Past Residents

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Past Resident
2014: Meg-Multiforms, The Gallery Apart

Alice Schivardi

Alice Schivardi is interested in collecting stories and establishing human relationships, leading her toward a pursuit of the other as well as of the self.  She focuses both on the natural and human condition, using technological and manual language. Schivardi’s work explores social phenomena and their logic, with a methodology that treasures the intimate exchange of micro-experiences. The threads of her “embroidery drawings” become a link between the artist and the stories, the artistic process and the finished artwork. Alice Schivardi lives and works in Rome.

Past Resident
2013: Artadia

Deva Graf

Deva Graf’s sculptures, installations and drawings are an investigation of self, nature and an attempt to discover what it means to be a human. Her current work, inspired by the phenomenological science of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and various meditation practices, looks at how we bring meaning to our life while facing an overwhelming number of choices about how to manifest as a human being.

Deva Graf was selected as a 2013 Artadia Artist in Residence by Laura Hoptman, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and the artist K8 Hardy. Her work was in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and has been shown nationally and internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Mary Boone Gallery. Her work is held in collections including the director of the Dia Foundation, Philippe Vergne, the director of the Renaissance Society of Chicago, Hamza Walker, and collections in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Turin, Naples, Paris and Zurich. Graf lives and works in San Francisco.

 

Past Resident
2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council

Ambie Abaño

Ambie Abaño’s shift from painting to printmaking brought her to an exploration of the medium as she investigates portraiture in relation to both material and process. From two-dimensional prints, her experimental works led to the creation of portraits and figures in sculpture, mixed media works, and installations, always with an element of traditional printmaking processes.

Ambie Abaño (born Manila 1967) abandoned the practice of architecture in favor of being a visual artist. She exhibits widely in the Philippines and across Asia. Abaño is a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. For the past six years, she served as president of the Philippine Association of Printmakers and remains active in their training program. Her solo exhibitions include: SurFACE (2011); Sanctuaire des memoires (2012) at the Alliance Francaise de Manille, and TransFIGURATION at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). She participated in A/P: Analog Playground, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; The Speaking House, Kerala, India (2012); Asian International Art Exhibition (2007-2011), and Open Studios at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2011).