Past Residents
Past Resident2011: FONCA - Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Eunice Adorno Martínez
Eunice Adorno Martinez’s photographic documentary work focuses on the dynamics of migration, music, identity, youth, and traditions. She seeks conceptual and discursive routes for a visual poetry on migration and explores concepts such as trajectory and reunion. Her current project focuses on Mexican migration in neighborhoods of New York City, considering identity, tradition and festivities of Mexican youth. Martinez is exploring ways in which young people meet and interact with other generations, social groups and cultural norms.
Eunice Adorno Martinez lives and works in Mexico City and her photography has appeared in a wide range of publications, including national magazines and photography journals. She is the recipient of the 2010 Jovenes Creadores Grant Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes for her series Fraum Blam, and has an upcoming publishing project with Fabrica editorial de España.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Eunice Adorno Martínez.
Past Resident2011: Wallace Arts Trust
Sam Mitchell
Borrowing the visual style of kids’ comics and cartoons, as well as from the underworld of tattoos, Sam Mitchell’s provocative paintings often have playful or dark subject matter. With a knack for pitching uncanny combinations and elements together, Mitchell’s works are delicately and deftly painted but have a seething undercurrent that takes you by surprise. Mitchell paints in reverse on Perspex; and like the cell of a cartoon or a tattoo on the body, the images cut down to just the essential storytelling elements. The world depicted in Mitchell’s work has a childlike reality—the salient parts are deeply observed and rendered in meticulous, loving detail.
Sam Mitchell was born in Colorado Springs and currently lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Mitchell has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand, and is represented by Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland.
Sam Mitchell, Flora, 2011, Watercolor on digital print , 233/8 × 161/2 in. (59.37 × 41.91 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Sam Mitchell, Bas Bleu (A Literary Woman), 2011, Acrylic on perspex, 393/8 × 393/8 in. (100.01 × 100.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Sam Mitchell, Glam, 2011, Acrylic on perspex, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Sam Mitchell, Janus, 2010, Acrylic on perspex, 313/4 × 411/2 in. (80.64 × 105.41 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Sam Mitchell, Lincoln and friends, 2010, Watercolor on found paper, 53/4 × 81/4 in. (14.6 × 20.95 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from New Zealand
Past Resident2011: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Tang-Wei Hsu
Tang-Wei Hsu (born 1980 in Changhua, Taiwan) currently lives and works in Taipei. He obtained an MFA in Architecture at the Tainan National University of the Arts. Hsu’s paintings begin from an imagined fantasy space extending into installation, sculpture and public art.
Hsu’s solo exhibitions include Sphere of Planetesimals, National Central University Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2011; Evolutionism, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008; Dredging up the drift, ITPARK Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006; Fantasy, the Art Center of Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2005 and Follower, SLY Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004. Group
exhibitions include Art Fair Tokyo @ TOKIA, Tokyo, Japan, 2009; CIGE 2009, China World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China, 2009. Hsu was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Artist Abroad Subsidy, 2009 and the National Culture and Arts Foundation Creative Subsidy, 2009.
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space No.1, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 63 × 44 in. (160.02 × 111.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Unknown World Of Distance, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 44 × 63 × 13/8 in. (111.76 × 160.02 × 3.56 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, The Device Through The Space, 2008, Installation, 157 × 551 in. (398.78 × 1399.54 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Monster Of My Imagine, 2010, Mixed media, 118 × 295 × 98 in. (299.72 × 749.3 × 248.92 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Tang-Wei Hsu, Strange Stars No.11, 2010, Ink on paper, 47 × 94 in. (119.38 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
