Past Residents
Past Resident2020: Vision Fund
Charisse Pearlina Weston
Charisse Pearlina Weston’s creative work emerges from deep material investigations of poetics and the autobiographical. She utilizes glass to conceptually embody both the everyday risk of anti-black violence and the precocity and malleability of blackness in the face of this violence. She deploys language and the autobiographical to examine the delicate intimacies and reticent poetics underlying black life. She reuses and re-articulates materials from past installations to formulate the next to represent meaning’s capacity to shatter.
Charisse Pearlina Weston has exhibited work at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; and Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Charisse Pearlina Weston, black point perspective or blueprints for worry (notes one of nine or for while, for when, for where?), 2017, replacement frame glass, cinder blocks, photo and text, dimensions variable.
Charisse Pearlina Weston, black notes for the thing left there (or when darkness risks being the forever nocturnal source of light itself, notes two of nine), 2018, replacement frame glass from collapse, tempered glass panels, transparencies, dark and lovely let's jam! conditioning and shine hair gel, dimensions variable.
Charisse Pearlina Weston, An Appeal, but, in Particular, Very Expressly, To (i sink), 2019, four-channel sound installation of slumped glass sound sculptures, shattered tempered glass from the thing left there, lathe-cut vinyl records, record players, dimensions variable.
Charisse Pearlina Weston, felt in the heart as well as uttered in the mouth, 2019, layered, slumped, and manually folded glass, photographic decals, high-fire enamel, and text etched on glass, 30 × 20 × 4 in. (76.2 × 50.8 × 10.16 cm).
Charisse Pearlina Weston, breach (a notion of freedom), 2019, layered, slumped, and manually folded glass, photographic decals, high-fire enamel, and etched text derived from work by Frederick Douglas and David Walker, 30 × 20 × 4 in. (76.2 × 50.8 × 10.16 cm).
Residents from United States
Past Resident2020: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy
Adjani Okpu-Egbe
Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and global social justice. The artist explores autobiographical contents and day to day life experiences to create metaphors throughout his practice.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Germany; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Fabricated Anthropology, 2018, mixed media on four door panels (quadriptych).
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Young Choreographers, 2019, mixed media on found wooden board.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Bearing Witness to Dystopia: Multigenerational Genocide, Fascism and Rumours of Civil War, 2020, wooden door panels, bookshelves, books, and variable objects.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, The Foundation and Etymological Reinforcement of Erasure, 2020, variable.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Takumbeng’s Creed, Ambazonian Fortress, 2018, mixed on door panels (diptych).