Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada
Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar works with photography, video, and book-making. Her work involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. She is interested in the way that images morph, accumulate, endure and change in meaning and value over time, and the effect this has on a collective worldview.
Sara Cwynar has exhibited work at The Approach, London; Milwaukee Art Museum; MoMA PS1, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Sara Cwynar, Red Film, 2018, video, 13:01 min.
Sara Cwynar, Rose Gold, 2017, video, 8 min.
Sara Cwynar, Sahara from SSENSE.com (as young as you feel), 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Louis Vuitton Jeff Koons Rubens Bag, 2020, archival pigment print, 38 × 30 in. (96.52 × 76.2 cm).
Sara Cwynar, Ali from SSENSE.com (How to Marry a Millionaire), 2020, archival pigment print, 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm).
Residents from Canada
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
Antoinette Zwirchmayr
Antoinette Zwirchmayr’s work consists of concise juxtapositions that reveal sensitive relationships between human beings, objects and nature. Her lyrical visual compositions show vulnerable surfaces separating the inner from the outer, where she examines stereotypical ideas of physique and identity. The reduced formal aesthetic that she employs is marked by a critical ambivalence and directs the viewer’s attention to details that are correlated in the transient and physical quality of analog film.
Antoinette Zwirchmayr has exhibited work at Berlinale, Germany; Toronto International Film Festival, Canada; and Austrian Film Museum, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Oceano Mare, 2020, 16 mm film, 6 min.
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Oceano Mare, 2020, 16 mm film, 6 min.
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, The Seismic Form, 2020, 16 mm film, 15 min.
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, House and Universe, 2014, 16 mm film, 4 min.
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Jean Luc Nancy, 2018, 16 mm film, 4 min.
