Cartographic Evidence that My Mother is the Ocean, 2018, 28 minutes, video

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from 8-10pm

Plexus Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Colleen Marie Foley. Cartographic Evidence that My Mother is the Ocean will be featured in Vitrine, an ongoing screening series of moving image artworks.

*Please note the project space is not open during Vitrine screen hours. Projections are viewed from the sidewalk.

As I map the poetic connections between memories and words, a population of images forms its own ecology. My hand traces threads of meaning between personal stories and environment as a gesture of curiosity and humility. —Colleen Marie Foley

Colleen Marie Foley is an interdisciplinary artist and video maker. Her work focuses on the psychological/physical relationship between sublime landscape and the body and the porousness of the membrane that separates them. Video, with its capacity to encompass a multitude of media, allows her to explore these themes via music, poetry, installation, performance and digital special effects. Colleen received her BFA in painting from BU and her MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University. Her work has been exhibited and performed in Boston, Buffalo, New York, Miami, North Carolina, Chicago, and internationally in Italy, Iceland, and France. She is also a member of Thorn Collaborative, an ongoing creative partnership with artist Erin Ethridge.