Sheilah Wilson ReStack explained

Sheilah Wilson ReStack
Birth Date:1975
Birth Place:Caribou River, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Movement:Contemporary
Conceptual
Education:BFA, NSCAD University
MFA, Goldsmiths College
BA, Mount Allison University
Known For:Photographer, installation artist, videographer and sculptor.

Sheilah Wilson ReStack (born 1975 Caribou River, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian artist working in photography, sculpture, video and installation. ReStack also works collaboratively with her wife Dani (Leventhal) ReStack.[1] [2]

ReStack is an American photographer whose work has been recognized with numerous grants and awards, including the Howard Foundation Fellowship[3] in Photography in 2017. They have received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts,[4] and have been recognized by Judy Flower's Through the Flower Foundation[5] and the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence in Photography.[6]

ReStack's work has been exhibited in solo shows at Interface Gallery ("Hold Hold Spill"),[7] Blue Building Gallery ("Control is Cassandra"),[8] and the Camden Center for the Arts ("Cuts in the Day," a collaboration with Dani ReStack).[9] These exhibitions have been reviewed positively in a variety of publications, including Artforum[10] and Bomb Magazine.[11]

ReStack and Dani ReStack collaborated on a trilogy of films – "Strangely Ordinary This Devotion," "Come Coyote," and "Future From Inside"—that are collectively titled "Feral Domestic." The films were screened at various film festivals and art institutions and received positive critical attention. In an essay for the Camden Arts Center, Maggie Nelson praised the films for their exploration of queer families and their attention to the everyday details of domestic life. A visual text accompanying the trilogy, also titled "Feral Domestic,"[12] was commissioned by the Visual Studies Workshop[13] in Rochester, NY and published in the fall of 2022.

Biography

ReStack was born in 1975 in Caribou River, Nova Scotia.[14] She graduated from Mount Allison University with a BA in English/French and NSCAD University with her BFA. ReStack then went on to complete her MFA at Goldsmiths College.[15] ReStack teaches, and is Chair of Studio Art at Denison University.[16] In 2017 Dani and Sheilah ReStack's film Strangely Ordinary This Devotion was included in the Whitney Biennial.

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions (in collaboration with Dani ReStack)

Performance

Filmography (in collaboration with Dani ReStack)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sandals. Leah. 24 December 2018. A Year in Motherhood. 2021-07-04. Canadian Art. en-US.
  2. Web site: Tomlin. Dave. "Shameless Light" to shine at the Lyric in Zozo. 2021-07-04. Ruidoso News. en-US.
  3. Web site: The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation. 2023-03-19 . Brown . en-US.
  4. Web site: Bringing the arts to life. 2023-03-19 . Canadacouncil . en-US.
  5. Web site: 16 July 2020. About the Through the Flower. 2023-03-19 . ThroughTheFlower . en-US.
  6. Web site: Strengthening investment and engagement in the arts FOR ARTISTS. 2023-03-19 . Oac . en-US.
  7. Web site: Meksin Interview — interface gallery. Meksin. Leeza.
  8. Web site: Control is Cassandra.
  9. Web site: Dani and Sheilah ReStack.
  10. Foumberg . Jason . Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson . Artforum . NewYorkCity. 2023-03-19.
  11. Meksin . Leeza . Feral Domesticity: Dani and Sheilah ReStack Interviewed . Bomb . NewYorkCity. 2023-03-19.
  12. Web site: Feral Domestic: Video Trilogy by Dani and Sheilah ReStack . wpr . 6 September 2022 . 19 March 2023 . en.
  13. Web site: Visual Studies Workshop. VSW. 19 March 2023 . en.
  14. Web site: Dani Leventhal ReStack + Sheilah Wilson ReStack – . Art Week . 27 September 2021 . en . 14 August 2018.
  15. Web site: Sheilah ReStack – Artist . MacDowell . 27 September 2021 . en.
  16. News: Sheilah ReStack. 12 September 2009. Denison University. 2009-09-12. en.
  17. Web site: Control is Cassandra.
  18. Web site: Meksin Interview — interface gallery. Meksin. Leeza.
  19. Web site: Sheilah ReStack at Antioch College.
  20. Web site: In the Presence of Presence: the Embodied Souvenir in Sheilah Wilson's Build Your Altar To This Moment. Collinson. Olivia. Enjoy.
  21. Web site: Dani and Sheilah ReStack.
  22. News: Sheilah and Dani ReStack at Gaa Gallery.
  23. News: Sheilah and Dani ReStack at Iceberg Projects.
  24. Web site: Foumberg. Jason. 2017. Iceberg Projects. 2021-07-04. www.artforum.com. en-US.
  25. 26 May 2014. The Invisible Inside the Visible. 2021-11-17. Journal for Artistic Research. 5. en-US. Wilson. Sheilah.
  26. Web site: Meksin . Elizaveta. 28 December 2012. The Invisible Inside the Visible: A Conversation with Sheilah Wilson. 2021-11-17. Temporary Art Review. en-US.
  27. Web site: Q&AS WITH KIM SALAC, MACKIE MALLISON, THUY-HAN NGUYEN-CHI, COURTNEY STEPHENS, SHEILAH RESTACK, AND ANGELO MADSEN MINAX ON OCT. 8 & 9.
  28. Web site: Future From Inside by Dani and Sheilah ReStack. 2021-07-04. Visual Studies Workshop. en.
  29. Web site: Interview: Dani and Sheilah ReStack. filmcommen. 21 June 2022 . en.
  30. Web site: Familiar Yet Strange: Shorts From This Year's Projections Showcase at the NY Film Fest. Bittencourt. Ela. Hyperallergic. 4 October 2019.
  31. Web site: Come Coyote at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020.
  32. Web site: Go Ask Joan. 2021-07-04. FilmFreeway. en.
  33. Web site: Public Intimacies, Images Festival, Super 8 Hotel, Toronto, April 14–16, 2018. Wang. Theresa. Simon Fraser University.
  34. Web site: Strangely Ordinary this Devotion (Dani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson, USA) — Wavelengths. Sicinski. Michael. Cinema Scope 72 (Fall 2017). 4 September 2017.
  35. Web site: Dani (Leventhal) ReStack and Sheilah Wilson at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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