Oliver Stern: Shoreline Confession
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Exhibition Abstract
Shoreline Confession is Oliver Stern's response to their experience growing up along the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. Over the summer, they walked the entire length of the river, from the outlet in the Philadelphia Naval Yard to its watershed in the Blue Mountains. This exhibition of prints processes experiences wandering the river and ways of understanding the complicated relationship between humans and nature. After years of ritual return to the river, this work engages persistent feelings of wonder, lostness, uncertainty, and solace in the undefined.
Exhibitor Biography
Oliver Stern (B.F.A. '24) explores their subjective experience with their surrounding environment, synthesizing memories, dreams, motion, and perception. They grapple with questions of what separates humans from nature, and what separates individuals from the external world. Their work represents a search for visual imprints of the subconscious, derived from emotional connections to spaces and observations of marginal landscapes. Oliver Stern is a senior B.F.A working in printmaking, drawing, and photography.
