Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Wallace Arts Trust
Andy Leleisi'uao
“Andy Leleisi’uao’s art is about people and how they get on together as lovers, as families, as insiders and outsiders. As immigrants. News can be good and bad and it must be lived with… He shows how some lives are lived way over the line while also attempting to maintain and affirm love. Inconsistencies are included because opposites always co-exist.” Text by Ron Brownson, Senior Curator New Zealand and Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki.
Andy Leleisi’uao has exhibited work at Bergman Gallery, New York; National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan; and Bridge Guard, Slovakia, among others.
Andy Leleisi'uao, Harmonic People, 2017, arcylic on canvas, 120 × 80 in. (304.8 × 203.2 cm).
Andy Leleisi'uao, An Unlovely Sorry (1 of 13), 2017, mixed media, 8 × 4 in. (20.32 × 10.16 cm).
Andy Leleisi'uao, UFO Islands (1 of 3), 2017, acrylic on canvas, 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm).
Andy Leleisi'uao, Untitled, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm).
Andy Leleisi'uao, Samoa mo Samoa, 2017, mixed media, 78 × 1378 in. (198.12 × 3500.12 cm).
Residents from New Zealand
Past Resident2018: Mondriaan Fund
Imara Limon
Imara Limon is a curator at the Amsterdam Museum, where she curated the exhibition Black Amsterdam (2016) about black role models in the Netherlands. Limon has a background in Contemporary Art, Museology and Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam.
Imara Limon (1988) curated Black & Revolutionary, an initiative by The Black Archives, and leads the museum program New Narratives that reconsiders the stories told around its collections. Limon is a board member of Kunsten ’92 and winner of the National Museum Talent Prize 2017.
Imara Limon, Black Amsterdam, 2016, installation view at the Amsterdam Museum.
Imara Limon, Black Amsterdam, 2016, reception at the Amsterdam Museum.
Imara Limon, Black & Revolutionary, 2017, The Black Archives. Photo by Maartje Strijbis.
Imara Limon, Black & Revolutionary, 2017, The Black Archives. Design by Raul Balai.
Imara Limon, New Narratives, 2017.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2018: College of Charleston
Susan Klein
Susan Klein’s work plays with the idea of American spirituality. She makes sculpture, paintings, and works on paper that repurpose religious and ritualistic imagery to serve a secular spiritualism that is part of contemporary American culture. Klein uses a specific system of symbols that shifts from funny and playful to commemorative and serious. The work references history, artifact, decoration, architecture, and pop culture.
Susan Klein has exhibited work at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art – College of Charleston; Crossing Collective, New York City; and Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2018 Summer Open House
July 31, 2018, 6–9pm
Susan Klein, Landed, 2018, oil on ceramic stoneware, 18 × 14 × 7 in. (45.72 × 35.56 × 17.78 cm).
Susan Klein, Offering, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 84 × 84 × 6 in. (213.36 × 213.36 × 15.24 cm).
Susan Klein, Squiggles and Such, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 13 × 14 × 1/2 in. (33.02 × 35.56 × 1.27 cm).
Susan Klein, LA Sunset, 2017, oil on ceramic stoneware, 17 × 14 × 7 in. (43.18 × 35.56 × 17.78 cm).
Susan Klein, Looped, 2018, oil on ceramic stoneware, 15 × 9 × 10 in. (38.1 × 22.86 × 25.4 cm).
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217