Rebecca Aloisio - OBJEKT - Matter in the Digital Age

Rebecca Aloisio (b. 1982) is a native of central NY. She received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Syracuse University. She works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, digital printing, and serigraphy. Rebecca has exhibited work nationally and internationally including the Agora Gallery in NYC and Leeds College of Art in the UK. Additionally, Rebecca has shown at several venues throughout the state of NY including the Memorial Art Gallery, the Ithaca Print Shop, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, and the Schweinfurth Art Center. Her work has been published in ACS Magazine based out of Chicago, and Studio Visit Magazine. Rebecca currently lives and works in the Finger Lakes Region and is a professor of art and design at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

"We are confronted daily with an insurmountable influx of visual information. It quietly shrouds our sense of truth. Buried under a veil of the sensational, the staged, the crude, and the hyperreal — one can not be certain if the image before them represents documented history or is a simulated probability. Navigating this paradigm is at the core of my practice.

This body of work explores the notions of truth and image. The images, manipulated throughout their creation, are no longer what they may have originally been. The objects depicted are not real, nor invented. They are suspended within illusionary space and subjectivity. I make images that speak beyond abstraction. I invite and challenge the viewer to question the authenticity of what they see."     - Rebecca Aloisio