SubtleFlux || Shae Nadine
Medium: Multi-Disciplinary Studio Location: LIC Art Center - Studio# 410 44-02 23rd Street Email: shae@subtleflux.nyc Website:: www.subtleflux.nyc Artist Bio: Shae Nadine nom de guerre SubtleFlux (born.1977 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lives. NYC. works. Long Island City, NY.) is a first generation Canadian interdisciplinary artist who leverages bioscientific techniques with more traditional artistic processes that together bear witness to the fragile nature of our relationship with the environment and our symbiotic interdependence. Through sculptural works, immersive and experiential installations, printmaking, and other two-dimensional mediums, they explore our role in the world and more specifically the relationship between the awareness of our oneness and antithetical feelings of intimacy/universality, healing/loss, accountability/apathy, and humanity/nature. From neurons to nebulae, interference patterns on water, in sand, the clouds - all are connected by a single thread, a balanced equation. One pull at this thread unravels all. It is this tension between connectedness and interdependence that fuels their creative mantle. The artist received their BA in Fine Arts from Bard College, under the mentorship of Judy Pfaff, Robert Kelly, and Larry Fink. SubtleFlux has received numerous fellowships, scholarships, grants, and residencies, most recently they were an Artist in Residence at the School of Visual Arts BioArt Lab and extended their practice in the Visible Futures Lab during a Contemporary Practices residency. They have exhibited in the US and abroad, with current shows in NYC, Tarrytown, NY and Chicago and forthcoming shows in NYC, Northern Ireland and Rwanda. Recently recruited to the longstanding Social Practice Collective The Artnauts and a founding member of the IP3 Collective. They are founder and Chief Curator of Poche Projects based in Long Island City, NY. Artist Statement: I am a first generation Canadian interdisciplinary artist who leverages bioscientific techniques with more traditional artistic processes that together bear witness to the fragile nature of our relationship with the environment and our symbiotic interdependence. Avoiding a clinical, matter-of-fact application of bio/sci arts, I rely on a strategy of playfulness and beauty to disguise my activism, to disarm, to increase the susceptibility to messaging that penetrates ingrained beliefs and defense mechanisms. My practice draws inspiration from historical naturalists, humanists, and Eastern philosophies. Through sculptural works, immersive and experiential installations, printmaking, and other two-dimensional mediums, I explore our role in the world and more specifically the relationship between the awareness of our oneness and antithetical feelings of intimacy/universality, healing/loss, epiphany/dread, accountability/apathy, and humanity/nature. Notwithstanding my interdisciplinary and often immersive approach, I strive to maintain internal consistency through unifying conceptual, experiential, and textural constructs regardless of modality, medium, or materiality. The primary motivation for my work lies in the profound oneness and interdependence of all things, best articulated in the construct of 'interbeing' by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. From neurons to nebulae, interference patterns on water, in sand, the clouds - all are connected by a single thread, a balanced equation. One pull at this thread unravels all. It is this tension between connectedness and interdependence that fuels my creative mantle. All images and text copyright SubtleFlux || Shae Nadine