Current Resident: Jun 1, 2024–Aug 31, 2024
Vision Fund
Studio #203
Artist
Kearra Amaya Gopee
Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Using video, sculpture, sound, writing and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. They live and work between Trinidad and Tobago and New York City.
Kearra Amaya Gopee has exhibited work at The Kitchen, New York; Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami; and REDCAT, Los Angeles, among others.
kearramaya.com
Kearra Amaya Gopee, ca(r)milla, still, 2023, single channel video, 12:02 min
Kearra Amaya Gopee, pappyshow in the dark time, my love, installation view, 2022, three channel video, 25:54 min
Kearra Amaya Gopee, excision spell, installation view, 2020, single channel video, 4:56 min
Kearra Amaya Gopee, ca(r)milla, installation view, 2023, single channel video, dirt, concrete, plaster, mirror, and crocus bags, dimensions variable
Kearra Amaya Gopee, ca(r)milla, 2018, single channel video, 11:02 min
Current Resident: Aug 1, 2024–Jan 31, 2025
The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Studio #204
Artist
Amy Bravo
Amy Bravo blends icons from Cuban religious culture with hyper-personal stories to create a queer afterlife universe in the rough shape of the island of Cuba. Her collaged canvases feature irregular forms where she combines graphite drawings with painterly techniques. These drawings evolve into paintings, embroidery, and assemblage sculptures. This unique mix of techniques helps recompose a family lineage disrupted by exile, engage with her ancestors, and outline a mythical world.
Amy Bravo has exhibited work at Semiose Gallery, Paris; Swivel Gallery, New York; and SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, among others.
amybravo.com
Amy Bravo, The Black Dog, Again, 2023, acrylic, lace, plaster, extensions, sewing needles, mannequin arms and found objects, 44 × 34 × 12 in. (111.76 × 86.36 × 30.48 cm)
Amy Bravo, Automaton 3.0 (Bull), 2024, foam, acrylic, wood, epoxy, lace, candles, synthetic hair, cow bones and found objects, 41 × 211/2 × 47 in. (104.14 × 54.61 × 119.38 cm)
Amy Bravo, The 750 Mile Snake, 2024, graphite, wax pastel, acrylic, rubber and embroidery on canvas, 74 × 100 × 3 in. (187.96 × 254 × 7.62 cm)
Amy Bravo, Automaton 4.0 (Bull-Remastered), 2024, found cabinet, foam, acrylic, wood, epoxy, plaster, thread, boxing gloves, christmas lights, synthetic hair, cow bones and found objects, 81 × 52 × 52 in. (205.74 × 132.08 × 132.08 cm)
Amy Bravo, The Automaton Springs Out Fully Formed!, 2024, graphite, wax pastel, acrylic, lace, photograph and embroidery on canvas, 80 × 68 in. (203.2 × 172.72 cm)
Residents from United States
Shir Handelsman
Studio #222
Current Resident: Jun 1, 2024–Aug 31, 2024
Icelandic Art Center
Studio #205
Artist
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir
Interdisciplinary artist Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir works with staged photography, sculptures, tapestry paintings, video, and audio. By blending phenomena and familiar imagery, she explores the hyperreality of her everyday environment. Ríkharðsdóttir is interested in the contrast between the natural, the man-made, and the staged and work is influenced by personal experiences and visual surroundings, as well as by math, sci-fi, cult movies, advertisements, memes, and stock images.
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir has exhibited work at Hafnarborg Museum, Iceland; The Living Art Museum, Iceland; and 80WSE Gallery, New York, among others.
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Game of Chess with the Lottery Lady, 2023, video installation, 8 min
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Volcano Painting #5, 2022, stretched digital image on woven tapestry, 27 × 20 in. (68.58 × 50.8 cm)
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Final Countdown, 2021, video installation, 7 min
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, The Golden Ratio, 2021, 12 pencil and color pencil drawing on 220g paper, 0 × 9 × 12 in. (0 × 22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir, Please Wait, 2021, video installation, 11 min
