Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Kakyoung Lee
Kakyoung Lee’s moving images are focused on the repetitive nature of personal daily life. The monotonous daily ritual is deconstructed and reconstructed in a fresh configuration in which nothing is the same and all things are in continuous flux. Lee combines hundreds of hand drawn images and prints to construct a moving image that reflects the sequence of activities in ordinary life and alludes to her search for her identity in the different geographic and cultural milieus through which she has passed in the travels between her two home countries, South Korea and the United States.
Kakyoung Lee (born 1975) works with moving images, prints, drawings, and installations. She received a BFA from Hong‐Ik University, Seoul, and a MFA from Purchase College, NY. Lee has exhibited widely in Korea and the United States including the Drawing Center; the Lower East Side Print Shop; the Queens Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Seoul Arts Center. Lee has participated in residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Brooklyn; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs; the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; the Lower East Side Printshop, New York; and the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, New York. Lee is a recipient of awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2010), the Korea Arts Foundation of America Award for Visual Arts (2010), and the AHL Foundation Award in New York (2009). Lee’s works are in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Library of Congress, Washington D.C., among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kakyoung Lee and Jean-Michel Ross
January 24, 2012
Kakyoung Lee, Jamaica Station - 1110, 2011, HD moving image, graphite on paper, B/W, and sound, 0:46 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Walk - 2010, 2010 , HD moving image, 198 prints, drypoint on Hahenmuhle copperplate, bright white, B/W, and sound, 1:00 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Grand Central - 0211, 2011, HD video, color, and sound, 3:27 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Days in New York - Horizontal, 2011 , 5 channel HD moving image, graphite on paper, B/W, and sound, 1:40 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Untitled - Grand Army Plaza.Brooklyn.NY.03.09., 2009, HD moving image, 156 Prints, B/W, and sound, 0:37 min. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from South Korea
Past Resident2011: Artadia
Michael Jones McKean
Michael Jones McKean’s work plays with the poetic potential in objects, materials and their arrangement while pointing toward the possibility of a larger narrative or allegorical structures. His sculptures skid across time, organizing disparate objects into unifying constellations that make appeals to the imagination while also seeking a re-articulation of our ancient involvement with forms, meaning, representation, and poetics.
A recipient of numerous awards, McKean was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and recently a Nancy Graves Foundation Award and an Artadia Foundation Award. McKean has participated in numerous residencies including The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, RI; The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, NE; Central Michigan University as the Stephen L. Barstow Fellow, MI; The Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and ThreeWalls in Chicago, IL. His work has been shown extensively nationally and internationally including the Quebec City Biennial, Grand Arts in Kansas City, MO, DiverseWorks in Houston, TX; The Bemis Center in Omaha, NE; Horton Gallery in New York City, Project Gentili in Italy and Berlin and ThreeWalls in Chicago, IL. McKean is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sculpture and Extended Media Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Michael Jones McKean, Certain Structures And Predetermined Sequences, 2008, Hand-knotted Persian wool rug circa 1968, cardboard, tar, wig, pine tree branches, popular wood, burlap, paint, wax, and glitter, 168 × 204 × 60 in. (426.72 × 518.16 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Michael Jones McKean, The Wake, 2008, Pine, 1000 pounds of clay, orchid flower arrangement, glass vase, formed sheet metal, paint, insulation foam, canvas, plaster, gold leaf, paper mache, and 1970’s camping back pack , 156 × 780 × 204 in. (396.24 × 1981.2 × 518.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Michael Jones McKean, The Possibility Of Men And The River Shallows, 2007 , Plywood, dimensional lumber, foam board, paint, 800 gallon acrylic water tank, 10 horsepower special effects fan, 1986 J1 Super Jumbo Promax boom box, fragments from the Teignmouth Electron (a boat involved in a failed attempt to circumnavigate the earth), brass, chainsaw cut/first aid kit, flashlight, night lights, florescent lighting, freezer, fog machine, custom spring, plexi-glass, house plants, grow lights, jet pump, 2 sump pumps, 60 gallon water tank, misting nozzles, water filters, pressure gauge, exhaust fan, industrial dehumidifier, carpet, one ton of clay, 5000 watt sound system, 12 volume reference library, VFD drive, 2 iPods, 1983 Ocean Pacific wind breaker, gold leafed papier-mâché conquistador helmet, sword, jug, spoons, banjo, and harpoon, dismantled papier-mâché river raft, papier-mâché helm, anchor, cemetery stones and barrels, hand made clothes and death/theater masks for Donald Crowhurst, Hernando DeSoto and Albert Ayler, Hall and Oates’ LP H20, Hall and Oates’ One on One (1982), and Albert Ayler’s Love Cry (1967). Courtesy of the artist
Michael Jones McKean, She Hangs Above To Spit And Sing, 2010, Wood, paint, gold leaf, aluminum, paper, conch shell, and magazine cutout, 64 × 83 × 22 in. (162.56 × 210.82 × 55.88 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Michael Jones McKean, Other Progress, We Hope This Will Work Too, To Be Clear To Others, 2010, Digital print from a larger installation which included: 50 acres of land purchased in Abitibi, Quebec, Canada, framed inkjet prints, upright piano, 5000 year old Campo del Cielo meteorite from Argentina, petrified wood from Arizona, United States, plastic spectral prism from China, 1970’s rug from Qatar, bags of dirt, cans of mussels, wood, paper mache, package of tissues, velvet, medicated ointment, Nivea skin lotion, and bottles of orange juice and water. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from United States
Past Resident2011: Institut Français
Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based artist collective, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to develop a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today. But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box – as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes – there is always the possibility of what she calls the “human strike.” Claire Fontaine uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.
Recent shows include Future Tense, El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F.; Economies, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; No Family Life, Air de Paris, Paris; Fighting Gravity, Regina Gallery, London and Moscow; P.I.G.S., MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain; Where Do We Migrate To?, Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, Baltimore; PhotoMonth, Bunker Stuzki Contemporary Art Museum, Krakow; Network, Mastermind, Casablanca; and Relationship Building, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna. Claire Fontaine is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art and Metro Pictures, New York; T293, Napoli and Rome; Galerie Neu, Berlin; and Galerie Chantal Crousel / Air de Paris, Paris. She is now preparing a catalogue with Buchhandlung Walther König.
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
