BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gadzook Labs//Gadzook University · Princeton University//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:acp52929@princeton.campustown DTSTAMP:20261008T234520Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261213 SUMMARY:PIECES OF WORK LOCATION:Taplin Gallery – Arts Council of Princeton\, Princeton DESCRIPTION:PIECES OF WORK\nBy Artists Carol Schepps & Trudy Borenstein-Su giura\n\nOn View: November 14 – December 12\, 2026\nOpening Reception: Sa turday\, November 14\, 3-5pm\n\n \n\nExhibition Statement:\n\nWe have spe nt more than thirty years finishing each other’s sentences\, and eventual ly\, we started doing the same with our art. Our creative practices began in the demanding worlds of precision craft—one of us meticulously shapin g wire\, metal\, and stone in jewelry design\, and the other engineering form\, movement\, and texture through textiles and fashion. That foundati onal obsession with strict craftsmanship\, micro-details\, and structural integrity still rules everything we make.\n\nHowever\, somewhere along t he line\, the boundaries of traditional craft began to fray. We morphed i nto visual arts\, trading functional parameters for purely expressive fre edom. Today\, our artwork\, although dissimilar\, 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 serio usly\, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Our deep friendship ens ures that a thread of humor\, playfulness\, and joy runs through every co mplex layer\, proving that meticulous discipline and a good laugh can liv e in the exact same frame.\n\nAbout the Artists:\n\nTrudy Borenstein-Sugi ura\n\nBio\nTrudy Borenstein-Sugiura is an award winning designer of fine jewelry and tabletop objects whose work is included in the Permanent Col lection of the Smithsonian Institution at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.\n\nTr udy has returned to the creation of fine art through paper collage.  Usin g documents and personal papers for storytelling\, she constructs with a goldsmith’s meticulous obsession for detail. Since 2016\, her collages ha ve been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally.  She was awar ded a Mid-Atlantic States and NJ Council for the Arts Individual Artist A ward and a selected Artist in Residency at Foundation House in Greenwich\ , CT.\n\nArtist Statement\nI explore the intricate layers of time\, memor y\, cultural identity\, ecology\, and politics through collage\, using do cuments\, texts\, maps and an array of personal papers.  The materials fu nction as both image and archive\, carrying their own histories into new configurations. While forming the image\, these materials invite viewers to look beneath the surface\, where words\, dates\, and events recede int o shadow and reassemble into fuller and deeper narratives. \n\nMy practic e is rooted in time and memory. It began as a way to honor my late father \, a mathematician\, by forming his portrait from his personal papers—ass embling a life through its traces.  Even as underlying narratives were re vealed\, his image was truly formed from the sum of all of his parts and his life story was literally written all over his face. Creating many ite rations\, I further examined how inherited and found materials could reve al personal and collective histories which shape identity.\n\nI select ma terials for their thematic and emotional resonance\, then cut\, arrange\, and layer them in a meditative act of construction. My skillset as a gol dsmith informs my technique.  Entirely analog\, my work relies on precisi on cutting and pasting\, using hand drawn ‘maps’ to lay out the meticulou s placement of various papers to tell the story.\n\nMy subjects range fro m contemporary and ancestral portraits\, local\, extinct\, and living bir ds (often situated within conflict zones)\, historical chronicles and cla ssic literature—or simply whatever feels most in need of close introspect ion.\n\nAs connections emerge through both intention and chance\, each co llage becomes its own historical document. In an era where paper is disap pearing\, these works act as time travelers—exploring the past and repurp osing them for future reflection.\n\nArtist Website\nArtist Instagram\n\n Carol Schepps\n\nBio\nCarol Sara Schepps is a mixed media artist based in Princeton Junction\, New Jersey. A graduate of Pratt Institute with degr ees in Communication Design and Fashion Design\, her diverse creative car eer spans fashion\, commercial product design\, textile arts\, and fine a rt.\n\nCarol’s professional journey began in children’s wear design and m anufacturing\, and evolved into custom clothing design for women. She lat er transitioned into creating modern Art Quilts\, which were represented and sold in high-craft galleries across the United States. Expanding into commercial home products\, Carol also designed successful collections of rugs\, pillows\, and throws for Crate and Barrel.\n\nIn addition to her studio practice\, Carol is a dedicated community arts advocate and a co-f ounder of the West Windsor Arts Council. During the pandemic\, her practi ce shifted into bag-making and creating graphic artwork utilizing paint\, ink\, collage and sewn paper—a transition that laid the groundwork for h er current focus of abstract mixed-media art.\n\nArtist Statement\nWorkin g in mixed media\, I layer watercolor and inks often along with collage e lements including altered National Geographic this process of layering\, abstract shapes emerge that instinctively resemble a gallery of character s with a variety of personalities.\n\nI intentionally leave every piece u ntitled. The artwork as viewed\, is a shape-shifting entity that evolves based on the viewer’s unique personal experience and emotion.\n\nMore inf o: https://artscouncilofprinceton.org/event/pieces-of-work/ URL:https://princetonu.gadzooklabs.com/e/acp52929 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR