Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Artis
Assaf Evron
Assaf Evron is an artist and a photographer based in Chicago. His work investigates the nature of vision and the ways in which it reflects in socially constructed structures. He applies photographic thinking in various two and three-dimensional media. Evron questions the construction of individual and collective identities, immigration of people, ideas, images, and representations of democracy.
Assaf Evron has exhibited work at Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Assaf Evron on Instagram Live
January 26, 2021, 4-5pm
Assaf Evron, Collage for the Esplanade Apartments, 2019, photographic intervention in architecture.
Assaf Evron, Collage for the McCormick House, 2019, photographic intervention in architecture.
Assaf Evron, Collage for the McCormick House, 2019, installation view.
Assaf Evron, Installation View at MCA Chicago, 2019, installation view.
Assaf Evron, Installation View at MCA Chicago, 2019, installation view.
Residents from Israel
Past Resident2022: Pola Art Foundation2021: Pola Art Foundation
Saya Irie
Saya Irie’s work is inspired from everyday life and its ties to the distant past. Irie modifies objects by means of reduction, working with books, photographs, banknotes, and soaps, amongst others objects. Her practice is based on the idea that life continues to exist in an imperceptible sphere even after its external form disappears.
Saya Irie has exhibited work at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Setouchi Triennale, Shōdoshima, Kagawa, Japan; and Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, among others.
Saya Irie, Kannon Dust (Kukurihime), 2016, Japanese hanging scroll and eraser shavings, figure: 7 x 4.7 x 2.4 in.; hanging scroll: 24 x 71 in.
Saya Irie, Mau Dust, 2016, charm and eraser shavings, figure: 5 x 6 x 2.4 in., charm: 20 x 28 in.
Saya Irie, Mary Dust, 2020, Kapanese hanging scroll and eraser shavings, figure: 2.4 x 1.7 x1.5 in.; hanging scroll: 16 x 9.4 x0.6 in.
Saya Irie, Disny Dust, 2015, children's book and eraser shavings, figure: 5 x 3.5 x 2.3 in., book: 7.8 x 12 in.
Saya Irie, Jyashouten Dust, 2019, Japanese hanging scroll, cardboard boxes, and eraser shavings, 90 x 70 x 12 in.
Past Resident2021: Vision Fund
Devin N. Morris
Devin N. Morris collapses memory and space to envision delicate new realms of existence. Informed by his upbringing in Baltimore and his personal experiences as a queer man of color, his work often portrays semi-fictive characters who exchange acts of kindness and care within surreal domestic settings. Extending his practice of collage into physical assemblage and sculpture, Morris creates site-specific environments that refract the domestic interior and subvert traditional values and social boundaries.
Devin N. Morris has exhibited work at Baltimore Museum of Art; Bass Museum, Miami; and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, among others.
Devin N. Morris, Water not under the moonlight, water at moon’s eve. Saw it from behind and now the cold front is unveiled, guiltily picked and exposed, 2020, acrylic, painters tape, wall paper, plaster, wood veneer, wood moldings, house paint, oil pastel, pastel, collage, ink, door, vinyl, wool, daily vitamin, acidophilus, velvet, wood shutter, and footboard on panel, 98 × 70 in. (248.92 × 177.8 cm).
Devin N. Morris, Moving away from up there. Broken easily as brown skin does walking through brown stone. From Somewhere and Me at the base of stairs treading rows perfectly soiled for blossoming lunacy, 2020, entryway doors, chair, lampshade, and light, 129 × 95 × 27 in. (327.66 × 241.3 × 68.58 cm).
Devin N. Morris, Homeostatic, 2018, archival inkjet print, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Devin N. Morris, Spot Clean with Daily Lavender Pill, 2018, acrylic, tempera, oil pastel, candle wax, inkjet print on silk, and charcoal on wood panel, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Devin N. Morris, Birds Through A Window Chirp Frying Flying Chicken Grease Glittered Air, 2020, wood veneer, oil pastel, leather, cotton, acrylic, silk, charcoal, and suede on paper, 14 × 17 in. (35.56 × 43.18 cm).
Residents from United States
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201