Zoë Sheehan Saldaña

Group Photo (detail), 2002
Cross stitch on canvas, wood frames
Nineteen components,
36" x 60" x 6" overall


Michael, 2001
Cross stitch on canvas
10" x 10" inc. frame


Organ Pipes (detail) . 2003
(America's most dangerous nat'l park) ink on vellum
19" x 24"


Shopdropping, 2003

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Artist Statement

In my work I use photography, drawing, and craft processes, in conjunction with the inflections and structures of the digital, to make objects and images that shift between clarity and dissolution. I am interested in exploring the shared ground of virtual and actual, mechanical and manual, new and traditional, domestic and obsessive.

Zoë Sheehan Saldaña


 Education
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1998

M.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
1994 B.A., Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Solo Exhibitions
2002

Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, The Brunswick Window, Jersey City, NJ
1997 (Jello)3, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
 Explaining Magic, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Techno-Art, Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA
Shopdropping, Wal-Mart, Berlin, VT
For and Because, Spaceworks Gallery, New York, NY
2002
 Matter as Protagonist, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Emerging New York Artists, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
National Drawing 2002, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
Presenting/Receiving, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
2001
 Threading Lightly, Alva Gallery, New London, CT
New American Talent Sixteen, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX (traveling show)
2000 Blurred Boundaries, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Vital Signs, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
ArtWired International, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1999 Crest Hardware Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
1998
 Everson Biennial, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Bee-ing, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (thesis show)
Food: Nourishment for the Soul, Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Selected Bibliography

Jeffrey Hoone, Light Work Annual 2002, Contact Sheet, Light Work.
Nicole Edwards, “Photo exhibits stretching limits,” Poughkeepsie Journal, 18 January 2002.
Carolyn Wyman, Jell-O: A Biography, Harvest Books/Harcourt, Inc., 2001.
Anne Umland, New American Talent Sixteen (exhibition catalog),Texas Fine Arts Association.
William Jaeger, “Crafting an art debate,” Albany Times Union, 24 November 2000, p. D1.
William Zimmer, “Among a show of drawings, looking for ones with bite,” New YorkTimes, 14 May 2000.
Ellen Comerford, “Niagara’s Castellani Museum gets sticky with (Jello)3,” Niagara Gazette, 4 December 1997.
Ben Beagle, “Artist uses Jell-O to connect with audience,” Batavia Daily News, 26 November 1997.
Channel 2 (ABC) News, Buffalo, NY, feature story, 16 November 1997.

Other

2000-present Professor, Art, Bergen County Community College, Paramus, NJ
2003

Visiting Artist, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA
2001 Artist in Residence, Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY

Contact Information
752 Greenwich St. #1C
New York, NY 10014
(212) 741-0780
zoesheehan@earthlink.net