Project Space Residents

June 30 – July 28, 2026

Carolyn Gennari

Artist’s Statement

My practice asks how the past is held—why some stories endure while others are lost. As an interdisciplinary artist, I move between video, sculpture, and installation, with recent explorations in electrophotography and copy machines. These tools of reproduction echo my work with archives, where memory itself is copied, altered, and set into circulation. Each iteration carries a trace of loss, yet also generates something distinct and unrepeatable. Copying, then, becomes both erasure and transformation. In this shifting space between what disappears and what emerges, I look for ways to unsettle the authority of a single record.

Bio

Carolyn Gennari is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, performance, installation, and experimental photographic practices including electrophotography and copy art. She has exhibited at the RISD Museum, the Morbid Anatomy Museum, EL Balcón in Oaxaca, and Hartnett Gallery, among others. Gennari’s residencies include MASS MoCA, Elsewhere Museum, A–Z West, the Museum für Fotokopie, and the Adirondack Climate Project. She has received support from the Getty Research Institute and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Gennari earned her MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design and an MA Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. She is based in Rochester, NY, where she is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Rochester. carolyngennari.com

Kitty Hubbard

Artist’s Statement

My work as an artist is always informed by my photographic training. I use scanners and copiers as cameras, digital and film cameras – the methods of image acquisition are as important and arbitrary, as the subject matter I explore. Dying flowers, fallen leaves, maps, documents found in archives or online, the ephemeral nature of the photo-based document is always at the center of my inquiry. I am interested in the intersections of the past and present, presence and absence, location, significant or forgotten. My work is informed by movement through and in spaces– dislocation, relocation – physically, emotionally, and site-specific.

Bio

Kitty Hubbard is a photo-based artist and educator in Rochester, New York. Hubbard’s work includes analog, historic, and digital imagemaking from print to book to installation. She was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Wroclaw, Poland for her project “Mutual Respect: Site Specific Intersections” (2016). Her work has been included in over 80 exhibitions in the US, Germany, and Poland, and works included in 5 photography textbooks. She received her BA from Guildford College and MFA from Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY Brockport. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at SUNY Brockport.

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something.