Past Residents
Past Resident2019: Bradley University, Big Picture Peoria2018: Bradley University
Heather Brammeier
Heather Brammeier is a sculptor, painter, and installation artist whose work continues the function of childhood play into adulthood. Through innovative use of materials and deceptively simple design, Brammeier creates visual puzzles that invite movement in and around the artwork. The artwork tests physical and perceptual boundaries, mirroring emotional and psychological limits. Vertiginous stacking, attention to surfaces, and the use of light and shadow elicit contemplation of safety and threat, love and loss, and the complexity of emotional experience.
Heather Brammeier has exhibited work at Pen + Brush, New York; South Bend Museum of Art, Indiana; and Swansea College of Art, Wales, among others.
Heather Brammeier, I Changed, and then I Changed Again, 2019, reclaimed wood flooring, willow tree, and chain, dimensions variable.
Heather Brammeier, Nothing to Fix, 2018, reclaimed wood flooring, willow branches, sycamore branches, found objects from beach and garden, studio remnants, and chain, dimensions variable.
Heather Brammeier, Next Steps (Life Carries On), 2017, painted wood, painted insulation foam, garden hose, reclaimed metal hoop, and rope, dimensions variable.
Heather Brammeier, Lose the Feeling, 2017, reclaimed wood flooring, and carpet, dimensions variable.
Heather Brammeier, Brighten the Corners, 2017, painted wood, garden hose, PEX tubing, and reclaimed ladders on abandoned house.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2018: Nissan Art Award – Arts Initiative Tokyo
Hikaru Fujii
Hikaru Fujii creates video installations that respond to contemporary social problems. He makes use of extensive research and fieldwork investigating existing systems and structures, based on the idea that art is produced out of the intimate relationship between society and history. Rather than presenting his research into past events just as it is, he has continued to use his work to attempt reinterpretations of the issues from contemporary perspectives.
Hikaru Fujii has exhibited work at National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, among others.
Hikaru Fujii, The Primary Fact, 2018, installation.
Hikaru Fujii, The Primary Fact, 2018, installation.
Hikaru Fujii, The Educational System of an Empire, 2016, installation.
Hikaru Fujii, Record of the Bombing, 2016, installation.
Hikaru Fujii, Playing Japanese, 2017, installation.
Past Resident2018: The Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (RBFVAF)
Belle Bassin
Belle Bassin is an experimental visual artist. In her practice, she pursues new formats and modes of presentation where she exhibits within urban and biological spaces, as well as within galleries and museums. Situated at the intersection of sculpture and performance, her work often fixates upon the sentient dimension of color and form. Her work is currently concerned with early female Abstraction, the psychic space of visions, and the occupation of bodies and space by invisible forces.
Belle Bassin has exhibited work at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne; and University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, among others.
Belle Bassin, Glass, 2017, stills of live performance.
Belle Bassin, Confetti, 2017, video still, 8:23 min.
Belle Bassin, The platform became a blackhole (Athens), 2018, video still, 3:33 min.
Belle Bassin, The platform became a blackhole (Kythira), 2018, video still, 3:30 min.
Belle Bassin, Interloch, 2018, drawing, 4 × 8 in. (10.16 × 20.32 cm).
