Details
First Name | Summer |
Last Name | McCroskey |
Username | summermc |
Bio | I am an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. I hold an MFA from Parsons School of Design (2023) and a BFA from Auburn University (2019). In my most recent work, I have been focusing on deep feeling. Through candid film photography and an array of soft materials and textiles, I am creating fabric collages that bring together thoughts about intimacy, vulnerability, community, and interpersonal relationships—both platonic and romantic. Simultaneously with this visual work, I have been unpacking and musing on the same topics through my ongoing zine series, “Simple Pleasures and Complex Emotions.” |
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Country of residence | United States (US) |
Statement
Statement | My work employs notions of fantasy, memory and imagined utopia to explore ideas of radical possibility in personal and collective narratives. Frequently working in methods of collaging, bookmaking, textile, and sculptural world-building, I mine a psychological space informed by desire. My work embodies the desire for slowness, rest, love, and community as an act of direct resistance and opposition to the dehumanizing conditions of capitalism, colonization, and patriarchy. I am deeply invested in the power of imaginative work in liberation struggle, and the importance of storytelling as a means of bringing about radical change. I believe the exercise of futurist imagining provides pathways to hope and mental rest. Through my practice, I navigate the liminal spaces where fantasy and reality meet, investigating the ways memory, childhood experiences, religion in upbringing, and traditional American values shape us, acknowledging the role that understanding our past plays in creating new futures. The work provides a site for the opening up of possibilities and highlights the ways that queer and neurodivergent people connect with their inner child in order to rest, explore, and heal. |
Exhibitions
Exhibitions | 2023 Bond Studio Group Art + Design Show, BOND Hardware, Brooklyn NY Renaissance of Reconnecting, Soiree Henzo at Lavan Chelsea, New York NY Summer Saudade, Art y Honey Gallery, Virtual Exhibition Matter As Fallen Light, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York NY MFA Open Studios, Parsons School of Design, New York NY 2022 MFA Open Studios, Parsons School of Design, New York NY 2020 Printmaking from the Edge, The Art Center Dover, Dover, NH The Skeleton Crawl Presents: It’s Alive Stream, Virtual Art Experience, Brooklyn, NY 2019 Kairos, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Biggin Gallery, Auburn, AL Fine Arts Juried Student Exhibition, Biggin Gallery, Auburn, AL Home & Home, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud , MN Home & Home, Print Exchange Exhibition, The Vault, Auburn, AL 2018 Fine Arts Juried Student Exhibition, Biggin Gallery, Auburn, AL Anticipation, Solo Installation, The Vault, Auburn, AL 2017 12 x 16, The Vault, Auburn, AL |
Interests and medias
Interests | Collage, Mixed media, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textile art |
Printmaking medias | Screen-printing |
Collage medias | Three-dimensional collage |