Past Residents
Past Resident2019: Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Erkka Nissinen
Erkka Nissinen creates videos, installations, video-installations, performance, paintings and drawings.
Erkka Nissinen has exhibited work at Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; 2017 Venice Biennial; and Blain|Southern, London, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2019
March 29–March 30, 2019
Erkka Nissinen, The Aalto Natives, 2018, installation.
Erkka Nissinen, Rigid Regime, 2013, video.
Erkka Nissinen, Vantaa, 2008, video.
Erkka Nissinen, Polis X, 2012, video.
Erkka Nissinen, What is Community?, 2016, installation.
Past Resident2021: 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
Alison Nguyen
Alison Nguyen’s work explores the ways in which images are produced, disseminated, and consumed within the current media landscape, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent, she re-articulates mainstream visual language in video, installation, and new media works.
Alison Nguyen received her B.A. from Brown University. She has presented work at e-flux, Ann Arbor Film Festival; Oberhausen International Short Film Festival; CROSSROADS presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, Melbourne; CPH:DOX; Microscope Gallery, New York and AC Gallery, Beijing, and the Dowse Art Museum, New Zealand, among others. Nguyen has participated in residencies and/or been awarded fellowships from The Institute of Electronic Arts, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center, and BRIC. She has been awarded grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Art, NYSCA and The New York Community Trust. In 2018, Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
Events & Exhibitions
Homecoming Outdoor Screening
August 20, 2021, 8–9:30pm
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
2020 Summer Open Studios
August 25–August 26, 2020
Artists at Work with Alison Nguyen: 'my favorite software is being here,' a lecture performance on Instagram Live
May 12, 2020, 4–5pm
Alison Nguyen, my favorite software is being here, 2020-2021, single channel video, stereo sound, 19 min.
Alison Nguyen, my favorite software is being here, 2020, single channel video, muslin projection screen, custom carpet and furniture, mylar ceiling, stereo sound, 19 min., loop.
Alison Nguyen, Andra8 Lecture-Performance #1, 2020, online performance, Instagram Live, 14 min..
Alison Nguyen, every dog has its day, 2019, single channel video, MDF projection screen, carpet, stereo sound, 6:39 min., loop.
Alison Nguyen, Dessert-Disaster, 2017-18, double channel video, color, quadraphonic sound, 3:54 min., loop.
Ground Floor Residents
Maya Jeffereis
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
Keli Safia Maksud
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
Hong Seon Jang
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
Past Resident2019: Mondriaan Fund
Esther Tielemans
Esther Tielemans examines the foundations of painting by extrapolating opposites: flat and three dimensional; abstraction and figuration; and reality and illusion. Tielemans’ works are reminiscent of dreams or memories in which the barrier between reality and imagination seems to be fading.
Esther Tielemans has exhibited work at Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, all The Netherlands, among others.
Esther Tielemans, The In Between II, 2018, acrylic and epoxy on plywood, 83 × 30 × 30 in. (210.82 × 76.2 × 76.2 cm).
Esther Tielemans, The In Between I, 2018, acrylic and epoxy on plywood, 100 × 22 × 22 in. (254 × 55.88 × 55.88 cm).
Esther Tielemans, Untitled, 2018, acrylic on plywood, 59 × 43 in. (149.86 × 109.22 cm).
Esther Tielemans, The Past Inside The Present, 2017, acrylic on plywood, 83 x 59 in. each.
Esther Tielemans, The Performance, 2012, acrylic and epoxy on plywood, 102 × 183 × 372 in. (259.08 × 464.82 × 944.88 cm).
