Sulfur Studios is pleased to present ON::View Revue, the annual exhibition featuring the previous year’s ON::View Artists-in-Residence. After a nearly year-long pause due to Covid, the ON::View Residency Program returned in June of 2021, and hosted five Artists-in-Residence: Bridget Conn, Kimberly Riner, Kellie Martin, Sinead Hornak, and Rebecca Braziel. Through media ranging from fibers to painting, ceramics to photography, these five artists challenged the community to contemplate grief, inclusivity, impermanence, memory, relationships, and more. Featuring work created during each artist’s residency and afterward, this exhibition surveys their recent explorations and presents them in conversation with one another.
Bridget Conn
Bridget Conn is a photographic artist and educator residing in Savannah, GA. Her work explores written language, communication, and the potential of photography as a physical and chemical medium through the creation of chemigrams. Conn has exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States, and been featured in publications such as Lenscratch, The Hand Magazine, Analog Forever Magazine, and Aeonian Magazine. She is the Founder and former Director of The Asheville Darkroom in Asheville, NC, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art in Photography at Georgia Southern University. In her ON::View Residency project Deep Breath, Conn welcomed subjects to sit for a conversation about how the pandemic has influenced their perceptions of people, our society, our country, while she photographed them with lengthened camera exposures to visually document the time physically spent together. The resulting chemigrams were driven by the artist’s desire to regain comfort and trust with others through portraiture and dialogue.
Kimberly Riner
Kimberly Riner, Visual Arts Director at Averitt Center for the Arts, received her Masters of Fine Art from Georgia Southern University in Sculpture with an emphasis in ceramics. Riner currently teaches at Georgia Southern University, and Ogeechee Technical College. She is actively involved in growing the art scene in the Statesboro area, where she opened the Averitt Center’s new visual arts facility: The Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts. Riner’s ON::View Residency project, A Time to Heal, gave the community an opportunity to collaborate with the artist in the making of a Community Grief Quilt. The community was invited to add textures to black stoneware clay tiles by pressing in items from lost loved ones or special tokens from lost experiences. This process became a tactile way for people to connect to the physical process of grief, especially in this time of pandemic. The result of this community endeavor was displayed during Riner’s solo exhibition Impermanence at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center Gallery in October 2021.
Kellie Martin
Kellie Martin is a deaf, queer and non-binary artist and current graduate student in Creative Business Leadership at SCAD. Their performance and visual works are rooted in the exploration of the internal and external aspects of their queer, deaf identity. Martin’s expression is rooted in their childhood traumas from the deep south, dealing with a lack of accessibility, and ignorance about deafness and queerness. The key aims of Martin’s ON::View Residency project Holding Storms were to create “healing dialogue between deaf and hearing communities…to build a strong bridge between these different worlds, to create resources for each others’ futures, and to create acceptance of various identities.” In addition to painting a canvas featuring American Sign Language during their residency, Martin offered a workshop to teach some basics of ASL and discuss inclusivity, accessibility, and privilege, fostering empathetic engagement.
Sinead Hornak
Sinéad Hornak is a Fine Artist and Textile Designer from Ramsey, New Jersey. She received her BFA in Fibers from the SCAD in May 2021. Hornak’s residency project Fleeting Bodies: Eternal Souls focused on the bodily containment of the human soul, documenting the gradual decay of our bodies into an ephemeral and abstract state. The artist narrated the soul’s path to existence through abstract collages and mixed media work in a series of book pages. Each page was individually displayed in the window of the residency space, building a tapestry of abstract collaged pages composing this overarching narrative of the soul escaping the bodily containment.
Rebecca Braziel
Rebecca Braziel’s multidisciplinary practice includes fiber installations, mixed media sculptures, paintings on paper, and hand-stitched surfaces. Her work entices viewers to look deeply into exuberant surface textures, discovering visions of flora and fauna in an experience intended to strengthen the human connection to nature. Braziel graduated from SCAD with a BFA in 2008. After moving to Houston in 2013, she completed a six-month residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, acted as member of Box13 Artspace, received the Houston Individual Artist Grant, and exhibited at venues such as Lawndale Art Center, Galveston Art Center, Gray Contemporary Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In her ON::View Residency Project Steady Climbing, “hand-stitched fibers took on the form of an organic species attaching to living plants. This invasion distorted the form and threatened the health of its host, producing ephemeral sculptures that stimulated conversation around anxiety, gender roles, and the environment.
