Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Vision Fund
Zachary Fabri
Zachary Fabri is an interdisciplinary artist that complicates boundaries around studio research, performance, and socially engaged practice by immersing himself in environments such as Target stores, the Trump Hotel, and the streets of Brooklyn. Employing conceptual strategies and context specificity, he utilizes drawing, photography, video, performance, and sound to create discourse around issues of equality, representation, justice, and the dismantling of systemic oppression.
Zachary Fabri has exhibited work at Sharjah Biennial 2019, United Arab Emirates; Museum of Modern Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, both New York City, among others.
Zachary Fabri, Slit-scan, Split-span, Time Displacement Movement Study, or Dodging Bullets from Police, 2020, single channel video, 8:23 min
Zachary Fabri, Black Tape Ebony Frame, 2021, 12 × 15 in. (30.48 × 38.1 cm)
Zachary Fabri, Mourning Stutter, 2021, video, 8:17 min
Zachary Fabri, S-OUR AIR, 2021, silk, 120 × 58 in. (304.8 × 147.32 cm)
Zachary Fabri, Visible spectrum of light through the room, 2021, 8-strand braided fishing line, 2640 in. (6705.6 cm)
Residents from United States
Past Resident2022: Vision Fund2022: Vision Fund
Darian Longmire
Darian Longmire remixes images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) and re-invents them into new color ways. He explores painting, drawing, printmaking and mixed media, from an abstract point-of-view. He uses physics and space travel are used as a cite for abstraction and political commentary.
Darian Longmire has exhibited work at Opalka Gallery; Albany Center Gallery; and State University of New York at Albany all Albany, New York, among others.
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 1, 2020, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 32 × 48 in. (81.28 × 121.92 cm)
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 2, 2021, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 24 × 36 in. (60.96 × 91.44 cm)
Darian Longmire, Black Spectrum 1, 2020, mixed media on museum board, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Darian Longmire, Satellite Abstraction 3, 2019, collage on paper, 32 × 24 in. (81.28 × 60.96 cm)
Darian Longmire, Passing Through, 2021, mixed media on mulberry paper, 20 × 47 in. (50.8 × 119.38 cm)
Residents from United States
Past Resident2022: Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries2021: Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries2020: 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 reflecting on global social justice. The artist explores autobiographical content, various themes; including family, love, loss, humour, mythology, and day to day life experiences to create metaphors throughout his practice.
Adjani Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Braunschweig; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; and Kunstpalast Museum, Düsseldorf, among others. In 2019, Adjani was the recipient of the inaugural Ritzau Art Prize via ISCP, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and the Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philantropy.
Events & Exhibitions
‘Bursting Bubbles’ Film Premiere: Director Maliyamungu Gift Muhande Interviews Adjani Okpu-Egbe
February 25, 2022, 4–5pm
On Delegitimization and Solidarity: Sisiku AyukTabe, the Martin Luther King Jr. of Ambazonia, the Nera 10, and the Myth of Violent Africa
September 17, 2021–February 25, 2022
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
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)