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Past Resident
2023: ARTWORKS

Artist

Sofia Stevi

Sofia Stevi is an artist living and working in Athens. Her paintings depict flowing interpretations of materiality in a universe where dreams are a construct of everyday experiences, bodies are in flux, chance takes on permanent substance, and time and space collide.

Sofia Stevi has exhibited work at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; Onassis Foundation Stegi, Greece; and The Benaki Museum, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world)

Sofia Stevi, The Guardian, 2023, acrylics on cotton fabric, wall painting, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world), 2023, three double sided paintings, acrylic on cotton fabric, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, Song without an ending, 2022, ink and actylic on cotton fabric, handpainted cotton and leatherette pillows, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, Turning forty winks into a decade, 2017-2018, mixed media, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, Spine Books (Skoliosis 004, Skoliosis 002, Kyphosis 001), 2009, mould-made cotton paper and thread, dimensions variable

Residents from Greece

Antonis Pittas

Greece, The Netherlands

Mondriaan Fund

Studio #219

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Italy, Greece

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture

Studio #217

Iria Vrettou

‘Daemonic Ecran Vivant’ is a moving portrait based on the concept of Tableau Vivant. The piece operates on specific hand drawn animated loops. The emphasis is placed on the movement of bodies, human, non-human, and more-than-human. It investigates how such movements can be perceived as dance for various concepts & species and the atmospheres that these create. If we consider life cycles as an expression of symbiosis then we can easily discern a ritual of perpetual transformation: the choreography of life. Image #2

Greece

ARTWORKS

2022

United States

Past Resident
2023: Vision Fund

Artist

Alicia Grullón

Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon’s social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of underinvested communities in political and social spheres. She is a Moore College of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College.

Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Miatta Kawinzi and Alicia Grullón

November 28, 2023, 6–8pm

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.

Alicia Grullón, March 31, 2020: Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 30 in. (152.4 × 76.2 cm)

April 13, 2020: NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)

Alicia Grullón, May 4th, 2020: We call workers ‘essential’ – but is that just referring to the work, not the people?, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)

Alicia Grullón, May 8th, 2020: US Postal Service warns coronavirus pandemic threatens its survival, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)

Breaking News is a short video looking at the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. Through the point of view of Jaquin Caal Maquin, the first child reported to have died while in ICE custody, I re-imagined her as the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees proposing new resolutions calling for no ICE presence, open borders and control of the UN by indigenous people of the global south and Western Hemisphere.

Alicia Grullón, Breaking News, 2019, single channel video, 4 min

Residents from United States

Joshua Thaddeus Rainer

Painting of a dream the artist had years ago wherein he was trapped in a seemingly broken elevator that would not stop ascending.

United States

The Kettering Family Foundation

Studio #211

Yoshie Sakai

United States

Vision Fund

Studio #202

Vincent Chong

A public performance in Manhattan Chinatown's Columbus Park for both my Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander community and the elders who spend time in that park. Black dress by Shawna Wu. Wig by Paul Keo. Green cape sewn and stoned by the Artist.

United States

Celebrate the Studio

2024

Latvia, The Netherlands

Past Resident
2023: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos
2022: The Netherland-America Foundation

Artist

Ginta Tinte Vasermane

Ginta Tinte Vasermane is an artist and curator working in a variety of mediums including motion picture, multi-channel video installation, film, sculpture, and costume design. She creates theatrical scenes that are filmed in cinematographic settings and then set up as multi channel video installations. In her work, she experiments with behavioral patterns, social norms, and role play.

Ginta Tinte Vasermane has exhibited work at the European Media Art Festival, Germany; Art Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Residency Unlimited, New York, among others.