BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gadzook Labs//Gadzook University · Princeton University//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:acp52926@princeton.campustown DTSTAMP:20261009T034709Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261115 SUMMARY:Gallery opening: PIECES OF WORK LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton DESCRIPTION:Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM\n\nPIECES OF WORK\nBy Artists Carol Sc hepps & Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura\n\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\n\n \n\nExhibitio n Statement:\n\nWe have spent more than thirty years finishing each other ’s sentences\, and eventually\, we started doing the same with our art. O ur creative practices began in the demanding worlds of precision craft—on e of us meticulously shaping wire\, metal\, and stone in jewelry design\, and the other engineering form\, movement\, and texture through textiles and fashion. That foundational obsession with strict craftsmanship\, mic ro-details\, and structural integrity still rules everything we make.\n\n However\, somewhere along the line\, the boundaries of traditional craft began to fray. We morphed into visual arts\, trading functional parameter s for purely expressive freedom. Today\, our artwork\, although dissimila r\, brings the obsessive\, tactile discipline of Trudy’s jeweler’s bench and Carol’s fashion studio onto the canvas and into three dimensions. We take our construction seriously\, but we don’t take ourselves too serious ly. Our deep friendship ensures that a thread of humor\, playfulness\, an d joy runs through every complex layer\, proving that meticulous discipli ne and a good laugh can live in the exact same frame.\n\nAbout the Artist s:\n\nTrudy Borenstein-Sugiura\n\nBio\nTrudy Borenstein-Sugiura is an awa rd winning designer of fine jewelry and tabletop objects whose work is in cluded in the Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian Institution at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.\n\nTrudy has returned to the creation of fine art t hrough paper collage.  Using documents and personal papers for storytelli ng\, she constructs with a goldsmith’s meticulous obsession for detail. S ince 2016\, her collages have been exhibited in galleries and museums int ernationally.  She was awarded a Mid-Atlantic States and NJ Council for t he Arts Individual Artist Award and a selected Artist in Residency at Fou ndation House in Greenwich\, CT.\n\nArtist Statement\nI explore the intri cate layers of time\, memory\, cultural identity\, ecology\, and politics through collage\, using documents\, texts\, maps and an array of persona l papers.  The materials function as both image and archive\, carrying th eir own histories into new configurations. While forming the image\, thes e materials invite viewers to look beneath the surface\, where words\, da tes\, and events recede into shadow and reassemble into fuller and deeper narratives. \n\nMy practice is rooted in time and memory. It began as a way to honor my late father\, a mathematician\, by forming his portrait f rom his personal papers—assembling a life through its traces.  Even as un derlying narratives were revealed\, his image was truly formed from the s um of all of his parts and his life story was literally written all over his face. Creating many iterations\, I further examined how inherited and found materials could reveal personal and collective histories which sha pe identity.\n\nI select materials for their thematic and emotional reson ance\, then cut\, arrange\, and layer them in a meditative act of constru ction. My skillset as a goldsmith informs my technique.  Entirely analog\ , my work relies on precision cutting and pasting\, using hand drawn ‘map s’ to lay out the meticulous placement of various papers to tell the stor y.\n\nMy subjects range from contemporary and ancestral portraits\, local \, extinct\, and living birds (often situated within conflict zones)\, hi storical chronicles and classic literature—or simply whatever feels most in need of close introspection.\n\nAs connections emerge through both int ention and chance\, each collage becomes its own historical document. In an era where paper is disappearing\, these works act as time travelers—ex ploring the past and repurposing them for future reflection.\n\nArtist We bsite\nArtist Instagram\n\nCarol Schepps\n\nBio\nCarol Sara Schepps is a mixed media artist based in Princeton Junction\, New Jersey. A graduate o f Pratt Institute with degrees in Communication Design and Fashion Design \, her diverse creative career spans fashion\, commercial product design\ , textile arts\, and fine art.\n\nCarol’s professional journey began in c hildren’s wear design and manufacturing\, and evolved into custom clothin g design for women. She later transitioned into creating modern Art Quilt s\, which were represented and sold in high-craft galleries across the Un ited States. Expanding into commercial home products\, Carol also designe d successful collections of rugs\, pillows\, and throws for Crate and Bar rel.\n\nIn addition to her studio practice\, Carol is a dedicated communi ty arts advocate and a co-founder of the West Windsor Arts Council. Durin g the pandemic\, her practice shifted into bag-making and creating graphi c artwork utilizing paint\, ink\, collage and sewn paper—a transition tha t laid the groundwork for her current focus of abstract mixed-media art.\ n\nArtist Statement\nWorking in mixed media\, I layer watercolor and inks often along with collage elements including altered National Geographic this process of layering\, abstract shapes emerge that instinctively rese mble a gallery of characters with a variety of personalities.\n\nI intent ionally leave every piece untitled. The artwork as viewed\, is a shape-sh ifting entity that evolves based on the viewer’s unique personal experien ce and emotion.\n\nMore info: https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/ga llery-opening-pieces-of-work/ URL:https://princetonu.gadzooklabs.com/e/acp52926 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR