Ally DeRusso, Echos (Care)

Artist Statement

I am consumed by our temporary experience. We shift in our identity, spaces, possessions, and relationships. By combining photographs collected from the past and present with drawing and printmaking, I create vessels that memorialize moments, lost loved ones, and objects. Considering the question, how does one honor and remember as we grow and change? Screen printing is used to fragment, blur, and distort the imagery, reflecting the ephemerality of life and the process of recollection. The printed information is impressed on fabric, a material associated with comfort, security, and warmth. Through the process, I consider the sensation I receive from the fabric's touch, its malleability and flatness, and its power to provide safety in uncertainty. Our mortality, the way we remember and forget, and our interactions with people and objects is embodied in my work: each shift is a transition and commemoration of the previous one.

Artist Bio

Ally DeRusso is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Upstate New York. She received her BFA in Printmaking and Photography and a minor in Art History in May 2021 from The College of Saint Rose. In 2020, DeRusso was a recipient of the Undergraduate Summer Research Grant at Saint Rose. DeRusso interned at The Center for Photography at Woodstock in the Fall of 2020.

Echos (Care), 2021, Screen Print on felt, 4 X 8 inches, $150