic conversation between two experimental place-based artists as they exchange questions to take us more intimately into ways to endure and explore the ways that place, safety, and vulnerability can influence the creative process.
Together we will explore what it takes to feel comfortable enough to creatively reveal oneself beyond our shell.
Sky Maggiore is an artist and educator from rural NY, currently based in Kansas. He received a BFA from Purchase College and an MFA from The University of Arkansas. He has been published with Kris Graves Projects, The Photographer's Greenbook, and is featured in Queering Appalachia’s Visual History: A collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers, to be published in 2023 by University of Kentucky Press.
Frances Bukovsky makes images about the relationship between bodies, places, and identities in the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. They were raised in upstate New York and now live in Marshall, North Carolina. In 2018 Bukovsky earned a BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. Since then, Bukovsky has been actively showing their work in venues such as the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, and Circle Gallery at University of Georgia in Athens.
