Past Residents
Past Resident2020: Bunka-cho - Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Zai Nomura
Zai Nomura describes his work as a kind of “indecisive point” between death and life. His abstract work drifts between artificial and natural, sculpture and photography, and static and dynamic. According to Nomura, this kind of indecisiveness is based on the ephemerality and vulnerability of the Japanese environment in relation to natural disasters and nuclear experiences.
Zai Nomura has exhibited work at Aichi Triennale; gallery αM, Tokyo; and ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, among others.
Zai Nomura, Soul Reclaim Device (A portrait of my departed sister), 2018, water tank, water, inkjet printer, PC, 40 x 50 in; 36 x 35 in.
Zai Nomura, Untitled (CMYK), 2015, performance with glass, ice, wax, fire, and burner, dimensions variable.
Zai Nomura, Life (498600s), 2019, Lambda print and wood, 30 x 30 in. each.
Zai Nomura, Same wave never comes, 2015, acrylic resin, 20 × 15 in. (50.8 × 38.1 cm).
Zai Nomura, Japanese Breakfast, 2015, Lambda print, 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm).
Past Resident2020: Celebrate the Studio
Dáreece Walker
Dáreece Walker creates figurative paintings, drawings, and sculpture that address issues about race, identity and religion. He utilizes cardboard to create his pieces as a metaphor for the black American experience; as he considers cardboard a protest art material. For Walker, cardboard symbolizes some of the negative stereotypes associated with being a person of color.
Dáreece Walker has exhibited work at Long Gallery Harlem, New York; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College; and Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Artists at Work: Dáreece Walker and Anton Kats
February 25, 2020, 6:30–8pm
Dáreece Walker, Criminalized 4, 2016, charcoal on cardboard, 39 × 22 in. (99.06 × 55.88 cm).
Dáreece Walker, Criminalized 5, 2016, charcoal on cardboard, 22 × 47 in. (55.88 × 119.38 cm).
Dáreece Walker, Made in the USA, 2015, charcoal on cardboard, 30 × 72 in. (76.2 × 182.88 cm).
Dáreece Walker, Black Fathers Matter 1, 2019, charcoal and chalk pastel on cardboard, 44 × 32 in. (111.76 × 81.28 cm).
Dáreece Walker, Black Fathers Matter 2, 2019, charcoal and chalk pastel on cardboard, 32 × 44 in. (81.28 × 111.76 cm).
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2020: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Yasmina Haddad
Yasmina Haddad’s artistic practice is based on photography and sometimes extends to different media such as sculpture, sound and set design. Recent works focus on how different cultural expressions are inevitably connected and how this reciprocal impact manifests through esthetics. The subjects shown often derive from the fields of fashion and theatre, and are portrayed in stage-like situations. Somewhat artificial and glossy, isolated from their usual settings, they depict socio-cultural processes and recall the malaise of postmodern sensitivities.
Yasmina Haddad has exhibited work at Beirut Art Center; Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai; and Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Yasmina Haddad, We Enter By The Front Door, 2019, C-print, 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm).
Yasmina Haddad, Studio Settings, 2016 - ongoing, c-prints on textile, 87 × 59 in. (220.98 × 149.86 cm).
Yasmina Haddad, Studio Settings, 2016 - ongoing, c-prints on textile, 87 × 59 in. (220.98 × 149.86 cm).
Yasmina Haddad, Interni, 2013, c-prints and sculpture (wood, acrylic paint, marble, and plexiglass), dimensions variable.
Yasmina Haddad, Interni, 2013, c-print, 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm).
