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Julianne Swartz, Sound Vessel, 2015
Visiting Artist: 2019
Carly Mandel is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY. The artist grew up in St Louis, MO, and received her degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR in 2015. Her work highlights the experience of being augmented by medicine and synthetic capital objects, including sculptures that focus on capital representations of survival; commodities illustrating the inability to thrive independently, and the subversion of existence.
Visiting Artist: 2019
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin explores the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation echoing the history of colonialism.
Visiting Designer: 2019
Studio Swine (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers) is an art collective established in 2011 by Alexander Groves (UK) and Azusa Murakami (JP).
Visiting Artist: 2019
Dean Erdmann's work addresses the politics of place, class, and the body. Erdmann uses still and moving images from found and original footage, and often creates or uses archives as source material.
Studio Residency: 2019
Liesl Schubel was born in Ontario, Canada in 1990. She moved twice while she was young: first to British countryside, then American. Life in England brought Liesl close to her mother’s upbringing, as Canada had done for her father’s. The memories and landscape of these homes hold deep, sustaining importance in Liesl’s life and practice. As a queer woman, an artist, and a city dweller from rural roots, the complexity of home and of familial histories, relationships, and disputes remain a constant source of inspiration in her practice.
Studio Residency: 2019
Originally from Nebraska George Dielman started blowing glass as a teenager. Over a decade later, he now spends time fabricating glass and helping manage a glass production line based in Brooklyn while also pursuing his own art work. Using glass as his main medium George makes sculpture as well as functional wares.
Studio Residency: 2019
Systems based installations, survival, biological awareness and new media research intertwine in the artwork of Robert C. Beck.
Studio Residency: 2019
Sarah Max Beck’s body of work builds on symbiotic, closed-loop human nutrient systems; redefining waste as resource; and comments, often wryly and self-consciously, on the parallels of current elective human influence on the planet and a parasitic infection of a host.
Studio Residency: 2018
Anna Riley is a visual artist whose work emerges from a strong desire for material research.
Studio Residency: 2018
Wil Sideman received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Through glass and mixed media Sideman investigates ideas dealing with Identity, Location, Community and Time.
Studio Residency: 2018
Denzel Russell is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Alfred University and has also studied at the Stockhausen-Stiftung für Musik. His current work explores issues about identity and shelter.
Visiting Designer: 2018
Since 2010 Doug Johnston has focused on a process of coiling and stitching rope using industrial sewing machines, producing a wide range of functional and sculptural objects. He has built a formal vocabulary and studio practice that engages his varied interests in architecture, spatial and landscape formation, commerce, and fundamental human technologies.
Visiting Artist: 2018
Monica Cook received her BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. She further studied in the off-campus program of the Savannah College of Art and Design, in New York, the Studio Residency Program of the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.
Visiting Artist: 2018
Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. In her installation/performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life.
Visiting Artist: 2018
Katherine Hubbard uses photography, writing and performance to plumb photography’s continuing significance. Considering analog photography as a mimesis of the body, Hubbard asks how its procedures might be called upon to investigate social politics, history, and narrative.
Studio Residency: 2017
Spiranovich and Adam Holtzinger are the founders of KEEP hand blown glass lighting company.
Studio Residency: 2017
Michiko Sakano, was born and raised in the culturally rich city of Kanazawa on the West Coast of Japan. Her family has carried the tradition and business of Kimono making that dates back generations.
Visiting Artist: 2017
Inna Babaeva (b. 1961, Lvov, Ukraine) creates surreal sculptures that engage themes of mass production, uniformity, and function.
Studio Residency: 2017
Diana Drake is an artist working in many disciplines including sculpture, photography, video and painting. Her work is an exploration of intangible information in a physical form.
Visiting Artist: 2017
Martha Friedman (b. 1975, Detroit, MI) lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2003.
Visiting Artist: 2017
Carlos Reyes (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) is a New York-based artist. Reyes is interested in exploring the weight, volume, and structure of ephemera and movement.
Studio Residency: 2017
Celeste Wilson is an artist, writer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Wilson received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has also studied at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Pilchuck Glass School and the School of Visual Arts.
Visiting Artist: 2016
Matthew de Leon is a visual artist, drag queen, and graphic designer. He received his BFA from the University of Connecticut and his MFA in visual arts from Parsons the New School for Design.
Studio Residency: 2016
Doreen Garner is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Philadelphia, PA who holds a BFA in Glass from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and an MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design. Garner is a 2015-2016 Artist in Residence at Abrons Arts Center, NY and a 2016 Van Lier Fellow at Wavehill.
Studio Residency: 2016
Josefina Muñoz (RISD MFA’13) is a multidisciplinary artist from Santiago, Chile. Muñoz shows her work, lectures and develops independent research internationally.
Studio Residency: 2016
Brett Swenson is an artist working with mixed-media sculpture, video, and installation. His work attempts to position an anthropomorphic presence within natural processes and geologic location, spaces where man and material are intertwined. He is based in New York.
Visiting Artist: 2016
Since the late 1980s, Suzanne McClelland has exhibited her work extensively in the United States and abroad. Her practice includes both large-scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.
Residency: 2016
Jeanine Oleson is an interdisciplinary artist interested in materiality and language, which she forms into complex and humorous objects, images, films and performances.
Visiting Artist: 2015
Tauba Auerbach is a visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists' books, photography, and sculpture. Her work operates in the gap between Conceptual Art, abstraction and graphic art. She lives and works in New York.
Visiting Artist: 2015
"I make large-scale drawings and sculptures in and on paper: massive, fragile structures prone to inundation and erosion. These works build out uncomfortable, unstable edges, where fragile lines stand in for the immensity of experiences, people and emotions that overwhelm us."
Visiting Artist: 2015
Glenn Goldberg was born in the Bronx, studied at the New York Studio School and received a MFA from Queens College. He was named the 1996 Heilman Artist and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Visiting Artist: 2015
Julianne Swartz is a New York-based artist who works with sound, kinetics, and other materials to make sculpture, installations and photographs. Swartz uses lights, mirrors, magnets, periscopes, and the concepts of space and time in her body of work, which has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, New Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the 2004 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum. Her awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award (2008) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Art (2010).
Visiting Artist: Fall 2014
Brooklyn resident Sonya Blesofsky studied studio art at UC Santa Cruz before going on to receive her Masters of Fine Arts in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Sonya has shown her work around the country including a 2013 Residency at the Webb School in Knoxville, TN. With a focus on site specific work, she wants “ to capture remnants and traces, and memorialize the resourcefulness of the ever-changing city.”
Visiting Artist: Spring 2014
Shari Mendelson is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn and upstate New York. She has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, three New York Foundation for the Arts Grants, and is a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts. Currently, she is working on a series of sculptures that are inspired by ancient vessels and artifacts and created from found plastic bottles.
Visiting Artist: Fall 2013
Jessie Henson received her BFA from The Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington D.C. and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has exhibited her work in several galleries and instutitions including the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Milan Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy, and the Bronx Museum in New York City. Her past residencies have included the Vermont Studio Center and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Visiting Artist: Fall 2013
Virginia Poundstone, a New York City based artist with an MFA from Columbia University, is the recipient of the inaugural Agnes Varis Fellowship, which provides time, space, and technical support for emerging artists to explore working with glass. Poundstone was selected for the residency by a panel that included Director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program Sara Reisman; Art in General Curator Courtenay Finn; Art critic Lilly Wei; artist Deborah Czeresko; and glass scholar Susie Silbert.
