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Empty Shells
2025
Screenprint, digital print and woodcut on felt
48 x 79.5 inches
Through printmaking, photography, and textiles, my work explores themes of domesticity, recollection, and memorialization. Mining my personal archive of images, I create quilt-like objects that encapsulate moments in time. My photographs are translated onto fabric using silkscreen, etching, and woodcut. With each printing process, the original photograph becomes fragmented and information is lost—underscoring the malleability and fallibility of memory.
Influenced by traditions of vernacular photography, I adorn my works with floral surface patterns, using the flower as an allegory of life and mortality. Printing the photographs onto fabric enhances the image’s ability to provoke remembrance through the presence of touch and the body. Each step of translating an image—layering, repeating, shifting to a larger scale— simultaneously erodes and commemorates the photograph’s previous stage, mirroring the process of remembering.
Ally DeRusso
@allyderusso_
Ally DeRusso is a printmaker, photographer, and fiber artist working in Upstate New York. She explores concepts of memorialization, recollection, and domesticity within her work. She graduated with a MFA at the University at Albany in 2025 and BFA in Studio Art from The College of Saint Rose. She has exhibited at venues such as Opalka Gallery, Collar Works, and CREATE Council on the Arts. In 2022, she was a recipient of an Individual Artist Regrant from Saratoga Arts.
Empty Shells
2025
Screenprint, digital print and woodcut on felt
48 x 79.5 inches
Through printmaking, photography, and textiles, my work explores themes of domesticity, recollection, and memorialization. Mining my personal archive of images, I create quilt-like objects that encapsulate moments in time. My photographs are translated onto fabric using silkscreen, etching, and woodcut. With each printing process, the original photograph becomes fragmented and information is lost—underscoring the malleability and fallibility of memory.
Influenced by traditions of vernacular photography, I adorn my works with floral surface patterns, using the flower as an allegory of life and mortality. Printing the photographs onto fabric enhances the image’s ability to provoke remembrance through the presence of touch and the body. Each step of translating an image—layering, repeating, shifting to a larger scale— simultaneously erodes and commemorates the photograph’s previous stage, mirroring the process of remembering.
Ally DeRusso
@allyderusso_
Ally DeRusso is a printmaker, photographer, and fiber artist working in Upstate New York. She explores concepts of memorialization, recollection, and domesticity within her work. She graduated with a MFA at the University at Albany in 2025 and BFA in Studio Art from The College of Saint Rose. She has exhibited at venues such as Opalka Gallery, Collar Works, and CREATE Council on the Arts. In 2022, she was a recipient of an Individual Artist Regrant from Saratoga Arts.