Visiting Artists

Julianne Swartz, Sound Vessel, 2015

Visiting Artist

Tomoko Abe

Studio Residency: 2020

Tomoko Abe lived in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, before settling in the greater New York area. Abe obtained BA with first class honor in painting from the Edinburgh College of Art, during which she received an ERASMUS scholarship to study at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Salamanca, Spain. She has been working with translucent materials such as porcelain, paper and glass with her interest in creating artworks that are suggestive of objects that lie behind what can be visibly observed.

Visiting Artist

Deborah Czeresko

Studio Residency: 2020

Deborah Czeresko is an artist living and working in New York City. Czeresko’s art invokes a range of approaches and techniques, including performance and collaboration.

Visiting Artist

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

Studio Residency: 2020

Sara Greenberger Rafferty has exhibited widely since 2001, including solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College, Massachusetts; Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas; and a commissioned sculpture for the Public Art Fund. Gloves Off, the first traveling survey of her work with accompanying fully illustrated catalogue published by SUNY Press, completed a three-venue tour at the end of 2017.

Visiting Artist

Pamela Sabroso & Alison Siegel

Studio Residency: 2020

Pamela and Alison work across studios to create glass forms, sculptures and
installations. Their multiple, labor intensive methods allow many opportunities to affect the outcome of the finished work from several angles and two distinct perspectives, giving the final work an effervescent, animated quality.

Visiting Artist, Past

Carly Mandel

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, Past

Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin

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 Artist, Current

Studio Swine

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, Past

Dean Erdmann

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.

Visiting Artist, Past

Liesl Schubel

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.

Visiting Artist, Past

George Dielman

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.

Visiting Artist

Robert C. Beck

Studio Residency: 2019

Systems based installations, survival, biological awareness and new media research intertwine in the artwork of Robert C. Beck.

Visiting Artist

Sarah Max 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.

Visiting Artist

Anna Riley

Studio Residency: 2018

Anna Riley is a visual artist whose work emerges from a strong desire for material research.

Visiting Artist

Wil Sideman

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.

Visiting Artist

Denzel Russell

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 Artist

Doug Johnston

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

Monica Cook

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, Current

Aki Sasamoto

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, Current

Katherine Hubbard

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.

Visiting Artist

Keep

Studio Residency: 2017

Spiranovich and Adam Holtzinger are the founders of KEEP hand blown glass lighting company.

Visiting Artist

Michiko Sakano

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

Inna Babaeva

Visiting Artist: 2017

Inna Babaeva (b. 1961, Lvov, Ukraine) creates surreal sculptures that engage themes of mass production, uniformity, and function.

Visiting Artist

Diana Drake

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

Martha Friedman

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

Carlos Reyes

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.

Visiting Artist

Celeste Wilson

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

Matthew de Leon

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.

Visiting Artist

Doreen Garner

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.

Visiting Artist

Josefina Muñoz

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.

Visiting Artist

Brett Swenson

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

Suzanne McClelland

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.

Visiting Artist

Jeanine Oleson

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

Tauba Auerbach

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

Jarrod Beck

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

Glenn Goldberg

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

Julianne Swartz

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

Sonya Blesofsky

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

Shari Mendelson

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

Jessie Henson

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

Virginia Poundstone

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.

Throughout the year UrbanGlass hosts emerging artists wishing to work with glass in our studios. Spanning several weeks or several months, these residencies provide artists with the time, resources, and support to explore new ways that glass as a creative medium can be incorporated into their practice.

Visiting Artist opportunities at UrbanGlass are generously supported by the Agnes Varis Trust, the Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Robert Lehman Foundation, the Windgate Charitable Foundation, and many individual donors.