Artist Statement
My photographs and videos capture the spirit’s intrinsic need to create a sense of comfort, safety, community, and a place to call home. Whether shot in the West End warehouses of Atlanta, or the raw streets and starkly traditional homes of Cuba, by catching glimpses of how people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences search for a place of familiarity, my images illustrate how individuals evolve during this bonding process and how that bond profoundly impacts our psychological and emotional states.
Ivette Spradlin is a Cuban-American photographer, video artist, and educator. She received her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and her MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She focuses on photographing people and their surroundings concentrating on the emotional aspects of transition, adaptation, and balance in one's life. She is a Flight School Fellow, Artist Opportunity Grant awardee, and an Art on the Walls artist through the Pittsburgh Arts Council. She has been published in Next Level Magazine, screened her films nationally, including at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Transmodern Film Festival in Baltimore. Most recently, her Oval Portrait photographs were part of a Magenta Foundation pop-up, public art project in downtown Pittsburgh and she was part of the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial. In December, her portrait, as part of a portrait swap project curated by Stuart Pilkington, was featured on the BBC.
She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
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