Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Arts Council of Ireland
Louise Manifold
Captivated by power of stories and the construction of myth, Louise Manifold’s inspiration draws its origins from overlooked and unbelievable subject matter- ranging from rare delusional illnesses, obscure phenomena and manifestations of medieval melancholy as a means in which to comment upon human awareness in contemporary culture. Her engagement with the esoteric centers upon what she sees as their potential to generate legend, and also addresses the capacity of visual arts to create new mythology for the viewer to consume. Working primarily in lens-based media, sculpture and text, Manifold wishes to venerate the surreal and the incredible, enabling it to be carried and changed by those who encounter it.
Louise Manifold (born in Galway, Ireland) graduated from the Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, England. She is an active member of Artspace Studio Collective Galway and has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland. Internationally, she participated in numerous group exhibitions in China, Canada, France, the United States and the UK. Manifold has been the recipient of several awards including The Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award 2010, Galway City Council Artist in Residence Award, Galway City Council individual artist’s bursary, and Culture Ireland funding. In 2009, she was one of the four artists shortlisted for the Allied Irish Bank Art prize.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Xenia Fink and Louise Manifold
March 22, 2011
Louise Manifold, A 49 Year Old Woman, 2009, Photograph, 55 × 80 in. (139.7 × 203.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Louise Manifold, Natural Cabinet Lizard, 2010, Photograph, 35 × 50 in. (88.9 × 127 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Louise Manifold, Bottled Bird (Wunderkammer Series), 2010, Photograph, 35 × 50 in. (88.9 × 127 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Louise Manifold, Book Mark Number 1, 2010, Sculpture, 5 × 6 in. (12.7 × 15.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Louise Manifold, The Tiger Groom, 2010, Digital video installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
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