Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Rosalind Sutkowski has held numerous positions in the Westphal College since 2000. She has been the Director of Administration & Finance since 2009. She serves on many committees throughout Drexel University and is the main liaison between the college and other central University offices including Human Resources, Comptroller and the Office of Research Administration. She is also an artist and photographer and has exhibited her work nationally. Her work is included in the Permanent Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as many private collections.

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
M.S. Design Research, 2019, Department of Architecture, Design & Urbanism
Thesis: From Optical to Tactile, Feeling Photography
Recipient of the Joseph M. Wilson Award for Architectural Research for essay Aesthetics in the Weimar Republic and the Bauhaus

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
M.S. Arts Administration, 2007, Department of Performing Arts
Thesis: Fine Art or Popular Culture? Defining the Painting Industry of the Dutch Golden Age

Philadelphia College of Art (Currently University of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA
B.F.A. Photography, 1984

Professional Development Certificates:
Society of Research Administrators International, Basics of Research Administration, 2016 Institute for Strategic Funding Development, Strategic Grant Development Writing Workshop, 2014

Sutkowski, R. A. (2019). From Optical to Tactile-Extruding Photography [ProQuest Dissertations Publishing]. https://search.proquest.com/docview/2282581307?pq-origsite=summon

https://rozphotoblog.wordpress.com/

Rosalind Sutkowski’s work explores how the medium of photography intersects with new technologies. She utilizes a process of extruding two-dimensional photographic imagery to three-dimensional bas relief, incorporates microprocessors with imagery and experiments with different materials and scale to bring aesthetic value, haptic sensory and sound to the photographic image. Her research includes sensory aesthetics, design thinking and studies on the blind.

Solo Exhibitions

• 6/2019, The Fabricated Forest, The Study, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1/2014, Simulated Fijnschilderij: Where Old Masters and Technology Meet, Rincliffe Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
• 8/2002, Recent Work, Gallery 1401, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 10/1998, Photosynthesis, Temple University, Tyler School Of Art, Elkins Park, Pa.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 10/2019-12/2019, Crafting Narratives, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA.
• 6/2017-8/2017, The Woodmere Annual: 76th Juried Exhibition, The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
• 10/2017-11/2017, Crafting Contexts, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
• 9/2014, Germantown Artists, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
• 6/2008-9/2008, Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2008, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA Recipient: 1st Prize Photography
• 6/2008-8/2008, Swarm, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
• 1/2008-3/2008, 68th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
• 2/2005-7/2005, The Silver Garden, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Curated by Katherine Ware, other artist included in the exhibit were Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Tom Baril, Karl Blosfeldt and others.
• 2/2002, Pennsylvania Photographers 2002, Abington Art Center, Abington, Pa.
• 9/00-9/03, Abstraction: The Power of Memory, a three-year traveling exhibition sponsored through Christians in the Visual Arts, Bethal College, Mishawaka, IN; Gallery W, Sacremento, CA; Urban Art Institute, Chattanooga, TN; Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA; Sweetwater Center For Arts, Sewickley, PA; Gordon College, Wenham, MA.
• 3/2000, The 74th Annual International Competition: Photography, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pa. 8/00 Long Beach Island Foundation of The Arts And Sciences, Loveladies, NJ Recipient: Art On Paper Magazine Award
• 1999, A Gathering of Women, A Healing Place, traveling exhibition 8/99 Paul Robeson Art Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 7/99 The Free Library Of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. 2/99 Abington Art Center, Abington, Pa.
• 9/1998, 8th Annual Photography Exhibition, The Maryland Federation For Art, Annapolis, MD. Recipient: 2nd Place Award for Special Processes.
• 4/1998, National Photography Competition, St. Mark’s Church In The Bowery, New York, NY.
• 10/1997, A Vision of Grace, Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA.
• 10/1997, Spectra ‘97, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT.
• 7/1997, Central Pennsylvania Festival for the Arts: Images ‘97, Hub Galleries, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa.
• 5/1997, Our Visions, Women in Art, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, Mi.

Collections

• The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Permanent collection
• Pepsi Cola Corporation
• Private Collections

Artist Statement:

This work explores how the medium of photography intersects with new technologies to create a fabricated forest environment that includes the trees, the canopy and the forest floor. It is meant to document and reproduce the environment as it is now and that might not exist in the near future.

By utilizing a process of extruding two-dimensional photographic imagery to three-dimensional bas relief, incorporating microprocessors with imagery and experimenting with different materials and scale to bring aesthetic value, haptic sensory and sound to the photographic image. The work comes together as a simulated environment that would not just hang on the wall but encroach the floor and hang from the ceiling.

It includes a series of pieces called “Simulated Tree Bark”. These pieces were created as wooden photographs. Traditional photographic images are digitally converted to 3D and by using a CNC router or laser cutter as a printer, the once flat photographic images become tactile bas-reliefs on wood. The idea is to take a piece of lumber which is made from a tree that was cut down and then re-processing the lumber so it reverts back to the original form of the tree.

 
"Leaf" Wooden Photograph, 10" X 10", 2018

 
“Simulated Bark #3”, Wooden Photograph, 14" X 11", 2018

 
“Simulated Bark #10”, Wooden Photograph, 16" x 10", 2018

 
“Slab”, Wooden Photograph, 42" x 20"

 
"Bark", Inkjet Prints (torn), 19" x 19", 2019

 
"Fungi Neckpiece" Silicon, fabric, gold pigment

  
"Canopy", Laser cut Inkjet Prints, Ceiling Installation, 2019

 
"Forest Floor", Printed Carpet with sound, 48" x 60", 2019

 
Gallery installation, 2019