Reviews
‘Forgotten Spaces’ Video Art at RAG
By Robert Brune, The Mountain Eagle, 02/29/2024
“According to the artist, “Eyesland” explores how ‘eyes land’ on visuals to become memories, years or moments later, and the way the most evocative images remain and recombine, like mysterious dreams.”
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Light Codes: Altered States of Photography
By Robert Brune, The Mountain Eagle, December 18, 2023
“Kathleen Sweeney adds … magnificent pieces showing light passing through glass objects from her ‘Solar Power Series’.”
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The Advantages of Being Awestruck
By Wendy Kagan, Chronogram, June 1, 2021
“Every day during New York City’s long pandemic year, Kathleen Sweeney would counterbalance a sense of fear and isolation by walking a block from her apartment and opening herself up to the beauty of nature in Fort Tryon Park.”
‘I was tracking raptors, hawks, kestrels, and all kinds of birds, and these moments would awaken a sense of awe that was key to my resiliency,’ says Sweeney, a multimedia artist and teacher of media studies at the New School. ‘It was a way of counteracting the dark forces of the news cycle, the daily death counts, and the sound of ambulances. The cultivation of awe was a remedy for me, and it became essential to my sense of wellbeing.’
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