Video Featuring Sybil Archibald
Sybil’s story kickstarter video
Discover an artist’s resilience as she triumphs over the trauma of chronic illness using the redemptive power of art.
An Artist’s Reflections on Suffering and Redemption, Informed By Her Illness
From Religonunplugged.com
Excepted from the accompanying article:
Her pieces are imbued with religious imagery, though she doesn’t identify with any particular religion. She earned a degree in medieval spirituality after her parents said no to art school. Archibald’s art is inspired by Sufi poetry, Plotinus’ “The Six Enneads,” St. Bonaventure’s writings on St. Francis of Assisi and the illustrations of Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen, and blended with her own struggle-tempered spirituality.
Her body of work spans mediums. With paintings, sculpture, prints and novel creations featuring light and sound, she meditates on the multilayered nature of reality. Through all of it runs a theme of transformation — how suffering can be turned into something else; a creative flow that neither begins or ends with any one person. Her pieces make visible the subtle connectedness of everything, always in motion.
“That’s life,” she said. “Life is about creation and change.”
Artist Talk
Artist Talk for ASPEC, Eckerd College
Sybil discusses her work, philosophy, and life
Artist Talk
Artist Talk for the Oyster Point Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
Sybil’s talk about boat imagery in her work.
An artist’s Vlog about my work
@art_tugo’s thoughts on Sybil Archibald’s work. Check out her work on Instagram!
Sybil’s Work on HBO’s Mrs. Fletcher
Look for the arrows to find my work.
I’m glad I didn’t see this until after filming, that game of catch with the football was awfully close to my sculpture!
RESILIENT
An overview of the Pro Arts Show RESILIENT. This show presents work that addresses the unique visible and invisible challenges faced by many artists. From Frida Khalo, Chuck Close, and Vincent Van Gogh to Henri Matisse, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Judith Scott, art history has been constantly enriched by artists whose physical and psychological experience of the world required resilience. In fact, few individuals have led lives completely untouched by mobility impairments, sensory impairments, learning disabilities, neurodiversity or mental health challenges, chronic illnesses, addiction, or chronic pain. Yet, opportunities to center these experiences and the significant works of art that result from them remain scarce.
Artist Talk
Sybil Archibald explaining her Beethoven sculpture.
Video sponsored by the South Orange and Maplewood Studio Tour
Poem About Sybil
Poet Mariah Ayscue reads her poem, Her Name is is Resurrection, inspired by Sybil at Sacred Poetry and The Artist: Sacred Poetry Reading with Commentary by Sybil Archibald, Clerestory Fine Art, Montclair, NJ, February 2020
Monotype Demo
Monotype demo by Sybil using a Gelli Plate and Akua ink
Artist Round Table Discussion
Artist Roundtable from the exhibition Windows on Heaven, Contemporary Icons
Sybil Archibald, Christina Saj Farrell, Christine Hales, Suzanne Schleck
Discussion about the roll of spiritual art in the world today
Patreon
Introduction to Sybil’s Patreon. Patreon is a website where you can support me by choosing your favorite hat and get a more intimate look into my process, with video updates from my studio and more. I invite you to check it out by watching this intro video and visiting the site