Past Residents
Past Resident2021: Toby Devan Lewis
Pamela Council
Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic she refers to as BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined and under-valued narratives.
Pamela Council has exhibited work at Studio Museum in Harlem; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and African American Museum in Philadelphia, among others.
Pamela Council, Red Drink: A BLAXIDERMY Juneteenth Offering, 2018, concrete, fiberglass, and Big Red Soda, 144 × 120 × 120 in. (365.76 × 304.8 × 304.8 cm).
Pamela Council, BLAXIDERMY Pink, 2019, Lusters Pink Lotion, spinning oral sex toy, chocolate fondue fountain, rhinestones, paint, runner rug, carpet, and framed silicone on panel.
Pamela Council, wtf is juice/gw smile, 2016, sugar, water, purple, Listerine, George Washington's raggedy ass slaves' teeth dentures, gold party foil, Grapeade cans, lights, fountain, and silk velvet with surface devoured by the artist, 65 × 100 × 48 in. (165.1 × 254 × 121.92 cm).
Pamela Council, Swag Surf (Suite), ongoing.
Pamela Council, Fountain of Your Youth, 2017, plastic pony beads, motor, plastic, fabric, optic yellow tennis ball felt, pool noodles, nylon, and sneaker rubber.
Residents from United States
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2020: National Endowment for the Arts
Demian DinéYazhi´
Demian DinéYazhi´ is an Indigenous Diné transdisciplinary artist, poet, and curator born to the clans Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá and Tódích’íí’nii. DinéYazhi´ highlights the intersections of Radical Indigenous Queer Feminist identity and political ideology while challenging the white noise of contemporary art. DinéYazhi´ is the founder of the Indigenous artist/activist initiative, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment.
Demian DinéYazhi´has exhibited work at the Biennale of Sydney; Honolulu Biennial; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Summer Open Studios
August 25–August 26, 2020
Demian DinéYazhi´, Untitled (Sovereignty), 2017, 84 × 132 in. (213.36 × 335.28 cm).
Demian DinéYazhi´, my ancestors will not let me forget this, 2019, sculpture, 22 × 42 × 23 in. (55.88 × 106.68 × 58.42 cm).
Demian DinéYazhi´, A NATION IS A MASSACRE, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Demian DinéYazhi´, trust fall (pine ridge), 2012, photography, 24 × 36 in. (60.96 × 91.44 cm).
Demian DinéYazhi´, A NATION IS A MASSACRE (FUCK MAN CAMPS), 2018, risograph print, 18 × 11 in. (45.72 × 27.94 cm).
Past Resident2020: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Pauline Shaw
Through sculpture, textile and installation, Pauline Shaw’s work questions how personal history and cultural knowledge is acquired, preserved and rendered. Her practice draws upon personal experience and perception processed through material transformations–felted wool, cast glass, ceramics. She examines historical and modern representations of memory, identity and lineage through the lenses of scientific, spiritual or cultural belief systems.
Pauline Shaw has exhibited work at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore; Gagosian, New York; and Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, among others.
Pauline Shaw, You And Me, 2019, wet and needle felted wool held by incense ash and citrus fruits suspended through cable wire, steel rod and pulleys, 138 × 144 × 18 in. (350.52 × 365.76 × 45.72 cm).
Pauline Shaw, You And Me II, 2019, wet and needle felted wool held by citrus fruits, ceramic cups and urns, suspended through cable wire, steel rod and pulleys, 126 × 120 × 18 in. (320.04 × 304.8 × 45.72 cm).
Pauline Shaw, Me and You II, detail, 2019, wet and needle felted wool held by citrus fruits, ceramic cups and urns, suspended through cable wire, steel rod and pulleys, 126 × 120 × 18 in. (320.04 × 304.8 × 45.72 cm).
Pauline Shaw, Rabbit’s Fur Vest, 2019, wool, gauze, burgundy trim rope, and wood hanger, 60 × 48 × 3 in. (152.4 × 121.92 × 7.62 cm).
Pauline Shaw, Gracious Fates, 2019, hand-dyed wet and needle felted wool, silk, and milk fibers with cotton gauze on steel rod, and hardware, 126 × 96 in. (320.04 × 243.84 cm).
Residents from United States
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201