Artist
Biography
Sydnie Bjork grew up in the small town of Port Deposit, MD. She is currently in her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Hot Glass concentration. She works in a wide range of media, including sculpture, hot glass, and painting. Sydnie's work often explores the strong sense of color, forms, abstract variations, as well as figurative and portraiture elements. She wants color as the primary vehicle to express an emotional appeal and visual dynamics to the viewer. Her glasswork applications cover blowing as well as casting techniques. She also enjoys the functionality of glass and the beauty of creating something that can be used daily. After graduating, Sydnie wants to continue her path working with glass and painting and pursue her MFA.
Education
Salisbury University, Salisbury MD
BFA Hot Glass, and Advanced Painting
Artist Statement
My work emphasizes the expressive power of color and brushwork, along with the overall form. Sometimes the whole process begins with a spontaneous approach, and I don't always make specific plans for the procedure. The abstraction, color, form, and emotion are essential aspects of my works. I want the colors to play with feelings and the figurative and abstract forms to evoke a particular intellect. I also work in the three-dimensional form, creating sculptures from glass; I often find inspiration through my paintings, sketches, the human figure, and other formal emphases. In the recent work, I worked with cast glass to create my abstract forms; they direct a mood and freeness, fluidity, organic and beautiful like the world surrounding us. I hope these abstract sculptures of free forms allow viewers to make their own associations with the pieces about the world we live in.
My goal is to create a conversation between the glassworks and the paintings through organic forms and other aesthetic connections. They hold very different dynamics from two different dimensions, and how parted the mediums are, yet share certain fluid elements to live in the same environment.
Exhibitions & Festivals
2021- Colors Of My Aura , Solo exhibition, Guerrieri Student Union Art Space, Salisbury University
2021- "Serendipity" , Student Art Center Gallery Show, Salisbury University
2021- "Mind In Space", SAC Gallery Show, Salisbury University
2021- "The Blue Print", Salisbury University Downtown Gallery
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