Iggy Beerbower, SUNY Potsdam Art Faculty Member, Featured at ‘Everything Then Is Now II – PLATFORM 0’ as Part of London Design Festival
SUNY Potsdam Associate Professor of Art Iggy Beerbower poses next to her featured photograph, “Into the Waves,” at a show during the London Design Festival.
SUNY Potsdam Associate Professor of Art Iggy Beerbower recently traveled to London to participate in an invitation-only exhibition as part of the London Design Festival. Her photograph, “Into the Waves,” was a featured work in the exhibition, “Everything Then Is Now II – PLATFORM 0,” shown in the Old Waiting Room in Peckham Rye Station.
Presented by SPIRA9 ART and the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), the show is a site-responsive exhibition centered on ideas of memory, movement, transformation, interruption, return, and the histories that become embedded in places.
“The exhibition’s ideas connect particularly well with my ‘Return to Green Sands’ project. Papakōlea Beach in Hawaiʻi has become deeply intertwined with my own memories, dreams, and sense of place. Returning to the landscape after many years is not simply a physical return. It is an opportunity to experience again a place that has remained deeply connected to my memories, dreams, and sense of place,” Beerbower said.
The chosen exhibition space, the Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station, was literally a place of waiting and passage—a space where people arrived, departed, waited, interrupted their journeys, and moved through. Rather than simply using the building as a gallery, the exhibition treated the history and physical character of the space as part of the work.
“My work explores the space between remembering and experiencing—the way a memory, image or dream from the past can become present again when I return to a place,” Beerbower said. “That makes ‘Into The Waves’ a particularly appropriate work for this exhibition. The photograph comes out of a project about returning to a landscape that has accumulated personal meaning over time, while the exhibition itself asks questions about how places remember, how people carry time with them, and how acts of return can become acts of transformation.”
Iggy Beerbower earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2002 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hartford in 1993. She is currently an associate professor of photography at SUNY Potsdam. She has also taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Anoka Ramsey Community College, Normandale Community College, and the Vermont Center for Photography. In addition to training with master photography printers, she has experience working as a custom printer for fine artists and as a darkroom technician for a variety of photographic labs. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries across the nation.
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