ISCP Talk
November 19, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

Artists at Work: Tamen Pérez in conversation with Elvia Wilk

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Tamen Pérez will be joined by writer Elvia Wilk. Pérez will present on her practice and speak with Wilk about her interests in different image making processes in mediums ranging from photography to painting, as well as the roles of reproduction and representation and framing devices in contemporary art. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Tamen Pérez works in Brooklyn, where she is currently a Ground Floor Resident at ISCP. Pérez employs non-linear storytelling in her painting, printmaking, and photography to critique Western notions of time and history as universal creations and explore the history of perspective and its relationship to the creation of space and subjecthood. Her work has been exhibited at Blade Study Gallery, Y2K Gallery, Lyles and King, all in New York; and Stadium Galerie, Berlin, among others. This fall Pérez’s work will be shown in a solo exhibition at Sara’s, New York.

Elvia Wilk is the author of the novel Oval (2019) and the essay collection Death by Landscape (2022). She frequently publishes essays, criticism, and fiction in a wide range of publications. Currently, she’s a contributing editor at e-flux Journal and teaches in the MFA programs at Sarah Lawrence and Cornell.

This program is supported by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.

Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

6:30–7:30pm

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Tamen Pérez

Tamen Pérez, Portrait of My Camera, 2024, watercolor on paper, 8¹/₂ × 11 in. (21.59 × 27.94 cm).

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Spring Open Studios 2025

Opening Reception: Apr 25, 2025, 6–9pm

April 25–April 26, 2025

Open Studios

Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls

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Hellen Ascoli: The World Upside Down

Through August 1

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Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2024

2024 Fall Open Studios

Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, November 16, 1–7pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Fall Open Studios is a presentation of international contemporary art by the 35 artists and curators from 26 countries currently in residence. Guest speaker Larry Ossei-Mensah, Curator and Co-Founder of ARTNOIR, will make remarks at 6:30pm during the opening reception.

This event is free and open to the public.

Three times a year, ISCP offers audiences access to private artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork and curatorial projects and share one-on-one conversations. This fall, ISCP invites the public to engage in dialogue around contemporary art with arts professionals from across the globe. Concentrated in a three-story postindustrial loft building on the edge of Bushwick, ISCP supports the creative advancement of residents with individual workspaces, a robust program of events, and professional benefits.

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio, an exhibition commemorating ISCP’s thirtieth anniversary, will be on view in the second floor gallery. Somewhere Inside looks at the ways that five artists—Martine Gutierrez, Daniel Guzmán, Joiri Minaya, Sophie Tottie, and Frank WANG Yefeng, all ISCP alumni, find inspiration from the studio. While these artists have distinct practices, they all approach the studio as a nourishing and exploratory space where they can develop and mine their own creative archive—one enriched by a porous connection to the outside world. Taking up themes of transformation and metamorphosis, topics closely tied to artistic production itself, the work presented here reveals different strategies for making use of one’s expanding archive.

In addition, Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy, an exhibition that memorializes a lost landscape, will be on view in the first floor project space. Transforming the gallery into an immersive installation, Ground Floor Resident Sujin Lim offers a poetic tribute to South Korea’s Yeongheung Island, where her father grew up—a place drastically impacted by a recent surge in industrial and commercial development and changing tidelines, markers of climate change that have become increasingly common around the world today. Playfully alluding to the landscape painting tradition, Lim’s compositions poignantly capture a seaside that now only exists in memory.

The exhibitions are curated by Melinda Lang, Director of Programs and Exhibitions at ISCP.

Open Studios participating artists and curators:

Amy Bravo (United States); Paloma Contreras Lomas (Mexico); S Emsaki (Iran/United States); Bryan Fernandez (United States/Dominican Republic); Anaïs Goupy (Germany/France); Antonietta Grassi (Canada); Efrat Hakimi (United States); Ruthi Helbitz Cohen (Israel); Hong Seon Jang (South Korea/United States); Dora Jeridi (France); Bob Kil (United Kingdom/Germany); Ulrike Königshofer (Austria); Karel Koplimets (Estonia); Sujin Lim (South Korea/United States); Simon Liu (Hong Kong/United States); Irina Lotarevich (Austria); Brenda Mallory (United States); Azita Moradkhani (Iran/United States); Lotte Nielsen (Denmark); Nifemi Ogunro (United States); Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen (Philippines/Norway); Tamen Pérez (Costa Rica/United States); Antonis Pittas (Greece/The Netherlands); Tom Polo (Australia); Fouz Saif (Qatar); Tora Schultz (Sweden/Denmark); Jens Settergren (Denmark); Sonia Shiel (Ireland); Sara Sjölin (Sweden/Switzerland/Denmark); Kara Springer (Canada/Barbados); Frank WANG Yefeng (United States/China); Apichaya Wanthiang (Thailand/Belgium/Norway); Stanley Wany (Canada); Sasha Wortzel (United States); and Sarah Zapata (United States)

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors:

Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Amos Schocken Haaretz Art Collection; Artis; Arts Council of Ireland; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Canada Council for the Arts; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; Creative Australia; Danish Arts Foundation; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund; Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center; Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; Guadalupe Phillips; Hartfield Foundation; Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; ISCP Alumni Fund; KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; Leon Polk Smith Foundation; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; Mondriaan Fund; New York City Council Member for the 34th District; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Perrotin Gallery; Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin; Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; and The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund.

This program is also generously supported, in part, by Austrian Cultural Forum; Consulate General of Canada in New York; Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Consulate General of Sweden, New York; Consulate General of Denmark in New York; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Grimm Artisanal Ales; Hartfield Foundation; Materials for the Arts; James Rosenquist Foundation; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council Member for the 34th District; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

In addition to the many individuals who support ISCP, the members of Director’s Circle are also thanked for their largesse: Anne Altchek, Barbara van Beuren, Younghee Kim-Wait, Samar Maziad, and Laurie Sprayregen.

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Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

Opening Reception: Nov 15, 2024, 6–9pm

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Bryan Fernandez, Cansado Por el Dia, 2024, oil pastel, cardboard, yarn, denim, xerox paper, decorative fabric, shirt, acrylic paint, relief print and tobacco on Fabriano paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Spring Open Studios 2025

Opening Reception: Apr 25, 2025, 6–9pm

April 25–April 26, 2025

Open Studios

Amy Bravo: Some Bullheaded Girls

Through June 6

Exhibition

Hellen Ascoli: The World Upside Down

Through August 1

Exhibition

Donate

ISCP Talk
November 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

Curators at Work: What Is Kept and What Is Lost—Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen in conversation with Whit Pow

For this Curators at Work, ISCP curator-in-residence Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen will be joined by scholar Whit Pow. Pedersen will present on her curatorial practice and speak with Pow about her interest in history, representation, and bodies of resistance as well as the relationship between spirituality and technology. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen is an art historian and curator based in Trondheim, Norway, and currently holds the position of Curator at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Her work explores the intersection of alternative realities, spirituality, and technology, often drawing on her own experiences as a second-generation Filipina immigrant.

Whit Pow is an assistant professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a visual artist. Their work focuses on queer and transgender histories of computational media, digital games, and electronic art. Their latest article, “How the Computer Taught Us to See,” is published in Camera Obscura by Duke University Press.

This program is supported by OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Royal Norwegian Consulate General; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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This in-person event will be live streamed through Instagram: @iscp_nyc.

Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

6:30–7:30pm

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Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen

Panteha Abareshi, A FAMILIAR VIOLATION, 2023, from the exhibition I'NVALID PLEASURES,' at Kunsthall Trondheim. Courtesy of Panteha Abareshi. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.