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Qatar

Past Resident
2022: Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Artist

Saida Alkhulaifi

Saida Alkhulaifi’s work explores the theme of time within the context of recent memory, emotions and objects’ connection to human behavior. She examines the notion of time through layering and added text, investigating different surfaces and mediums, experimental photography, and where all of these exist in time and space.

Saida Alkhulaifi has exhibited work at GlogauAIR, Berlin; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; and at Qatar-USA 2021 Year of Culture, among others.

This art work is by saida alkhulaifi. It is part of "tomorrow" series documenting recent memories of places and people while thinking of the future and what it could entail.

Saida Alkhulaifi, Freej ii, 2021, 35mm photo digital scan.

Saida Alkhulaifi, Burka, 2021, 35mm photo print, fabric, and thread.

This art work is by saida Alkhulaifi. it is part of a series looking into classic arabic poetry and its metaphors.

Saida Alkhulaifi, Your Eyes Are a Palm Tree Forest, 2021, fabric, thread, and paint.

This art work is by saida alkhulaifi. It is part of the artist's continous project documenting recent memories.

Saida Alkhulaifi, She Bloomed on Water, 2021, 35mm photo and thread.

Residents from Qatar

Maha Al-Khater

Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Studio #209

Adriane de Souza

Qatar, Brazil

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2025

Dana Agal

United States, Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2025

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United States, China

Past Resident
2024: 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, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2023: 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

Artist

Alchemyverse

Alchemyverse was founded in 2020 in New York City by artists Bicheng Liang (b. 1994, China) and Yixuan Shao (b. 1996, China/United States). As a duo, they construct visual and aural assemblages, working across disciplines of installation, print, sound, sculpture, and photography. Focusing on research and experimentation, their hybrid practice resonates with macro-environmental concerns and human dislocation of space, leading them to places such as Oahu and Moa Kea in Hawaii, the American Southwest, the Hudson Highlands, and the Chilean deserts.

Alchemyverse has exhibited work at Bishop Museum, Honolulu; The Catherine Fosnot Art Gallery and Center, New London; and Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University, New York City, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2024 Spring Open Studios

April 12–April 13, 2024

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Messa in Luce Exhibition Talk with Alchemyverse and Jess Wilcox

November 1, 2023, 6–7pm

Alchemyverse: Messa in Luce

June 29–November 17, 2023

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

The work features collages of cyanotype photographs taken in the American Southwest, multichannel field recordings, and objects collected within the land on three suspended wooden panels.

Alchemyverse, Stir, Full of, Abounding In, 2021, cyanotypes collage, dead plant, pit-fired wild clay fragment, rocks, 8-channel specialized sound, transducers, and other mixed media, 120 × 84 × 3 in. (304.8 × 213.36 × 7.62 cm).

Left Without the Means to Move uses the ephemerality of sound and porousness of space to adapt to the viewers’ presence and creates an interactive soundscape as a constant search for balance. The materiality of the landscape slowly unfolds within and around the dome-shaped assemblage of sound recordings of making the ceramics in the wilderness, extracted soil, and pit-fired sandstone-molded sculptures.

Alchemyverse, Left Without The Means To Move, 2021, lava rocks, anodized aluminum, bone conductors, pit-fired wild clay and sound recorded within, desert soil, amplified microphones, speakers, subwoofers, and other mixed media, 204 × 204 × 180 in. (518.16 × 518.16 × 457.2 cm).

With the whole work's structure supported by salvaged rocks and plywood scraps, we explore how a construction of the fragmented brings the multitude of functionalities, identities, and meanings together, and us into proximity with such process.

Alchemyverse, Untitled, 2021-22, rocks, ceramics, bronze, dead plants, living moss, sand, films, cyanotypes, scores, 3D carved photo, turntable, trace light box, digital projectors, lamps, and other mixed media.

In 2021, a record number of snowstorms blanketed the northeast regions of the US, due to rising temperature in the atmosphere which fuels the storms. At the time, we were traveling along the Hudson Valley, hiking in knee-high snow and crouching over frozen riverbank to chase aluminum sheets into the shapes of the rocks. What we thought as a simple gesture of conforming to the land was met with great resistance from the environment.

Alchemyverse, 隙/ At Intervals, 2020-21, earth and fire on aluminum sheets, 72 × 96 × 36 in. (182.88 × 243.84 × 91.44 cm).

Consisting of thirty-one cyanotype photographs and twelve-channel spatialized recordings made using salvaged materials, Bleikr explores a poetic avenue toward a non-anthropocentric scale of time --- one that expresses itself no longer in terms of hours and minutes, but in the forms in the textures, shadows, and sounds of the environment.

Alchemyverse, Bleikr, 2020, mounted cyanotypes, sounds, and transducers, 108 × 120 in. (274.32 × 304.8 cm).

Ground Floor Residents

Maya Jeffereis

United States

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

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Keli Safia Maksud

Kenya, Tanzania

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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Ground Floor

Hong Seon Jang

South Korea, United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Ground Floor

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United States

Past Resident
2024: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, 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, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2023: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, 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

Artist

Tali Keren

Tali Keren is a multidisciplinary artist and educator born in Jerusalem and based in Brooklyn. Her performances, videos, and installations center on the formation of political ideology, historical mythologies, and the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. Through poetic interventions into archival sources, legislative documents, and the creation of immersive documentary installations, Keren seeks to unsettle foundational national myths. Her practice is grounded in collaboration, cross-disciplinary dialogue, and experimental pedagogy as a way to forge new forms of collectivity and political imaginaries.

Tali Keren has exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit; Queens Museum and Eyebeam, both New York City, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Tali Keren in conversation with Kari Conte

March 14, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

2022 Fall Open Studios

November 18–November 19, 2022

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Installation shot of a darkened space with a 180-degree curved screen with a projected image from Un-charting. A viewer sits on a bench in front of the screen with an image of a glowing whitye map against a blue water-like background depicting a 19th century map of Jerusalem by the self proclaimed British Prophet Richard Brothers.

Tali Keren, Un-Charting, 2021-ongoing, 180-degree 3D animated film.

Still from “Uncharting” film, showing a 3D-animated church at the center with a glow of purple light all around.

Tali Keren, Un-Charting, 2021-ongoing, 180-degree animated film.

Installation in a darkened room showing a projected image from a thermal camera of a glowing white seal. First proposed and later rejected as the official seal of the United States, it depicts Moses crossing the red sea while pharoah and his armies drown in the water. Text on the seal reads: “Rebellion to Tyrants is obedience to God.”

Tali Keren, Heat signature, 2019, mixed media.

A woman standing in a dark room atop a regal rug imprinted with the rejected seal for the United States. In front of her are two teleprompters as she appears mid-speech.

Tali Keren, The Great Seal, 2018, multi-media interactive installation.

Installation at the Queen Museum featuring sonic soap box sculptures in multiple colors and designs with colorful banners above. Each banner reads “Proposal for a 28th amendment? Is it possible to amend an unequal system?” in the five most spoken languages in Corona, Queens (Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Korean, English and Bengali).

Tali Keren and Alex Strada, Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is It Possible to Amend and Unequal System? , 2021-on going, multi-media interactive installation.