THE FOCUS

"From the data existing within an image, the mass production of objects used in creating installations, or perhaps, moments that shape our memory--I am interested in the malleability of pieces that create a whole. Using a variety of media I embrace repetition to create bodies of work that explore boredom, memory, and various sociopolitical concepts of a contemporary media age." — Toni Collums Roberts, Statement Toni Collums Roberts, Studio Visit, 2019 (photo: Tracy Treadwell) Toni Collums Roberts, Studio Visit, 2019 (photo:...

Rachel Bubis: You explain how your experience with hearing loss gave you insight into the “structural aspects of communication,” particularly in how you relate the language of sound and color in your paintings.  Brianna Bass: The relationship between color and sound first became apparent to me when I started making the vertical prism paintings. I sensed something musical about them, and realized that they remind me of piano keys. Each color plays a specific role in a larger system, and...

"The works in Edgelands mine the in-between spaces in the diminishing wildernesses of southern wetlands. They chase captured moments in the life cycles of forests, marshes and estuaries, illuminating transition and transformation in a dissolving world. Forming and unforming, these spaces unfold and regenerate ceaselessly, fragmenting into reflection and continually settling into new iterations of themselves." Maysey Craddock, Studio Visit, 2019 (photo: Tracy Treadwell) Maysey Craddock, Studio Visit, 2019 (photo: Tracy Treadwell) "I work from imagery based on my own photographs of...