Past Residents
Past Resident2014: 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.
Events & Exhibitions
Alice Schivardi: Wormholes
April 22–May 10, 2014
Alice Schivardi, Coccinelle, 2012, 32 pieces: embroidery drawings, curved glass, and resin frames. Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, A Imagine e Somiglianza (detail), 2012, Embroidered drawing, scotch and collage on acetate paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, Equazione Uno, 2012, Installation of six speakers, embroidered drawing, scotch and collage on acetate paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, Portable Bug Cemetery, 2013, Lawn, earth, and insects, 138 × 16 × 138 in. (350.52 × 40.64 × 350.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, Portable Bug Cemetery (detail), 2013, Lawn, earth, and insects, 138 × 16 × 138 in. (350.52 × 40.64 × 350.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
Past Resident2014: Artadia
Eileen Maxson
Eileen Maxson is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, performance and installation. Heavy hearted and humorous, Maxson’s works lament the vanishing borders between imagination and consumer coercion, technology and true personality. Essentially, each work represents a failed exorcism of uninvited influences and too much information. With that in mind, Maxson reconstitutes her own identity with cultural detritus, material and fleeting, into counter-spells of memory, merchandise and persona.
Eileen Maxson (born 1980) is based in New York and the Netherlands where she studied at De Ateliers until 2010. Her works have been screened and exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Art in General, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; testsite, Austin; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica; and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster among others. Lost Broadcasts, a DVD compilation of Eileen’s videos, was released by Aurora Picture Show in conjunction with Microcinema International in 2008. Eileen received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 2008 and a BFA from University of Houston in 2002. She was the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize.
Eileen Maxson, A Random Lottery of Meaningless Tragedies and a Series of Near Escapes, 2012, Installation, Dimensions variable.
Eileen Maxson, Clearance 1993, 2010, Artist book (edition of 13), 13 × 19 in. (33.02 × 48.26 cm).
Eileen Maxson, Date with Deceit, 2009, Video still, 4:22 min.
Eileen Maxson, Signal to Noise, 2012, Installation, Dimensions variable.
Residents from United States
Aryel René Jackson
Studio #305
Hanae Utamura
Studio #201
Past Resident2012: 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).
Ambie Abaño, Trapped, 2009, Stuffed prints on textile, 24 × 24 × 24 in. (60.96 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm).
Ambie Abaño, Prayer, 2009, Installation with woodcut on textile and plastic.
Ambie Abaño, Self Awareness, 2011, Oil painting and woodcut on phillippine mahogany, 72 × 60 in. (182.88 × 152.4 cm).
Ambie Abaño, Diaries, 2010, Woodcut on recycled wood carved into books.
