Art exhibition reflects on details, loss, and nature

Struble’s work incorporates sculpture and video into site-specific works that investigate the way visual artifacts, such as video or images, are tangible yet fragile representations of our memories. By layering together heavily labored drawings with videos that encapsulate fleeting transitional moments taken from everyday moments of observation, Struble’s work is an attempt to chronicle memories that might have existed.

In her artist statement, she said pixels, like dust, are accumulations of history that remain behind in insignificantly large numbers. This dust, either physically or within our memory, can be left untouched and eventually concealed or can be frequently disturbed by returned visitation. This repetition forms a wide-open familiar path while others become overgrown and impassable.

She chooses to obsess on the thoughtlessly forgotten or what will be destroyed without consideration. While structural destinations are often our focus, the path and the piles of details along with them are what preoccupy Struble’s work. By using natural elements such as snow, leaves, and fallen branches, as her subjects, Struble memorializes what will inevitably change, die, and disappear possibly for a season or for a lifetime.

Struble moves, applies, and manipulates these accumulations through graphite drawings, which incorporate video, performance, and objects. When change is inevitable, embracing the digital world’s ability to stop, slow down, and replay the subtle beauty found in nature might eventually be the only way to remember what has been lost.

An Assistant Professor of Art at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Struble earned a Master of Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kutztown University. Her studio practice explores drawing, printmaking, textiles, photography, video, and installation, often considering landscape, place, and material process.

Struble’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Portland, Fort Wayne, Gainesville, and Korea. Her residencies include Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Artist Residency, ChaShaMa North, Directangle Printmaking Residency, and Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture.