Sc Durkin

I am a multi-media artist. I make images and experience. My images and performances celebrate the mundane and exalt the everyday to history and icon. I work to achieve a balance between composition, materials and meaning.

In my performance pieces, I often make rules and parameters that limit my behaviour - this makes opportunity for artistic exchange.

Reoccurring themes create a tempo and pattern throughout my work. Nostalgia, education and learning, family, history, storytelling and diary keeping are concepts that have contributed to my artmaking.

Texture and pattern are essential elements in my picture making. It is a visual mixture that dances the viewer's eye across and around the surface.

I embrace the ideal of revealing the materials and craft in my work. Breadth and variety of topics and media with a heavy conceptual bent directs my personal practice.

Painting, Performance, Printmaking, Collage, Sculpture, Photography, Film and Video

Master of Fine Art - Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University - 1999

Bachelor of Fine Art - College of Visual and Performing Art at Syracuse University - 1997

Juris Doctorate - Seton Hall University School of Law - 2004

'circuit' performance platform at De Montfort University, Leicester, England
Taboo Gallery Public Exhibitions – London, England
Seven Years of Living Art with Linda Montano - International
Genealogy – Irish Cultural Centre, London
Future of the Present Grant Award in association with Franklin Furnace
Will Work for Food – Lime Light Gallery, New York City
Thick Skinned – Public Performance, Newark, New Jersey
D.U.M.B.O. Festival of Art – Dumbo, Brooklyn, NYC
Dada Country Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
This Exhibition Will Not Change the Way You Look At Art – Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
La Bataille s est Engage – Lowe Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York