Past Residents
Past Resident2024
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen’s work explores themes of femininity, gender, and the cultural frameworks surrounding women’s imagery. The figures she creates draw from primordial sources—mythologies, stories, and their various incarnations in art and popular culture. They narrate tales, nightmares, dreams, and legends, often with a painful intensity. These figures seem vocal, as if reciting poetry, screaming, or murmuring. They are independent entities, navigating the world with both challenge and determination. Through exposure to fear and doubt, the women Cohen portrays seek answers, and perhaps, refuge.
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen has exhibited work at Museum de Fundatie, The Netherlands; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, among others.
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Beloved Wall of Portraits (Details), Judith, Miriam, Untitled, Lea Goldberg, Hana Senesh, Neta Sobol, 2020, mixed media on paper, 161/2 × 1113/16 in. (41.99 × 30 cm).
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Black Mountains, 2018, mixed media on paper cutouts and builders’ tape on canva, 1181/8 × 2361/4 in. (300 × 600 cm).
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Curtain of Tears, 2015, installation view.
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen, Broken Infinity, 2019, mixed media on paper cutouts on canvas, 577/8 × 951/4 in. (146.99 × 241.99 cm).
Residents from Israel
Past Resident2024: Perrotin Gallery
Dora Jeridi
Dora Jeridi’s work is characterized by a dynamic, expressive painting style that fuses intense emotion with powerful physicality. Her practice often explores the tension between figuration and chaos, employing vivid color contrasts, bold brushstrokes, and diverse media like oil, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and spray paint. Jeridi’s paintings evoke a visceral, enigmatic narrative where autobiographical elements blend with broader societal crises, creating a distinct “atmosphere of crisis.”
Dora Jeridi has exhibited work at Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Perrotin Gallery, Paris; and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, among others.
Dora Jeridi, The Escape, 2024, oil, oil stick, acrylic, charcoal and ball-point pen on canvas, 169 × 78 in. (429.26 × 198.12 cm).
Dora Jeridi, Intoxicated Rest, 2024, oil, oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 70 × 82 in. (177.8 × 208.28 cm).
Dora Jeridi, MOUTH RAID, 2023, oil, oil stick, charcoal and spray paint on canvas, 82 × 98 in. (208.28 × 248.92 cm).
Dora Jeridi, The Conversation, 2024, oil and oil stick on canvas, 76 × 90 in. (193.04 × 228.6 cm).
Dora Jeridi, PONY CLUB (Guernica for Kids), 2023, oil, oil stick and charcoal on canvas, 157 × 82 in. (398.78 × 208.28 cm).
Residents from France
Past Resident2024: Canada Council for the Arts
Kara Springer
Kara Springer’s work centers on armature—the underlying structure that holds the body in place. Using photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, she explores systems of structural power and support. Her practice is deeply rooted in processes of care and attentiveness, focused on understanding the specificities of a given context and environment. This sensitivity allows her to consider how a structure might exist sustainably in relation to the world around it.
Kara Springer has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, among others.
Kara Springer, The Shape of Mountains, 2023, double-sided inkjet prints on rice paper, poplar wood support structures, ceramic fragments, 72 × 120 in. (182.88 × 304.8 cm).
Kara Springer, Do I have to build you a fucking pyramid?, 2021, double-sided prints on dibond panels, poplar wood, dimensions variable.
Kara Springer, The Earth & All Its Inhabitants, 2019, double-sided light box, found materials, dimensions variable.
