Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Vision Fund
Lizania Cruz
Lizania Cruz uses audience participation to investigate notions of being and belonging within the public sphere. Using objects such as books, zines, installations, happenings, video, and photography, she invites a diverse range of communities to co-create collaborative artworks. Through research, oral history, and active participants, the projects she develops aim to highlight pluralistic narratives about migration and race.
Lizania Cruz has exhibited work at Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha; El Museo del Barrio and CUE Art Foundation, both New York City, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Publishing from an Immigrant Perspective
August 23, 2022, 6:30–8pm
Past, Present and Future: The Life of a Project
June 7, 2022, 6:30–8pm
Lizania Cruz: Every Immigrant Is a Writer/Todo Inmigrante Es un Escritor
April 8–August 26, 2022
Lizania Cruz and Zachary Fabri in Conversation with Alison Kuo
March 29, 2022, 6–7:30pm
Lizania Cruz, Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City, 2021, books, posters on rice sacks with stamp letters, installation view at CUE Art Foundation, 2021. Photo by Adam Reich.
Lizania Cruz, ¡Se Buscan Testigos! [Looking for Witnesses!] Portrait of a Detective in NYC, 2021, photographic documentation of happening, 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm). Photo by Neha Gautam.
Lizania Cruz, Happening We the News, 2018, public intervention, dimensions variable.
Lizania Cruz, Maria — Flower for Immigration, 2017, archival digital-C print, 144 × 96 in. (365.76 × 243.84 cm).
Lizania Cruz, Obituaries of the American Dream, 2020-2021, installation view at El Museo del Barrio's “ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21” , dimensions variable.
Residents from Dominican Republic
Joiri Minaya
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Jerome Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2021
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Darian Longmire
Darian Longmire remixes images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) and re-invents them into new color ways. He explores painting, drawing, printmaking and mixed media, from an abstract point-of-view. He uses physics and space travel are used as a cite for abstraction and political commentary.
Darian Longmire has exhibited work at Opalka Gallery; Albany Center Gallery; and State University of New York at Albany all Albany, New York, among others.
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 1, 2020, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 48 × 32 in. (121.92 × 81.28 cm).
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 2, 2021, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Darian Longmire, Black Spectrum 1, 2020, mixed media on museum board, 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm).
Darian Longmire, Satellite Abstraction 3, 2019, collage on paper, 24 × 32 in. (60.96 × 81.28 cm).
Darian Longmire, Passing Through, 2021, mixed media on mulberry paper, 47 × 20 in. (119.38 × 50.8 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2022: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Steven Anthony Johnson II
Steven Anthony Johnson II uses the language of drawing, animation, and photography to make peace between the religious, intellectual, and humanistic ideals in relation to “Otherness” and Blackness. The artist attempts to create a modern sense of realism by utilizing traditional techniques with abstracted senses of temperature and value.
Steven Anthony Johnson II has exhibited work at Field Projects, New York; Inbreak, Los Angeles; and Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, among others.
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Annie Mae, 2021, charcoal and graphite on mounted paper, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Had I dreams anymore they would be of a world I hope you would possess, 2021, charcoal, graphite, and watercolor on mounted paper, 9 × 12 in. (22.86 × 30.48 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Weeping May Endureth For a Night, 2021, charcoal, graphite, and watercolor on mounted paper, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Three, 2020, ballpoint and ink on paper, 6 × 4 in. (15.24 × 10.16 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, One, 2021, charcoal, graphite, and wax pencil on mounted paper, 24 × 18 in. (60.96 × 45.72 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217