Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Celebrate the Studio
Maria Varona
Maria Varona has been making embroideries since childhood. Varona was taught the technique by her grandmother, that she then developed as her practice by creating comic strips embroideries. She uses this format as a method of constructing a narrative line that often explores existential inquietudes.
Maria Varona has exhibited work at BronxArtSpace, New York; Roberto Paradise, San Juan; and Mondo Bizarro: Arte & Comics, San Juan, amongst others.
Maria Varona, #6, 2013, embroidery.
Maria Varona, El pescador, 2017, embroidery.
Maria Varona, La pantera de Camito, 2014, embroidery.
Maria Varona, El ratón, 2017, embroidery.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2018: Arts Council England, Liverpool Biennial
Harry Meadley
Loosely emulating the career trajectory of a comedian, but with the artistic license of needing to neither be funny nor successful, Harry Meadley has gone from delivering an artist talk as one-hour stand-up comedy special, to hosting his own late night talk show, producing an eight episode video series, and has just started the weekly interview-based podcast Ey Up. He is concerned with what it means to be an artist, and concerned about being one.
Harry Meadley is based in Leeds, United Kingdom. He has exhibited work at Liverpool Biennial, 2016; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2015; and Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 2014, amongst others.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Harry Meadley and Antonia Low
January 30, 2018, 6:30–8pm
Harry Meadley, On the Bench (Episode 2), 2017, video, 14:54 min.
Harry Meadley, On the Bench (Episode 4), 2017, video, 17:06 min.
Harry Meadley, (Shhhhhhhhh), 2015, billboard poster, 117 × 235 in. (297.18 × 596.9 cm).
Harry Meadley, The Harry Meadley Show, 2017, late night talk show, 40:40 min.
Harry Meadley, Artists Talk, 2016, stand-up comedy special, 60 min.
Past Resident2018: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Sonia Louise Davis
Sonia Louise Davis engages improvisation across installation, writing, weaving and performance. In her practice, Davis creates experimental scores using an invented graphic notation. Her work is deeply informed by critical race and feminist theory as well as her training as a jazz vocalist.
Sonia Louise Davis was born and raised in New York City. In September 2016 her large-scale collaborative performance shake the stars with your song premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has exhibited work at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York City; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. This past spring her writing was published in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University and alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Sonia lives and works in Harlem.
Sonia Louise Davis, a score to keep time / a score to lose time / but never yourself, in it, 2017, installation with wall drawing, and hand-woven tapestry, dimensions variable.
Sonia Louise Davis, blue nile (for alice), detail, 2017, hand-woven textile, natural and synthetic fibers, electroluminescent wires, and battery packs, 72 × 22 × 2 in. (182.88 × 55.88 × 5.08 cm).
Sonia Louise Davis, blue black twill, 2017, hand-woven textile, natural and synthetic fibers, electroluminescent wire, and battery pack, 16 × 20 × 2 in. (40.64 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm).
Sonia Louise Davis, color is the sound an object makes when light strikes, 2016, installation, gloss enamel and liquid watercolor on glass, neon tubes, and transformers, dimensions variable.
Sonia Louise Davis, duet blue + green, grid; black solo, journal, 2015, 2016, liquid watercolor on cold press paper; liquid watercolor in soft bound notebook, 11x15 in. each and 144 pages.