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August 14, 2024, 5:00–9:00pm

Summer Open House 2024

ISCP announces Summer Open House, a day of studio presentations by artists and curators currently in residence. This event is free and open to the public, and is part of The North Brooklyn Cultural Syndicate’s 2024 Open House day.

Come and celebrate a summer evening with friends and take part in conversations about international contemporary art with arts professionals from around the world in ISCP’s loft building on the border of Bushwick and Williamsburg. Founded in 1994, ISCP was established to support the creative advancement of an international community of artists and curators in New York City.

Crystal Yayra Anthony: A Glimpse of Us, the first solo exhibition in the United States of the work of Crystal Yayra Anthony will be on view in the first floor project space. Curated by Melinda Lang, Director of Programs and Exhibitions at ISCP, this presentation debuts a new group of paintings made by the artist during her recent residency at ISCP. Drawing upon memories and a personal archive of cell phone video footage, Anthony depicts tender and lighthearted scenes of her close-knit community in Accra, Ghana.

Storage to Showcase: Selections from the ISCP Archives, a presentation organized by Annabel Newman, Executive Intern, with the assistance of Louis Pardo, Programs and Exhibitions Intern, in the Second Floor Gallery, kicks off the celebration of ISCP’s thirtieth anniversary this year. Ranging from 1994 to the present, the selections capture three different locations where ISCP has hosted over 2,000 residents from more than 105 countries and highlights the organization’s global reach and ongoing support of contemporary artists and curators.

Additional organizations participating in The North Brooklyn Cultural Syndicate’s Collective Open House are Amant, Brooklyn Public Library – Bushwick Branch, Light Industry, UnionDocs, and Wendy’s Subway. The Syndicate is a joint initiative formed to further neighborhood relations, share information, and bring attention to the cultural offerings of the North Brooklyn area.

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Brooklyn Public Library –Bushwick Branch:

2–3pm: Outdoor games and activities including sidewalk chalk drawing, Jenga, and sign up for a library card.

Amant:

5–6pm: Tour and screening of Creation Paradigm, three- channel film by Joshua Serafin. Film draws on pre- colonial history and creation myths of the Philippine archipelago.

Light Industry:

6–9pm: Open House with tours and film screenings.

Wendy’s Subway:

6–8pm: Library open hours with special collection displays, one-on-one time with the Wendy’s Subway librarian, and drop-in writing prompts and activities.

UnionDocs:

4–7:30pm: Open House. Drop in to see photos by Alexa Hoyer, view recently produced films and meet the team.

ISCP’s Summer Open House is hosted by ISCP’s Young Patrons, a dynamic group that offers unique contemporary art events and programming, and provides support for institutional programs and operations. For further information and to become a member, please contact youngpatrons@iscp-nyc.org.

ISCP thanks all of the generous collaboration and funding of residency sponsors and supporters.

This program is also supported, in part, by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Dr. Samar Maziad; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; 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 Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.

5:00–9:00pm

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Tora Schultz, The Devil's Contract, 2021, stainless steel, motor, chain, gears, modified prada stilettos, and red lacquer. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
August 6, 2024, 7–8pm

Artists at Work: Verónica Gaona in conversation with Alex Santana

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Verónica Gaona will be joined by writer and curator Alex Santana. Gaona will present on her practice and speak with Santana about her interest in the relationships between architecture, truck culture and migration. They will also discuss the ephemeral material and spatial transformations produced and accelerated by migration and remittances. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Based in Houston, Texas, Verónica Gaona is a Mexican American artist from Brownsville, Texas, a city along the United States-México border. Her work incorporates the perspectives of displaced and exploited communities, highlighting aspects of the diaspora such as opacity, transnationality, and impermanence. Gaona’s practice challenges traditional approaches to memorialization and seeks to subvert established power structures. She has exhibited work at Presa House Gallery, San Antonio; Lawndale Art Center, Houston; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, all in Texas; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art of Tamaulipas, México. Her work will be included in Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 at El Museo del Barrio, New York, this fall.

Alex Santana is a writer, editor, and curator with an interest in conceptual art, political intervention, and public participation. She has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans; Mana Contemporary, New Jersey; and Alexander Gray Associates, New York. Her interviews and essays have been published by Hyperallergic, CUE Art Foundation, Terremoto Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Precog Magazine, NXTHVN, and Artsy. She is currently Associate Editor for Intervenxions, a publication of The Latinx Project at New York University.

This program is supported by Vision Fund; 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.

7–8pm

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Participating Residents

Verónica Gaona

Verónica Gaona, To know and to dream at the same time, (ongoing series), 2022–present, Ford F-150 body parts, aluminum sheets, archived prints on aluminum sheets, and vinyl, dimensions variable

Verónica Gaona, For those who do not return in life, there is always death (Homage to David Gomez), 2021, inkjet matte print (Ford F-150 burnout photo performance), 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)

Verónica Gaona, Spanning worlds, series, 2022–24, steel rod, migrant caps, and Ford F-150 truck shattered polarized window glass, 121 × 9 in. (307.34 × 22.86 cm)

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
July 24, 2024, 5:00–6:00pm

Curators at Work: Labeless Labels in Museums, Chiara Ianeselli on Cultural Accessibility

For this Curators at Work, ISCP curator-in-residence Dr. Chiara Ianeselli discusses her research on the way interpretative labels for artworks are presented at cultural institutions. Often in an assertive yet ostensibly objective voice, labels mediate the way objects are experienced by the public. Ianeselli aims to create critical tools for analyzing the evolution and structure of labels and proposes a more inclusive approach, one that reflects diverse perspectives and fosters a deeper understanding of cultural heritage. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Ianeselli earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Heritage Analysis and Management from the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. By combining art historical research with contemporary debates on collection accessibility, she promotes methodological inquiries in exhibition making. Ianeselli has contributed to dOCUMENTA (13) and documenta fifteen,Germany, as well as the 14th Istanbul Biennial. Currently, she is developing MAXXI Med in Sicily.

This program is supported by the Italian Council – Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) at the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities; 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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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.

5:00–6:00pm

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Participating Residents

Chiara Ianeselli

Gemäldegalerie Berlin, various painting captions and labels, c.1830–1998 at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Labels of an exhibition, painting captions at the Gemäldegalerie from 1830 to the present 7/02/2019 to 09/29/2019, curated by Svea Janzen