Sara Wasilausky


Untitled
from the series Pleasure,
 1998-9 
digital C-Prints/video stills
30" x 40"
Untitled
from the series Pleasure,
 1998-9 
digital C-Prints/video stills
30" x 40"
Untitled
from the series Pleasure,
 1998-9 
digital C-Prints/video stills
30" x 40"
Untitled
from the series Pleasure,
 1998-9 
digital C-Prints/video stills
30" x 40"

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My current work consists of large (up to 30 x 40 inches) color video stills. Through juxtaposition of graphic, violent images, such as a bit pulling sharply on a grimacing horse's mouth, I manipulate the images into sequences that evoke emotional responses from the viewer. As symbols of childhood states, the horses in my images are pulled, kicked, whipped and otherwise dominated. Much of the video footage is from tapes dating back to when I was younger, showing and competing with horses.

Inner tension, self destruction, and desolation are issues I have dealt with in previous bodies of work. I have concentrated on self portraits to take control of my own image and presence, to literally manipulate myself in ways I would allow no one else to. Now I employ the editing process to manipulate the entire footage of a video into a few isolated images. Through this work I am investigating conflicting memories and love-abuse relationships. The use of video and surveillance techniques is subversive to traditional winner's circle horse photography, yet explores, in a Muybridge-like fashion, the subtleties in gesture and positioning that the eye could not view unaided.


Sara Wasilausky
23-65 24th Street
Astoria, New York 11105
718.726.5733
sara@echonyc.com

Biographical Note
Born 1974, Hartford, Connecticut
Raised in rural Northwest Ohio

Education
BFA Photography 1998 Cum Laude
Ohio University, School of Art, Athens, Ohio

Selected Exhibitions
1999 Winter Exhibition/Benefit, P.S.122 Gallery, NYC
After a Few Drinksvideo compilation, various locations, NYC curated by Jennifer Charron & L. Halsey Brown, Creative Time
Visual AIDS Postcards from the Edge Benefit, Alexander and Bonin, NYC
Familiar Strangers, Galapagos, Williamsburg, New York
Nineteenth Annual Artist in the Marketplace Exhibition, The Bronx Museum, The Bronx, New York curated by Marysol Nieves and Lydia Yee
Group Photography Exhibition, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1998 Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Bell Atlantic Building, Pittsburgh, PA. Curated by Fred Wilson
Art on View '98, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
Portraits by Women, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois curated by Juarez Hawkins
1997 24th Annual Athens International Film and Video Festival, The Ridges Auditorium, Athens, Ohio
Group Photography Exhibition, Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio
1996 A-1 National Juried Video Competition, Knoxville Intermedia Arts Cooperative, Knoxville, Tennessee

Selected Awards and Honors
Artist in the Marketplace residency, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1998-9
Undergraduate Photography Fellowship recipient, Ohio University, 1997
First Place Award A-1 National Juried Video Competition, 1996