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Crossing the Border

by Artist

Treacy Ziegler

On View
September 25 to January 29, 2027

Crossing the Border, Monoprint 24″ x 18″ 

More about the Artist

Treacy Ziegler

Artist’s statement

In these paintings, monoprints and sculpture that I am presenting at Axom Home, there are several themes: land, sea, air, shelter, and living creatures.

Animals: Animals have been telling our stories for thousands of years. I like to think that crucial to our experience with animals is our ability to suspend moral judgment. Animals exist neither as good or bad. And this seems to be a pretty good world to occupy.

As a landscape painter, I explore the interior and exterior configurations of space – boundaries
between interior and exterior are porous and the line between landscape and dwelling is fluid. The sea does not stop at the door – it comes in. Landscapes for me are never uninhabited. There is always some evidence of life, be it human or animal creature, and as creatures, we are always seeking shelter.  Likewise, the interior of place is never quite inside – always reaching outward to the sky, land or sea. These porous boundaries become obvious to me through my volunteer work with prisons and teaching art to prisoners. When entering prison, I bring in the world. Likewise, the prison and its ramifications enter into my own work and life. The experience of teaching in prisons has extended to the materials I use in creating some of the sculptures. Some sculptures are created from the thousands of letters the Prisoners Express project received annually from prisoners across the United States. I am volunteer art director of this project affiliated with Cornell University. The letters accumulated throughout my house taking over space. It was difficult to toss the emotions I read in the letters – despair, hope, regret, loneliness, humor, acceptance – into the recycling bin.

For an expanded view of this work in prison and my experience of landscape, this link is to an essay entitled Crossing the Border.  I wrote this for the Rutgers University journal, Rejoinder. https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder-webjournal/marking-time/249-crossing-the-border

Born on an Island 39″ x 27″

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