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Ivette Spradlin

Artistic Category artist
Collaborators

Lea Donatelli, Tara Zalwesky, Sean Derry, Stephen Knezovich, Yvonne McBride, Athena Frances Harden, Celeste Gainey, Julie Sokolow, Becky Slemmons, Jennifer Nagle Myers, Travis Mitzel
Career Level Mid-career
Experienced With Collaboration, For-hire services, Leading workshops, Lectures, Teaching engagements, Commissions, Public art
Artist Statement

The innate desire to put down roots and to forge relationships with others is a universal experience that all humans share. What is that nagging need inside us that fuels this itch to connect with one another and our surroundings? What is in the human spirit that craves a place to belong?

My photographs and videos capture the spirit’s intrinsic need to create a sense of comfort, safety, community, and a place to call home. Whether shot in the West End warehouses of Atlanta, Georgia, or the raw streets and starkly traditional homes of Cuba, by catching glimpses of how people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences search for a place of familiarity, my images illustrate how individuals evolve during this bonding process and how that bond profoundly impacts our psychological and emotional states.

I find inspiration in engagement and am largely influenced by the community of artists I interact with. This can be seen in projects such as The Oval Portrait, Unseen, and my recent video collaborations with Pittsburgh artists Yvonne McBride, Jennifer Myers, Sean Derry, Celeste Gainey, and Athena Frances Harden.

Biography

Ivette Spradlin is a Cuban-American photographer, video artist, and educator. She received her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and her MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She focuses on photographing people and their surroundings concentrating on the emotional aspects of transition, adaptation, and balance in one's life. She is a Flight School Fellow, Artist Opportunity Grant awardee, and an Art on the Walls artist through the Pittsburgh Arts Council. She has been published in Next Level Magazine, screened her films nationally, including at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Transmodern Film Festival in Baltimore. Most recently, her Oval Portrait photographs were part of a Magenta Foundation pop-up, public art project in downtown Pittsburgh and she was part of the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial. In December of 2014, her portrait, as part of a portrait swap project curated by Stuart Pilkington, was featured on the BBC.

She teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212
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Genres

  • Artist Books
  • Film
  • Installation
  • Internet
  • Mixed-media
  • Photography
  • Video
  • Light
  • Public Art

Keywords

  • Analog
  • Appropriation
  • Biographical
  • Black & white
  • Computer generated
  • Conceptual
  • Cultural
  • Digital
  • Documentary
  • Experimental
  • Feminist
  • Film
  • Gender studies
  • Indie
  • Interactive
  • Internet
  • Landscape
  • Latin
  • Minimalist
  • Modern
  • Montage
  • Narrative
  • Nature
  • New media
  • Organic
  • Time-based
  • Video
  • Web based
  • Light

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