Member MicroExhibition: traversingwithonions | or in pursuit of the butter chair and other encounters…

What is a book? Is narrative contingent on physical structure? How does one enter, peruse, or give pause? traversingwithonions | or in pursuit of the butter chair and other encounters… was based on the analogy of the Japanese choreographer Poppo Shiraishi. “Your back is your front,” a meditation, a harkening that questions orientation – one’s interior, one’s exterior. The suspended books can be experienced from the fore edge, opened or “traversed” in multiple ways. The layers form an improvisatory landscape. The eggs vulnerable, balance elusive – an absurd juxtaposition, that can ultimately be experienced viscerally in non-sequential form.

Sondra Graff came to design circuitously through the world of dance with an unanticipated stop at Parsons School of Design. She subsequently received her MFA in graphic design from VCFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work in performance, pedagogy and design have melded into years of formative and collaborative projects. Sondra’s work explores the juxtaposition of the absurd combined with chance, the distressed and the intangible. Her scope moves from micro, creating forms with found objects and the influence of time, to macro, developing larger-scale interdisciplinary endeavors. traversingwithonions, a site-specific piece with 750 lbs of red onions embodies her focus. Sondra is also an Adjunct Associate Professor teaching at FIT in New York City. When she is not designing or teaching, she can be found in the Gunks, at times, dangling from a cliff.

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Ioulia Akhmadeeva (she/her), Morelia, Michoacan State, Mexico
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Rosaire Appel (she/her), New York, NY
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Tomie Arai (she/her), New York, NY
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Eileen Arnow-Levine (she/her), Levittown, NY
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Madeleine Hope Arthurs (she/her), New York, NY
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Sarah Beilenson (she/her), Brooklyn, NY
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Sheila Benedis (she/her), Sleepy Hallow, NY
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Tia Blassingame (she/her), New Haven, CT & Claremont, CA
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Joan Blessing (she/her), New York, NY
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Stephanie Brody-Lederman (she/her) New York, NY
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Kelly Bryant (she/her) Auburn, AL
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Elizabeth Castaldo (she/her), Peekskill, NY
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Uriel Cidor (he/him), Israel
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Deborah Phillips Chodoff (she/her), Katonah, NY
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Matt Collins (he/him), New York, NY
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Béatrice Coron (she/her), New York, NY
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Margaret Craig (she/her), San Antonio, TX
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Myra Darlow (she/her), Troy, NY
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Jamie Dessen (she/her), New York, NY & Allentown, PA
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Evelyn Eller (she/her), New York, NY
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Dale Emmart (she/her), New York, NY and Honesdale, PA
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Jesseca Ferguson (she/her) Boston, MA
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Susan Kapucinski Gaylord (she/her) Newburyport, MA
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Sondra Graff (she/her) New York, NY
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Linda Hanauer (she/her), New York City, NY
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Barbara Henry (she/her), Pottstown, PA
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Valerie Hird (she/her), Burlington, VT
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Ruth Ann Howden she/her), Kaunakakai, HI
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Babette Katz (she/her), Mamaroneck, NY
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Lita Kelmenson (she/her), Jericho, NY
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Kara Lack (she/her), Staatsburg, NY
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Warren Lehrer (he/him), Queens, NY
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Celine Lombardi (she/her), Brooklyn, NY
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Scott McCarney (he/him), Rochester, NY
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Claire B. Marcus (she/her), Bethlehem, PA
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Sarah Nicholls (she/her), Brooklyn, NY
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Iviva Olenick (she/her), Brooklyn, NY
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Rosemary Rae (she/her) San Diego, CA
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Maggie Reilly (she/her) New York, NY
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Rachele Riviere (she/her) Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
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Marcy Robinson (she/her), Nutley, NJ
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Jennifer Vignone (she/her), Middle Village, NY
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Dennis Yuen (he/him), Woodside, NY
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Elizabeth Castaldo (she/her), Peekskill, NY
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