ARTIST STATEMENT
Over the last few years I have been exploring 2 series of work: Wisconsin horizons and frozen lake Michigan. This was literally because of the locations of my 2 studios; one being in my 128 year old farm house in southern Wisconsin and the other was my little space across the street from Lake Michigan in Chicago.
I am now living in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I am living in the bone structure of this landscape and everything beneath it.
These alternative states of consciousness are alchemies that are my daily journals, empowering my isolation and informing my meditation. They are metaphysical experiences rendering ice and dirt with wax and fire.
I hope to capture the sublime isolation of being at one with the silent earth, transcendent moments and the religious experience with nature.
I want my viewer to experience something familiar and new, I want them to care for the earth as much as I do.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Selene Sepsey Plum earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996.
Until recently, her studio has been a 100 year old farm house in Green County, Wisconsin, where she spent the majority of her time working in wax+oil and growing herbs and flowers.
Selene also was a cooperative director of Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, Chicago. This is a decade old gallery which shows established as well as emerging artists. Las Manos also serves as a community performance space; hosting discussions, dramatic monologues and panel discussions on topics such as reform and shows ranging from ruminations on birds to art from death row.
She has been working as a set designer and prop stylist for photography and national TV commercials for 20 years.
She owns a 100 year old firehouse in Chicago with her husband and partner, Timothy Plum. It has been renovated for use as a sound stage for film production and event space for weddings and corporate events.
© Selene Plum