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Leah Oates MFA (winner of 2 - d - 3 - d Membership Award)
Her work is in many collections including the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Yale University, the British Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Oates has been a resident artist at the Ragdale Foundation, Caldera Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. Oates has upcoming residencies at The Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan, Dorland Art Colony in Temscula, California and at Pouch Cove and the James Baird Foundation in St.John's, Canada. Oates has a M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and has studied in Rome, Italy on the Rhode Island School of Design Honors Program. Oates was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for graduate study in Scotland in 1993 and from 1997 through 1999 Oates was awarded Community Arts Assistance Grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2002, Oates exhibited at Gallerie Joella in Finland and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and was included in numerous group shows around the country and Europe. In 2003, she had solo shows at Sara Nightingale Gallery, A Taste of Art Gallery and Henry Street Settlement in New York, Real Art Ways in Connecticut and numerous group shows at venues such as The Open Studio in Canada, The Knitting Factory, Metaphor Contemporary Art and Gallery 402 in New York and at the City Without Walls in New Jersey. In 2004, Oates has shows at the Dayton Visual Arts Center in Ohio, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, TIXE Art Gallery and Lehman College Art Gallery in New York City and at Sherbourne House Gallery in Dorset, England. Oates is represented by Sara Nightingale Gallery and A Taste of Art Gallery both in New York. Artist's Statement: PARADURA is series of photographs, installations and sculptures that explores the passage of time and the fragmentation of memory. In each moment numerous gestures are expressed, motions taken, sounds heard, and images recorded. I condense, double expose and blur moments and thus have constructed a more fluid and psychologically charged interpretation of time as it disappears and fractures.PARADURA also explores portals through space and the contrast between interior and exterior space by layering a circular shape over landscape imagery. The circle implies an eye peeking from inside or a opening a viewer can move through to be situated in an imaginary landscape that is suspended in time. The sculptural portion of my work aims to represent time as it is flowing without the interruption of measured increments. This reveals that the fragmentation of time is a fabrication of human perception as time moves continually on. The sculpture creates a conceptual contrast to the photographs, which are captured increments of specific moments in space and time. The process of making my work begins in a specific location gathering fragments of sound, image and corporeal response to environment and space via a camera, journal and found objects. I begin a focused collection process until I have accumulated many images and objects and then gradually narrow down to the most condensed grouping of elements. After I narrow the focus of the collection process I begin a series of photographs, books, digital prints, sculpture and installation until the work becomes defined.
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