EXHIBITION: Sydney Vize – Feelings are Involved
EXHIBITION DATES: October 23 – December 1, 2025
ARTIST TALK: Monday, November 3,11:30 a.m.
ADDRESS: 25 East Van Buren Street, Joliet,IL 60432
The USF Art Gallery is proud to present Feelings are Involved, a solo exhibition by Sydney Vize. Working across sculpture, fiber, and book arts, Vize transforms the subtle moments of everyday life into sites of reflection and inquiry. Her work focuses on the tension between self-awareness and external observation, those fleeting instants when we feel watched, judged, or caught within our own expectations. By magnifying the small and seemingly mundane, Vize reveals how ordinary gestures and encounters can expose larger truths about social behavior, perception, and emotional experience.
Each piece in Feelings are Involved invites viewers to slow down and recognize the quiet intensity embedded in familiar situations. Through thoughtful material choices and precise forms, Vize examines how scrutiny, whether self-imposed or imagined through the gaze of others-shapes our sense of identity and belonging. In Feelings are involved Vize balances emotional sensitivity with conceptual rigor, turning moments of introspect tion into powerful meditations on the everyday.
For additional information on the studio practice of Sydney Vize, please check out:
Sydney Vize – https://www.sydneyvize.com/
Sydney Vize on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sfv___/?hl=en
To contact the USF Art Gallery, please contact Chester Alamo-Costello, Professor of Art & Design at: mcostello@stfrancis.edu
