ARTIST STATEMENT
My goal is to blur the lines between mind and body, exploring the body’s fragility and strength. My hope is by facing our mortality, we also find meaning and build connections. I work in series, reflecting a sense of time and space. Using cut-up photographs, mixed media, and paint on different surfaces from canvas to plexiglass, I explore how energy comes through the body within the process of making art.
ARTIST BIO
Caren Helene Rudman has been a working artist and curator for 30 years. She exhibits locally in Chicago and Nationally since 1992, after receiving her MA from NYU/ ICP in a prestigious 56 credit program. Since 2010, she has curated a biennial exhibition, Voices and Visions; Standing on the Bridge Between Health and Disease, at The Art Center Highland Park. With sponsorship from Medline, a Chicago based medical supply company, the 2010 exhibit traveled nationally to affiliated cancer centers across the country. Since 2018, she has been the acting curator at The Art Center Highland Park, providing conceptual and strategic leadership for exhibitions in TAC’s galleries. With an emphasis on community and public outreach her curatorial mission statement has been described as, “galleries with a conscience.” “The goal of art is to harness the power to communicate and to heal both as individuals and as a collective whole.” Caren is an active member of the Women’s Caucus for Art as Vice-President of the Chicago Chapter. She has presented at the National Conference on the power of art and science and this year will be leading a panel, Artist as Curator. She has exhibited in many group shows and has been the featured artist/ guest juror in all seven Voices & Visions exhibits. Her own art work explores the strength and fragility of the body. She writes, “we are all confronted with health and disease as human beings. The depth of facing our mortality helps of find meaning in life.”
© Caren Helene Rudman