Audra Wolowiec is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is often collaborative in nature and explores themes of communication, voice, and ephemeral moments of the everyday. She received her MFA in 2007 from the Rhode Island School of Design and BFA from the University of Michigan in 2002. Her work has been shown at Art in General (New York), Pocket Utopia (Brooklyn), The Sea and Space Explorations (Los Angeles) and the Museum of New Art (Detroit).
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"The idea of connection, or more properly, a fading connection, runs through Audra Wolowiec's work like an unpredictable electric current. There is an empathy to her work that seeks to create an elusive but shared experience. Here, conceptual mediates perceptual art, an art of phenomena and trace effect. Were she able to press up against each viewer and bask in that shared heat - might that be enough? I don't think so. Wolowiec is also, perhaps to her chagrin, a documentarian and image maker. Sensation is strongly linked to the visual, and she crafts images and objects with humor and clarity. She deals with conditions so tentative, so fraught with the potential for dissolution, that the very voice she is coaxing out shifts the burden of 'making meaning' to the viewer. Not an abdication of responsibility, but a generosity, giving us enough means with which to continue the search. An exhalation of breath, to get the sails moving. It is how we begin to have effect on the tides, the skies, the horizon." -Michael Oatman