Past Residents
Past Resident2017: BARRO Arte Contemporáneo
Nicanor Aráoz
In his practice, Nicanor Araoz attempts to push the boundaries of materials in search of intermediate emotional states. He uses the mediums of drawing, installation and other formats through which accumulation, assembly, dissection and other dissimilar operational gestures come into play, combining a faulty system of references. Araoz’s work explores themes related to Spiritism, monstrosity, sculpture techniques during the last Argentinian military dictatorship, materials of industrial consumption, and negative feelings as spaces of political enunciation.
Nicanor Araoz (born Buenos Aires, 1981) lives and works in Buenos Aires. He attended the National University of La Plata and Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires. Araoz produces objects, installations and sculptures using comic books, Internet imagery and romantic mythologies as his reference points. His most recent works include Glotica, Barro Arte Contemporaneo, 2015 and Antologia Genetica. Esculturas y estudios encadenados, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2006-2016.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Nicanor Araoz and Marius Ritiu
July 25, 2017, 6:30–8pm
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled, 2015, sheet steel, wood, marble, plaster cast, acrylic, polyurethane foam, and neon, 83 × 48 × 395/16 in. (210.82 × 121.92 × 99.82 cm).
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled, 2011, foam and neon, 7811/16 × 415/16 × 415/16 in. (199.9 × 104.9 × 104.9 cm).
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled. No light view., 2015, cast, polyurethane foam, polyester resin, neon, and sheet steel, 96 × 48 × 235/8 in. (243.84 × 121.92 × 59.94 cm).
Nicanor Aráoz, Untitled, 2015, plaster cast, polyurethane foam, polyester resin, neon, and sheet steel, 96 × 48 × 235/8 in. (243.84 × 121.92 × 59.94 cm).
Residents from Argentina
Past Resident2017: Toby Devan Lewis
Didier William
Didier William is a painter and printmaker. His objects are collaged, carved, painted, and drawn to produce a painting surface that resists the rigidity of his materials. He draws from memory, oratory and historical archives to reimagine narratives of the black diaspora.
Didier William is originally from Port-au-prince, Haiti. He received his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art; The Fraenkel Gallery, San Fransisco; Frederick and Freiser Gallery, New York; and Gallery Schuster, Berlin. He was an artist in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, and has taught at Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, and SUNY Purchase. William is currently the Chair of the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Didier William, Ezili tourjous konnen, 2015, acrylic, wood carving, and pastel on panel, 38 × 36 in. (96.52 × 91.44 cm).
Didier William, Dancing, Pouring, Crackling and Mourning, 2015, acrylic, wood carving and collage on panel, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm).
Didier William, I see you, We all see you, 2015, collage and wood carving on panel, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Didier William, His Life Depends on Spotted Lies, 2014, acrylic, wood carving, and pastel on panel, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm).
Didier William, Everything is You Under the Sun, 2015, acrylic, pastel, and collage on panel, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm).
Residents from United States
Past Resident2017: Bureau VerbeeldingsKracht
Gracia Khouw
Gracia Khouw’s works explore language, both visual and auditory. She creates minimal geometrical arrangements in which our comprehension of letters and their symbolic meaning are disturbed. Khouw’s images float between purely geometrical designs and readable letters and symbols.
Gracia Khouw attended the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, and the Design Academy Eindhoven. Khouw has exhibited at art spaces internationally including at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and at the Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, and her work is part of private collections around the world. She is represented by Galerie Hein Elferink.
Gracia Khouw, NB, 2017, wallpainting, 138 × 228 in. (350.52 × 579.12 cm).
Gracia Khouw, MANWRK, 2015, wallpainting, 98 × 254 in. (248.92 × 645.16 cm).
Gracia Khouw, Closed Circuit series / CC4, 2014, acrylic on dibond, 49 × 49 in. (124.46 × 124.46 cm).
