Past Residents

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Past Resident
2019: Yoko Ono, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

Artist

Martha Skou

Martha Skou is an interdisciplinary artist who moves freely between audible and visual worlds. Both analytical and experimental, her work toys with opposites in color, shape and/or sound. She has created personal universes surrounding her work both in her collaborations and solo projects. Her language is abstract and atmospheric, with compositions in spatial formats as well as two-dimensional media.

Martha Skou has exhibited her work at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Telfair Museums, Savannah; and Pioneer Works, New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Fall Open Studios 2018

November 9–November 10, 2018

2018 Summer Open House

July 31, 2018, 6–9pm

Spring Open Studios 2018

April 27–April 28, 2018

Martha Skou and Louise Foo, Earth, Water, Fire, 2017, wood, conductive ink, and electronics, 18 × 18 in. (45.72 × 45.72 cm)

Martha Skou, Aldante, 2017, textile installation, 200 × 55 in. (508 × 139.7 cm)

Martha Skou, Largo, 2017, textile installation, 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)

Martha Skou and Louise Foo, City Birds and Duet, 2017, wood, conductive ink, and electronics, 50 × 50 in. (127 × 127 cm)

Ground Floor Residents

Sarah Zapata

Large-scale installation compromised of textiles.

United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation

Ground Floor

Sasha Wortzel

water meanders through a sawgrass marsh beneath a blue sky and clouds

United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso

Ground Floor

Simon Liu

Hong Kong, United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Ground Floor

Turkey

Past Resident
2018: SAHA Association

Artist

İnci Furni

İnci Furni contemplates the constructed spaces of social life and researches the possibilities of new and as-yet-undefined fields of individual existence outside of these. Furni’s inner world and everyday life fill the background of these research processes. Dreams, imaginations and content are brought into the works through inward processes of exploration without designating an individual quest or inner journey.

İnci Furni has exhibited work at Arter, Istanbul; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; and the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Fall Open Studios 2018

November 9–November 10, 2018

İnci Furni, Journey to Ucubik, 2007, mixed media on paper, 78¹¹/₁₆ × 59 in. (199.9 × 149.86 cm)

İnci Furni, The Socks Making Love, 2012, acrylic on paper, 78¹¹/₁₆ × 59 in. (199.9 × 149.86 cm)

İnci Furni, The Could Breaking Window, 2011, acrylic on paper, 118 × 86⁵/₈ in. (299.72 × 219.96 cm)

İnci Furni, VOL1., 2014, mixed media

Residents from Turkey

Alper Aydin

Throughout history, domes—the components of buildings pointing to the sky—have been identified as the source of spirituality and able to deliver the images, narratives, and messages of the skies. In this work, two large-sized satellite dishes whirling around their axes stand level with the audience and, with their controlled rotation, get in a loop akin to the movement of the planet, the sun, and the moon, formation of months and years. One of the dishes of these two technical systems holds the ornaments and the Arabic calligraphy of the dome of Hagia Sophia. The other one carries the dome of parecclesion of Chora Monastery depicting the Virgin and Child and the angels. The forms and the ornaments of these small representations of the vault of heaven have been adapted to the antenna systems used to communicate, observe, and receive signals. The micro vaults of heaven are placed next to people instead of above. They unite with the sky in the open air. This work directs people’s gaze to outer space, the unknown, and the infinitude of imagination and reflects hope about the future.

Turkey

SAHA Association

2024

Eda Gecikmez

Turkey

SAHA Association

2023

Sümer Sayin

Stone found on a beach, its photograph and stone made of ceramic. The handmade stone is sculpted by hand with clay looking at the photo as a reference, then fired to a stoneware temperature.

Turkey, Germany

SAHA Association

2022

Austria, Germany

Past Resident
2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Artist

Benjamin Hirte

Benjamin Hirte uses a combination of objects and text within his works to examine themes of semiotics, slang, and metaphor within cultural histories.

Benjamin Hirte has exhibited work at Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museo Canonica, Villa Borghese, Rome; and Leopold Museum, Vienna, among others.